Berkeley Law School

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed SB 1327 on Friday, allowing Californians to sue entities responsible for the development or distribution of illegal assault weapons and homemade guns without serial numbers, or “ghost guns.”

A group of 31 staff members engaged in the UC Berkeley School of Law’s Staff Community Circle on Anti-racism plans to send a letter to UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ endorsing recommendations for reimagining campus safety.

Alan Dershowitz, attorney and professor at Harvard Law School, spoke at UC Berkeley’s School of Law on Wednesday, and shortly after the event, a flyer on the law school bulletin board was found vandalized with a swastika drawn over Dershowitz’s face and promptly removed thereafter.

When Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor visited campus Thursday, she walked off the stage and into the crowd, answering questions, shaking hands and giving hugs to audience members. Sotomayor said she doesn’t like sitting still.

Dressed all in black, members of the UC Berkeley School of Law community linked arms outside Café Zeb on Thursday as part of a Black Out event to support the Black Lives Matter movement in light of the deaths of Black Americans at the hands of police officers across the country.

Berkeley community members, former librarians and a Berkeley City Council member rallied Wednesday in response to documents that revealed thousands more books have been weeded from the Berkeley library system than revealed in previous estimations.