Jesse Choper

UC Berkeley linguistics professor emeritus George Lakoff is being sued for comments he made about potential Russian influence in the 2016 election.

Members of the campus community have expressed mixed views in response to recent events surrounding conservative author Ann Coulter’s pending visit to the UC Berkeley campus.

Three UC Berkeley School of Law professors, John Yoo, Jesse Choper and Daniel Farber, debated in a panel Tuesday about recent U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch’s qualifications and the effect he will have on the Supreme Court.

After President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Thursday morning to threaten a federal funding cut for UC Berkeley, campus sophomore Akshat Bhat was inspired to begin building a phone application during lecture.

Steven Hayward, the conservative columnist and Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University, begins a three-year term as a visiting scholar at the campus Institute for Governmental Studies, where he will teach classes and hold events in an attempt to expose UC Berkeley to conservative thought.

Claudius Gaines, a UCLA facilities management worker, sued the UCLA campus police and the UC Board of Regents on May 24, alleging that a prior 2014 arrest was the result of racial profiling.

A state Senate resolution that would urge the University of California to condemn anti-Semitism and racism on its campuses has drawn objections from organizations who say the legislation’s definition of anti-Semitism would stifle free speech.

Former Dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Law and Professor Emeritus Sanford Kadish, one of Berkeley’s most distinguished law professors, died Friday, Sept. 5 of kidney failure at age 92.

Christopher Edley, Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, will resign from his position on Dec. 31, the campus announced Monday.

UC Berkeley School of Law professor Jesse Choper received a prestigious award from the state’s bar association Friday for his contributions to legal scholarship.