Melissa Murray

Recently appointed dean Erwin Chemerinsky isn’t interested in rehabilitating the UC Berkeley School of Law — because he believes it doesn’t need rehabilitating.

After his first year at the UC Berkeley School of Law, Luke Apfeld never thought he’d qualify for a federal clerkship, let alone two.

Paul Alivisatos, the campus’s vice chancellor of research and director emeritus of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, has been named the next executive vice chancellor and provost — UC Berkeley’s second-highest-ranking position — effective immediately.

Herma Hill Kay, the first female dean at the UC Berkeley School of Law, died in her sleep Saturday, according to a Berkeley Law press release. She was 82.

Erwin Chemerinsky, the founding dean of the UC Irvine School of Law, was named dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law on Wednesday.

The search for a new UC Berkeley School of Law dean is nearing its final stages, with the successor to the position narrowed down to three candidates.

The UC Berkeley School of Law has dropped four ranks since last year in the U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Law School” rankings released Tuesday.

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.

Choudhry, who was found to have violated university sexual misconduct policy, filed a motion in September for the court to stop campus from pursuing its disciplinary proceedings against him.

Tyann Sorrell, a campus employee who sued former UC Berkeley School of Law dean Sujit Choudhry for sexual harassment and sparked a massive shift by the administration to address sexual misconduct on campus, is set to return to campus Wednesday.