UC Davis School of Law

UC Berkeley School of Law, alongside several other law schools, announced Nov. 17 that it would no longer be participating in the U.S. News & World Report, or USNWR, law school rankings due to a flawed ranking methodology.

A federal bankruptcy judge awarded $45 million in punitive damages — much of which will go to UC laws schools — to a Sacramento couple March 23 in a ruling which found that Bank of America unlawfully foreclosed upon their house.

UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Joseph Sax, responsible for leading the campus environmental law program to prominence, passed away March 9 at his home in San Francisco after complications from a series of strokes. He was 78.