Glater’s work focuses on access to education and the effects of student debt; Chacón’s primary fields of interest are constitutional law, immigration law, and criminal law and procedure. |
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For Jennifer Chacón and Jonathan Glater — Berkeley Law’s two newest professors — the appeal of the institution and its legendary community is unmistakable. Chacón and Glater, who are married, come to Berkeley from UCLA Law. Both previously taught at the UC Irvine School of Law. This year, Chacón will teach Constitutional Law; Glater will teach Criminal Law.
“I am thrilled that Jennifer Chacón and Jonathan Glater will be joining the Berkeley Law faculty on July 1,” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says. “Each is an outstanding teacher, scholar, and colleague. I know that our students will adore them and that they will continue to be enormously influential, especially in their respective primary fields of immigration law and education law.” Read more>>
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Robert Glushko, UC Berkeley School of Information Professor Deirdre Mulligan, Samuelson Clinic Director Catherine Crump, and Professor Pamela Samuelson at the clinic’s 15th anniversary celebration in 2016.
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Professor Pamela Samuelson and her husband Robert Glushko, of the UC Berkeley Cognitive Science Program, have pledged $1 million to create the Robert Glushko Clinical Professor of Practice in Technology Law. Two decades earlier, they donated $2 million to help establish the Samuelson Clinic, then the first of its kind, to advance the public interest in tech and intellectual property law. Read more>>
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The Hollywood Reporter ranked Berkeley Law the fourth-best school for entertainment law and named seven alumni to its annual top 100 power lawyer list. The dynamic deal-makers, high-stakes litigators, and big-merger facilitators include Scott Edelman ’84, Bruce Gellman ’91, Cliff Gilbert-Lurie ’79, David Maltof ’92, Michael Schenkman ’90, Douglas Stone ’86, and Matthew Syrkin ’03.
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A draft of the concept design by the Maude Group of what the “A Time for Change” exhibit could look like when it opens at Berkeley Law in mid-August. |
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By the time in-person classes start at the law school on Aug. 16, a new hallway display — tentatively titled “A Time for Change” — will provide context for how the role of the Boalt name on campus has evolved over time. Photographs of and quotes from those helping to pave the way for change at Berkeley, timeline information, as well as QR codes that viewers can scan to access documents related to the unnaming, are part of the installation. Read more>>
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Berkeley Law Professor Orin Kerr has spent much of his career thinking, writing about, and discussing the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act — from blog posts aimed at the average social media user and scholarship published in top law journals to testimony before Congress and advocacy in court. So when the U.S. Supreme Court decided last year to take the Van Buren v. United States case, which hinges on the 1986 law, it was akin to Kerr’s Super Bowl. Read more>>
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An education program developed at UC Berkeley aimed at stamping out antisemitism on campus is finding a national audience, with help from a $25,000 grant and a video that strives to put a complex history into simpler terms. The initial goal was a simple one, according to Berkeley Law Professor Steven Davidoff Solomon (photo left), who started the initiative with UC Berkeley history Professor Ethan Katz and Berkeley Hillel Executive Director Adam Naftalin-Kelman: To educate students and other members of the school community about the roots of antisemitism and modern examples of anti-Jewish bias. Read more>>
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Wayne Stacy knows the old adage that the only thing harder than getting to the top is staying there. But if that adds pressure to leading the center at the head of Berkeley Law’s top-ranked intellectual property law program, you could never tell. The new executive director of the school’s Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Stacy brings public sector leadership, private practice success, and law school teaching experience to the position — and a firm belief in the center’s importance. Read more>>
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When it comes to Berkeley Law’s commitment to helping others, the sheer volume speaks volumes: More than 200 students participated in the school’s pro bono/public interest graduation ceremony on May 20. A record 310 applied to join a clinic next semester. And this year’s grads logged over 26,000 hours of aggregate pro bono work. Read more>>
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Save the date for this year's Alumni Reunion, September 24 - 25. More information about the reunion program and registration will be available shortly. Thank you to all alumni who completed our reunion planning survey. www.law.berkeley.edu/alumni/reunion/
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Berkeley Law graduate Abbie VanSickle ’11 was a lead reporter of a year-long investigation into injuries caused by police dog bites that received a Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. “Mauled: When Police Dogs Are Weapons,” revealed how police dogs bite thousands of people every year in the United States, resulting in serious injuries and sometimes death. The series also won the Katharine Graham Award for Courage and Accountability from the White House Correspondents’ Association. Read more>>
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On May 12, Bill Sokol '76, a Bay Area labor lawyer, UC Berkeley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute faculty member and lecturer at San Francisco State University discussed the ambitious $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan Act signed into law by President Biden. He detailed the ways the act builds a bridge towards economic recovery, invests in racial justice, and addresses the stark, intergenerational inequities that have worsened in the wake of COVID-19. Read more>>
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Professor Ian Haney López has been named the 2021-22 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law by the American Bar Foundation. He will study the connections between electoral rhetoric, racial identity, partisanship, and support for various public policies. The project builds on Haney López’s recent work, including the book Merge Left and the “Race-Class Academy” video series, regarding how best to combat what he calls “dog whistle politics.” Read more>>
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Dean Erwin Chemerinsky calls the federal decision to overturn California’s assault weapons ban “an extreme gun rights reading of the Second Amendment”. Read more>>
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Professor Catherine Fisk '86 says frivolous suits are the price we all pay for having legal rights and a court system to enforce them. Read more>>
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Professor Catherine Crump, director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, says facial recognition technology and analytics generally have been revolutionary because they’ve put an end to privacy by obscurity. Read more>>
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Professor Peter Menell is one of four well-known copyright scholars who urged members of the influential American Law Institute to reject a proposed restatement of copyright law when the proposal comes up for a scheduled vote this week. Read more>>
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A Washington Post analysis of Van Buren v. United States highlights Professor Orin Kerr’s twitter deep dive into the case. Read more>>
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Professor Elisabeth Semel, director of the Death Penalty Clinic, discusses Governor Newsom’s written argument – which she co-wrote – calling the death penalty racist and discriminatory against Black and Latino defendants. Read more>>
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Virtual Enrichment Programs |
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Our annual symposium on financial fraud will return (virtually) over two days on June 24-25, 2021. This won't be your normal Zoom meeting, as we'll incorporate interactive breakout sessions, multimedia, and much more. Berkeley's annual Fraud Fest program brings together thought leaders from the worlds of academia, finance, journalism, law, and more for an intimate discussion of the critical issues, technologies, and policies driving financial fraud around the world. Learn more and register>>
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*Discounted tuition available for Berkeley Law alumni.
Free Berkeley Boost Webinar | June 22 at 10:00 am PDT
More Americans died from gun violence in 2020 than during any previous year on record, and 2021 has already seen a 23% surge in gun violence deaths. In a special Berkeley Boost webinar, we will explore America's gun violence epidemic and leading gun violence prevention strategies, as well as discuss how a corporation’s responsibility to keep their employees, customers, and communities safe is positioning gun safety as a key environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issue in 2021. Panelists include former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords, gun safety experts, and Levi Strauss & Co.’s vice president of public affairs. Learn more and register>>
Designed for non-financial professionals, Corporate Finance Fundamentals helps participants master financial information analysis and corporate valuation. The program launches on July 12 and is delivered online through a series of pre-recorded lectures and interviews, online exercises, and live, virtual office hours with instructors. Participants are provided with an eight-week recommended schedule but will have access to the course through December 13. Learn more and register today>>
Limited availability for Q3 and Q4 Courses | Apply Today
Berkeley Law Executive Education offers lawyers the opportunity to participate in single courses in the areas of business law, technology, international and comparative law, and bar subjects, or a package of courses culminating in a certificate. Courses are three weeks in length and run during the professional track summer semester through mid-August. Learn more and apply today>>
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Co-founders of Bringing Law Into Science & Society (BLISS)
Says Sabillo: "Allaa and I met on the first day of Berkeley Law’s pre-orientation. We quickly recognized our shared background as scientists who come from immigrant families, and immediately began collaborating on our vision to combine science and law to uplift historically marginalized communities. During law school, we founded Bringing Law Into Science & Society (BLISS), established BLAST-Hawai’i, and pursued other projects through the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the UN Human Rights Council, and legal clinics. And the results have been phenomenal!" Read more>>
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