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The Ninth Circuit Appoints Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky to Defend a Police Officer's Excessive Force Conviction …

... and also allows victim's attorney Caree Harper and me to defend the conviction.

Reason · Aug 27, 2025

Employers, Employees, Professors, Students: Remember—Some States Restrict Discrimination Based on Employees' Political Activity

Sunday, the Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed by a law professor at UC Berkeley that argued: My students are largely engaged and well-prepared, and I regularly recommend them to legal employers. But if you don't want to hire people who advocate hate and practice discrimination, don't hire some of…

Reason · Oct 17, 2023

Ex-San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin Appointed Director of Berkeley Law's new Criminal Law & Justice Center

Chesa Boudin graduated Yale Law School in 2011. After two judicial clerkships bracketing a year as a post-doc fellow (!!??) at the San Francisco DA's office and several years practicing criminal law as a public defender, he ran successfully for San Francisco DA as a left-wing anti-racist reformist candidate. His…

Reason · Jun 1, 2023

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Commentary: When a Berkeley Law debate on free speech got turned into a social media circus

The great complexity of free speech issues on campus was revealed this semester at Berkeley Law. How are the free speech rights of a student group to not invite speakers with particular views to be balanced against the desire to have all viewpoints expressed and have no one feel excluded?

Los Angeles Times · Nov 21, 2022

UC Berkeley Law School to withdraw from U.S. News & World Report rankings

LOS ANGELES — The University of California, Berkeley Law School announced Thursday it would withdraw from U.S. News & World Report's closely watched evaluations of higher education institutions, saying the ratings' methodology penalizes schools that encourage public service and low costs.

Los Angeles Times · Nov 17, 2022

Chemerinsky and Marcus Go Another Round Re Antisemitism at Berkeley Law

Re the controversy over nine student groups banning speakers who think Israel should exist. Chemerinsky:The Jewish Law Students Association can refuse to invite Holocaust deniers. The Black Law Students Association can refuse to invite white supremacists. I may not like the choices they make about what viewpoints they invite or…

Reason · Oct 14, 2022

A Paradoxical Defense of Berkeley Law School

Two 2019 alumni of Berkeley Law School, Nir Maoz and Olivia Wittels, are concerned that the recent attention given to the "no speakers who support Israel's existence" rule adopted by nine student groups at the law school is giving people a false impression of the school. Jewish and Zionist students…

Reason · Oct 13, 2022

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Some Berkeley Law "Jew Free Zone" Updates

Following up on Friday's post about several major student groups at Berkeley Law pledging not to invite "speakers that have expressed and continued to hold views … in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine." (1) Ken Marcus, whose op-ed on the situation spurred…

Reason · Oct 9, 2022

Berkeley Law's "Jew-Free Zone" Controversy

In August, nine student groups at Berkeley law school signed a statement sponsored group Berkeley Law Students for Justice in Palestine pledging not to invite "speakers that have expressed and continued to hold views … in support of Zionism, the apartheid state of Israel, and the occupation of Palestine." Two…

Reason · Oct 7, 2022

More on the Students' Disruption of the Yale Law School Event

For my earlier post on the incident, see here; three follow-ups: [1.] Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (Berkeley Law)—one of the most prominent liberal constitutional law scholars in the country—and Chancellor Howard Gillman (UC Irvine) had a Washington Post op-ed, "Free speech doesn't mean hecklers get to shut down campus debate"; an…

Reason · Mar 25, 2022

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