Nielsen leads the organization’s push to serve the public good through high-quality empirical research of legal institutions, legal education, and the legal profession.

With an accelerated hiring timeline for Big Law firms apparently here to stay, Berkeley Law’s Career Development Office has built out a robust slate of programming for 1Ls that begins even before they ...

Three conferences in three days bring leading scholars, lawyers, policymakers, and students to explore the rapidly changing field.

Van Valkenburgh, a leader in Berkeley Law’s environmental and public-interest communities, is the lead author of new research proposing policy solutions to wastewater pollution along California’s ...

Both Latinas from the East Coast, Arcia and Cortes forge a strong connection rooted in shared ambitions, navigating unfamiliar terrain, and pursuing a profession where people who look like them remain ...

Berkeley Law’s Public Interest Scholars Program offers a transformative three-year scholarship covering full tuition and fees for J.D. students with a demonstrated commitment to public interest work.

Berkeley Law’s strong run of faculty hiring under Dean Erwin Chemerinsky continues, with two new members — Professor Daniel Harawa and Assistant Professor Aaron Hall — joining the school this academic ...

Taught by two industry experts, the class focuses on the legal, regulatory, and ethical challenges posed by AI-driven innovation in the life sciences. Lecturers Matthew Show and Amanda Casale are ...

The catalyst for the State Bar of California’s new Privacy Law Specialization, Serrato has built a practical training initiative for senior leaders in data strategy ...

New AI and the Practice of Law Course Offers Students More Than 100 Hours of Hands-On Training Taught by Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Executive Director Wayne Stacy — a former Big Law ...

Berkeley Law’s Artificial Intelligence Policy, effective summer 2026, helps students by providing clear default guidance about what is permissible and impermissible, while preserving room for ...

Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive skills necessary to strategically ...