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Professor Katerina Linos, Co-Faculty Director of the Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law wrote an op-ed for Greek outlet Kathimerini about Greece's recent immigration amendment, which suspends asylum applications for those arriving from North Africa: www.kathimerini.gr/opinion/5637...

AI wearables are quietly listening to everyone in Silicon Valley Discreet devices and software are recording everything. Is it legal? And do you consent?

"If these bozos are wearing really obvious devices that clearly signal they are recording, & you speak to them, that could constitute consent, even in a private place,” Chris Hoofnagle, director of Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, on AI-powered recording devices: sfstandard.com/2025/08/05/a...

NWSL says it has ‘no duty of care’ for women suing San Diego Wave over assault claims The NWSL, a co-defendant in the suit with San Diego Wave, denied all allegations in a response branded ‘boilerplate’ by an expert

“The common term for such an answer is ‘boilerplate.’ The purpose is to preserve any conceivable defense,” Professor David Oppenheimer told @theguardian.com about the National Women’s Soccer League response to a lawsuit brought by former San Diego Wave employees:
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YouTube video by UC Berkeley School of Law Can someone be deported without a hearing under war time laws?

Can someone be deported without a hearing under war time laws?
In this episode of It’s the Law, Dean Chemerinsky explains how, in general, deportation requires notice and a hearing. youtube.com/shorts/rj-Ux...

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Congress must act quickly to restore confidence in government statistics | Opinion “Congress should create an independent bureau of statistics, separate from all political departments, to produce trustworthy data.”

"Accurate statistics about the American economy are essential, but President Donald Trump has now made it clear that if the statistics are not to his liking, he will fire the officials responsible for them." -Opinion from Dean Erwin Chemerinsky via @sacbee.com: www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

Tracking California’s Compelling Legal History David Carrillo (J.D. ’95, LL.M. ’07, J.S.D. ’11), executive director of UC Berkeley Law’s California Constitution Center, will become editor-in-chief of California Legal History in 2026. The annual jo...

David Carrillo (J.D. ’95, LL.M. ’07, J.S.D. ’11), executive director of UC Berkeley Law’s California Constitution Center, will become editor-in-chief of California Legal History in 2026. www.law.berkeley.edu/spotlight/da... #UCBerkeleyLaw

Levine testifies before U.S. Senate on online consumer privacy Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice Senior Fellow Samuel Levine testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law about the harms that emergin...

Samuel Levine, @ucbconsumerlaw.bsky.social Senior Fellow, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law about harms that emerging technologies pose to consumers’ privacy & personal information: www.law.berkeley.edu/sidebar/cent... #UCBerkeleyLaw

Why the shadow docket should concern us all Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […]

"The Supreme Court’s emergency docket has taken on great significance in recent weeks ... What has happened and why should we be concerned?" -Opinion by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky in his recurring series "Courtly Observations" in
@scotusblog.com: www.scotusblog.com/2025/08/why-... #UCBerkeleyLaw

The future of zero-emission transportation in California Last week, the EPA released a proposal to repeal the 2009 endangerment finding, which says greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.

With EV sales stagnating & federal headwinds, what's the future of zero-emission vehicles in California?

We discuss on Your Call w/:
- @emilypont.bsky.social
- Ken Alex @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social
- David Reichmuth @ucs.org

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SF Officials Push Back as DOJ Seeks Data on Voters Removed Over Citizenship Rules | KQED The Department of Justice is pressuring San Francisco and other major California cities to release personal data on canceled voter registrations, raising legal and privacy questions.

“That’s the kind of fraud that they’re saying is happening. Now that they are in power, there is a pressure to kind of prove that claim..." Assistant Professor Emily Zhang weighs on the DOJ requesting voter citizenship data from SF: www.kqed.org/news/1205040... @kqednews.kqed.org

Professor Roxanna Altholz on panel probing murder of Honduran activist Berta Cáceres Human Rights Clinic Director Altholz is one of three experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to conduct an independent and impartial investigation of the killing.

Human Rights Clinic Director Roxanna Altholz is one of three experts appointed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to conduct an independent and impartial investigation of the killing of Berta Cáceres: www.law.berkeley.edu/article/roxa... #UCBerkeleyLaw #WomenInLaw #HumanRights

This episode explores how Trump’s allies are reshaping the legal system by elevating unqualified ideologues, the foreign policy risks of his chaotic leadership style, and the GOP’s efforts to block tr... The Trump-controlled US Senate Elevates Bove as the Law is Weaponized to Keep Unqualified Ideologues on as US Attorneys We begin with the Trump-controlled US Senate elevating Emil Bove to the Court of...

"I never imagined being so worried about the future of our democracy," - Dean Erwin Chemerinsky was featured on an episode of @kpfa.org's Background Briefing.

Listen here: kpfa.org/episode/back... #UCBerkeleyLaw

Federal loan caps may deter students from pursuing professional degrees Caps on federal student loans contained in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful” bill could deter aspiring lawyers and doctors from earning professional degrees.

"It is even more difficult to defend a higher education financing scheme that punishes or deters those very students whom it should most help,” said UC Berkeley Law professor Jonathan Glater about caps on federal student loans: www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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Trump executive order on homelessness sparks concern on the Central Coast A new executive order from President Donald Trump aims at changing how the federal government plans to address homelessness, addiction and mental illness. The order says “endemic vagrancy” and hundred...

"The president can’t set conditions on federal funds. Only Congress can do that. The federal government can’t force states to administer a federal mandate. That violates the Constitution,” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky weighed in on an executive order on homelessness: www.kcbx.org/government-a...

“The key is that it has to apply to all law enforcement. It can’t just apply to federal law enforcement,” - Dean Erwin Chemerinsky on prohibiting law enforcement officers from concealing their identities while on duty: apnews.com/article/los-...
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FBI uses facial recognition technology, online photos to identify and arrest ICE Portland protester The criminal complaint lists a pink gas mask and a forearm tattoo as distinct clues that led investigators to use third-party software to help make an arrest.

“We need safeguards to ensure that this powerful technology is used in a way that advance legitimate law enforcement interests, but that stave off possibilities of abuse," -Professor Catherine Crump on the FBI using facial recognition to arrest an ICE protester: www.kgw.com/article/news...

Rewarding Moment for Recent UC Berkeley Law Student Co-President Former UC Berkeley Law student body co-president and Commencement Service Prize winner Kendrick Peterson ’24 was featured by The Appellate Project (TAP) about his path to becoming this year’s first […...

Former UC Berkeley Law student body co-president & Commencement Service Prize winner Kendrick Peterson ’24 is this year’s first Black judicial clerk sworn into the Washington, D.C. Bar Association in his jurisdiction.
www.law.berkeley.edu/spotlight/ke... #UCBerkeleyLaw @theappellateproj.bsky.social

Chemerinsky: What were the sleeper cases of this SCOTUS term? As always, the end of the U.S. Supreme Court’s term was filled with important cases that received a great deal of media attention. On June 27 alone, the high court handed down rulings ending nationwide injunctions, creating a constitutional right of parents to opt their children out of material that they find to be objectionable on religious grounds, upholding a Texas law that required age verification for websites with sexually explicit content, and rejecting a challenge to a federal law as being an excessive delegation of legislative power.

"...The term also had a number of significant decisions that received much less media attention. Two of these sleeper cases were Andrew v. White... and Lackey v. Stinnie." - Opinion by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky via‪ @americanbar.org Journal: www.abajournal.com/columns/arti... #UCBerkeleyLaw

YouTube video by UC Berkeley School of Law Can Congress block judges from enforcing court orders?

Can Congress block judges from enforcing court orders?
In this episode of It's the Law, Dean Chemerinsky explains how Marbury v. Madison and the principle of separation of powers apply to this question. youtube.com/shorts/mQXFG...

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Field Placement Program Director Sue Schechter reflects on her accomplishments after national honor Schechter — also co-faculty director of the Pro Bono Program — talks about her history at UC Berkeley Law and why she loves what she does more than ever.

Currently the director of the Field Placement Program and co-faculty director of the Pro Bono Program, Sue Schechter received the 2025 Association of American Law Schools Clinical Section’s inaugural Impact on the Externship Field Award this year: www.law.berkeley.edu/article/sue-...

A New Front in Trump’s Clash With the Judiciary: Appointing Prosecutors With Senate gridlock, judges are tasked with installing U.S. attorneys—and they are rejecting some of the president’s picks.

“They want somebody that they can trust who wouldn’t use the position as a political bullhorn or for carrying out the administration’s broader political agenda,” said Jeremy Fogel, executive director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute (@bji.bsky.social) to @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Lawmakers seek to ban federal agents from wearing masks ICE says its employees have good reasons to hide their faces from protesters who want to dox them online, but Democrats say masked federal agents evokes "secret police," and the practice should be ban...

"So I think the question is, would a state prohibition on law enforcement wearing masks interfere with the performance of their duties? Is not wearing masks objectively reasonable?" Dean Erwin Chemerinsky spoke to @npr.org about banning federal agents from wearing masks: www.npr.org/2025/07/25/n...

Lawyers from both sides of the aisle decry Trump attacks on judges at California conference It’s time for the legal community to speak up about the increasing threats to judges across the country, a diverse pair of legal scholars said Thursday.

“If any president can violate court orders, can lock any of us up, the word for that is dictatorship.” - Dean Erwin Chemerinsky

www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art... @sfchronicle.com #UCBerkeleyLaw

For True Peace, Ceasefires Must Address Digital Warfare, Too | TechPolicy.Press From Gaza and Israel to Russia and Ukraine, any meaningful ceasefire must confront digitally enabled operations, Brett Solomon and Betsy Popken write.

UC Berkeley Law's Human Rights Center (@hrcberkeley.bsky.social) Executive Director Betsy Popken and Senior Research Fellow Brett Solomon wrote for @techpolicypress.bsky.social on why ceasefires must also address digital warfare: www.techpolicy.press/for-true-pea... #UCBerkeleyLaw

California Democrats propose relaxed emissions rules amid gas price crisis California's affordability crisis could lead to more relaxed emissions standards, according to a plan introduced by state Democrats.

"I think it's such a reflection of how much legislators are feeling this pressure to go to their constituents & say, 'Look, we're trying to reduce prices,'" Ethan Elkind, director of @cleeberkeley.bsky.social spoke to @cbsnews.com about CA's environmental priorities: www.cbsnews.com/sacramento/n...

Harvard Faced Threat of Trump Team Placing Lien on Its Property Federal officials pressuring Harvard University over allegations of mishandling antisemitism on campus considered an unprecedented tactic to force compliance: placing a lien on school property.

"Is there any such thing as a civil rights lien? No. Not only is it unprecedented — I think the word you’re looking for is ‘unlawful,’” Catherine Lhamon, executive director of the Edley Center on Law & Democracy weighed in on Harvard's threatened property lien: www.msn.com/en-us/politi...

YouTube video by A Climate Change With Matt Matern 199: Daniel Farber on How Technology Will Outpace Climate Denial

Daniel Farber, UC Berkeley Law professor and director of @cleeberkeley.bsky.social, appears on "A Climate Change" podcast with Matt Matern. Watch their discussion on "How Technology Will Outpace Climate Denial" here: youtu.be/m1-8bePaEfg?... #UCBerkeleyLaw

EPA considering rollback of key climate change tools that regulate greenhouse gas emissions: report "This is a five-alarm fire." According to The New York Times, the Trump administration has drafted a proposal to rescind the EPA's 2009 "endangerment finding," a scientific determination that greenhou...

"I think the issue would be whether they can somehow get a court to undermine Massachusetts v. EPA," Dan Farber, UC Berkeley Law professor & director of @cleeberkeley.bsky.social comments on the EPA's potential rollback of one of its cornerstone climate change findings: abc7news.com/post/epa-con...

Seven new hires bring expertise and enthusiasm across a wide range of fields Professors Brian Galle, Joy Milligan Ph.D. ’18, Bertrall Ross, and Kevin Washburn, and Associate Professor Ryan Sakoda, Assistant Professor Jason Ferguson, and Clinical Professor Alina Ball are the la...

UC Berkeley Law has once again had a banner hiring year, adding seven new professors across a wide range of fields and disciplines to an already stellar faculty: www.law.berkeley.edu/article/seve...

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How a Rule 23(b)(2) Class Action Could Save Law Firms from Trump | Stanford Law Review As Trump targets law firms with punitive executive orders, firms face a familiar dilemma: all would benefit from resistance, but acting alone may risk

"Law firms face a classic collective action problem... if too few resist, each individual firm has an incentive to cave."

UC Berkeley Law Professor Jonah B. Gelbach co-authored an essay with Nora Freeman Engstrom & David Marcus on class action:
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