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A new course in Berkeley Law’s groundbreaking LL.M. Certificate in AI Law and Regulation program is preparing students to handle the fast-moving and high-impact issues at the intersection of AI and biotechnology: bit.ly/3T5cn20 #BerkeleyLaw #AI #TechLaw #LLM

"The effect of the Supreme Court’s aggressive protection of gun rights will be tragically seen in the ever-increasing toll of those who die because of the ready availability and presence of firearms." —Opinion by Dean Chemerinsky via @sacbee_news: bit.ly/4wdK3sX

"I was not surprised by the results in the most high-profile cases of the term, such as tariffs, presidential removal power, birthright citizenship, and restrictions on transgender athletes." —Opinion by Dean Erwin Chemerinsky via @SCOTUSblog: bit.ly/4w5A355

“We’re not in any way hostile to AI. We recognize the importance of it. But if a student is turning in work for a grade, it should be the student’s work and not AI," Dean Erwin Chemerinsky tells @insidehighered: bit.ly/4gxJzcd #BerkeleyLaw #AI

Rising 2L Jenny Jang shared insights with high school students considering a law career at the recent San Francisco iLead Law & Leadership Conference hosted by @JTBAPO, a nonprofit working to expand the law school pipeline to more underrepresented youth: bit.ly/4eYac94

"Charting the Crackdown" contains what is believed to be the largest publicly available dataset of its kind covering this period. Explore the full interactive website here: phr.org/charting-the-c…

Beck Klein, an investigative journalist and former student investigator at the Human Rights Center's Investigations Lab, demonstrated an incident analysis showing two examples of misuse by law enforcement agents in Minneapolis.

📢 U.S. law enforcement agents misused crowd-control weapons during protests against the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations in 412 verified incidents across 16 U.S. cities from June 2025 until May 2026, @P4HR and HRC found: phr.org/charting-the-c…

"The next governor’s job will require sustained pressure on utility spending, not flashy campaign slogans." —Opinion by Travis Ritchie, @cleeberkeley Research Fellow via @CalMatters: bit.ly/4ww70ar

“ In some cases, there are matching funds provided from the state and local level for these federal dollars, but it’s not clear where the matching funds are coming from...” says @EthanElkind, Climate Program director at @cleeberkeley to @KQED: bit.ly/4vXK3wY #BerkeleyLaw

Berkeley Law clinics are reversing federal policies to protect constitutional rights—from challenging immigrant deportations to safeguarding public research grants. “Everybody, lawyer or no, has a responsibility to be an effective community member... and to help build a norm and a practice of treating people fairly and equally.” — Catherine E. Lhamon, Executive Director of Edley Center on Law and Democracy (@berkeleylaw) bit.ly/4vhFbSg

“The DMCA has long been attractive for complainants who have SEO, privacy, and other issues with content or links posted online,” says Professor Jennifer Urban, co-director of Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), to @WIRED: bit.ly/4yax8tf #BerkeleyLaw

"Simply put, if Congress can spend the money and create conditions, Congress should have the power to provide for their enforcement." —Opinion by Dean Chemerinsky via @SCOTUSblog: bit.ly/4wvZ2OO #SupremeCourt

"BART is very central to the Bay Area economy and transit in general,” says @EthanElkind, director of the Climate Program at @cleeberkeley to @berkeleyside: bit.ly/4vYkmN6 #BerkeleyLaw

Berkeley Law launches program aligned with California’s new privacy law specialization nationaljurist.com/berkeley-law-l… via @NationalJurist @BerkLawExecEd

Can courts treat social media like cigarettes? youtube.com/shorts/pZfnpYq… #ItsTheLaw #BerkeleyLaw

With the rule of law under unprecedented pressure, Berkeley Law’s faculty, students, staff, and alumni are standing up in courtrooms, classrooms, lecture halls, the media, and internationally to fight for justice: bit.ly/4wkssz7 #BerkeleyLaw #RuleofLaw

“I can’t even imagine what statute Congress would enact protecting racial equality in voting, especially when it comes to dilution, that would survive a Supreme Court judgment that will rely on Callais,” said Professor Bertrall Ross to @MotherJones: bit.ly/4oXR4ey

“A tragic pattern of the Supreme Court’s recent decisions is leaving individuals who have been seriously injured and whose rights have been violated with no remedy whatsoever,” Dean Chemerinsky tells @CNN: cnn.it/4wkZ6AL #BerkeleyLaw #SupremeCourt

Four Berkeley Law students are among this year’s Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellows: Rising 3Ls Jeremy Berger, Claudia Deitch, Renee Hernandez Rodriguez, and Dawson Wilcox: bit.ly/4oY4Ei5 #BerkeleyLaw