While small towns are a less common path for most Berkeley alums, “the divide between cities and rural areas isn’t as big as we sometimes think it is,” Edwards says.
Research by J.S.D. candidate Mahwish Moazzam probes compelling questions about AI bias, religious expression, representation, and human dignity in algorithmic systems.
Recent rankings place Berkeley Law as the top public law school in the United States, and studies analyzing scholarly impact also place the school’s faculty among the best at public institutions.
The Edley Center for Law & Democracy event with three former federal prosecutors and the president of a prominent watchdog nonprofit describe growing barriers to investigating the abuse of power by government officials.
As industry defendants increasingly push state judges to adopt strict standing limits modeled on federal standards, the center’s Open Door Project is helping Californians keep their access to the state’s courts.
His research shows how diversity’s values have long been widely embraced by leaders in the military, business, education, and the law, and how it has benefited organizations and society.
“Conservative justices constantly say the Constitution should be interpreted based on history and its text and its original meaning,” writes Dean Erwin Chemerinksy. “All of these sources make the Trump executive order on birthright citizenship unconstitutional. The Supreme Court decision should be unanimous in striking it down.”
“Ever since the Supreme Court recognized birthright citizenship in 1898, generations of Americans have accepted that the United States Constitution encodes an absolute rule that if someone is born on U.S. soil, they are a citizen, end of story,” writes Professor Amanda Tyler. “But fringe elements of American society have repeatedly tried to attack this fundamental rule.”
Assistant Professor Emily Rong Zhang joins KALW’s State of the Bay to discuss a case before the U.S. Supreme Court that could shape whether states are allowed to count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day.
