Exactly this--having to deploy the police to protect the National Guard reduces police resources for combatting crime, the supposed rationale for the Guard present in the first place.

Agree that this use of AI in policing is probably premature, but I like that officers are thinking about how to use AI to increase officer compliance with policies. We should be supportive of that instinct.

"I do think there's a measure of individual responsibility people need to take. They need to be mindful of what an AI chat is. And it's a word-association machine," Professor Catherine Crump told @people.com https://bit.ly/4pw0QUe #BerkeleyLaw #AI @catherinecrump.bsky.social#BerkeleyLaw

If you need a break from the news, I highly recommend this story about the 1995 Cal vs. Stanford mascot brawl. Bear v. Tree! www.sfgate.com/collegesport...

What she said. I mean, do we even have to argue about this? A professor who asks a convicted sex offender for advice on seducing a mentee has no place in a classroom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdsa...

Another angle on free speech at UC Berkeley: The Law School @fedsoc hosted "Why Israel Won" featuring (among others) John Yoo. Law Students for Justice in Palestine protested outside. The event proceeded undisrupted, the protesters expressed their views, all were heard. That's how it should go

Caught the AFSCME union workers protesting this morning—peaceful and loud in the best way. Fingers crossed the rest of today's speech events on campus go forward with the same respect for the rules of engagement.

Following up on a Daily Cal report from last week: 4 @UCBerkeley students were arrested for felony vandalism. Their protest against Charlie Kirk reportedly involved displaying posters w/ his quotes & attempting to hang a cardboard bug on Sather Gate. 1/4

I love the Wayback machine. This piece is a lively and fun overview of the @internetarchive's history and current work, including its race to keep up with new forms of media, like AI outputs and ephemeral social content. www.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...

This seems right. But OMG, it seems terrible for us all that the cost of leading an academic institution these days is the inevitably shredding of your personal reputation.

The argument in this academic freedom and funding case is starting right now! See the livestream link.

This ACLU post details the deployment of Mobile Fortify, a face recognition app, by ICE. Critically, the program was rolled out with no specific congressional authorization or meaningful public debate, raising questions about executive agency accountability and oversight

The new @scotusblog survey makes me worry for its future. Their unique value isn't just covering SCOTUS, it's their singular focus on it, across all subjects. That's the one-stop resource I rely on.

Tomorrow, Friday 9 AM: @BerkeleyLaw Dean Erwin Chemerinsky argues in the 9th Circuit in Thakur v. Trump. He will defend preliminary injunctions that restored ~$1 billion in research grants to the UC system. Watch the livestream: www.ca9.uscourts.gov/media/live-o...

Sometimes you just have to step back and marvel at the catastrophe. We are a country that can feed our people but won't. Your air traffic controller may have just gotten off a second job as a Lyft driver. A Fox News anchor is on a firing rampage through the Pentagon.

Wow. Even the FBI thinks ICE agents should identify themselves--and, now, that criminals posing as ICE officers are committing crimes. Great story by @dell.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Great that Boston's new police union agreement requires patrol officers to wear nametags. Basic accountability dictates that law enforcement agents be identifiable; otherwise, they can't be held responsible for their actions. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/11/03/m...

Glad that despite our return to harsh "law and order" rhetoric, experiments with alternative responders continue. It often makes sense to send a case worker not an armed officer to respond to someone in a mental health crisis. cbs6albany.com/news/local/a...

How can the public hold government accountable when its agents are unidentifiable and their vehicles are untraceable? Reports of ICE agents removing license plates, in addition to masking, are deeply alarming. I shared my concerns with @NPR for this new report. www.npr.org/2025/10/28/n...

Great news--a third university has rejected President Trump's compact on higher education, which undercuts academic freedom in the guise of purporting to restore it. Five more universities to go. www.latimes.com/california/s...

This opinion temporarily halting the Trump Administration's mass firings of federal employees during the shutdown is worth 10 minutes of your time for its description of the shambolic, unprecedentedly partisan, and probably illegal way it's being carried out. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71502...

"As the mother of grade-school children, I share Jean Twenge’s frustration with kids’ endless capacity to circumvent poorly built parental controls. As a First Amendment expert, however, I don’t believe that government-mandated age verification is the answer." Read my letter (link in comment)

I am trying to get back to posting regularly on Legal Planet, the UC Berkeley / UCLA environmental law blog. Here's my take on the Trump administration's response to the International Maritime Organization's greenhouse gas reduction framework. legal-planet.org/2025/09/03/t...

I have an opinion piece in The Hill today arguing that the Trump Administration’s work to break down “information silos,” far from promoting efficiency, is creating a data dragnet that can be used to target political enemies and risks ensnaring innocent people. thehill.com/opinion/whit...

This one's for you, grammar nerds. My students are no longer putting periods at the end of the terminal sentences in their paragraphs. Do we:

Job alert! Come work in the Berkeley Law Clinical Program with me. www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...

Honestly. The Trump Administration is trying to “hustle people onto those planes” to El Salvador before courts can stop them. Devastating that the Supreme Court focused instead on whether the case was filed under the Administrative Procedure Act or under habeas. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

Proud to have joined more than 90 of my @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social colleagues in signing this letter expressing concern for the attacks on the rule of law. sites.google.com/view/blsrule...

It's a small point given everything going on, but President Biden's police reform executive order was among the many repealed yesterday. @erinmurphyslaw.bsky.social @chiraagbains.bsky.social