Listen: Dean Chemerinsky joins "Legal Face Off" on @wgnradio.bsky.social to discuss the latest on Governor Gavin Newsom's ban on ICE agents wearing face masks in California: bit.ly/3W7CNhQ #UCBerkeleyLaw

Come join us on Nov. 19 for the 18th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture delivered by Prof. Lior Strahilevitz @thelior.bsky.social. Register here: bclt.wufoo.com/forms/m1f7z1... @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social

‘A Translator in the Language of Law’: Former California, U.S. Labor Official Julie Su (@juliesulabor.bsky.social) Begins Role at UC Berkeley Law www.law.berkeley.edu/article/juli... by @gwyneth.bsky.social @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social

"We need to look at the bigger picture. Electricity rates have gone up about 50 percent in the last five years... high rates undermine our climate goals." Listen to @ethanelkind.bsky.social, director of @cleeberkeley.bsky.social on @kqedforum.bsky.social: bit.ly/3IIKsjx #UCBerkeleyLaw

What counts as incitement? Dean Erwin Chemerinsky is back with a new episode of It's the Law, a series that answers your legal questions. https://youtube.com/shorts/hqPgMNl3uM0?feature=share #UCBerkeleyLaw #ItstheLaw

“To have an endowed chair of civil rights at one of the best law schools in the country — and the world — is huge for me," said Judge Thelton E. Henderson '62 to the National Jurist: https://bit.ly/4npX9z1 #UCBerkeleyLaw

“The California Legislature has passed, and Governor Gavin Newsom should sign, Assembly Bill 288 to protect workers and businesses…” - Opinion by Dean Chemerinsky and Professor Catherine L. Fisk: bit.ly/4gDYDmw

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @kqednews.kqed.org politics correspondent Guy Marzorati and @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social's @ethanelkind.bsky.social about new climate legislation that outlines California's ongoing transition to clean energy. ❓ What are your Qs about California's climate goals? 📻Listen:

"The data centers that we see now will just multiply. And their need to cool their servers will multiply along with them." - Michael Kiparsky, director of the @cleeberkeley.bsky.social Wheeler Water Institute, spoke to @cbsnews.com about water use in data centers: https://cbsn.ws/4mD4bPr

Don't miss @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social's @ethanelkind.bsky.social on @kqedforum.bsky.social this morning at 10am PT talking about California’s new environmental and energy legislation www.kqed.org/forum/201010...

"The reality is that we always have to be vigilant about our democracy." Listen to the “Berkeley Law Voices Carry,” podcast hosted by Gwyneth Shaw, featuring Catherine E. Lhamon @catherinelhamon.bsky.social, executive director of the Edley Center on Law & Democracy: https://bit.ly/4pFFTXY

“It’s unnecessary to do what the administration is doing now, unless one is operating like a mob boss," Catherine Lhamon @catherinelhamon.bsky.social, executive director of The Edley Center on Law & Democracy told @insidehighered.com https://bit.ly/4mvT4Yw #UCBerkeleyLaw

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky told @latimes.com [FCC Chair Brendan] Carr’s actions were part of a broad assault on free speech by the administration, which “is showing a stunning ignorance and disregard of the 1st amendment.” lat.ms/3VthiI6 #UCBerkeleyLaw

“I believe courts could conclude that there is no reasonable need for ICE agents to be wearing masks other than in the exceptions provided in the bill,” said Dean Chemerinsky to @sfchronicle.com: www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art... #UCBerkeleyLaw

“The restoration of more than half a billion dollars to UCLA in NIH funding alone gives UC the strongest hand it has had yet in resisting unlawful federal demands,” said Claudia Polsky (@claudia-polsky.bsky.social) a UC Berkeley Law professor representing researchers: lat.ms/4838wIp @latimes.com

“The whole point of the 1st Amendment is to protect speech we don’t like. We don’t need the 1st Amendment to protect the speech we like.” - Dean Erwin Chemerinksy to @latimes.com: lat.ms/4mwl12I #UCBerkeleyLaw

“The effect of reinstating all unlawfully suspended NIH grants to UCLA would be to give campus and the regents the leverage they need to resist and to uphold the rule of law," said Claudia Polsky, a UC Berkeley Law professor representing researchers: https://politi.co/46m8TfK

Michael Kiparsky, director of @cleeberkeley.bsky.social's Wheeler Water Institute, spoke to @latimes.com about the AI-driven data center strain on the West’s water. He said requiring data on water use is a good first step, but officials may not know what to do with that number alone: lat.ms/4nGIbUN

"As the first Monday in October and the new Supreme Court term approach, it is an occasion to make a plea for greater transparency." - Opinion by Dean Chemerinsky in his recurring series, Courtly Observations, on scotusblog.com: www.scotusblog.com/2025/09/a-pl...

"We must stand together to reclaim fairness and dignity in our economy with sharper tools, a broader coalition, and a bolder vision for what’s possible," -Opinion by Seth Frotman @srf1802.bsky.social, senior fellow at @ucbconsumerlaw.bsky.social via The Sling https://bit.ly/46x622f

"It’s important that the state take a stand. It’s obviously not a slam dunk because there are arguments on both sides, but that’s often the case with the law,” said Dean Chemerinsky to @nytimes.com on a bill to prevent federal agents from concealing their identities with masks: nyti.ms/3W49E76

One of UC Berkeley Law’s youngest-ever graduates, Hayley Cheung LL.M. ’25, created a LinkedIn group for LL.M. alumni and earned three certificates of specialization: https://bit.ly/425AGP6 #UCBerkeleyLaw #LLM

Join us @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social on October 10 for a Cali Lawyers Ass'n event on Privacy + AI. Register here: calawyers.org/event/privac...

"The law plainly states that government officials cross the line when they infringe on freedom of speech and threaten sanctions for expression, as Carr no doubt did — and ABC capitulated." @ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social Dean Erwin Chemerinsky via @latimes.com www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

“I think he [Trump] is chilling dissent. That’s where the analogy of the McCarthy era comes in," Dean Erwin Chemerinsky told @financialtimes.com https://on.ft.com/3KtxBSK

Listen: Professor Christopher Kutz joins @kqednews.kqed.org to discuss how the Trump administration is proposing to remake the UC System https://bit.ly/46M6UkU

Jeremy Fogel, executive director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute @bji.bsky.social, weighs in on the attacks on the judiciary. https://bit.ly/4pxWb5c

“The government, including the FCC, never can impose sanctions for the views expressed. But that is exactly what [Federal Communications Chair Brendan] Carr threatened and ABC capitulated,” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky told @thr.com https://bit.ly/46bXkYv

"You can’t advertise something if you know — or should know — that what you are saying isn’t true. You do not need a law that’s called ‘the tequila purity law,’” Ted Mermin, executive director of @ucbconsumerlaw.bsky.social, told @kqednews.kqed.org: https://bit.ly/46Rur35

Trump is “very much wanting to use the tools of the government to try to silence the speech that he doesn’t like... we’ve never seen a president do anything like this before,” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky told @washingtonpost.com https://wapo.st/46u0TrI

Andrew Verriere '09 has been appointed by Governor Gavin Newsom to serve as a Judge on the Contra Costa Superior Court https://bit.ly/4msclKF @gavinnewsom.bsky.social

When can religious beliefs exempt someone from following a law? In a new episode of It's the Law, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky weighs in on a legal question: https://youtube.com/shorts/swfMB2DIukE?feature=share #UCBerkeleyLaw #ItstheLaw

Angeli Patel, director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Business, is a Stevie Awards Women in Business finalist in these categories: - Female Executive of the Year – Government or Non-Profit - Maverick of the Year - Female Thought Leader of the Year - Government or Non-Profit https://bit.ly/4nm9XWQ

Upcoming Event: Elizabeth Prelogar served as the 48th Solicitor General of the United States from 2021 to 2025. In a conversation with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, she will discuss her tenure as Solicitor General and the Supreme Court. RSVP: https://bit.ly/3VoRgWl #UCBerkeleyLaw

"On the one hand I was an immigrant’s rights lawyer for a few years, but on the other hand, I am also a social scientist." - Assistant Professor David Hausman on how the Deportation Data Project project began, and what the data reveals: https://bit.ly/3IrsX79 #UCBerkeleyLaw

"Seven months into Donald Trump’s presidency, the verdict is in: The Supreme Court has greatly eroded separation of powers." - Opinion by Dean Erwin Cheminsky via @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social #SupremeCourt https://thedispatch.com/debates/supreme-court-trump-executive-authority/

"I believe that in this moment our democracy is in a more serious threat than it has ever faced ... If our democracy is to survive, it's got to be because the courts are there to enforce the Constitution and laws," - Dean Chemerinsky at a #ConstitutionDay event https://cbsn.ws/46r9oUF @cbsnews.com#ConstitutionDay

Professor Catherine Crump @catherinecrump.bsky.social spoke to @latimes.com about debates over social media regulation, saying messaging and social media platforms have a virtual “ironclad immunity” from the content made by its users under Sec. 230. www.latimes.com/world-nation... #UCBerkeleyLaw

A packed room of students, faculty, advocates, and community members gathered for the screening of Reflections Behind Bars, hosted by UC Berkeley Law's Criminal Law & Justice Center and non-profit Back to the Start: davisvanguard.org/2025/09/uc-b... #UCBerkeleyLaw

"I do for people what I wanted someone to do for me.” Calvin Duncan described his relentless efforts while incarcerated to learn about the law and use it to pursue justice for himself and hundreds of fellow prisoners: www.law.berkeley.edu/article/from... #UCBerkeleyLaw

“When you collect this data, it’s really hard to control,” said Catherine Crump (@catherinecrump.bsky.social) director of the Technology and Public Policy Clinic, to @latimes.com about data gathered by devices known as automated license plate readers. www.latimes.com/california/s... #UCBerkleyLaw

"The Supreme Court’s growing reliance on its “shadow docket” to issue major, often precedent-shaping rulings without full briefings, oral argument, or explanation undermines fundamental principles..." -Opinion by Dean Chemerinsky via The Daily Journal https://bit.ly/3Kbc1SW

"The Supreme Court’s recent ruling upholding raids by ICE agents in Los Angeles and other cities, targeting people based on their skin color and accents, is inconsistent with fundamental constitutional principles." - Opinion by Dean Cheminersky via @sacbee.com https://bit.ly/3K6z41k

Seven UC Berkeley Law professors have been awarded faculty chairs for their accomplishments and contributions to scholarship, policy, and legal education. https://bit.ly/41RIcwY #UCBerkeleyLaw

"Will the conservative justices adhere to what they have said and held recently, or will they just rubber stamp whatever Trump does?" - Opinion by Dean Chemerinsky in Courtly Observations, his recurring series on @scotusblog.com https://bit.ly/465U4hk

A memorial service to celebrate the life of Professor Robert Cooter will be held on Friday, September 26, at 1:00pm at International House. RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/yxds26rx

*New* @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social (@ucberkeleylaw.bsky.social) joins @alanrozenshtein.com to analyze the current state of AI copyright litigation. Critically, Pam also gets back to first principles of the IP Clause. It's an important listen. Check it out: podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/a...

Professor Robert Cooter, a pioneer in the field of law and economics and a mainstay of UC Berkeley Law’s faculty for over 40 years, passed away on Sept. 8: https://bit.ly/3K4vmVR

Is it legal to deport someone if a judge says they may face torture? On this week's episodes of It's the Law, Dean Chemerinsky answers questions about immigration law. https://youtube.com/shorts/-mIEHOYdGbk?feature=share #UCBerkeleyLaw #ItstheLaw #ImmigrationLaw

Sam Levine (@saalevine.bsky.social) Senior Fellow at UC Berkeley's Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice (@ucbconsumerlaw.bsky.social) joined the Careers in Data Privacy podcast hosted by Noah Katz. Listen to the full episode: open.spotify.com/episode/1msY... #UCBerkeleyLaw