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Kenneth A. Bamberger

Professor of law, faculty director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and the Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies

Areas of expertise: government regulation, corporate compliance and technology in the United States and Europe; Jewish law

Stephen Bundy

Professor of law

Expertise: Ethics, destruction of evidence, dispute resolution.

Richard Buxbaum

Emeritus professor of international law

Expertise: corporate law and comparative and international law.

Erwin Chemerinsky

Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law

echemerinsky@law.berkeley.edu

Constitutional law, free speech, jurisprudence, U.S. Supreme Court.

Jesse Choper

Professor of law

Areas of expertise: constitutional law, civil rights, civil liberties, war, business, government (Congress), U.S. Supreme Court, higher education law.

Christopher Edley Jr.

The Honorable William H. Orrick Professor of Law

Areas of expertise: administrative law, civil rights, education policy, domestic policy.

Aaron Edlin

Richard W. Jennings Professor of Law, professor of economics, co-director of the Law and Economics Program

Areas of expertise: authority on antitrust, contract remedies, law and economics.

Daniel Farber

Sho Sato Professor of Law and faculty director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment

Area of expertise: constitutional law.

Amy Gurowitz

Lecturer in political science, director of education programs in the Institute of International Studies

Areas of expertise: international relations, international ethics, human rights, immigration politics, foreign policy.

Des Lafluer

Clinical teaching fellow and lecturer, Berkeley Law

Areas of expertise: Fashion law, trademark infringement, immigrant entrepreneurship, marketing law, social media
Spanish-speaking

Goodwin Liu

Visiting professor of law

Area of expertise: constitutional law, education policy, civil rights, the Supreme Court.

john a. powell

Professor of Law and of African American Studies, Director of Othering and Belonging Institute

japowell@law.berkeley.edu

Civil rights, racism, poverty, inequality, democracy.

Xiao Qiang

Adjunct professor, research scientist in the School of Information

Expertise: Technology and human rights, China, censorship, surveillance, digital activism, information politics.

Russell Robinson

Professor of law, faculty director, Center on Race, Sexuality and Culture

robinson@law.berkeley.edu

Expertise: Discrimination law, race, gender, LGBT legal issues, sexuality and culture.

Andrea Roth

Professor of law

aroth@law.berkeley.edu

Areas of expertise: Criminal law and criminal procedure, Indictment of Donald Trump

Harry Scheiber

Professor of law and history, faculty director of the Institute for Legal Research

Area of expertise: emergency powers and wartime restrictions on civil liberties.

Elisabeth Semel

Professor of law and director of the Death Penalty Clinic at UC Berkeley

Areas of expertise: death penalty and criminal law.

Jonathan Simon

Lance Robbins Professor of Criminal Justice Law

Areas of expertise: criminal law, sociology of law. Author of "Poor Discipline: Parole and the Social Control of the Underclass" (University of Chicago 1993); "Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear" (Oxford University Press 2007); and "Mass Incarceration on Trial: A Remarkable Court Decision and the Future of Prisons in America" (New Press 2014).

Eric Stover

Adjunct professor of law and public health and faculty director of the Human Rights Center

Area of expertise: human rights, public health.

John Yoo

Emanuel Heller Professor of Law and director of the Korea Law Center, the California Constitution Center and the law school’s Program in Public Law and Policy

Areas of expertise: affirmative action, civil procedure, public lawmaking, civil rights, class action law, federal and state constitutional law, the U.S. Supreme Court.

Franklin Zimring

Professor of law

Areas of expertise: criminal justice and family law, with special emphasis on the use of empirical research to inform legal policy.

Death penalty

Elisabeth Semel

Professor of law and director of the Death Penalty Clinic at UC Berkeley

Areas of expertise: death penalty and criminal law.

Human rights

Amy Gurowitz

Lecturer in political science, director of education programs in the Institute of International Studies

Areas of expertise: international relations, international ethics, human rights, immigration politics, foreign policy.

Dr. Rohini Haar

Research Fellow at Berkeley Law's Human Rights Center, lecturer at School of Public Health, emergency room doctor

rohinihaar@berkeley.edu

Crowd-control weapons (such as tear gas, rubber bullets) and their effects on physical and mental health, violations of free speech and assembly, protection of health workers and health services.

Ian Haney Lopez

Director, Racial Politics Project, Haas Institute For A Fair And Inclusive Society Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor Of Public Law Director, Racial Politics Project, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society; Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Public Law

race and constitutional law, civil rights, 'dog-whistle' politics, communication

Stephen Menendian

Assistant director, Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society

steve.menendian@gmail.com

Expertise: Diversity and inclusion, immigration, civil rights, LGBT issues, race relations.

john a. powell

Professor of Law and of African American Studies, Director of Othering and Belonging Institute

japowell@law.berkeley.edu

Civil rights, racism, poverty, inequality, democracy.

Xiao Qiang

Adjunct professor, research scientist in the School of Information

Expertise: Technology and human rights, China, censorship, surveillance, digital activism, information politics.

Eric Stover

Adjunct professor of law and public health and faculty director of the Human Rights Center

Area of expertise: human rights, public health.

Gender

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Associate professor of history

sejr@berkeley.edu

African American history, history of American slavery, British Atlantic slave trade, slavery and the law, women's history, women and early American law

Russell Robinson

Professor of law, faculty director, Center on Race, Sexuality and Culture

robinson@law.berkeley.edu

Expertise: Discrimination law, race, gender, LGBT legal issues, sexuality and culture.

Constitutional

Erwin Chemerinsky

Dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law

echemerinsky@law.berkeley.edu

Constitutional law, free speech, jurisprudence, U.S. Supreme Court.

Jesse Choper

Professor of law

Areas of expertise: constitutional law, civil rights, civil liberties, war, business, government (Congress), U.S. Supreme Court, higher education law.

Daniel Farber

Sho Sato Professor of Law and faculty director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment

Area of expertise: constitutional law.

Goodwin Liu

Visiting professor of law

Area of expertise: constitutional law, education policy, civil rights, the Supreme Court.

John Yoo

Emanuel Heller Professor of Law and director of the Korea Law Center, the California Constitution Center and the law school’s Program in Public Law and Policy

Areas of expertise: affirmative action, civil procedure, public lawmaking, civil rights, class action law, federal and state constitutional law, the U.S. Supreme Court.