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Campus & community

More Just: The role of election laws in the 2024 presidential contest

On Berkeley Law's podcast, More Just, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky talks with election law experts about the major role state and federal election laws will play in the outcome of this election.

About a dozen volunteer rescue workers wearing GoPro cameras on their white helmets, carry a person on a stretcher out of rubble in Syria

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: With white helmets and GoPros, these volunteers risk it all in Syria’s civil war

Two students hold an Israeli flag and two students hold up a Palestinian flag standing next to one another on the Berkeley campus with at least one hundred students on Sproul Plaza in the background

Campus & community

Berkeley Talks: Legal scholars on free speech challenges facing universities today

Haunting informal portrait of Omar Gómez Trejo, in deep shadows but with a few slashes of sunlight across his face and shoulders

Law

Mexican prosecutor Omar Gómez Trejo finds safe harbor at Berkeley’s Human Rights Center

Michael Waldman and Maria Echeveste talk on stage in front of an audience

Berkeley Talks: How the Supreme Court divided America

Richard Rothstein and his daughter, Leah Rothstein, and Tamika Moss, sit on stage while giving a talk for an audience

Berkeley Talks: A blueprint for housing reform

two people standing on a dark stage for a presentation in front of a screen that says

UC Berkeley psychedelics poll shows support, opportunity for research

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Berkeley Talks: Legal scholars unpack Supreme Court ruling on affirmative action

Berkeley leaders, scholars react to Supreme Court’s decision on affirmative action

Femi Ogundele smiles at the camera wearing a black shirt and blue blazer

Affirmative action: What can other schools learn from UC Berkeley’s experience?

Illustration of Juana Maria Rodriguez with yellow and pink sun rays in the background.

Juana Maria Rodríguez: Sex work is a queer issue

Three Berkeley Law students, from left: Chantel Johnson, Paloma Sat-Vollhardt and Dan Hilborn are in an office, apparently looking at a screen, as they work on a video requesting clemency for a longtime client facing execution. All three students are working with the Human Rights Center. (Photo by Darius Riley)

Students at Death Penalty Clinic turn to video to make their case for justice

U.S. President Donald Trump, in a blue suit and red and white tie, speaks at a campaign event.

Even after new indictment, Trump has a path to the White House, analyst says

Dozens of bankers boxes, some possibly containing classified documents, stored on an unsecured Italianate stage at former President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.

Trump documents case ‘a national security issue of the first order,’ scholar says

four photos — one of a windmill, one of cows in a field, one of a person organizing cans of food and one of solar panels with colorful overlays on each

‘Climate Break’: A podcast focused on solutions to the climate crisis

Justin Jones, in commencement attire, stands against a black background and delivers the keynote address at the Goldman School of Public Policy commencement ceremony

Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones urges students: Disrupt, dismantle, discover

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