Nielsen leads the organization’s push to serve the public good through high-quality empirical research of legal institutions, legal education, and the legal profession.

With an accelerated hiring timeline for Big Law firms apparently here to stay, Berkeley Law’s Career Development Office has built out a robust slate of programming for 1Ls that begins even before they ...

Three conferences in three days bring leading scholars, lawyers, policymakers, and students to explore the rapidly changing field.

Join the Berkeley Center for Law and Business and Berkeley Business Law Journal for a transactional law skills workshop featuring Cooley Partner Kealan Santistevan and Associate Nikki DiFederico. This ...

The class featured guest appearances from leading practitioners and thinkers with a focus on how CEOs, chief legal officers, and corporate boards are responding to AI’s disruptive potential. Taught by ...

Taught by two industry experts, the class focuses on the legal, regulatory, and ethical challenges posed by AI-driven innovation in the life sciences. Lecturers Matthew Show and Amanda Casale are ...

The catalyst for the State Bar of California’s new Privacy Law Specialization, Serrato has built a practical training initiative for senior leaders in data strategy ...

Berkeley Law’s Artificial Intelligence Policy, effective summer 2026, helps students by providing clear default guidance about what is permissible and impermissible, while preserving room for ...

Future lawyers may need to use artificial intelligence (“AI”) fluently. But the current state of the technology requires that AI use be coupled with the cognitive skills necessary to strategically ...

The school’s newest graduates are clerking for the supreme courts of five states this fall — Alaska, California, Hawaiʻi, New Jersey, and Nevada — as well as intermediate courts of appeal in Alaska ...

After testing more than 25 AI headshot generators, Berkeley Law J.S.D. candidate Mahwish Moazzam found that every one removed her hijab from the generated images, raising new questions about AI bias, ...

Human Rights Clinic Director Roxanna Altholz ’99 relied on support from the law school as she and two other international law experts probed the 2016 murder of the Honduran environmental activist.