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10/16/2026

Speed round with the Berkeley Latine Journal of Law and Policy! Find out our students’ law school essentials, favorite study spots, and honest reflections on the 1L experience.
Featuring:
Xander Paras, Co-Editor-in-Chief
Gabriela Giancola, Co-Managing Editor
Jessica Herrera, Co-Managing Editor

10/16/2026

Why do some states require voter ID while others don’t?

This episode features Professors Emily Rong Zhang and Bertrall Ross as part of a special 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘸 series on key election topics.



[Video Description: Berkeley Law professors Emily Rong Zhang and Bertrall Ross sit at a wooden conference table in front of a wood-paneled wall, speaking directly to the camera. Text overlay on the video reads: 'Why do some states require voter ID while others don’t?'

10/15/2026

A new episode of “Berkeley Law Voices Carry,” hosted by Gwyneth Shaw, features Professor Stavros Gadinis, who’s also a faculty co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business. His new book, "Corporate Ordering: How Corporations Navigate Social Conflict," has just been published by Cambridge University Press. Its focus is how companies are writing the rules for AI, platform safety, and carbon accounting long before legislators arrive.

Drawing on conversations with general counsel and governance teams at Microsoft, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Uber, Lyft, and Salesforce, "Corporate Ordering" traces the machinery firms have built to make those rules, apply them, and monitor the results. It shows corporate law developing a new way of deciding the most contested questions of our time, often shaping the templates that regulators go on to adopt.

Listen to the full episode: https://bit.ly/3VRphC7

10/14/2026

"A glimmer of what the future might look like."

That’s how 1L Henrietta Bolster describes connecting with Berkeley Law faculty at the Social Justice Student and Faculty Meet & Greet, hosted by the Thelton E. Henderson Center.

"It was not like office hours in which you're talking about legal concepts. It was so sweet to have back and forth with the faculty," Bolster says.

10/13/2026

Is voting actually a constitutional right?

This episode features Professor Bertrall Ross as part of a special 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘸 series on key election topics.



[Video Description: Berkeley Law professor Bertrall Ross sits at a wooden conference table in front of a wood-paneled wall, speaking directly to the camera. Text overlay on the video reads: 'Is voting actually a constitutional right?'

Classes, conversations, connecting with friends, finding time to recharge, and making the most of every day.
10/13/2026

Classes, conversations, connecting with friends, finding time to recharge, and making the most of every day.

Meet Daisy Trujillo, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Berkeley Law’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) Program.Daisy r...
10/12/2026

Meet Daisy Trujillo, a fourth-year Ph.D. student in Berkeley Law’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy (JSP) Program.

Daisy researches what scholars have labeled “crimmigration,” the intersection of the U.S. criminal legal and immigration systems. Her work examines the construction of “the criminal” in the immigration context, including how immigrants and migration have long been criminalized through nativist and anti-criminal sentiments.

For Daisy, her research questions are also personal. As a daughter of Mexican immigrants, seeing the attacks on immigrant communities happening around her left her wanting to understand it better: “How is this legal? How is this allowed to happen?”
“I need to figure out what’s going on.”
That curiosity drives Daisy’s research on how non-citizens charged with non-immigration related crimes experience criminal justice in the United States.

10/10/2026

The Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law is one of the nation’s preeminent forums for discussing regional, national, and international criminal law issues. Since its inception in 2000, the journal has published cutting-edge scholarship by professors, judges, research fellows, clerks, and law students from across the country. Follow Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law to stay in the loop and stay tuned to our “Meet the Journals” series... Next up is the Berkeley Latine Journal of Law & Policy, Latine Journal of Law and Policy!

10/09/2026

Should I be concerned about voting by mail?

We’re launching a special 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘓𝘢𝘸 series on key election topics. This episode features Professor Emily Rong Zhang.



[Video Description: Berkeley Law professor Emily Rong Zhang sits at a wooden conference table in front of a wood-paneled wall, speaking directly to the camera. Text overlay on the video reads: 'Should I be concerned about voting by mail?'

Who’s coming to law school, and why? Welcome back to our series meeting Berkeley Law students! Our 1L class comes from a...
10/08/2026

Who’s coming to law school, and why? Welcome back to our series meeting Berkeley Law students! Our 1L class comes from all walks of life and all corners of the world, including Sheridan Cole from Dallas, TX. She spent the last 5+ years in Washington, DC at the Middle East Democracy Center as an advocacy officer helping to release prisoners of conscience. Sheridan studied abroad in Morocco, spoke at a UN General Assembly event, and is interested in indigent defense and abolitionist movement lawyering.

Q: Why law school? Why now?
A: What drove me to want to go to law school is the tactile work with clients and the ability to do case work. I’m really excited for the opportunity to give back to different communities and get to work with people 1:1. I’m most looking forward to the clinical work.

Q: Why Berkeley Law?
A: For me, the biggest factor when I was considering different law schools was finding a school that was really dedicated to public interest, and that was at the center of the mission for the law school, and not something that was tangential or to the side. When I came to Berkeley, I immediately felt that it was central to the mission and values of everyone at the law school. That’s really what drew me to the community.

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