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05/29/2026

What actually counts as reasonable suspicion?

05/28/2026

How do we save the internet?

On this episode of 𝘉𝘦𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬, Zara Tayebjee '26 talks with Professor Tejas N. Narechania, Faculty Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, about 'How to Save the Internet,' a piece he co-authored with Professor Scott Shenker.

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05/27/2026

By the time she retired in 2014, Professor Eleanor Swift was a titan of Berkeley Law. Just the fifth woman appointed to the faculty, she was a renowned scholar and beloved teacher as well as a crucial figure in creating and building the school’s Clinical Program, .

Swift, who died in 2023, was a popular and generous mentor for students and women in legal academia around the country. Her brilliance and grace has inspired an alum, who wishes to remain anonymous, to donate $250,000 to establish the Eleanor Swift Scholarship Fund.

Read "‘Individuals Matter’: Grateful Alum’s Seed Gift Establishes Professor Eleanor Swift Scholarship Fund" https://bit.ly/3RAsTGw

05/26/2026

Well before the tech explosion fundamentally changed the world, Daniel Dobrygowski ’07 saw the magnitude of its impact and implications. For over a decade as the World Economic Forum’s head of governance and trust, his pioneering work established him as a leading advocate for sound technology governance — and for recognizing it as essential for equality and human dignity.

Dobrygowski now leads the cybersecurity legal function at Sophos, a global company that protects businesses against ransomware, phishing, and malware. Global think tanks and major publications have featured his work on digital trust, cyber risk, and digital democracy, and he has advised many national and international organizations overseeing technology.

Named one of the 100 most influential corporate governance leaders by the National Association of Corporate Directors, Dobrygowski has counseled tech sector clients as a lawyer in Washington, D.C., and San Francisco. His new book, Technology Governance: Build Trust into Digital Innovation, offers practical tools to help business leaders make sound choices for mitigating risk and building trustworthy innovation.

Read a Q&A with Dobrygowski in the full article: https://bit.ly/3RpulLV

05/22/2026

Can an employer look at my internet history?

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Video Description: UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky sits at a wooden conference table in front of a wood-paneled wall, speaking directly to the camera. Text overlay on the video reads: 'Can an employer look at my internet history?'

05/21/2026

Meet the student leaders behind the official podcast of the Berkeley Technology Law Journal - the most frequently cited technology law journal in the country. The podcast, which started in 2017, has more than 50 episodes.

Check out a Q&A with the Senior Podcast Editors: rising 3Ls Joy Fu and Lucy Huang.

𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬?
Lucy: This oriented what I want to focus on in my career, which is to address where technology intersects with civic liberties and equity.
Joy: This experience also led me to explore different practice groups as a summer associate last year, with a focus on working with tech clients.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭'𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐨𝐟?
Lucy: I’m definitely most proud of our team and how much they deliver.
Joy: I’m most proud of how our team members collaborate to produce wonderful episodes.

𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐁𝐓𝐋𝐉 𝐩𝐨𝐝𝐜𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐬𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐡𝐲?
Lucy: It seems like a cop-out answer, but all of them!
Joy: Check out “Cybersecurity’s Role in Securing Elections,” featuring Professor Chris Hoofnagle. We also published a two-part series on AI and rules of evidence featuring Professor Andrea Roth and 3L Audrey Mitchell. You should listen to both episodes!

Listen now: https://bit.ly/3PRaVz0

05/20/2026

In a new episode of "Berkeley Law Voices Carry," host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, whose term as dean was recently extended by UC Berkeley leadership until June 30, 2029. With the rule of law under assault and legal education facing big questions, Chemerinsky decided to stay beyond June 2027, when he had initially planned to step down.

Listen to the podcast now: https://bit.ly/4uLOp9r

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Video Description: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky smiles in a photo. The "Voices Carry" podcast logo and an audio waveform graphic are overlaid on the screen.

05/19/2026

"Today, we’ve gathered the brightest minds from NASA, NVIDIA, and global law firms. All in the same conversation, to build something the world can actually trust."

— Elena Dragusheva LL.M. ’26, a Fulbright scholar at Berkeley Law with a background in Computer Science and IP law, reports from the recent Berkeley Robotics & AI Conference that she co-led in April. A collaboration between NOVA Robotics & AI Community, the Institute for Business Innovation, UC-Berkeley Deep Tech Innovation Lab, and Berkeley's Intelligent Robotics Design Center, the conference sought to explore the current state of robotics, what’s next, and how the field can drive real-world impact.

"I didn’t come to Berkeley Law just to study the future," says Dragusheva. "I came here to help shape what it should become."

Learn more about how Berkeley Law’s scholars, students, and programs are leading in AI: https://bit.ly/4uplwQS

05/18/2026

Berkeley Law’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 and Hawaiʻi and state superior courts in Alaska and California.

In all, 47 members of the Class of 2026 will be state or federal court clerks: 36 in the fall term and 21 in future terms. Another 53 alums are clerking in the fall term, according to the school’s Career Development Office (CDO), which offers support for clerkship applications both before and after graduation.

That adds up to at least 89 Berkeley Law clerks this fall in 24 different states, Washington, D.C., and South Africa.

The efforts of the CDO have created a pipeline into state courts that runs in two directions: Judges, including alumni, who’ve hired Berkeley Law graduates come back for more, and students who’ve seen their predecessors thrive in state clerkships are inspired to apply themselves.

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