Law & Justice

Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic and Alliance San Diego represented a case before an international human rights body.

Allegations of misconduct against Berkeley Police Department, or BPD, were brought to Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín and City Council Thursday, prompting an external investigation.

Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center, or HRC, announced Wednesday that international human rights attorney Betsy Popken will be joining the leadership team as the new Co-Executive Director alongside current Executive Director, Alexa Koenig.

UC Berkeley Law’s Environmental Law Clinic is representing Communities for a Better Environment, or CBE, in a suit against the AB&I Foundry in East Oakland and the Bay Area Air Quality Management District, or BAAQMD.

For campus first year Shazad Khan, gun violence had always been a distant idea. Khan said after moving from Singapore to Berkeley for college, gun violence was a newly discovered threat.

Berkeley Police Department was awarded a grant of $191,053 by the California Department of Justice in order to further impose underage tobacco laws through education and enforcement efforts.

President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he planned to pardon simple marijuana possession and urged local governors to do the same.

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have reformed solitary confinement within California prisons on Thursday.

Berkeley fire and police units responded to a fire in a residential apartment building on Berkeley Way, according to an alert from BPD at 5:09 p.m. Monday.

Sixteen-year-old Elliot Eckert has been missing since Thursday and frequents Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, BPD reported Saturday.