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Just a few weeks into the second administration of President Donald Trump, the center is convening expert panels to explore the implications of the president’s first moves — many of which are setting off alarm bells about the rule of law, the separation of powers, and even the strength of the U.S. Constitution itself. The center’s events archive has videos of these discussions. 

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The decision sent shock waves through the field of administrative law and is expected to have a particularly large impact on climate and energy policy. In this episode, Center for Law, Energy & the Environment Executive Director Louise Bedsworth leads a conversation with Berkeley Law Professors Daniel A. Farber and Sharon Jacobs about the decision, its reasoning, and what might happen looking forward. 

Farber is the center’s faculty director and a leading scholar in Constitutional, administrative, and environmental law. His most recent book is Contested Ground: How to Understand the Limits on Presidential Power and he’s been on the Berkeley Law faculty since 2002. 

Jacobs, who joined the faculty in 2022, teaches and writes in the areas of energy law, environmental law, and administrative law. 

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In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks to Farouq Habib, a founding member and Deputy General Manager for External Affairs for the White Helmets, a grassroots humanitarian organization of ordinary Syrians who came together to save lives amid the devastation of the Syrian Civil War, and Betsy Popken, Executive Director of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law. 

Habib and colleague Raed al Saleh were at Berkeley Law recently to talk about the White Helmets and their role in pushing for justice and accountability in Syria. 

The White Helmets, formally known as the Syrian Civil Defense and recognizable for their namesake headgear, provide critical emergency services such as medical care, ambulances, firefighting, early warning alerts, unexploded ordnance removal, and search and rescue operations. They also work to document and archive military attacks and coordinate with international agencies and nongovernmental organizations scrutinizing the situation in Syria. 

The Human Rights Center, which is celebrating its 30th anniversary, uses the levers of science, technology, and law to pursue justice. The center researches and investigates war crimes and human rights violations, develops standards for policymakers and practitioners, and trains investigators, students and advocates. Visit the White Helmets’s website to learn more about their work and how to support it, and explore the Human Rights Center’s website to understand the broad scope of its mission. 

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powell is an internationally recognized expert in the areas of civil rights and civil liberties and a wide range of issues including race, structural racism, ethnicity, housing, poverty, and democracy and has taught and written for decades on these topics. He’s a professor at Berkeley Law as well as a professor of African American Studies and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, holds the Robert D. Haas Chancellor’s Chair in Equity and Inclusion. powell is also a Berkeley Law alum who joined our faculty in 2012, and is the founding director of the Othering & Belonging Institute, a UC Berkeley research institute that brings together scholars, community advocates, communicators, and policymakers to create transformative change toward a more equitable world. 

In his new book, powell and co-author Stephen Menendian tackle one of the most pressing issues in our society, especially in this contentious election year: How can we find common ground as human beings when the roots of inequality — the practice of creating division among ourselves along racial, religious, ethnic, sexual, and caste lines — so easily divide us? They make the case for adopting a paradigm of belonging that does not require the creation of an “other” that hinges on transitioning from narrow to expansive identities, even if that means challenging seemingly benevolent forms of community-building based on othering.

To learn more about powell and his work:

• Othering & Belonging Institute
• Belonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World
• Plessy v. Ferguson and the Legacy of “Separate but Equal” After 125 Years
• Uprooting Authoritarianism: Deconstructing the Stories behind Narrow Identities and Building a Society of Belonging
• Racing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive Society

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He’s the author of Blinded By Sight: Seeing Race Through the Eyes of the Blind and co-editor of Beyond Bioethics: Toward a New Biopolitics, and his scholarship has been published in top law reviews as well as major medical and science journals. Obasogie is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and won a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2022. 

Recently, he organized and wrote the opening essay for a major project published in the Los Angeles Review of Books, “Legacies of Eugenics.” Over the next couple of years, the review is publishing essays from more than a dozen scholars and writers examining how the ideas underpinning eugenics continue to shape many aspects of science, medicine, and technology in ways that we often don’t appreciate. The project is supported by the Center for Genetics and Society, the Nova Institute, and UC Berkeley’s Othering & Belonging Institute and school of public health. 

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During that same time period, Dave led the implementation of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) Climate Risk Disclosure Survey of insurers, founded and chaired the Sustainable Insurance Forum, an international consortium of insurance regulators developing best practices to deal with climate change, required insurers to disclose their investments in fossil fuels, and was the first to undertake climate risk scenario analysis of insurers investment portfolios. Since joining CLEE he’s been a sought-after expert on the challenges facing the insurance industry and insurance regulators, in California and nationwide, as they deal with the impact of climate change. 

Before he was Insurance Commissioner, Dave served in the California State Assembly, as a Sacramento City Councilmember, and as special assistant and then counsel to U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno. He began his legal career providing free legal representation to low income families and individuals with the non-profit Legal Services of Northern California. Dave earned a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an M.P.P. from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. 

A couple of minor corrections to his remarks: “United Policies Network” is “United Policyholders” and the correct figure for insurer investment in fossil fuels is $536 billion. 

To learn more about Jones, the Climate Risk Initiative, and Berkeley Law’s climate and environmental research, check out the websites for the initiative and the CLEE. 

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Ted teaches a variety of consumer law courses and advises both the student-led economic justice organization Consumer Advocacy and Protection Society (CAPS) and the consumer-policy focused Consumer Protection Public Policy Order (C-3PO), one of 40 Student-Initiated Legal Services Projects (SLPS) at the law school. He has also guided the Center’s litigation work, filing amicus briefs in consumer protection, public health, and economic justice cases around the nation as well as overseeing the unique Published Justice project, which has led to the publication of numerous California court of appeal decisions that would not otherwise have seen the light of day.

Ted co-founded and co-convenes an irrational number of conferences, including the Consumer Law Scholars Conference, the Economic Justice Policy Advocates Conference, and the Law School Consumer Clinics Conference, along with first-of-their-kind summits on the application of consumer protection law to the criminal legal system, in the domestic violence context, and in efforts to address climate change. He also co-created and has co-led the Consumer Law Advocates, Students and Scholars (CLASS) Network, which is building a web of consumer law-oriented programs at law schools around the nation. 

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Narechania’s research focus is on the institutions of technology law and policy, including telecommunications regulation, platform governance, and intellectual property. He has advised the Federal Communications Commission, where he spent a year as special counsel, on network neutrality matters, and is the co-director of the Artificial Intelligence, Platforms, and Society Project, a collaboration between BCLT and the CITRIS Policy Lab. In January, he participated in a meeting at the White House of experts about competition policy and AI, and his recent work on AI was cited in the 2024 Economic Report of the President.

Wexler’s teaching and research focuses on data, technology, and secrecy in the criminal legal system, with a particular emphasis on evidence law, trade secret law, and data privacy. Her scholarly theories have twice been proposed for codification into federal law and litigated in multiple courts. In the spring of 2023, she was a senior policy advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and earlier this year she testified before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee subcommittee hearing on the use of artificial intelligence in criminal investigations and prosecutions. 

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This new certificate program and community is for individuals and organizations seeking to integrate proven ESG — which stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance — strategies and stakeholder theory considerations into business and investment practices.

ESG University has two tracks: A 30-hour course for general practitioners and an 8-hour class for corporate board directors and C-suite executives. Click here to find out more and register.

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For more than a decade, he’s been demonstrating how aggregating federal court data can help researchers tease out critical trends, pushing for the federal judiciary to drop the paywall on the Public Access to Court Electronic Records database — the online repository of more than than 1 billion federal court records, commonly referred to as PACER — for non-parties to access information. 

Click below to read some of Professor Gelbach’s work and other groups advocating for easier access to federal court data. 

• Beyond Transsubstantivity
• Estimation Evidence
• Legal Tech, Civil Procedure, and the Future of Adversarialism
• Locking the Doors to Discovery? Assessing the Effects of Twombly and Iqbal on Access to Discovery
• Free Law Project

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Chien is a Berkeley Law alumna and studies a wide range of topics, including innovation, intellectual property, and the criminal justice system. A faculty co-director of our Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, she also founded and directs two grant-funded research initiatives: the Innovator Diversity Pilots Initiative, which develops rigorous evidence to boost inclusion in innovation, and the Paper Prisons Initiative, which conducts research to address and advance economic and racial justice. 

She was a member of the Biden-Harris transition team and has worked as a senior advisor on IP issues in the Obama White House, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where she currently serves as a Marion Croak Distinguished Scholar. 

Click here to read more about Professor Chien and her work. Here are a few of her many publications if you’d like to dive even deeper:

• Improving Equity in Patent Inventorship
• America's Paper Prisons: The Second Chance Gap
• The Inequalities of Innovation
• Rigorous Policy Pilots: Experimentation in the Administration of Patent Law

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From the agonizing murder of George Floyd to the horrifying attacks in Israel and Gaza, all of us bear witness every day — often through these troubling, even traumatizing, visuals. And that’s nothing new: Photographs and film have been used as testaments since these technologies were invented. 

But the rise of the smartphone, and its capability to produce imagery as well as share and view it, has turned a spigot into a firehose. And while these photos and videos can be valuable evidence in the public sphere and in court, they can also take a toll on our mental health. 

In their new book, Graphic: Trauma and Meaning in our Online Lives, Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros draw lessons for everyone from the experiences of experts who work with disturbing materials every day. Koenig, co-faculty director of the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center, and Lampros, a former associate director of the center, founded its Investigations Lab in 2016. 

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks to Koenig and Lampros about their book, particularly the increasing prevalence of disturbing imagery and what all of us can do to safeguard our mental health while still being intentional about how we connect with it. 

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