Fine, 85, lived in Berkeley for more than half a century. She played competitive doubles at the Berkeley Tennis Club and helped restore the Berkeley Piano Club’s building.
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Anti-Zionist Jewish activists claim credit for billboard defacement
Three billboards in Berkeley and Oakland defining anti-Zionism as antisemitism were defaced by a group of Jewish activists who say Zionism is racist against Palestinians.
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Afghan judge who fled to Berkeley doesn’t know where she’ll go if her visa expires
Basira Qazizada is now a visiting scholar at Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Center, working on a project about women judges and women’s rights in Afghanistan.
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Remembering Barbara S. Bryant, Berkeley Law lecturer, sexual harassment legal expert, avid hiker
Bryant summited Mt. Kilimanjaro, hiked the John Muir Trail, attended 100-plus performances at Berkeley Rep and San Francisco Opera, and rode a Harley-Davidson in San Francisco’s Pride Parade.
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Berkeley Law dean’s book reveals how the Supreme Court enabled racist policing
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, casts a cold eye on the post-Warren court in “Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights.”
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Video: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s last talk in Berkeley
The news that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had died due to complications from metastatic pancreatic cancer left the nation reeling Friday. Last October, she spoke at Berkeley Law. Watch a recording of the event here.
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Berkeley Law puts Shylock in the docks
Everyone needs a good lawyer. But Shylock, one of Shakespeare’s most historically fraught villains, is a special case. On Sunday, Berkeley Law takes over the Freight to give the old usurer another shot at justice.
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UC Berkeley removes racist John Boalt’s name from law school
The denaming, prompted by the discovery of the 19th-century attorney’s racist writings, is the first time a Cal facility’s name has been eliminated due to its namesake’s character or actions.
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Update: UC Berkeley student’s body recovered beneath Oregon waterfall
Two hikers spotted the body of 23-year-old Brian Lewinstein a month after he slipped taking a photo of a waterfall in the Umpqua National Forest.
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Can resisting Trump be fun? Two Berkeley activists think so
A “Resist Trump” website founded by two UC Berkeley Law staffers has grown enormously in just a few weeks.
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Berkeley Law dean resigns after sexual harassment suit
Berkeley Law School Dean Sujit Choudhry has resigned in the wake of a sexual harassment lawsuit. Photo: Berkeley Law Sujit Choudhry resigned his position as dean of Berkeley Law on Thursday, following Tuesday’s filing of a lawsuit seeking damages from both Choudhry and the Regents of the University of California for sexual harassment. Tyann Sorrell, who […]
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In Berkeley program, teens learn the law, leadership
Mock trials presided over by an Alameda County Superior Court judge turn teenagers into attorneys and defendants for the day. Photo: Nancy Schiff Jay-Z and Beyoncé are working out their relationship problems. The celebrities — impersonated uncannily by two 17-year-olds — are pretty angry at each other. But eventually they restore their romance, thanks to […]