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Wills, Trusts & Estates Prof Blog
Aid-in-Dying Facility Opens in Berkeley
Berkeley physician Lonny Shavelson has opened a medical facility specializing in aid-in-dying care for terminally ill patients that fall under the End of Life Option Act. With great opposition, Shavelson…
The Right Coast
College Students Demand Abortion Clinic on Campus: It s Important to Do Well Academically | LifeNews.com
A vocal group of students at the University of California Berkeley is demanding the university use taxpayer dollars to fund an abortion clinic on campus.ADVERTISEMENTADVERTISEMENTvia www.lifenews.comNot without a trigger warning,…
Bankruptcy & Restructuring Law
New Delaware Chapter 11 Filing – Skybridge Spectrum Foundation
Skybridge Spectrum Foundation, a tax-exempt private operating foundation holding FCC wireless licenses located in Berkeley, California, has filed a chapter 11 petition before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the…
The Right Coast
Campus alerting 80,000 individuals to cyberattack | Berkeley News
UC Berkeley officials are sending alert notices to approximately 80,000 current and former faculty, staff, students and vendors following a criminal cyberattack on a system storing their Social Security or…
Clinical Law Prof Blog
Northern California Clinical Conference
By Kelly Behre
Come join us in Berkeley on February 27th for the Northern California Clinical Conference. Check out the Draft Agenda (still subject to change) and register at the following website: https://berkeleylaw.wufoo.com/forms/2016-northern-california-clinical-conference/
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Berkeley students sue Google for mining emails for ads through Apps for Education
Four students attending the University of California, Berkeley, sued Google last week alleging that it violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act by scanning and mining their emails in order to…
Reproductive Rights Prof Blog
Writing Contest for Student Scholarship in Reproductive Rights
Law Students for Reproductive Justice, in collaboration with the Center for Reproductive Rights and the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice at Berkeley Law School, is pleased to announce the call…
CEQA Developments
Berkeley Hillside CEQA Cat Ex Case Redux: Kapors Get Their Mansion, First District’s Belatedly Published Opinion Upholds City’s Decision That “Unusual Circumstances” Exception Does Not Apply
On remand following a landmark California Supreme Court decision, the First District Court of Appeal filed its opinion affirming the trial court’s judgment on September 23 and later ordered it published…
Race and the Law Prof Blog
Call For Papers: “Critiquing the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Framework” at UC-Berkeley, Feb. 5-6, 2015
Download Berkeley Call for Papers 10.14.2015-Activated Links Institutionalizing Islamophobia: Critiquing the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Framework and Emerging Programs ***The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) defines “violent extremism” as “individuals who support…
Food Safety News
UC Berkeley Engineers Devise 3D-Printed ‘Smart Cap’ to Check Safety of Milk, Juice
By News Desk
Engineers at the University of California-Berkeley have developed a so-called "smart cap" using 3D-printed plastic and containing embedded electronics. They recently demonstrated that the device can wirelessly monitor the freshness…