Berkeley Law Voices Carry

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Berkeley Law Professor Saira Mohamed, whose new book, What a Country Owes Its Soldiers, has just been published by Harvard University Press. Her central thesis is that while our society puts soldiers on a “thank you for your service” pedestal, in practice they’re treated as tools for the government’s will — and our laws allow it. Mohamed concludes with a call to transform how our government treats its servicemembers, with an emphasis on recognizing their humanity. For the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub.“Berkeley Law Voices Carry” is a podcast hosted by Gwyneth Shaw about how the school’s faculty, students, and staff are making an impact — in California, across the country, and around the world — through pathbreaking scholarship, hands-on legal training, and advocacy. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Berkeley Law Professor Stavros Gadinis, who’s also a faculty co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Business. His new book, Corporate Ordering: How Corporations Navigate Social Conflict, which has just been published by Cambridge University Press. Its focus is how companies are writing the rules for AI, platform safety, and carbon accounting long before legislators arrive.Drawing on conversations with general counsel and governance teams at Microsoft, OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Uber, Lyft and Salesforce, Corporate Ordering traces the machinery firms have built to make those rules, apply them, and monitor the results. It shows corporate law developing a new way of deciding the most contested questions of our time, often shaping the templates that regulators go on to adopt.“Berkeley Law Voices Carry” is a podcast hosted by Gwyneth Shaw about how the school’s faculty, students, and staff are making an impact — in California, across the country, and around the world — through pathbreaking scholarship, hands-on legal training, and advocacy.For the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with the authors of a recent report from Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, “An International Analysis of the Human Rights Impacts of Large Language Models(opens in a new tab)” : Human Rights Center Executive Director Betsy Popken and Vyoma Raman and Camille Chabot, two former technology researchers for the center. The report focuses on how the use of large language models, or LLMs — the foundation of generative AI — are affecting the fields of law, journalism, and education. Over 15 months, the team interviewed 56 people from 24 countries, including at least one expert and one practitioner in each sector on each inhabited continent.The results are a window into what the benefits, and drawbacks, are for this technology in these sectors. And the authors conclude with a robust set of recommendations aimed at identifying and remediating potential harms in these important fields. For the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with a stellar group of clinical legal educators from across the country: Praveen Kosuri, Practice Professor of Law and Director of the Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic at Penn Carey Law SchoolBeth Lyon, Clinical Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Experiential Education, and Clinical Program Director at Cornell Law SchoolRobin Walker Sterling, Clinical Professor of Law, Associate Dean for Clinical Education, and Director of Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern Pritzer School of LawTy Alper, Berkeley Law Clinical Professor and Clinical Program Co-Faculty DirectorBerkeley Law Assistant Dean for Clinical Education Laura RileyFor the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, 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. For the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub.Production by Yellow Armadillo Studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Chancellor’s Clinical Professor Laurel E. Fletcher, the founding director of the Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic (GRIL), and Valentina Rozo Angel, the clinic’s Data and Technology Clinical Supervisor.GRIL, which enrolled its first cohort of students last year, operates at the crossroads of human rights and digital technology, developing and using data-driven tools to bolster local advocacy, policy, and social change — at home and abroad — in support of human rights defenders and victims. The clinic grew out of Fletcher’s work over more than two decades of leadership at Berkeley Law’s Human Rights Clinic. GRIL”s model allows students to build legal cases using data science analyses on large datasets and create digital storytelling tools to support policy advocacy. For the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Berkeley Law Earl Warren Professor of Public Law Khiara M. Bridges, whose new book, Expecting Inequity: How the Maternal Health Crisis Affects Even the Wealthiest Black Americans, has just been published by the MIT Press.For the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this special episode, host Gwyneth Shaw hands the mic to the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at Berkeley Law, Professor Khiara M. Bridges. She interviews Savala Nolan ’11 — a law school alum, executive director of the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice, and the author of Good Woman: A Reckoning. It was published March 3 and is drawing rave reviews. Note: This episode contains adult language and covers mature topics. Listener discretion is advised. For the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Professor Brian Galle, who’s just released a new book, How to Tax the Ultrarich, outlining a plan for fairer taxation at the federal level.For the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with David A. Carrillo, a Berkeley Law Lecturer in Residence and the executive director of the California Constitution Center, a nonpartisan academic research center devoted to studying the state’s constitution and Supreme Court. For the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.