Berkeley Law Voices Carry

This special episode features two Berkley Law experts discussing the fallout from the U.S. Supreme Court’s Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo decision, which overruled the longstanding doctrine of the Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council case, which was decided in 1984. 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. Visit CLEE’s website for more information, learn more about upcoming events, and to join their mailing list. About:“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. Production by Yellow Armadillo Studios. For a transcript, please visit the episode page. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks to Professor john a. powell, co-author of the new book Belonging Without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the World, which was published earlier this year by Stanford University Press. 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 InstituteBelonging without Othering: How We Save Ourselves and the WorldPlessy v. Ferguson and the Legacy of “Separate but Equal” After 125 YearsUprooting Authoritarianism: Deconstructing the Stories behind Narrow Identities and Building a Society of BelongingRacing to Justice: Transforming Our Conceptions of Self and Other to Build an Inclusive SocietyAbout“Berkeley Law Voices Carry” is a podcast hosted by Gwyneth Shaw in Berkeley Law's Office of Communications 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. Production by Yellow Armadillo Studios.See the episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast hub for transcript and more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks to Dave Jones, director of the Climate Risk Initiative at Berkeley Law’s Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment (CLEE). He’s a national leader and expert on climate risk and financial regulation, having served two two terms as California’s Insurance Commissioner from 2011 to 2018. In that role, he led the Department of Insurance and was responsible for regulating the largest insurance market in the United States: Insurers here collect $310 Billion a year in premiums and have $5.5 trillion in assets under management. 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. About“Berkeley Law Voices Carry” is a podcast hosted by Gwyneth Shaw in Berkeley Law's Office of Communications 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. See the episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast hub for transcript and more information.Production by Yellow Armadillo Studios. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Professors Tejas N. Narechania and Rebecca Wexler about artificial intelligence from two very different perspectives. Both are faculty co-directors of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), Berkeley Law’s tech law hub and a leader in the field for more than a quarter-century. 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.  “Berkeley Law Voices Carry” is a podcast hosted by Gwyneth Shaw in the Berkeley Law Communications Office 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. Production by Yellow Armadillo Studios. See the episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast hub for transcript and more information. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Professor Jonah Gelbach, whose research spans a variety of topics, including civil procedure, evidence, statutory interpretation and legislation, and law and economics. He has a Ph.D. in economics and was a professor with a specialization in econometrics before earning his J.D. and joining the legal academy. He’s also worked as an expert witness in employment and securities cases. 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 TranssubstantivityEstimation EvidenceLegal Tech, Civil Procedure, and the Future of AdversarialismLocking the Doors to Discovery? Assessing the Effects of Twombly and Iqbal on Access to DiscoveryFree Law ProjectAbout:“Berkeley Law Voices Carry” is a podcast hosted by Gwyneth Shaw in the Berkeley Law Communications Office 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. Production by Yellow Armadillo Studios. Full transcript of this episode available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Images and videos of atrocious things come at us from an endless array of sources, and seem unavoidable: You turn off the TV coverage of the latest mass shooting only to confront the same event on social media. Close that app and you may open your email to find a friend or family member has shared new footage or photos. 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. About: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. Production by Yellow Armadillo Studios.  Full transcript of this episode available here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.