Berkeley Law Voices Carry

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with UC Berkeley Law Professor David Hausman, faculty director of the Deportation Data Project, the first centralized repository of individual-level U.S. government immigration enforcement data. This spring, the project obtained and made available online an individual-level dataset including anonymized identifiers that correspond to individuals, allowing users to follow individuals through the enforcement process without learning their identities.For the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub.

Host Gwyneth Shaw talks with UC Berkeley Law Professor Chris Jay Hoofnagle, whose latest book, Cybersecurity in Context: Technology, Policy, and Law, was published last fall. Hoofnagle and his co-author, LSU computer science and engineering Professor Golden G. Richard, wrote the book to accompany courses on this important topic, but also worked to make it accessible to students and teachers in any discipline. The textbook includes a set of hands-on exercises on self-contained virtual machines for Linux, Windows, and Mac so readers can experience how cybersecurity works in practice. For the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub.

Host Gwyneth Shaw talks with UC Berkeley Law Professors UC Berkeley Law Professors Daniel Farber and Jonathan Gould — experts on presidential power, constitutional law, and the U.S. Congress and the faculty directors of the law school’s Christopher Edley Jr. Center on Law & Democracy. Founded last fall after the death of the law school’s beloved former dean and national political and policy influence for decades, the center aims to defend and strengthen democratic institutions in the United States through actionable research and public leadership.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. For the full transcript, show notes, and links, please visit this episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with UC Berkeley Law Professors Katerina Linos and Elena Chachko about their new paper in the William & Mary Law Review, “Emergency Powers for Good.” In the article and a blog post on “Lawfare,” they discuss how emergency powers — often associated with overreach and authoritarianism — can be used in legitimate and transformative ways. The piece has drawn a strong reaction, including a comment in the Yale Journal on Regulation (and a response from the authors). “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 and show notes please visit the episode page.  Production by Yellow Armadillo Studios. 

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.

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.  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. Visit the episode page on the Berkeley Law Podcast Hub for a full transcript of this episode.

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.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks to Professor Osagie K. Obasogie, a professor of law and bioethics and the only UC Berkeley faculty member to hold an appointment at both our law school and our School of Public Health, including the Joint Medical Program with UC San Francisco. As a sociologist of law and medicine, Obasogie’s research combines doctrinal scholarship with empirical methods and novel theoretical approaches to understand the ways race is central to how the institutions of law and medicine operate.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. 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.

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.