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Erwin Chemerinsky

UC Berkeley law professor Catherine Fisk attempts to get law student Malak Afaneh to leave the home Fisk shares with her husband, Berkeley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky, on April 9, 2024. (Screenshot via Instagram)
Posted inBay Area

UC Berkeley opens probe into law professor over confrontation with anti-Israel student

Lea Loeb
(Photo/Aaron Levy-Wolins) by Lea Loeb May 7, 2024May 8, 2024

UC Berkeley has opened a Title IX civil rights investigation after an April 9 confrontation between a professor and a Muslim law student at the professor’s home, the Bay Area […]

UC Berkeley law professor Catherine Fisk attempts to get law student Malak Afaneh to leave the home Fisk shares with her husband, Berkeley law dean Erwin Chemerinsky, on April 9, 2024. (Screenshot via Instagram)
Posted inBay Area

Anti-Israel protester disrupts Berkeley law dean’s backyard dinner, refuses to leave

Maya Mirsky
(Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff) by Maya Mirsky April 10, 2024April 15, 2024
The Sather Gate on the UC Berkeley campus. (Photo/Tristan Harward via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inNews

Department of Education to investigate UC Berkeley amid law school Zionism controversy

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman December 15, 2022December 15, 2022
Students enjoying a UC Berkeley Hillel event in 2019. (Photo/File)
Posted inUncategorized

UC Berkeley has many Jewish-filled ‘zones.’ If you want to support campus Jews, learn about them.

by Ron E. Hassner and Ethan B. Katz October 2, 2022October 2, 2022
A Feb. 3, 2020 UC Berkeley student union meeting where students debated a measure to remove a controversial anti-Israel display. (Photo/Sunny Shen-Daily Californian)
Posted inLetters

Berkeley Law dean wrong about antisemitism on campus; A swastika is a swastika; etc.

by J. Readers August 31, 2022August 31, 2022
Erwin Chemerinsky is dean of UC Berkeley Law. (Photo/File)
Posted inLocal Voice

Dean of Berkeley Law: Don’t generalize about BDS on campus

Erwin Chemerinsky by Erwin Chemerinsky August 29, 2022August 31, 2022
The Sather Gate on the UC Berkeley campus. (Photo/Tristan Harward via Wikimedia Commons)
Posted inBay Area

Several Berkeley Law student groups adopt ‘no Zionist speakers’ rule

Gabe Stutman by Gabe Stutman August 26, 2022December 21, 2022

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