In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Ted Mermin ’96, a Berkeley Law alum, a lecturer at the law school, and the executive director of our Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, which since its 2018 founding has become a hub for faculty, students, and advocates focused on economic security and consumer protection — not just at Berkeley but around the country and even the world. Ted has built his career on public advocacy, particularly in the area of consumer protection, and is a well-known face in the halls of California’s Capitol. Ted teaches a variety of consumer law courses and advises both the student-led economic justice organization Consumer Advocacy and Protection Society (CAPS) and the consumer-policy focused Consumer Protection Public Policy Order (C-3PO), one of 40 Student-Initiated Legal Services Projects (SLPS) at the law school. He has also guided the Center’s litigation work, filing amicus briefs in consumer protection, public health, and economic justice cases around the nation as well as overseeing the unique Published Justice project, which has led to the publication of numerous California court of appeal decisions that would not otherwise have seen the light of day.Ted co-founded and co-convenes an irrational number of conferences, including the Consumer Law Scholars Conference, the Economic Justice Policy Advocates Conference, and the Law School Consumer Clinics Conference, along with first-of-their-kind summits on the application of consumer protection law to the criminal legal system, in the domestic violence context, and in efforts to address climate change. He also co-created and has co-led the Consumer Law Advocates, Students and Scholars (CLASS) Network, which is building a web of consumer law-oriented programs at law schools around the nation. 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 Berkeley Center for Law and Business (BCLB) Executive Director Angeli Patel ’20, the lead instructor for ESG University, a new self-paced online program in Berkeley Law’s growing Executive Education offerings. This new certificate program and community is for individuals and organizations seeking to integrate proven ESG — which stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance — strategies and stakeholder theory considerations into business and investment practices.ESG University has two tracks: A 30-hour course for general practitioners and an 8-hour class for corporate board directors and C-suite executives. Click here to find out more and register..About:“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.

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.

In this episode, host Gwyneth Shaw talks with Professor Colleen Chien ’02, a cross-disciplinary scholar whose research spans innovation, intellectual property, and the criminal justice system. She’s just joined the Berkeley Law faculty — the ninth hire for the school this year. Chien is a Berkeley Law alumna and studies a wide range of topics, including innovation, intellectual property, and the criminal justice system. A faculty co-director of our Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, she also founded and directs two grant-funded research initiatives: the Innovator Diversity Pilots Initiative, which develops rigorous evidence to boost inclusion in innovation, and the Paper Prisons Initiative, which conducts research to address and advance economic and racial justice. She was a member of the Biden-Harris transition team and has worked as a senior advisor on IP issues in the Obama White House, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where she currently serves as a Marion Croak Distinguished Scholar. Click here to read more about Professor Chien and her work. Here are a few of her many publications if you’d like to dive even deeper:Improving Equity in Patent InventorshipAmerica's Paper Prisons: The Second Chance GapThe Inequalities of InnovationRigorous Policy Pilots: Experimentation in the Administration of Patent LawAbout:“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.