Erwin Chemerinsky

constitutional law professor and dean of UC Berkeley School of Law

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Erwin Chemerinsky is Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law.at Berkeley Law. He is the author of The Conservative Assault on the Constitution, The Case against the Supreme Court and, most recently, Free Speech on Campus.

Chemerinsky is the founding dean of the Law School at the University of California Irvine. Prior to that, he taught law at the University of Southern California and Duke Law School, where he specialized in constitutional law. He is one of the co-authors of the Los Angeles City Charter.

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Some of the country’s top law schools are pulling out of U.S. News and World Report’s rankings, which critics say penalize schools.

US News’ college rankings are based on wrong metrics, says law school dean

Some of the country’s top law schools are pulling out of U.S. News and World Report’s rankings, which critics say penalize schools.

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Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley School of Law, says this system is unconstitutional because it doesn’t uphold the democratic principles of majority rule and the equal treatment…

Is California’s recall process unconstitutional? Berkeley Law dean says it doesn’t uphold democratic majority rule

Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley School of Law, says this system is unconstitutional because it doesn’t uphold the democratic principles of majority rule and the equal treatment…

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"Under the Constitution, the government has the power that’s necessary to stop the spread of communicable disease,” says Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley’s law school.

Protecting the public v. infringing on individual rights during a pandemic

"Under the Constitution, the government has the power that’s necessary to stop the spread of communicable disease,” says Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of UC Berkeley’s law school.

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