Alex Copper is Legal Counsel on the Strategic Litigation team at Campaign Legal Center, where she litigates voting rights, redistricting, and campaign finance cases at both the trial and appellate levels. Before joining full-time, Alex was a fellow with CLC and served as a law clerk for Judge Valerie Caproni of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. During law school, Alex interned with…

Ted Mermin is the founder and executive director of the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, the leading academic consumer law institution in the United States. In addition to offering 20 courses in consumer law at Berkeley – more than any other law school in the world – the Center convenes four annual or biennial conferences; four regular regional and…

Abbie VanSickle writes about the Supreme Court for The New York Times with a focus on the world of the court, including its role in politics and the lives of the justices. She came to The Times from The Marshall Project, where she was the lead reporter on a yearlong investigation into the injuries caused by police dog bites that won the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in National Reporting. She was…

Through various initiatives and continued engagement within the Law Review, Paul has demonstrated his willingness to go above and beyond for this community. Paul is an associate at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, where he has worked on a variety of litigation matters, including professional liability, copyright, environmental law, antitrust, criminal defense, immigration, and contract disputes. Before joining KVP, Paul served as a law clerk for…

Kerry Kumabe is universally known as a phenomenal educator and staunch advocate at Berkeley Law. Professor Kumabe joined the faculty of the First Year Skills program in 2018. The First Year Skills program is explicitly designed to introduce students to the theory and practice of professional lawyering skills. Thus, it is not shocking that Professor Kumabe found her home there…

Seema N. Patel serves as a Practitioner in Residence at the UC Berkeley Labor Center and a Lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law. For twenty (20) years, Seema has advocated for low-wage workers’ rights. Previously, Seema served as Clinical Director for the East Bay Community Law Center (EBCLC), where she oversaw Berkeley Law’s eight community-based clinics and taught movement lawyering…

Noor-ul-ain S. Hasan is an associate at Bartlit Beck LLP, a licensed diversity, equity, and inclusion management strategist, and the co-founder/co-director of the Muslim Judicial Law Clerkships Network. Her work on judicial procedure and inequality is forthcoming in the University of Louisville Law Review and has been published in the Gonzaga Law Review. Previously, she served as a law clerk to…

The annual Service Award recognizes the third year student who made the greatest contribution to CLR. This year, the award is presented to Hiep Nguyen. Hiep grew up in San Jose. He went to Cal for undergrad (Go Bears!), where he majored in biology and built homes with Habitat for Humanity. During his gap years, Hiep helped a public health agency conduct opioid overdose outreach…

The annual Diversity Award goes to the member who has embodied and exemplified our diversity initiatives and goals. This year, the award is presented to Chantel Johnson. Chantel’s personal and academic interests relate to criminal law. During law school, Chantel participated in the Clean Slate Clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center, an internship at the Federal Public Defenders in Oakland…