UCLA will add full-time positions to its Student Affairs Mitigation Program to support the university’s response to protests and other demonstrations, UCLA Student Affairs said. The new positions incl...

The Ninth Circuit's beloved embedding shield is dead in the Fifth Circuit. Say hello to your new best friend: the "transmit requirement."

The first federal appeals court to weigh fair use in AI training sided with Thomson Reuters over ROSS. Why it did so, for now, is under seal.

[Links to several other open letters and faculty statements are below.]

City of LA faces free speech suit after public library officials scrapped two writers’ Read Palestine Week book talks

UC Berkeley Library’s Scholarly Communication and Information Policy office is partnering with Authors Alliance on our fall semester workshops for new academic authors. The next workshop is coming up...

The government officials still enforcing the president’s unconstitutional ban should be held in contempt

As we enter the age of AI, we are in danger of being reduced to what Cory Doctorow dubs the ‘reverse centaur’. With that term he conjures a human being conscripted as the assistant to a dominant machi...

Advocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over research grants would “upend” U.S. science

Federal officials are drafting an executive order that would place grants under review by an outside panel, the latest effort to redirect billions of dollars in research spending.

Over 50 UCLA law faculty and 250 professors nationwide urge Chancellor Julio Frenk to retract his statement about a campus 9/11 symposium amid a growing academic freedom debate.

Professors planned a “serious scholarly discussion” of 9/11’s legal aftermath. Then right-wing media attention and a rebuke from their chancellor complicated things.

ARL Public Policy Briefing (September 2026) This month in the US, a circuit court held that a website does not infringe a copyright owner’s public display right merely by embedding...

Over 50 UCLA law faculty and 200 professors nationwide urge Chancellor Julio Frenk to retract his statement about a campus 9/11 symposium amid a growing academic freedom debate.

The AAUP calls on UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk to withdraw his public repudiation of a UCLA School of Law symposium and to reaffirm the academic freedom of UCLA faculty.

At Monday’s UC Board of Regents meeting, the investments committee announced a nearly $38 billion increase in its assets under management over the 2025-26 fiscal year.

Washington, D.C. – Ahead of H.R. 6028, the Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act, heading to the House floor for a vote this week, Re:Create expressed its strong opposition to the legislation ...

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After a UCLA law school symposium on 9/11 that featured an attorney who represented alleged 9/11 'mastermind' Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk issued a rare message distancing the u...

The architect of the September 11 attacks dreamed of the destruction of America. In the last 25 years, his wish has come true.

The UC Ethnic Studies Council is calling for UC Regent Jay Sures’ resignation after he spoke at an event where another speaker made Islamophobic remarks.

UC Berkeley’s EECS department has faced disrupted research servers, data centers, computing resources and student systems after suspicious activity was detected.