Public Law

The California Lawyers Association Public Law Section is pleased to announce that its Public Meetings, Public Records Conference will be held at the Westin Carlsbad Resort and Spa on September 26-27, 2024. Participants may attend in person or virtually for this for this one and a half day continuing legal education and networking event. Read more

We are excited to offer multiple sponsorship opportunities for our upcoming 2024 Public Law Section Public Meeting, Public Record Conference at Carlsbad. Read more

This year, Public Law has selected Retired Chief Counsel, Judy Hartley as the recipient of the PLOY Award. Read more

The County of Los Angeles nominates Senior Assistant County Counsel Thomas Faughnan.  Read more

The Public Law Section held its Law Enforcement Practices and Liability Conference in San Diego on May 25 and 26, 2023. The timing of the conference was prescient given the Attorney General’s June 30, 2023, release of the 2022 Criminal Justice Statistics Report that highlighted, among other things, the use of force by law enforcement in California. Read more

The Public Law Section of California Lawyers Association (CLA) is hosting the annual Law Enforcement Practices and Liability Conference in San Diego, California, on May 25-26, 2023. Read more

The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation’s Real Estate Educational Services Task Force Team led a 45 state agency task force in conjunction with the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS) to uncover fraud by mortgage loan originators. Read more

Erwin Chemerinsky became the 13th Dean of Berkeley Law on July 1, 2017, when he joined the faculty as the Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law. Prior to assuming this position, from 2008-2017, he was the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, and Raymond Pryke Professor of First Amendment Law, at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.  Before that, he was the Alston and Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke University from 2004-2008,… Read more

This is a sponsorship form. The California Lawyers Association Public Law Section will honor UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky with its highest award on October 3, 2022, following the constitutional law scholar’s talk on “Our Imperiled Democracy.” Read more

The California Lawyers Association (CLA), Public Law Section will honor UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky with its highest award on October 3, 2022, following the constitutional law scholar's talk on "Our Imperiled Democracy." Read more