Erwin Chemerinsky writes for The Sacramento Bee, Oct. 26, 2017

The 9th Circuit and Supreme Court have the chance to establish a basic principle of constitutional law: the liberty protected by the Constitution protects a right of consenting adults to engage in private sexual activity, including when they are paying for it or getting paid.

Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by National Law Journal, Oct. 26, 2017

“I think those in the majority will treat it that way,” Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, said. “The government may not give up, but I think the D.C. Circuit will adhere to this position unless the Supreme Court decides otherwise.”

Erwin Chemerinsky writes for Vox, Oct. 25, 2017

Although the First Amendment applies only to the government, including public universities, private universities should follow these same principles. They are essential to academic freedom, which is at the very core of a university’s mission.

Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by UsRealinfo, Oct. 25, 2017

“Public universities cannot exclude a speaker based on their viewpoint, even a very offensive viewpoint. The law is clear,” said Erwin Chemerinsky, the dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law and an expert in First Amendment law.

Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Connecticut Law Tribune, Oct. 20, 2017

“Above all, we should be sure our actions comply with the First Amendment,” Chemerinsky said. “I have done all I can within the law school to do this.”

Erwin Chemerinsky co-writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Oct. 17, 2017

Accommodation is much less appropriate when some members of the campus are attempting to prevent others from exercising their rights. In such cases, heckler’s veto principles argue in favor of strong campus rebuffs of the claims of the disrupters. Otherwise, vulnerable or controversial opinions will never be expressible on a campus. And that would represent an abandonment of foundational principles of modern American higher education. Simply put, the right to speak does not include a right to use speech to keep others from speaking.

Erwin Chemerinsky writes for The Sacramento Bee, Oct. 17, 2017

President Donald Trump’s elimination of subsidies to help lower income Americans afford health care is illegal and just plain mean. The result is that millions of people may lose their health care coverage, but with no savings in cost to the federal government. This is simply an attempt by the president to accomplish by executive fiat what he could not do through Congress: the gutting of Obamacare.

Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Columbia Journalism Review, Oct. 17, 2017

“We saw the same thing [as the Robinson phenomenon] at Berkeley,” writes Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of Berkeley’s law school and coauthor of Free Speech on Campus, in an email. “Last year, [conservative commentator] Ben Shapiro spoke with no attention at all. This year, it took $600,000 of protection. I think the Trump election has caused everything to be more polarized.”

Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by The Daily Californian, Oct. 16, 2017

“Several of our students expressed their disagreement with him and did so in a completely appropriate way that led to discussion and dialogue,” Chemerinsky said in the letter. “I was pleased to hear of how this went, but then shocked to learn of the swastika drawn on a flyer that someone had posted about him.”

Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Daily Journal (registration required), Oct. 13, 2017

“This is a very important civil rights case, involving egregious police abuse,” said Erwin Chemerinsky … at the time the suit was filed. “The allegations in the complaint, which I have read, point to a very serious abuse of government power.”