The Berkeley Daily Planet, The Death of a Public Law School, by Benjamin Eisenberg (J.D. 2011, UC-Berkeley):

The University of California Berkeley Law School is poised to become the most expensive publicly owned law school in the world. Over the next two years, fees will increase by 32%. That means that California students will soon pay almost $52,000 a year in tuition, only a few thousand less than equivalent private law schools. Out-of-state students will pay the same as if they had gone to Harvard or Yale.

With these tuition changes, there will be no more Berkeley public law school. The California public law school dies today.

In this new world, Berkeley will be much like Stanford or Duke, except that the California government will act much like a well-respected alumnus, one that can put its name on a very large plaque in the donor lobby

(Hat Tip:  Law School Headlines.)