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“I myself am a beneficiary of a community that supported my education,” Chancellor Birgeneau told an appreciative audience at Oakland’s Scottish Rite Center, where he accepted the Centro Legal de La Raza’s “Visionary Leadership Award.”
Tag: law
For law student, an intensely personal path to Sax Prize
May 2, 2013:
For Micah West ’13, winner of the 2013 Sax Prize for clinical excellence, the path to advocacy has been intensely personal. When West was 19, his father pled guilty to two felonies and received a one-year sentence to a halfway house. “I could no more walk away from my father than I could any of the millions incarcerated in this country,” West said in accepting the award, honoring his tireless work at Berkeley Law’s Death Penalty Clinic and his efforts to launch the new Youth Defender Clinic.
Ten Berkeley faculty named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
April 24, 2013:
Ten Berkeley professors have been named members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a prestigious 233-year-old honorary society of national leaders from academia, business, public affairs and the humanities.
Helping to shape global response to wartime sexual violence
March 20, 2013:
Working with the Human Rights Center’s Sexual Violence and Accountability Project, Berkeley law students are aiding a multi-year effort to gather data on sexual and gender-based violence during and after war, across the globe, and to help craft better response policies.
Law school launches center on California’s Constitution
August 30, 2012:
Ambitious plans are in the works for Berkeley Law’s new California Constitution Center. First up this fall: a moot court for attorneys with cases pending before the Supreme Court of California. The center will also develop scholarship on complex policy issues that arise under the state charter.
Campus adds AT&T Wi-Fi alongside Airbears in law, business schools
February 2, 2012:
The campus has added AT&T Wi-Fi Services to the wireless infrastructure in the Haas School of Business and Boalt Hall to give students, faculty and staff additional connectivity options. The rest of the campus will receive this service over the next 16 months. Both AT&T SSID (attwifi) and AirBears will be carried by the campus high-speed data network.
Mindfulness program set to break new ground at law school
November 17, 2011:
Buoyed by growing student and faculty interest, the law school is launching the Berkeley Initiative for Mindfulness in Law. The brainchild of lecturer Charles Halpern, the initiative will undertake a range of meditation and mindfulness activities over the school year.
Goodwin Liu sworn in to California Supreme Court
September 1, 2011:
UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu was sworn in as the newest justice on the California Supreme Court on Thursday, just a day after winning unanimous approval from a state commission.
Law school and energy group create concurrent degree
May 19, 2011:
Berkeley Law and UC Berkeley’s Energy and Resources Group (ERG) have created a concurrent degree program that enables students to earn both a J.D. and an M.S. or M.A. after four years of study. The new program reflects a growing interest in energy-related legal work and a spike in job opportunities within the field.
UC Berkeley launches groundbreaking disability research initiative
May 11, 2011:
UC Berkeley on May 11 announced a new research initiative that will make it a worldwide leader in disability studies. It includes two new faculty positions and multidiscipinary research projects related to disability that involve 10 faculty members from eight campus units. The effort will be housed in the Haas Diversity Research Center.
Goldman School students organize race and policy symposium
April 15, 2011:
A symposium on race and policy will be held next Wednesday (April 20) at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy, focusing on the ways that racism has been institutionalized through public policy and law and how such barriers might be eliminated.
Law students win mock trial regional championship
March 22, 2011:
Two Berkeley Law teams competed in the final round of the American Association for Justice’s recent Mock Trial Northwest Regional. One team took second place, the other walked away with the championship, and now advances to the nationals.
New law institute to expand Jewish and Israel studies
February 24, 2011:
The new Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society — launched with seed money from the The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation — reflects a flourishing of Jewish legal studies as well as the academic study of Israel.
Law students of African descent win mock trial competition
February 22, 2011:
A four-student team from the Berkeley chapter of the National Black Law Students’ Association recently won the Western Region Championship of the Thurgood Marshall Mock Trial Competition, held in Las Vegas. The mock trial featured a criminal case loosely based on events that occurred in Haiti last year.
Former Michigan Gov. Granholm to teach at UC Berkeley
January 24, 2011:
Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm and her husband, leadership coach and author Daniel Mulhern, will teach interdisciplinary courses on campus starting this spring semester.
Justice Sotomayor to preside over moot court competition
January 11, 2011:
Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will come to Berkeley Law on Feb. 2 to preside over its moot court competition. She will be joined by Judge William Fletcher of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Associate Justice Carol Corrigan of the California Supreme Court.
Berkeley Law report takes aim at misleading copyright practices
January 11, 2011:
Copyright owners are increasingly engaging in abusive and misleading practices that are unfair to consumers, according to “Copyright Abuse and Notice,” a recent report by the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at UC Berkeley. The authors suggest several reforms.
New report finds dramatic crime reduction in East Palo Alto
December 15, 2010:
The Peninsula city of East Palo Alto shows a dramatic drop in crime over the past two decades, according to an independent analysis by researchers at Berkeley Law’s Center for Criminal Justice. Once known as the U.S. per capita “murder capital,” the city’s crime rate dropped 62 percent, across all major crime types, between 1986 and 2008.
Probing the haphazard rise of harsh supermaximum prisons
December 7, 2010:
Across the nation, 25,000 high-risk prisoners are currently housed in “supermaximum” units designed for extreme sensory and social deprivation. Berkeley grad student Keramet Reiter — researching the rise of this harsh form of confinement — has pored through archives and listened to former prisoners’ powerful accounts of near-total isolation and its psychological effects.
New report calls for family-security insurance
December 3, 2010:
Researchers at Berkeley Law and Georgetown Law have released a blueprint for a national insurance program — which would replace wages when people need to take time off for health and care-giving. The report says this need is no longer an issue for individual families or select industries, but a national priority with major social and economic implications.
Law students help bring complaint against energy project in Mexico
December 2, 2010:
Two students at Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Law Clinic played a substantial role in helping Mexican indigenous villagers file a human rights complaint against a U.S.-backed hydroelectric project in Oaxaca.
Philip Selznick, leading scholar in sociology and law, dies at 91
June 16, 2010:
Philip Selznick, professor emeritus of law and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leading expert in the sociology of both law and organizations, died Saturday, June 12. He was 91.
Christopher Patti appointed as chief campus counsel at UC Berkeley
May 6, 2010:
Christopher M. Patti has been appointed the chief campus counsel for the UC Berkeley campus.
