Doctoral Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy (ABD)
Anna Zaret is a Ph.D. Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy and fellow at the Law, Economics, and Politics Center at Berkeley Law. She previously clerked for the Hon. Laurel Beeler in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California and was a fellow at the UCSF – UC Law Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy. She received her J.D. magna cum laude from UC Law, San Francisco, where was the Senior Articles Editor at UC Law Journal and a Tobriner Social Justice Fellowship recipient. She has research interests in evidence, criminal procedure, and tort law, where she combines her expertise in political economy and political theory to approach contemporary problems related to police violence, health policy, and social inequality.
J.D., University of California Law, San Francisco; B.A. Philosophy & B.A. History, University of California, Santa Cruz
Publications
- Plainly Incompetent: How Qualified Immunity Became an Exculpatory Doctrine of Police Excessive Force (with Osagie K. Obasogie), 170 U. Penn. Law Review 407 (2022).
- Medical Professionals, Excessive Force, and the Fourth Amendment (with Osagie Obasogie), 109 California Law Review 1 (2021).
- Editing Embryos: Genetic Engineering in Human Reproduction, 67 Hastings Law Journal 1493, 1805 (2016).