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July 11, 2024

JSP Faculty Achievements: This was a banner year for our faculty, staff, and alumni. To name just a few of the laurels they garnered: in June, Dhammika Dharmapala was elected Secretary-Treasurer of the American Law & Economics Association (meaning he will be President in 2027).

June 20, 2024

In New Project, Professor Osagie K. Obasogie Explores ‘The Legacy of Eugenics’

Obasogie wants to bring the discredited theory out of hiding through a national conversation to confront the past and prevent its repetition in modern science. 

June 10, 2024

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FYI: Lauri out 6/10 - 6/14. 

1) Congratulations Grads!

2) Congrats Mila!

3) Congrats Mayra!

4) Congrats Sanjana!

5) Fung Fllwshp Application

6)  S. Korean Kids

7) LSAT/GRE Prep

8) Columbia U. Law Rvw

9) Honors Program Ddln

10) Law Firm Job

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1) Congratulations Grads!

Congratulations Grads!

A big Congratulations to all of our Legal Studies graduates!

May 31, 2024

Professor Dylan Penningroth’s book Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights has won the Law & Society Association’s J. Willard Hurst Book Prize, the latest in a string of accolades and honors. Penningroth will be honored at the association’s annual meeting, as will several other winners with ties to Berkeley Law: Legal Studies student Sanjana Manjeshwar nabbed the Undergraduate Student Paper Prize, while Jurisprudence & Social Policy alumni Lynette Chua Ph.D. ’11, Kaaryn Gustafson J.D. ’97 Ph.D. ’04, and Marianne Constable Ph.D.

May 10, 2024

Congratulations to Taylor Galdi for being accepted into the CRELS program!

May 8, 2024

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Lauri Needs Volunteers for Commencement!
If you know for sure you can come on Sunday May 12th at noon to Zellerbach Auditorium, please reply to this e-mail to let me know. Thank you so much!
So far two people have officially volunteered. Thank you Christina and Olivia!
I need more help. 
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1) Comp Tickets and a CORRECTION for Grads
2) DSAP Mixer!
3) Cal Alumni Assoc Event
4) Brico Job
5) Congratulations Ashlyn!

April 29, 2024

Congratulations Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg for receiving a 2024 Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Excellence in Teaching Award.

April 24, 2024

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TICKETS are available for purchase!!!
Go HERE.

There is no limit.

Every body entering needs a ticket.

April 19, 2024

Congratulations Dylan Penningroth for being awarded the the Merle Curti Social History Award and the Ellis W. Hawley Award by the Organization of American Historians.

April 16, 2024

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1) Honors Info Session TONIGHT!
2) Ticket Delay
3) Intl Career Panel
4) LGBTQ+ Career Panel TONIGHT!

5) Sup. Ct. Justice Talk
6) Jobs Post-Cal Panel
7) Subjects Needed
8) Patent /IP Law Panel

April 12, 2024

 HUGE congratulations to Haley Anderson, who secured a position as an academic fellow at Columbia Law School!

April 10, 2024

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March 20, 2024

Congratulations Kristen Holmquist for receiving a 2024 Distinguished Teaching Award!

Overview of the Award

March 8, 2024

Berkeley Law News

As America’s rule of law is threatened, Black history holds lessons

UC Berkeley professor Dylan Penningroth's book "Before the Movement" reveals the many ways Black Americans, long before the Civil Rights Movement, navigated the law by asserting their civil rights of property.

By Ivan Natividad

March 6, 2024

March 4, 2024

The American Bar Foundation is currently accepting applications for two visitorship opportunities to join our diverse interdisciplinary community of sociolegal researchers: 

February 28, 2024

You are invited to lunch with a new author almost every Thursday afternoon this March at 2240 Piedmont Avenue; lunch will be served at 12:45 in the Philip Selznick Seminar Room.