Two former LSA presidents from UC Berkeley School of Law recently received honors. Lauren Edelman, who served as the Association’s president from 2002-03, was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
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April 14, 2022
April 12, 2022
Tuesday, April 26, 1-2pm: Haley Anderson will present “Impossible Commands: Hobbes and Spinoza on Rights and Resistance” with David Grewal and Jorge Cortes-Monroy discussing. Register here.
March 18, 2022
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February 24, 2022
Charts show where homicides are spiking most in the Bay Area
Thursday, February 24, 1:16 pm
Professor Jonathan Simon explains the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on communities that are vulnerable to violence
February 17, 2022
The Limits of the Legal Complex: Nordic Lawyers and Political Liberalism
Edited by Malcolm Feeley and Malcolm Langford
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Provides a new application of Nordic exceptionalism in the field of legal politics
February 16, 2022
Edward L. Rubin andMalcolm M. Feeley, have a forthcoming article in the Oregon Law Review, Criminal Justice through Management: From Police, Prosecutors, Courts and Prisons to a Modern Administrative Agency, 100 Oregon Law Review (2022 forthcoming).
This article will be one of three featured presentations at a symposium celebrating the one hundredth anniversary of the Oregon Law Review in early April.
February 15, 2022
Exclusive: SFPD Chief Scott seeking full overhaul of deal that makes D.A. Boudin lead in cop use-of-force cases
Tuesday, February 15, 12:45 pm
February 3, 2022
The Center for the Study of Law and Society (CSLS) at Berkeley Law is pleased to announce the Graduate Fellowship in Empirical Legal Studies for the Academic Year 2022-2023. The University of California Berkeley has long been associated with innovative empirical research on law, at least since the founding of the Center for the Study of Law and Society by Philip Selznick in 1961. CSLS is one of the headwaters for the law and society field and empirical legal studies.
January 10, 2022
Dear JSP community,
With the start of the new semester, I am delighted to announce the first three sessions of the JSP Forum:
January 3, 2022
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November 15, 2021
A research team including Catherine Albiston ’93 has been awarded a $750,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to help the San Francisco Unified School District create a new student assignment system.
October 18, 2021
September 14, 2021
Berkeley Law’s powerhouse faculty ranks sixth nationally in scholarly impact, according to the latest version of a study that tracks citations as a measure of professors’ influence.
June 1, 2021
Professor Christopher Tomlins received the Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians, given annually to a nonfiction work of history, for In the Matter of Nat Turner. Called “a master class in the craft of history,” the book delves into Turner’s life and the tragic 1831 slave rebellion he led in Virginia.