Why The True History Of Black Civil Rights Must Be Traced Back To The Days Of Slavery
Professor Dylan Penningroth appears on LAist’s AirTalk to discuss his new book, Before The Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
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September 26, 2023
September 20, 2023
DA Brooke Jenkins reverses 8-year decline in convictions
“One of the ironies of the call to a more ‘law and order’ approach is that people often associate it with being more effective at trying to reduce crime,” Jonathan Simon said. “I think we have to live with the fact that the actual effects on crime are going to be marginal.”
September 15, 2023
The Legal Lives of Slaves in America
To understand slavery in all its cruelty, writes historian and Berkeley Law professor Dylan C. Penningroth, we have to grasp what sounds like an oxymoron: the legal lives of slaves.
September 12, 2023
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Berkeley Undergraduate Journal - Paper Submission Fall 2023
September 1, 2023
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August 25, 2023
August 23, 2023
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August 8, 2023
August 1, 2023
Berkeley Law News
Jonathan Simon, a professor of criminal justice at UC Berkeley’s law school, said incarcerating people over minor property crimes makes little sense. “Jail does real harm and makes it more likely the person will be arrested again,” Simon said.
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Eight New Professors Further Bolster Our World-Class Faculty“The quality of any educational institution is largely determined by the quality of its faculty and we simply could not have had a better year in our hiring,” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky says.
July 21, 2023
Michael Banerjee's essay, "California's Constitutional University: Private Property, Public Power, and the Constitutional Corporation, 1868-1900," won second place in the California Supreme Court Historical Society's Selma Moidel Smith Student Writing Competition.
Bonnie Cherry and Brianne Felsher were selected to be participants in the American Society For Legal History's 2023 Graduate Research Colloquium.
July 11, 2023
Berkeley Law News
Rising 3Ls Chloe Pan and Zabdi Salazar are expanding engagement and making changes, including how students join the journal and the way articles are selected and edited.
July 6, 2023
Chris Tomlins was named co-winner (with Michael McCann, of the University of Washington) of the Harry J. Kalven, Jr. Prize of the Law and Society Association. The Kalven Prize (according to the LSA) is “not a book award, nor is it a career achievement award, but is given in recognition of a body of scholarly work, including some portion of work having been completed within the past few years.” Previous Berkeley Law (JSP) winners of the Kalven Award include Philip Selznick (2003), Bob Kagan (2006), Frank Zimring (2013), Malcolm Feeley (2015), and Laurie Edelman (2018).
Sarah Song’s book Immigration and Democracy [link] (Oxford, 2019) was recently lauded in
June 22, 2023
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June 2, 2023
Congratulations to JSP Student Dvir Yogev who has been awarded the 2023 CSLS Graduate Student Paper Prize for his paper, Holding Justice Accountable: Intensive vs. Extensive Margins in Prosecutor Elections!
The CSLS Graduate Student Paper Prize is awarded annually to a current Berkeley graduate student whose nominated paper best represents outstanding law and society research.
June 1, 2023
We invite you to join us on Friday, June 02 from 4:45-6:15pm to honor the life and legacy of our friend and colleague, Lauren Edelman.
The memorial will take place at the San Cristobal A, Garden Wing of the Caribe Hilton during this year's LSA Conference.
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