Depositions,Berkeley Law Events,190's,Law Job, etc

(NOTE: this is the only one that doesn't have seats available: 190.1: Fundamental Rights under the Constitution, Alan Pomerantz, 4 units, Area IV)

190.2: Comparative Constitutional Law, Shapiro, 4 units, Area V

An examination of constitutional decision making in a number of countries based on selected high court opinions.

190.4:  Gender, Religion and Law, Masua Sagiv: The Case of Isreal, 4 units, Area II or IV

The course will explore the intersection of gender, religion, and law in Israel, as manifested in social movement activism through law and society. The course will illustrate and reflect upon different strategies and spheres for promoting social change, by examining core issues involving gender, religion and law in Israel: religious marriage and divorce, gender equality in the religious establishment, spiritual leadership of women, free exercise of religion (at the Western Wall and Temple Mount), conversion, and segregation in education. Spheres of activism to be covered include parliament, state courts, alternative private initiatives and courts, and social media.

190.5: Human Rts & Civil Rights Israel, Michal Tamir, 4 units, Area II or IV

Human rights in Israel have evolved in a unique way. Since the establishment of the State, the Supreme Court recognized and developed the rights through the interpretation of laws. For example, when the Supreme Court was required to rule on the authority of the Minister of the Interior to close a newspaper by virtue of a so-called “Press Ordinance,” it developed the freedom of expression and the conditions for its violation. All rights have evolved as relative rights that can be balanced with other rights and interests, and an explicit statute could have infringed upon them. In 1992, Israel underwent a “constitutional revolution” with the enactment of two Basic Laws focusing on protecting human rights. Some of the human rights are enshrined explicitly in the Basic Laws and other rights were interpreted by the Supreme Court as arising from “human dignity.” Today an explicit law cannot infringe upon rights and it is necessary that it also meet the requirements of the Basic Laws. 

190.7: Law and Natural Language Processing, Ilya Akdemir, 3 units, Area V

We interact with law all the time, whether we realize it or not. And much of what is considered law is also mediated via text, from legislative enactments and judicial opinions, to even such seemingly trivial things as receipts in stores and “STOP” signs on the road. “Law” and “text” are inherently
interlinked. One can probably imagine that legal text data is abundant. And indeed, at this moment in time, the seeming plethora of legal text data invites computer scientists, data scientists, and natural language processing practitioners (NLP) to explore such a textually rich domain with the help of the
newly developed NLP tools and models. On the other hand, the monumental successes in the realm of NLP and text analytics are in turn inviting researchers from the legal and other domains to use these novel NLP tools in their own research. Thus, at this critical juncture, an examination the NLP
tools in light of the unique domain-specific aspects of legal text data and law as a discipline generally must be made.

The course will focus on practical text analysis and NLP as it applies to the legal domain. It is intended to be an intermediary bridge between practical textual analytic techniques explored in courses like Data 100 and LS 123, and more advanced NLP techniques covered in courses like INFO 159/259.
Students will be required to utilize Python programming skills to examine legal text data. The “law” part of the course indents to critically examine what makes legal text data fundamentally distinct from text data in other domains. The “NLP” part of the course will explore the various NLP techniques and the costs and benefits of using these NLP techniques in legal text analytic research. The NLP track will approach two primary approaches – (1) the still widely utilized classical non-machine learning methods (eg: discrete word frequency statistics, dictionary methods, concordances, etc.), and (2) machine learning and deep learning methods (such as word embeddings, text classification etc.).

Schlrshps for Grad Schl

Schwarzman Scholars (2023–2024)
Application deadline: September 20, 2022
Prospective applicants should make an individual advising appointment with Keila Diehl (ourschol-coordinator@berkeley.edu)

The Schwarzman Scholars Program supports up to 200 Scholars annually from the U.S., China, and around the world for a one-year M.A. in Global Affairs at Beijing’s Tsinghua University. The curriculum bridges the academic and professional worlds to educate students about leadership and about China’s expanding role in the world. The residential program also provides Scholars with learning opportunities with leaders from China and the world through high-level interactions at lectures, an internship program, a mentor network, and intensive deep-dive travel seminars. Each cohort of Schwarzman Scholars will join a global network of the young leaders who are helping to build stronger links between China and a rapidly changing world. For more information, please visit the Schwarzman Scholars Program website.

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Gates Cambridge Scholarship (2023–2024)
Application deadline: October 12, 2022
Prospective applicants should make an individual advising appointment with Alicia Hayes (ourscholarships@berkeley.edu)

Each year Gates Cambridge offers ~80 full scholarships to outstanding applicants from countries outside the U.K. to pursue a full-time postgraduate degree in any subject available at the University of Cambridge, especially programs leading to an academic career. Approximately two-thirds of these awards will be offered to PhD students, with approximately 25 awards available in the U.S. round and 55 available in the International round. The Gates Cambridge mission is to build a global network of future leaders committed to improving the lives of others. For more information, please visit the Gates Cambridge Scholarship website.

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Knight-Hennessy Scholars (2023–2024)
Application deadline: October 12, 2022
Prospective applicants should make an individual advising appointment with Keila Diehl (ourschol-coordinator@berkeley.edu)

The Knight-Hennessy Scholars Program is designed to build a multidisciplinary community of Stanford graduate students. The program, which financially supports up to three years of graduate study at Stanford, annually selects a group of 100 high-achieving students from around the world with demonstrated leadership and civic commitment. Knight-Hennessy Scholars develop both the depth and range of subject expertise to confront the numerous grand challenges and opportunities of the future and make up a unique community of change agents from a diverse range of backgrounds.
For more information, please visit the Knight-Hennessy Scholars website.

The Roosevelt Network at Berkeley (RNB), Cal’s very own student-led, interdisciplinary policy think tank, is recruiting research associates for its Fall 2022 Policy Initiatives. Policy Initiatives are student-led teams of 5-7 research associates that work on a specific topic for the duration of one semester. Detailed descriptions of this fall’s five policy topics can be found here. 

The application can be accessed here and closes on August 30th.

The goal of the Policy Initiative is to produce an evidence-based memo covering the policy topic. Part of the group’s work will be identifying and approaching publication venues. Research associates will be in charge of conducting a literature review, identifying, evaluating, and analyzing current policies, and finding supporting evidence and interviews as a part of writing the memo. Guidance and training is provided for all tasks.

The final artifact serves to act as a portfolio piece for the group as a whole, and all participants meeting expectations will be listed as co-authors. Time commitment is roughly 3 hours per week with more or less each week depending on tasking and participant interest.

Prior experience in the subject matter, research experience, and/or policy experience is not required to apply as the experience is intended to be educational - yet will make applicants interested in serving as the Initiative Lead more competitive.

Please refer to the application link for further information and email RooseveltnBerkeley@Gmail.com with any inquiries!

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