The Zoom link will be sent out the day before the event to those who are registered.
May 2, 2025, 10am - 4pm, Selznick Seminar Room, 2240 Piedmont
Opening Remarks, Dylan Penningroth and Jon Marshall
10:20-11:30am
Panel 1: Law as a Dynamic Social Institution
Moderator: Gunar Olsen
Lily Button, “Crypto Consciousness: Stakeholder Perspectives on Cryptocurrency
Regulation”
Anthony Cusguen, “Exigen demasiado, pero dan lo menos”: Undocumented Nannies
Navigating Rights Violations and Injury”
Levi Cannon, “Defining Custody Resolution: How Parent Coordinators Construct Family
Law”
Jayden Hill, “Beyond Sport: Navigating the intersection of reproductive restrictions and
collegiate athletics in the post-Roe landscape”
11:30am-12:30pm
Panel 2: Social Inequalities in Criminal Legal Systems
Moderator: Rachel Wallace
Ruby Chan-Frey, “Just Math”? The Coproduction of Racial Bias in Criminal Legal Data
As Seen Through Actuarial Risk Assessments
Nouhamin Leoulekal, “Unequal Justice, Reluctant Reform: How Community Legal Aid
Fills the State’s Gaps in Post-Conviction Relief”
Serena Zhang, ““Between Punishment and Reform: Legal Consciousness and Online
Discourse on Juvenile Justice in Contemporary China”
12:30pm-1:30pm
Lunch Break
1:30pm-2:30pm
Panel 3: The Politics of Language and Rights
Moderator: TJ Mertikas
Ethan Joseph, “Along the River Everywhere is Megetohl: Language Revitalization and
Sovereignty in the Yurok Tribe”
Caitlyn Wilt, “Missing the Goal with a Political Football: Linguistic Rights in the North of
Ireland”
Tristan Worsham, “Liberty of Conscience and Religious Exemption in New York,
1664-1777“
2:30pm-3:40pm
Panel 4: Legal Change – Contestation, Migration, and Diffusion
Moderator: Anthony Ghaly
Lea-Cassiopée Muller, “They Live With Us”: Reframing Transitional Justice to Address
Sexual Violence in Occupied Territories”
Anita Chinwuba, “Beyond Capital: A Cross-Cultural Analysis of the Pursuit of Property in
the Black Diaspora”
Helena Wu , “The Diffusion of Special Economic Zones Laws in China”
Rena Lu, “Will the Last American to Leave Monterey Park Please Bring the Flag?”: The
Spatialization of Difference in “Suburban Chinatown”
Closing Remarks
I need at least four volunteers to hand out reader cards to the graduates at the Legal Studies Commencement, help them with pinning their caps on, lining them up for the procession and gathering up all the supplies to bring inside once the graduates are all inside for the ceremony.
The ceremony is on Sunday, May 18th.
I arrive at 5pm, the house opens to guests at 6pm, the graduates are expected to be there between 6 and 6:15pm, so I need help at 5pm to get things set up.
You'll have seats reserved up front in Zellerbach so you can check out the ceremony.
It's actually really fun to see what the ceremony will be like when you walk ;-)
Please let me know asap if you can for sure make it! Just reply to this message.
I will forever be in your debt.
Please ONLY tell me you can come if you know FOR SURE that you can come.
It's pretty rotten to have folks bail at the last minute. Aieeee!!!
Thank you!!!
Non-UC Berkeley students are eligible.
Eligibility
UC Berkeley undergraduate and graduate students registered for the academic year in which they are applying.
Application Deadline
Monday, May 5, 2025
To Apply:
Submit an application via email to cmes@berkeley.edu with
We have scheduled a couple of virtual info sessions on the following days
so that students can get more information about UC Center Sacramento.
Please RSVP to uccsadvisors@ucdavis.edu
- Tuesday, April 22nd at 12pm
- Thursday, May 8th at 11am
- Friday, May 23rd at 10am