Makeup of the Program

How large is the Jurisprudence and Social Policy program at Berkeley?

The program has about 60 Ph.D. students and 17 core faculty members. All of the faculty members have primary appointments in Berkeley Law and oftentimes have secondary appointments in a disciplinary department at Berkeley.

How do you make efforts to reach out to applicants from diverse or underrepresented backgrounds?

We direct JSP advertising to around a thousand colleges, including historically black colleges and universities in Canada, Europe, and other regions. Additionally, we reach out to academics to recommend diverse applicants to JSP and make efforts in our own JSP and Berkeley Law community to connect with affinity groups. We also have a standing JSP Diversity Committee in charge of working with the Graduate Admissions Committee and Berkeley Law to recruit and retain diverse students.

How diverse is your program?

The past five years have seen the most diverse cohorts in the 40-year history of JSP, with over 50% women and 40% self-identified, underrepresented minority students.