Berkeley Law - Past Events

Past Events

Spring 2009

Friday, February 27, 2009
Roundtable: Alice Ristroph
Associate Professor, Seton Hall Law School
Criminal Law in the Shadow of Violence
Dean’s Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

Friday, March 20, 2009
Roundtable: Mark Kleiman
Professor of Public Policy, UCLA
When Brute Force Fails
Dean’s Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

Friday, April 3, 2009
BCCJ and the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy present
Sam Buell, Associate Professor of Law, Washington University
Good Faith Is A State of Mind
Dean’s Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

Friday, April 10, 2009
Roundtable: Erin Murphy
Assistant Professor of Law, Berkeley Law
Relative Doubt: Partial Match or “Familial” Searches of DNA Databases
Dean’s Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

Thursday & Friday, May 14 & May 15, 2009
Building a Partnership for Safety & Opportunity in Oakland

Anthony Braga of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government
Reverend Jeffrey L. Brown of Union Baptist Church in Cambridge
David Kennedy of John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Reverend W. Sherman Mason II of Greater New Hope Baptist Church in High Point, North Carolina
Tracey Meares of Yale Law School

Claremont Resort & Spa

Fall 2008

Friday, September 5, 2008
Roundtable: Stephen Raphael
UC Berkeley Professor, Goldman School of Public Policy
Why Are So Many Americans in Prison?
Dean's Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

Tuesday, September 16, 2008
The Deterrence Effect of Adult Sanctions: New Evidence from New Orleans, 1973-1986
BCCJ and the Institute for the Study of Social Change
Justin McCrary, UC Berkeley Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Professor of Economics and Robert MacCoun, UC Berkeley Profesor of Public Policy and Professor of Law
ISSC Conference Room, 2420 Bowditch Street

Saturday, September 20, 2008
Crime Policy and Presidential Elections: 1998 to 2008
The panel was moderated by BCCJ Executive Director David Onek and the panelists included: Michael Dukakis, former Democratic presidential nominee and Governor of Massachusetts; Jonathan Simon, Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Professor of Law, and BCCJ Faculty Board member and John Dickerson, chief political correspondent, Slate, and former White House correspondent for Time Magazine

Friday, October 10, 2008
The 2008 Caleb Foote Symposium: Prison Reform in California

The Symposium featured Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, University of California Irvine School of Law, Dr. Barry Krisberg, President of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, and Dr. Michael P. Jacobson, Director of the Vera Institute of Justice. The panel discussion was moderated by Jonathan Simon, Associate Dean, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Professor of Law, and BCCJ Faculty Board member.
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall

Friday, October 17, 2008
Roundtable: Jeannie Suk
Assistant Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
At Home in the Law
"Is Privacy a Woman?"
Dean's Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

Friday, November 14, 2008
Roundtable: Amy Lerman
Assistant Professor of Politics and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Learning to Walk “the Toughest Beat”: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on the Role of Prison Context in Shaping Correctional Officer Attitudes towards Rehabilitation
2006 California Correctional Officer Survey
Dean's Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

Monday, November 24, 2008
The Next Department of Justice
The conference featured the following speakers:

(Session 1)

(Session 2)

(Session 3)
• Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar of Stanford Law School
• Laurie Levenson of Loyola Law School
• Erin Murphy of Berkeley Law
• Julie O'Sullivan of Georgetown Law School
• Congressman Adam Schiff
• David Sklansky of Berkeley Law
• Norman Spaulding of Stanford Law School
• Alex Whiting of Harvard Law School
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall

Spring 2008

Friday, February 8, 2008
Roundtable: Tracey Meares
Yale Law School
Attention Felons: Evaluating Project Safe Neighborhoods in Chicago, Part II
Goldberg Room, Boalt Hall

Friday, February 29, 2008
Roundtable: Geoff Ward
Northeastern University
Getting Out of Proportion: Revisiting the Racial Politics of American Juvenile Justice
Dean's Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Angela J. Davis, of American University discusses
Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecutor
With response by James Fox, San Mateo County District Attorney
Room 110, Boalt Hall

Friday, April 18, 2008
Roundtable: Robert MacCoun
Boalt Hall School of Law
Do Citizens Accurately Perceive Marijuana Sanction Risks? A Test of a Critical Assumption in Deterrence Theory and the Decriminalization Debate
Dean's Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

Fall 2007

Friday, September 7, 2007
Roundtable: George Fisher
Stanford Law School
Married to Alcohol: The Drug War's Moral Roots
Dean's Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

Thursday, September 27, 2007
Sentenced Home: Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Room 100, Boalt Hall

Friday, October 19, 2007
Roundtable: Charles Weisselberg
Boalt Hall School of Law
Mourning Miranda
Dean's Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

Friday & Saturday, October 26 & 27, 2007
Juvenile Justice Reform: Forty Years After Gault
Boalt Hall School of Law

Friday, November 9, 2007
Roundtable: Jenia lontcheva Turner
SMU Dedman School of Law
Deferense Perspectives on the Tension Between Politics and Law in International Criminal Trials
Dean's Seminar Room, Boalt Hall

Wednesday, Thursday, & Friday, December 12, 13, & 14, 2007
Community Policing in Three Dimensions
Australian National University