Dangerous Liaisons: China's Indirect Investment Structures and the Shaky Foundations of "China Plays" on the Global Capital Markets

Nicholas C. Howson, University of Michigan Law School

Date: 09/12/2012
Duration: 1:00
Description: Nicholas C. Howson, visiting professor from the University of Michigan, analyzed the rise of “Variable Interest Entities,” an indirect method of investing in Chinese companies designed to circumvent Chinese government restrictions on foreign investment. This investment form involves a foreign holding company creating a wholly owned subsidiary in China to effectuate the foreign company’s investment in a Chinese company. The investment form, however, has proven very risky for American investors.
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

The Foreclosure Crisis: Challenges and Solutions to the Mortgage Meltdown

Discussion and Q&A

Date: 04/13/2012
Duration: 0:45
Description: Q&A session and closing remarks.
Sponsor(s): Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

The Foreclosure Crisis: Challenges and Solutions to the Mortgage Meltdown

Panel 2: Reforming Title Recording and Transfer: Key to a 21st Century Mortgage Market

Date: 04/13/2012
Duration: 1:30
Description: Most Americans do not know that a single private corporation, the Mortgage Electronic Registration System (MERS), holds the titles to millions of mortgages in this country. The panelists explore how 21st Century technology can satisfy the needs of the securitization market for rapid, high volume mortgage transfers, and the public's need for an accurate and transparent system for tracking the status of individual loans and mortgages. Panelists include Laurence Platt (K&L Gates), James Rhyne (Thematix Partners), Nancy Wallace (Haas School of Business), and Benjamin Weber (Office of San Francisco Assessor-Recorder).
Sponsor(s): Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

The Foreclosure Crisis: Challenges and Solutions to the Mortgage Meltdown

Panel 1: Digging Out: Government and Private Initiatives to Address Mortgages Underwater or in Default

Date: 04/13/2012
Duration: 1:48
Description: Speakers from UC Berkeley join other scholars, business leaders and policymakers to address what the public and private sectors should and could do to resolve the seemingly endless stream of home foreclosures. Topics include the "robosigning settlement" among all 50 state Attorneys General, the federal government and major loan servicers. Panelists include Dwight Jaffee (Haas School of Business), Paul Leonard (Center for Responsible Lending), and David Moskowitz (Wells Fargo & Company).
Sponsor(s): Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

Enforcement Without Foundation? China's Illegal Insider Trading Enforcement Regime

Nicholas C. Howson, University of Michigan Law School

Date: 02/08/2012
Duration: 1:03
Description: China’s securities regulator enforces insider trading prohibitions pursuant to self-conceived and non-public guidance. Howson argues that the agency guidance is itself unlawful and unenforceable, leaving a large part of China's contemporary insider trading enforcement regime without foundation. This radical infirmity underlying what many see as the basis of well-governed and investor-attracting capital markets has important implications not only for China’s securities regulation regime and healthy capital markets development, but also for the entirety of China’s legal and administrative law system in the reform era.
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

New Corporate Forms: Flexible Purpose Corporations, B Corps and L3Cs

Susan H. Mac Cormac, Morrison & Foerster

Date: 11/11/2011
Duration: 0:59
Description: This talk explores the positive and negative aspects of new corporate forms being tested in California and other states and explains how they differ from traditional corporations, LLCs and partnerships.  Ms. Mac Cormac discusses whether a new form is even necessary and which model can best serve to promote environmental sustainability. She also describes limitations resulting from the California and Delaware Corporations Codes and case law beyond the marketing and PR interpretation dominating the press. 
Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

Do China's Stock Markets Matter?

Carl E. Walter

Date: 11/01/2011
Duration: 0:56
Description: This year marks the 20th anniversary of the establishment of China's two stock exchanges in Shenzhen and Shanghai. Over these two decades nearly 2,000 Chinese companies listed domestically in Hong Kong and beyond, raising nearly US $300 billion. There is no doubt  that these markets are important, but in a country with no private property and banks accounting for over 90 percent of all corporate financing, just what role do stock markets play and what is their overall significance? This talk explores these two questions and describes to what degree Western legal, accounting and financial concepts have changed China's economic landscape.
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

Corruption & Fraud in China: Challenges for US Companies & Investors

Nathan Bush, O'Melveny & Myers

Date: 08/29/2011
Duration: 1:04
Description: China offers both opportunities and perils for US companies and investors. Official graft and commercial bribery remain pervasive, raising risks of liability under the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, other nations’ foreign bribery statutes like the new UK Bribery Act, and Chinese domestic law. Dozens of China-based companies listed on foreign stock exchanges now face regulatory investigations and shareholder litigation stemming from allegations of fraud and other misconduct. Are these symptoms of the same underlying weaknesses in China's corporate governance standards and opaque regulatory climate? Nate Bush assesses current efforts by US companies, investors, and regulators to confront these challenges, and the implications for China's political and economic climate.
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies (CCS) Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

The Renaissance Life of the Talented Professor Buxbaum

Professor Richard M. Buxbaum

Date: 04/18/2011
Duration: 00:57
Description: Many of you may be familiar with Professor Buxbaum’s leading work in Corporations Law and Comparative Law, and as a pillar of the Berkeley Law’s business faculty. What you may not know is that his many contributions extend far beyond shaping jurisprudence in the United States and around the world. They are also deeply rooted in public service, affirmative action, free speech, national defense, and reparations issues. He is a true Renaissance man and his service to the Berkeley Law community as well as citizens around the world is without parallel. In his final year of teaching at Boalt, BCLBE hosted a special lunchtime talk where Professor Buxbaum reflected on his experiences in the major social and political events of the 1960s and 1970s.
Sponsor(s): Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

Financial Emergency: The Crises that Began and Ended the Decade

The Honorable Michael G. Oxley

Date: 04/06/2011
Duration: 01:20
Description: The co-author of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, one of the most far reaching, and controversial, financial regulation laws in American history, spoke about the fiscal crashes that ended the dot-com bubble and that once again have plunged the economy into recession. A former FBI Agent, Michael G. Oxley was elected to the House of Representatives from Ohio's fourth district in 1981. He eventually went on to serve as Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee from 2001 to 2006, and is best known for his co-authorship of the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. Oxley led the panel through the aftermath of the tech bubble, the difficult post-9/11 period, and the rash of corporate scandals early in the decade that destroyed investor confidence and sent the markets into a tailspin.
Sponsor(s): Robert T. Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

Jean-Claude Beaujour, Partner, Cabinet Hobson

Opposition to "American-Style" Diversity in France: How the French Business Community Responds

Date: 03/28/2011
Duration: 58:51
Description: France provides a remarkable lens for exploring racism. The country is committed through its revolutionary republican, anti-aristocratic principles to the denial of the relevance of race or any other form of identity other than citizenship. Yet inequalities based on race, ethnicity and religion are glaring. Jean-Claude Beaujour discusses that in the face of opposition to what are often described as "American-style" civil rights remedies, French business interests, wanting the economic benefits of competing in a diverse world market, are leading a campaign to legitimize the principle of embracing diversity.
Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

The Top 10 Things You Should Learn in Law School if You Want to Work with Great Entrepreneurs

Donna Petkanics, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Robert J. Majteles, Treehouse Capital LLC, BCLBE Director

Date: 03/15/2011
Duration: 01:00
Description: Donna Petkanics of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Rob Majteles of Treehouse Capital shared their insider experiences with the Boalt community, offering a unique perspective from both sides of the equation.
Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

Christina Swarns, Director, Criminal Justice Project, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Post-Racial America: The View from Death Row

Date: 03/14/2011
Duration: 57:16
Description: Christina Swarns is the Director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.'s (LDF) Criminal Justice Project. She represents death-sentenced prisoners throughout the country; litigates, consults and advises on cases and issues involving race and criminal justice nationwide; prepares amicus briefs to various courts including the United States Supreme Court; and organizes LDF's Annual Capital Punishment Training Conference.
Sponsor(s): Law Students of African Descent (LSAD) Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice

4. A Conversation with Laura Nader

Interviewed by Calvin Morrill

Date: 03/11/2011
Duration: 01:08
Description: Laura Nader is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, where she has served on the faculty since 1960. A founder of the field of law and society, Professor Nader is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the 1995 winner of the Kalven Prize recognizing a body of empirical scholarship that has contributed to the advancement of research in law and society. Her work has had an indelible impact in many areas including the comparative ethnography of law and dispute resolution, conflict, comparative family organization, the anthropology of professional mindsets and ethnology of the Middle East, Mexico, Latin America and the contemporary United States.
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of Law and Society

BBLJ Spring Symposium - Financial Regulatory Reform: Dodd-Frank and Beyond

Welcome, Launch and Keynote Address

Date: 03/11/2011
Duration: 00:29
Description: On March 11, 2011 the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) and the Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) co-hosted a spring symposium entitled, "Financial Regulatory Reform: Dodd-Frank and Beyond." This video features the welcome address made by representatives from the sponsoring organizations, Eric Talley, BCLBE, Matthew R. DalSanto, BBLJ, and Ken Taymor, BCLBE, followed by a keynote address from William Haraf, Financial Stability Oversight Council and the California Department of Financial Institutions.
Sponsor(s): Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

BBLJ Spring Symposium - Financial Regulatory Reform: Dodd-Frank and Beyond

Panel 1 - Securitization and Governance

Date: 03/11/2011
Duration: 01:37
Description: On March 11, 2011 the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) and the Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) co-hosted a spring symposium entitled, "Financial Regulatory Reform: Dodd-Frank and Beyond." This video features the first panel from the symposium, "Securitization & Governance." The panel featured Dwight M. Jaffee, Haas School of Business, Nancy E. Wallace, Haas School of Business, BCLBE Faculty Co-Director, Erik Gerding, University of New Mexico, School of Law, and Mark D. Perlow, K&L Gates. Moderated by Stavros E. Gadinis, UC Berkeley School of Law.
Sponsor(s): Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

BBLJ Spring Symposium - Financial Regulatory Reform: Dodd-Frank and Beyond

Panel 3 - Consumer Protection

Date: 03/11/2011
Duration: 01:34
Description: On March 11, 2011 the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) and the Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) co-hosted a spring symposium entitled, "Financial Regulatory Reform: Dodd-Frank and Beyond." This video features the third panel from the symposium, "Consumer Protection." The panel featured John D. Wright, Wells Fargo & Company, John A.E. Pottow, University of Michigan, School of Law, Thomas Brown, O'Melveny & Myers, and Gail Hillebrand, Consumers Union. Moderated by Prasad Krishnamurthy, UC Berkeley School of Law.
Sponsor(s): Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

BBLJ Spring Symposium - Financial Regulatory Reform: Dodd-Frank and Beyond

Panel 2 - Venture Finance

Date: 03/11/2011
Duration: 01:22
Description: On March 11, 2011 the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) and the Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) co-hosted a spring symposium entitled, "Financial Regulatory Reform: Dodd-Frank and Beyond." This video features the second panel from the symposium, "Venture Finance." The panel featured Steven E. Bochner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Eric Finseth, BCLBE, and Mary Dent, SVB Financial Group. Moderated by Robert P. Bartlett III, UC Berkeley School of Law.
Sponsor(s): Berkeley Business Law Journal (BBLJ) Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

Law, Policy, and Practice on China's Periphery: Minority Areas and Implications for Hong Kong and Taiwan

Pitman Potter, University of British Columbia

Date: 02/15/2011
Duration: 01:11
Description: Professor Potter's talk focused on his recently published book "Law, Policy, and Practice on China's Periphery: Selective Adaptation and Institutional Capacity." He examined the Chinese government's policies and practices in relationship to the Inner Periphery areas, defined as Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia, and the Outer Periphery areas of Hong Kong and Taiwan, focusing on political authority, socio-cultural relations, and economic development. Successive imperial, republican, and communist governments have struggled to maintain sovereignty over the regions surrounding the great river valleys of China.
Sponsor(s): Center for Chinese Studies Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

Rachael Knight '05, Director, Community Land Titling Initiative, International Development Law Organization

Community Land Titling: Statutory Recognition of Customary Land Rights

Date: 02/14/2011
Description: Rachael Knight is an attorney with expertise in the areas of land tenure security, access to justice, and legal empowerment of the poor. In this Ruth Chance lecture, Ms. Knight discusses her work as the current Director of the International Development Law Organization's (IDLO) Community Land Titling Initiative, working to document and protect the customary land rights of indigenous groups in Uganda, Liberia and Mozambique.
Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice

Video Interviews from BCLT's Browser Privacy Mechanisms Roundtable

Date: 02/09/2011
Duration: 05:26
Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

Renee Saucedo '90, Community Empowerment Coordinator, La Raza Centro Legal

Perspectives of a Community Lawyer Working in the Immigrant Rights Movement

Date: 01/31/2011
Duration: 55:31
Description: Renee Saucedo ’90 is an organizer, an activist and a lawyer who has played a prominent role in this country's immigrant rights movement at all levels. She has led various immigrant rights organizations and has participated in numerous community campaigns related to the rights of undocumented immigrants, immigrant workers and poor people, in general.
Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice

Dean's Message

Date: 12/13/2010
Duration: 00:13:21
Description: In this video, Dean Christopher Edley, Jr. and four faculty members discuss recent advancements in four programmatic areas: business law, international law, environmental law, and law and technology. <hr>

Law and Technology Excerpt

Date: 12/13/2010
Duration: 00:03:05
Description: In this excerpt from the main video, Dean Edley and Professor Pam Samuelson discuss new law and technology faculty and the combined strength of the law school's technology research center and clinic.

International Law Excerpt

Date: 12/13/2010
Duration: 00:04:10
Description: In this excerpt from the main video, Dean Edley and Professor Richard Buxbaum discuss the strenghening of the international law curriulcum in response to a growing need for international expertise. The law school has added faculty, created an International Law Certificate and brought the Human Rights Center under its umbrella.

Business Law Excerpt

Date: 12/13/2010
Duration: 00:02:37
Description: In this excerpt from the main video, Dean Edley and Professor Eric Talley discuss the hiring of new business law faculty and the new Business Law Certificate, as well as how the school is adapting to the changing interests of students.

Environmental Law Excerpt

Date: 12/13/2010
Duration: 00:02:22
Description: In this excerpt from the main video, Dean Edley and Lecturer in Residence Steve Weissman discuss the strengthening of the environmental law curriculum, including an increased emphasis on cleantech.

A Conversation with John Burris

Date: 11/18/2010
Description: The BHSA Standing Committee on Alumni Relations and the Alumni Office invited students to a conversation with John Burris, class of '73. He is a noted civil rights attorney whose cases include the Rodney King civil suit against the City of Los Angeles and representation of the family of Oscar Grant. Burris spoke at Boalt on November 18, discussing his career generally and his recent work in Alameda County, providing insights into client management, settlement negotiation, the rules of evidence, and much more.

The Evolution of Business Law in California and at Boalt Hall

Professor Richard Buxbaum

Date: 11/15/2010
Duration: 00:58
Description: Professor Richard Buxbaum '53 has been a keen observer of the business law terrain for five decades. BCLBE and the Berkeley Business Law Journal hosted a talk were Professor Buxbaum shared his perspective on the development of business law in California and the role played by Boalt Hall in that evolution. Three generations of Boalt Hall faculty members were and continue to be instrumental in reshaping many aspects of corporate law and securities regulation in California, across the United States and around the world. At this special lunchtime talk, Professor Buxbaum provided insights into the interplay among the legal academy, policymakers and the commercial world that will help us better understand the current legal and regulatory environment governing the business community and our collective efforts to emerge from the Great Recession.
Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

Robert H. Cole - Ethics, Advice, and the Government Lawyer

From the Symposium: Detention, Interrogation, Torture and the Legal Profession

Date: 11/04/2010
Duration: 45:37
Description: ROBERT H. COLE, Professor of Law Emeritus, Berkeley Law

Mark Danner - From Anathema to Policy: Torture, Terror, and the American Way of Law

From the Symposium: Detention, Interrogation, Torture and the Legal Profession

Date: 11/04/2010
Duration: 00:34
Description: MARK DANNER, Professor of Journalism, UC Berkeley; James Clarke Chace Professor of Foreign Affairs, Politics and Humanities, Bard College; and author of "Torture and Truth" and "Stripping Bare the Body: Politics Violence War"

Angela Chan, Juvenile Justice and Education Project at the Asian Law Caucus

Addressing Biased-Related Youth Crime through Restorative Justice

Date: 11/01/2010
Duration: 58:48
Description: In her Ruth Chance lecture, Angela Chan, staff attorney managing the Juvenile Justice and Education Project at the Asian Law Caucus, discussed patterns of youth violence in schools and the over-reliance on suspensions, expulsions, and the juvenile justice system to address it. Her presentation explored the application of restorative justice as a promising approach to achieve the dual goal of disrupting the school to prison pipeline and promoting safe and inclusive schools.
Sponsor(s): Advocates for Youth Justice, the Restorative Justice Committee at Berkeley Law, and the Asian American Law Journal. Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice

America's Broken Retirement Plans and Pension System: Another "Gift" From Wall Street

William Lerach

Date: 10/26/2010
Duration: 00:58
Description: William Lerach discussed his perspectives on the relationship between the deregulation of our financial markets and several wealth destruction events that resulted in massive losses to the nation's public, private and individual pension systems and plans. These losses have gravely impaired the finances of these retirement plans -- leaving many of them, he argued, with unfunded obligations that are so pervasive that they now constitute a major threat to the financial future of our country. Mr. Lerach also discussed what, if anything, he believes can be done to avoid or ameliorate the crisis that would arise from the financial collapse of our pension systems.
Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

Randall Susskind, Equal Justice Initiative

Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy

Date: 10/18/2010
Duration: 58:48
Description: The Henderson Center's fall 2010 Practitioner-in-Residence, Randall Susskind, Deputy Director at the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montogomery, Alabama, delievered a Ruth Chance lecture on the EJI's report, "Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy."
Sponsor(s): Death Penalty Clinic at Berkeley Law Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice

Changes in the World’s Workshop: How new laws, more demanding workers, and activist trade unions are transforming the Chinese workplace

Mary Gallagher

Date: 10/18/2010
Duration: 00:55
Description: In 2008, the Chinese government passed three ambitious labor laws to improve working conditions at Chinese companies and the employment security of Chinese workers. Employers criticized these laws as a return to the age of the “iron rice bowl” under socialism, which guaranteed lifetime employment and extensive welfare benefits for all urban workers. Labor activists hoped that the new laws would help close the gap between the high standards of Chinese “law-on-the-books” with its implementation and enforcement in reality. These protective measures coincided with the onset of the global financial crisis and a rapid decline in China’s export markets. The combination of more protective laws and greater economic volatility led to a rapid and unprecedented increase in labor conflict, including legal filings and large-scale strikes and demonstrations. In the wake of China’s recovery from the crisis, this conflict has continued. Workers are more aware of their new rights; trade unions have been encouraged by the government to do more to protect workers; and a labor shortage in manufacturing has emboldened workers to press for higher wages and better conditions. This event was co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies.
Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

3. A Conversation with Lawrence Friedman

Interviewed by Lauren Edelman

Date: 10/15/2010
Duration: 57:26
Description: Lawrence M. Friedman is Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law and Professor of History and Political Science at Stanford University. A founder of the field of law and society, Professor Friedman is "generally regarded as [James Willard] Hurst's successor as the greatest of American social-legal historians." A member of the American Academy of Arts and Science since 1977, holding honorary degrees from six universities at home and abroad, Friedman has been president of the Law and Society Association, the American Society for Legal History, and the Research Committee on the Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association.
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of Law and Society

Jorde Sympoisum with Judge Posner

Date: 10/05/2010
Duration: 01:37
Description: The 12th Brennan Center Jorde Symposium, presented by the California Law Review, took place October 5, 2010. The keynote speaker was Judge Richard Allen Posner, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. Topic: "The Rise and Fall of Judicial Self-Restraint."
Sponsor(s): Brennan Center and the California Law Review

Reginald T. Shuford, Equal Justice Society

Implicit Bias and the Law

Date: 10/04/2010
Duration: 54:07
Description: In this Ruth Chance lecture, Reginald Shuford, the Director of Law and Policy at the Equal Justice Society, discussed the importance of understanding implicit or unconscious bias and its relationship to the law.
Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice

Heyman Terrace Dedication

Date: 10/02/2010
Duration: 00:25
Description: Professor and UC Berkeley Chancellor Michael Heyman is present for the ribbon-cutting ceremony of Boalt Hall’s new Heyman Terrace. Speakers include fundraising co-chairs Roy Eisenhardt '65, Interim Present, The San Francisco Art Institute; and Roderic Park, Former Vice Chancellor, UC Berkeley. From the 2010 Alumni Weekend.

Boalt Hall: Then and Now

Date: 10/02/2010
Duration: 01:02
Description: Hear how the law school and legal education have evolved over the last 50 years from current Dean Christopher Edley, Jr., and former Deans Robert Berring ’74, Herma Hill Kay, Jesse Choper, and Ed Halbach. Doug Wolf ’70, Principal, PCG Equity, moderates. From the 2010 Alumni Weekend.

Discussion of U.S. Supreme Court Term

Date: 10/02/2010
Duration: 01:13
Description: Jesse Choper, Earl Warren Professor of Public Law and former Dean, leads a panel discussion of the 2009-2010 U.S. Supreme Court Term with Charles Weisselberg, Shannon C. Turner Professor of Law; and Tracy Westen ’67, Vice-Chairman and CEO, Center for Governmental Studies. Among the important cases that will be discussed are the decisions on corporate campaign expenditures, Miranda rights, gun control, and juvenile life sentencing. From the 2010 Alumni Weekend.

Sondra Solovay '96, Author of "Tipping the Scales of Justice" and Marilyn Wann, Author of "FAT!SO?"

Do Fat People Have Rights?: Fat as a Civil Rights Issue

Date: 09/13/2010
Duration: 1:02
Description: In the tradition of critical race studies, queer studies, and women's studies, fat studies is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship marked by an aggressive, consistent, rigorous critique of the negative assumptions, stereotypes, and stigmas placed on fat and the fat body. In this Ruth Chance lecture, Sondra Solovay '96 and Marilyn Wann discussed weight discrimination in all aspects of our life, including health care, education, employment, housing and public accommodation.
Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice

Thomas A. Saenz, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)

Arizona's New Immigration Law: Is it Unconstitutional?

Date: 08/30/2010
Duration: 58:57
Description: In this Ruth Chance lecture, Thomas A. Saenz discussed the lawsuit that the civil rights organization he leads filed in federal court to block the enforcement of the unprecedented Arizona immigration statute signed into law by Arizona’s governor in April, 2010. Mr. Saenz also discussed what the law portends as more and more elected officials and political candidates call for replication of the statute across the United States.
Sponsor(s): Center for Latino Policy Research at UC Berkeley, Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, and Boalt Hall’s American Constitution Society. Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice

Impersonation

William McGeveran - University of Minnesota Law School

Date: 08/12/2010
Duration: 00:18:58
Description: The tenth annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (IPSC) was held on the UC Berkeley campus on August 12th and 13th. IPSC began as a small group of IP scholars discussing their works-in-progress. Since that initial meeting, interest in the conference has grown exponentially. This year’s conference featured an unprecedented number of discussants: over 130 scholars spanning the intellectual property spectrum presented their work for feedback from other scholars. The conference is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Berkeley Law School; Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University; DePaul University College of Law; and Stanford Law School. Audio and video of the presentations can be found here.
Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

Anthony Batts, Oakland Police Chief

Criminal Justice Conversations with David Onek - Episode 8

Date: 05/18/2010
Duration: 00:30:07
Description: Oakland Police Chief Anthony Batts discusses his goals as Oakland's new Chief, the importance of working with the community, his efforts to reduce police response times, how his doctorate degree has helped him in his policing career, and more.

Whose Death Is it Anyway: Medical-Legal Conflict in the Implementation of End of Life Decision Making

Date: 04/19/2010
Duration: 00:58
Description: This thought-provoking conversation was presented by Professor Marciarille will be teaching Health Care Law at Berkeley Law School in the fall of 2010. This event was co-sponsored with the Boalt Healthcare and Biotech Law Society.
Sponsor: Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security

Copyright @ 300 Conference

David Nelson Memorial Keynote Address

Date: 04/09/2010
Duration: 00:51
Description: Introduction: Representative from Morrison and Foerster LLP. Speaker: Hon. Margaret McKeown, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

Kamala Harris, San Francisco District Attorney

Criminal Justice Conversations with David Onek - Episode 8

Date: 03/30/2010
Duration: 00:29:24
Description: San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris discusses how we can be "Smart on Crime," her innovative Back on Track program, the need for law enforcement to proactively build trust with the community, her mother's influence or her career, and more.

Green Infrastructure for the Future

Date: 03/15/2010
Duration: 00:55
Description: A Talk with Jennifer Wolch, Dean of the College of Environmental Design and Louise Mozingo, Director of Center for Resource Efficient Communities.
Sponsor: Center for Law, Energy & the Environment and Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security

Jennifer S. Earl: Using Old and New Media as Data Sources

Miniseries in Empirical Research Methods

Date: 03/05/2010
Duration: 02:44
Description: Older media (e.g., newspapers) and new media (e.g., websites) offer a wide array of information to socio-legal scholars as they report on, record, and archive activities and actors. But, using these media sources requires sensitivity to the production dynamics of specific media, which can affect how the source records, represents, and archives social life. This presentation will trace the structure of a major older media (newspapers) and a major new media (websites) and examine production dynamics that should be considered in research designs. The goal will be to highlight how and when socio-legal scholars can responsibly and productively use these data sources.
Sponsor: The Center for the Study of Law and Society

BCCJ Roundtable: Alexandra Natapoff

"Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice"

Date: 01/22/2010
Duration: 01:34
Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice

Business and Ethics: Lessons from the Global Economic Crisis

Date: 12/01/2009
Duration: 01:08
Description: A panel discussion featuring: John Quigley, Goldman School of Public Policy; Richard Buxbaum, Berkeley Law; Ernesto Dal Bo, Haas School of Business; David Vogel, Haas School of Business; Christopher Kutz, Berkeley Law.
Sponsor: Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy

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