Dear Friends,

September was an extraordinary beginning to what promises to be an extraordinary academic year. The Boalt community welcomed a group of students whom Hurricane Katrina had driven from their campus in New Orleans. We sponsored a series of stimulating events, including an all-star Constitution Day panel discussion and the annual Jorde Symposium. And we closed the month on a pair of high notes: We celebrated one of our favorite annual occasions, our All-Alumni Reunion, and announced the launch of The Campaign for Boalt Hall, the centerpiece of our strategy to ensure Boalt shines ever more brightly in the firmament of legal scholarship for generations to come. Not that our current brilliance is going unrecognized. Wherever we turn, we find Boalt alumni winning applause for accomplishments at the highest level of civic engagement. You're an inspiring group.

News

• Investing in Our Future: The Campaign for Boalt Hall
• New Tax Break for Donors
• All-Alumni Reunion 2005: Forensics, Friends, Fun
• Boalt Fêtes Constitution
• Warren Institute Launches with Vote Panel Critique
• In Katrina's Aftermath, Boalt Lends a Hand
• Boalt and UC Berkeley Win Stem Cell Research Grant
• Professors Help Create Center on Preventing Youth Violence
• Boalt Scores a First with Wine Law Offering
• Yale's Reva Siegel Delivers Jorde Symposium Lecture
• Dean Edley Seeks Middle Ground on Military Recruiting
• Gina Amato '01 Takes Admissions Outreach Post
• Faculty Flexes Scholarly Muscle with '05 Book Output

Boalt Voices

• Professor Richard Buxbaum Lends Voice to Global Cause
• Dean Edley: Chance for a 'Shining New Orleans'
• Professor Jesse Fried Criticizes 'Collusive' Ellison Settlement
• Professor John Yoo: On War, on Rehnquist Legacy

The Boalt History File

• In the Archives: 'Speaking Truth to Power'
• Object of the Month

Alumni Notes

• Recorder Profiles Appellate Judge Coleman Blease '55
• In Memoriam: Milton Wordal '63
• Aviva Bobb '71 Wins 'Access to Justice' Award
• Merrick Bobb '71: 'Keeping Thin Blue Line on Straight and Narrow'
• Ray Bourhis '72 Ponders Insurance Industry Response to Katrina
• Patricia Scanlon '81 Appointed to Contra Costa Bench
• Roger Myers '88 Wins ABA's International Human Rights Award
• Recorder on Thomas Reardon '88: 'Judge with Song in His Heart'
• Ann Marie Tallman '89, Head of MALDEF, Testifies Against Roberts
• Critics Applaud Jonathan Shapiro '90 for 'Just Legal'
• Qin Ma '92 (LL.M.): Astounding Home-Schooling Feat
• Andrew Grotto '02 Reports on State of Former Soviet Nukes

Featured Events

• Center for Social Justice: Central Valley Initiative
• Death Penalty Clinic: Sandra Babcock Lecture
• BCLT's Barr Leads Panel on Emerging Markets
• BCLBE Co-hosts SEC Webcast
• BCLBE Speaker Series Continues
• A Visit from the Equality State
• Japan Alumni to Meet in Tokyo

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• Center for Youth Development Through Law
• Public Interest Networking
• Volunteer for the Alumni Network
• Stay Connected! Join the Boalt Email Group
• Online Class Notes

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News

Investing in Our Future: The Campaign for Boalt Hall
The Campaign for Boalt Hall, the heart of Dean Edley's vision to expand on Boalt’s excellence in education, research, service and leadership, is officially under way. The Campaign's goal is to raise $125 million to invest in students, faculty and facilities. The goodwill and generosity of our alumni and friends will enable us to turn ideas into action and opportunity into accomplishment. You can read much more about our strategy and goals, and learn about future campaign events, on our Campaign website.

New Tax Break for Donors
The devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina has had an unlooked-for benefit for organizations that depend on charitable contributions. Under federal relief legislation enacted in Katrina's wake, the tax-deductible value of qualifying personal contributions made between August 28 and December 31, 2005, has been raised from 50 percent of a donor's adjusted gross income (AGI) to 100 percent of AGI. The principal aim, of course, is to encourage contributions to hurricane relief and recovery. But the provision is not limited to disaster-relief causes—individuals may take advantage of the law to get greater tax benefits for their contributions to any federally qualified charity. That includes, for instance, the Boalt Hall Fund.

Alumni Reunion: Forensics, Friends, Fun
You came. You saw. You learned (we hope) at our reunion seminars. And, from the look of things, you enjoyed yourselves all day long. (Read the full story.) Thanks for coming, thanks for lending an ear to our messages about the importance of the new Campaign for Boalt Hall, and thanks for remaining an active part of the Boalt community. It's not too early to start thinking about next year's reunion. We'll let you know when we set the date. In the meantime, if you have any feedback for us about how we can make this important event better, let us know: email us at alumni@law.berkeley.edu, or call 510.643.6673.

Boalt Fêtes Constitution
Boalt Hall's well-attended Constitution Day panel discussion is coming to television thanks to the University of California's UCTV. The September 20 event in Booth Auditorium was open to the public and drew a standing-room-only crowd of more than 450. The panel, "The Path of Constitutional Law: Continuity, Crossroads, or Crisis?" featured Boalt Dean Christopher Edley; Judge William A. Fletcher of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Richard W. Jennings Professor of Law, Emeritus; and Boalt Professors Jesse Choper, Goodwin Liu, John Yoo and Erin Murphy. UCTV will air its one-hour presentation of the Constitution Day panel on cable and satellite television through October 9, 2005, including two prime-time showings on Wednesday, October 5. See the full schedule of air times.

Warren Institute Launches with Vote Panel Critique
The recently launched Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at Boalt Hall released on September 19 a preliminary analysis of the Carter-Baker Commission on Election Reform Report. The analysis lauded the report for identifying five important "pillars" for electoral reform but expressed concern that the commission "failed to support or omitted entirely" several reforms that research indicates are vital to enable such "pillars." Co-authors of the Warren Institute analysis are Boalt Hall Dean and Warren Institute Director Christopher Edley; Jocelyn Benson, assistant professor of law, Wayne State University, and adjunct faculty fellow, the Warren Institute; and Ana Henderson, fellow, the Warren Institute. For more details, read the complete analysis and our announcement on the Warren Institute.

In Katrina's Aftermath, Boalt Lends a Hand
With the news that flooding in the wake of Hurricane Katrina shut down the law schools at Tulane and Loyola universities, Boalt joined other schools to help students continue their legal education. Eighteen Tulane students (eight 3Ls, eight 2Ls, two 1Ls) arrived at Boalt the week after the storm struck their New Orleans campuses, an academic exodus chronicled in a September 7 article in the Daily Californian. On September 7, KQED featured a news report on Boalt's welcome of the Tulane students. You can also listen to NPR's September 7 report on Morning Edition discussing New Orleans' displaced college students.

Boalt and UC Berkeley Win Stem Cell Research Grant
A new Boalt fellowship that will focus on legal issues connected with stem cell research is part of a broad UC Berkeley training program that won a projected three-year, $2.5 million grant announced September 9. The Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee, the executive body in charge of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine created by voter approval of Proposition 71 last fall, approved the UC Berkeley proposal and a host of others that aim to train stem cell researchers. (Read more on the UC Berkeley-Boalt stem cell research effort.)

Professors Help Create Center on Youth Violence
The UC Berkeley Institute for the Study of Social Change, directed by Boalt Professor Rachel Moran, won a $4.3 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for a new research center to study youth violence. The Center on Culture, Immigration and Youth Violence Prevention will focus on the causes and prevention of youth violence, particularly among Asian Pacific Islander and Latino immigrants in Oakland. Professor Frank Zimring, chairman of the criminal justice research program at Berkeley's Institute for Legal Research, is the new center's principal investigator. For more information, read the UC Berkeley press release.

Rights Clinic Aids Enactment of Anti-Slavery Laws
Boalt's International Human Rights Law Clinic played a leading role in the adoption of two new California laws that aim to fight human trafficking and modern-day slavery. The clinic served as legislative counsel to the California Anti-trafficking Initiative, a coalition of service providers that proposed the legislation. "With the passage of this new law, California has taken the lead in combating the scourge of human trafficking. Other states will look to this law as a model," said Professor Laurel Fletcher, director of both the Boalt clinic and the Forced Labor Project at UC Berkeley's Human Rights Center. Fletcher supervised IHRLC students Nasrina Bargzie '05, Michelle Cavalieri '06, Neha Desai '06 and Maximino Fuentes '06 in their work on the project. The laws, signed by Governor Schwarzenegger on September 21, are the California Trafficking Victims' Protection Act, AB22, and a related bill SB180.

Boalt Scores a First with Wine Law Offering
Boalt Hall is making history in the field of wine law, becoming home this fall to the first full-semester wine law course presented in the United States. Richard Mendelson, a partner with Napa's Dickenson, Peatman & Fogarty, brings more than two decades of immersion in the field to his classroom lectures. And his experience goes beyond a successful legal practice: Mendelson has taught wine law in both France and the United States, and has become a successful winemaker himself. (Read the full story.)

Yale's Reva Siegel Delivers Jorde Symposium Lecture
Professor Reva Siegel of Yale Law School delivered the keynote lecture September 19 at this year's Thomas M. Jorde Symposium at Boalt Hall. The symposium, co-sponsored by Boalt and the New York University School of Law's Brennan Center for Justice, was founded and endowed by Thomas M. Jorde, Boalt professor of law emeritus. Siegel's keynote, "Constitutional Culture, Social Movement Conflict, and the Constitution of the Family," explored the interaction between the courts and social movements, such as the battle to outlaw sex discrimination, and considered the implications for both movements and constitutional jurisprudence. Dean Larry D. Kramer of Stanford Law School and Professor Robin West of Georgetown University Law Center offered commentary on Professor Siegel's lecture.

Dean Seeks Middle Ground on Military Recruiting
Responding to concerns about the conflict between federally mandated military recruiting at Boalt and the law school's anti-bias policies, Dean Edley announced he is seeking university approval to bar the armed services from on-campus recruitment events while continuing to provide information on military careers to students. In a message in the September 6 Boalt Bulletin Board, Edley noted the recurring tension between Boalt's standards and the military's "discriminatory hiring and retention policies with respect to sexual orientation." He emphasized that his intent in seeking to bar recruiters "is not to dissuade students from a career in military service because ... we all have a vital stake in the quality and character of our military’s leadership." He said his request to exclude military recruiters has been passed from UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to UC President Robert Dynes.

Gina Amato '01 Takes Admissions Outreach Post
Gina Amato '01 has returned to Boalt as Associate Director of Admissions for Outreach and Recruitment. Amato returns to her alma mater from a stint at the Eviction Defense Center, where she served as both staff and managing attorney. She was a 2001 concurrent graduate of Boalt and the Goldman School of Public Policy.

Faculty Flexes Scholarly Muscle with '05 Book Output
We always talk about Boalt's scholarly prestige. Let us offer some tangible proof of its existence: On September 28, Boalt honored faculty for their newest books at a luncheon hosted by Professor Bob Berring '74. Berring, in his inimitable way, roasted the various offerings with awards that ranged from the book that weighed the most, to the best dust jacket design, to the lengthiest. He had his work cut out for him, though, because the faculty's literary output over the past year has been extraordinary. The complete list of faculty authors and books honored:

• Alan J. Auerbach: Toward Fundamental Tax Reform
• Robert C. Berring '74: Finding the Law (Twelfth Edition)
• Stephen Bundy '78: Pleading and Procedure, State and Federal Cases and Materials (Ninth Edition)
• David D. Caron & Harry N. Scheiber: Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters
• Jesse H. Choper: Cases and Materials on Corporations (Sixth Edition)
• Aaron Edlin: Antitrust Analysis, Problems, Text, and Cases
• Malcolm Feeley: Criminal Justice: Introductory Cases and Materials (Sixth Edition)
• Daniel A. Farber: A History of the American Constitution (Second Edition)
• Daniel A. Farber: Modern Constitutional Theory: A Reader (Fifth Edition)
• Jesse Fried: Pay without Performance: The Unfulfilled Promise of Executive Compensation
• Angela P. Harris: Economic Justice: Race, Gender, Identity and Economics
• Joan Heifetz Hollinger: Family by Law: An Adoption Reader
• Robert A. Kagan: Dynamics of Regulatory Change: How Globalization Affects National Regulatory Policies
• Robert A. Kagan: Institutions & Public Law: Comparative Approaches
• Laurent Mayali: Staatsanwaltschaft
• Robert P. Merges: Foundations of Intellectual Property
• Howard Shelanski: Merger Remedies in American and European Union Competition Law
• John Yoo: The Powers of War and Peace: The Constitution and Foreign Affairs after 9/11
• Franklin E. Zimring: An American Travesty: Legal Responses to Adolescent Sexual Offending
• Franklin E. Zimring: American Juvenile Justice

Boalt Voices

Dean Edley: Chance for a 'Shining New Orleans'
In a nationally televised panel discussion on rebuilding New Orleans, Dean Christopher Edley said the federal government should help residents create a city more vibrant and full of opportunity than the one devastated by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. In a September 15 appearance on the PBS NewsHour, Edley said the reconstruction effort is "an opportunity to build a shining New Orleans that takes advantage of what we've learned from the last generation about how to make economic growth real in our hard-pressed cities, so we can create more opportunity, better opportunity for the people in that metropolitan area if we rebuild the right way." (Read the full story.)

Professor Jesse Fried Criticizes 'Collusive' Ellison Settlement
Bloomberg News sought out Professor Jesse Fried's perspective on a controversial insider-trading settlement under which Oracle CEO Larry Ellison sought to have his company pay for attorneys' fees in the case. A Bay Area judge rejected the deal September 26, and Fried said the ruling appeared to be right on the money. He told Bloomberg News Service that companies customarily pay attorneys' fees only when the company is a clear beneficiary of a settlement. "This seems to be a collusive settlement between Ellison and the plaintiffs' lawyer where Ellison is not paying anything out of pocket," Fried said. "He gives money to charity anyway—and the lawyer gets paid $24 million by Oracle."

Professor John Yoo: On War, on Rehnquist Legacy
Professor John Yoo, the subject of a front-page profile in the September 12 Wall Street Journal, published two high-profile opinion essays in September. In his latest opinion essay, "Assassination or War?," published in the San Francisco Chronicle on September 18, Yoo argues for the necessity—and the legality—of targeting individual terrorist leaders. In "A Revolution that Had Run Its Course," published September 5 in the Los Angeles Times, Yoo says that although the late William Rehnquist will be remembered as one of the most influential chief justices of the United States, his leadership had lost force in recent years.

The Boalt History File

In the Archives: 'Speaking Truth to Power'
The Boalt Hall Law School Archives this month feature the story of Professor Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong '15, an authority on living-wage issues invited in 1934 to join the FDR administration's effort to draft unemployment insurance and wage legislation. She clashed with superiors and was relegated to a committee working on benefits for the elderly. The system she helped devise: Social Security.

Object of the Month
Archivist Bill Benemann's Object of the Month for October: Three large-format scrapbooks filled with newspaper clippings relating to Boalt, believed to be associated with Professor Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong '15.

Alumni Notes

Recorder Profiles Appellate Judge Coleman Blease '55
Judge Coleman Blease '55, a member of California's 3rd District Court of Appeal, joined in a decision barring a redistricting measure from the state's special election ballot this fall, then saw his opinion in the case reversed by the state Supreme Court. The Recorder's profile (paid subscription required) observed: "A one-time teacher of rhetoric at UC-Berkeley, with a scholar's respect for language, Blease zeroed in on what he considered the heart of the case—the failure of Prop 77 proponents to follow the letter of the law. 'The Legislature has directed that an initiative petition not be received or filed which is not in conformity with the statutes which govern its submission and circulation,' wrote Blease."

In Memoriam: Milton O. Wordal '63
Milton O. Wordal '63, who practiced law in his home state of Montana for 42 years and played a leading role in the state's bar association, died September 7 at a hospice in Great Falls. Mr. Wordal was a partner in the Great Falls firm of Church, Harris, Johnson & Williams. He was a founding member of the state bar association's ethics committee, on which he served for 20 years. (Please see Mr. Wordal's obituary in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle.)

Aviva Bobb '71 Wins 'Access to Justice' Award
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Aviva Bobb '71 received the 2005 Benjamin Aranda III Access to Justice Award honoring the longtime advocate of fairness and access in the state's family courts. Bobb has served on the bench since 1980. She accepted the award from California Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronald George during a September 10 luncheon at the Statewide Judicial Branch Conference. A family law supervising judge from 2000 to 2004, Bobb worked to make the family law system more friendly and accessible to self-represented litigants and more responsive to the needs of all litigants, regardless of financial resources. The award is co-sponsored by the Judicial Council, the California State Bar, and the California Judges Association, in association with the California Commission on Access to Justice.

Merrick Bobb '71; 'Keeping Thin Blue Line on Straight and Narrow'
Merrick Bobb '71, a nationally recognized authority on police conduct, was the subject of a major Los Angeles Times profile September 19 (paid archive). The story opens: "As a law student at the University of California's volatile Berkeley campus in the 1970s, Merrick Bobb was once stopped by an angry Oakland cop and accused of intentionally driving his car toward the officer. Bobb said he felt helpless under the officer's accusation, which he strongly denied. He envisioned going to jail, his plans for a law degree destroyed. Then some Berkeley police officers approached and said they believed Bobb. They told him he was free to go. 'The discretion the police had stayed with me,' Bobb said. 'They can be absolutely the best thing in your life -- or your worst nightmare.'" Bobb is the founding director and president of the Police Assessment Resource Center.

Ray Bourhis '72 Ponders Insurance Industry Response to Katrina
Insurance specialist Ray Bourhis '72 predicts that Gulf Coast residents face a bleak prognosis resolving insurance claims stemming from Hurricane Katrina. In a September 18 Open Forum commentary in the San Francisco Chronicle, Bourhis argues that concerns about the insurance industry's response to the disaster underscore the need for insurance reform. He also offers advice to consumers purchasing insurance and filing claims. A partner with the San Francisco firm Bourhis & Wolfson, Bourhis specializes in insurance coverage and bad faith litigation. He is the author of the 2005 book Insult to Injury: Insurance, Fraud and the Big Business of Bad Faith.

Schwarzenegger Appoints Patricia Scanlon '81 to Contra Costa Bench
Patricia M. Scanlon '81 is the latest Boalt alum to be named to the bench. Governor Schwarzenegger appointed the longtime Contra Costa County deputy public defender to the county's Superior Court on September 9. Scanlon had served as a public defender since 1982.

Roger Myers '88 Wins ABA Human Rights Award
Roger Myers '88, a former newspaper reporter and editor and longtime media attorney, has been named winner of the ABA Litigation Section's 2005 International Human Rights Award. Myers is chair of the media and new media practice group at DLA Piper Rudnick Gary Cary US. He won the award for "his groundbreaking work during 2004 in Kazakhstan to save and strengthen the country’s free press."

Recorder on Thomas Reardon '88: 'Judge with Song in His Heart'
The Recorder's September 27 profile (paid subscription required) of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Thomas Reardon '88 begins: "He's a tough judge who motors through one of Oakland's busiest criminal calendars with all the focus and charm of a drill sergeant. Yet underneath the robe of Alameda County Superior Court Judge Thomas Reardon beats the heart of a song-and-dance man. 'I think it's always been lurking,' said Charles Martell, a friend of Reardon's from his college days who recently saw the judge perform as Billy Crocker in Contra Costa Civic Theater's production of 'Anything Goes.' "

Ann Marie Tallman '89, Head of MALDEF, Testifies Against Roberts
Ann Marie Tallman '89 was one of two former Iowans briefly profiled in the Des Moines Register for their role in the confirmation hearings of John Roberts, the new chief justice of the United States. Tallman, president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose Roberts's nomination. She told the panel that the former Reagan administration lawyer's career showed him unsuited for Supreme Court service on a number of counts, including what she described as "a pattern of insensitivity and dismissive comments that show a lack of respect for Latino immigrants."

Critics Applaud Jonathan Shapiro '90 for 'Just Legal'
Jonathan Shapiro '90 has won plaudits as the creative genius behind Just Legal, a new law-office drama appearing this fall on the WB network. The show, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and starring Don Johnson, has received some warm notices (The Hollywood Reporter: "an absorbing, well-paced legal drama with both heart and attitude"). Shapiro's lawyer-to-writer story has also received wide attention, including an engaging piece in the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles.

Qin Ma '92 (LL.M.): Astounding Home-Schooling Feat
If you've raised kids, prepare to be impressed, if not amazed. Qin Ma '92 (LL.M.) and her family have been the subject of Bay Area media attention for an unusual academic feat. Ma's children, Mayumi Pierce, 14, and Charles Pierce, 13, began attending classes at UC Berkeley this fall—as junior transfer students from a local community college. The kids are smart, both Ma and her husband, Wincie Pierce, allow. But they also say that Ma's home-schooling of the children allowed them to attain their prodigious early academic attainment. But Ma said there's more to family life than school: "Academic achievement is just one part of life. To have a healthy body, an intellectual mind, and a large, loving heart is what our children were told is expected of them. These standards can be simplified into two words: responsibility and love."

Andrew Grotto '02 Reports on State of Russian Nukes
Andrew J. Grotto '02, a policy analyst on national security policy at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., is one of the authors of a new report on Russia's nuclear arsenal that suggests the goal of securing the nation's dangerous weapons stockpile may be fading further into the future. The report, "Securing Russia's Loose Nukes," was produced in conjunction with the Henry L. Stimson Center. It concludes that despite bipartisan consensus to devote U.S. resources to helping Russia secure weapons and weapons-grade nuclear material by 2011, it may take until after 2030 at the rate the work is currently being done.

Featured Events

Center for Social Justice: Central Valley Initiative
Boalt's Center for Social Justice launches a major initiative in November to focus attention on—and develop policy strategies for—the social challenges arising in the state's rapidly evolving Central Valley. UC Davis Professor and former California Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso '58 will kick off the three-day symposium on Thursday, November 3, with the Mario G. Olmos Memorial Lecture, "In Hard Times: The Search for Social Justice." The symposium sessions on Friday and Saturday, November 4 and 5, organized under the theme "The New Face of California: The Great Central Valley," will include discussions of the many new and enduring justice issues arising in a population that struggles to gain access to the basic services and institutions—employment, health care and education, for instance—that give a hope of social advancement. The center, working in conjunction with UC Merced, aims to build a framework for new research and policy development and to engage scholars, lawyers, activists and other experts in a long-term effort to find and implement solutions. For more information on schedules, speakers and MCLE credit, please see the center's symposium home page.

Death Penalty Clinic: Sandra Babcock Lecture
Boalt's Death Penalty Clinic will host a lecture at 12:30 p.m. on October 12 in 115 Boalt by Sandra Babcock, director of the Mexican Capital Legal Assistance Program. Babcock has provided litigation support to attorneys in more than 100 capital cases and was Mexico’s counsel in the case of Avena and other Mexican Nationals (Mexico v. United States), an action brought in the International Court of Justice on behalf of 52 Mexican nationals on U.S. death rows. See the Death Penalty Clinic site for more information on Babcock's appearance.

BCLT's Barr Leads Panel on Emerging Markets
Robert Barr, executive director of Boalt's Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), will moderate a panel at the all-day conference, Investing in Emerging Markets; China, India, Russia, on October 7 at the Berkeley Art Museum Theater. The conference, hosted by the Haas School of Business and supported by BCLT among other campus institutes and colleges, is the first conference at a U.S. university to address issues of trade, technology and investment in Russia, China and India. Dean Richard Lyons of Haas and Dean Christopher Edley of Boalt will open the conference with welcoming remarks. For more information, please visit the conference website.

BCLBE Co-hosts SEC Webcast
The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy and the Berkeley Business Law Journal will host a live webcast of an annual SEC event, "Recent Developments in International Securities Regulation and Enforcement." The live webcast will run from 9 to 11:30 a.m. on October 6, in the Faculty Lounge on the third floor of Boalt's North Addition. Refreshments will be served. For more information, see the announcement on the BCLBE site.

BCLBE Speaker Series Continues
The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy continues its speaker series in October with two sessions at Boalt Hall. On October 10, BCLBE will host Robert Van Nest, a partner with Keker and Van Nest, speaking on "Parallel Proceedings: A Case Study in Defending a Client Facing Prosecution from the SEC and DOJ—and Civil Litigation, Too." On October 24, Ken King '87, managing partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, will deliver a talk on Yahoo!'s recent acquisition of a major stake in the Chinese ecommerce firm Alibaba.com. Both sessions will be held from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. in Room 100, Boalt Hall. One hour of MCLE credit is available for each of the BCLBE speaker events.

A Visit from the Equality State
Wyoming Governor David Freudenthal will visit Boalt Hall on Friday, October 28, to meet faculty and students and to participate in a luncheon panel on natural resources federalism. The panel, sponsored by Boalt's California Center for Environmental Law & Policy and Environmental Law Society, is tentatively scheduled for 12:45-1:45 p.m. in the Goldberg Room. Watch the Boalt Hall website for further details.

Center for Youth Development Through Law
The Center for Youth Development Through Law provides classes at Boalt Hall and law-related internships to disadvantaged Bay Area teens who are interested in legal careers. We are seeking alumni willing to mentor participants and help them achieve their goals. For info, please contact Nancy Schiff at nschiff@youthlawworks.org or (510) 642-4520.

Public Interest Networking
Did you start your legal career in the private sector and switch to public? If so, we'd like to hear from you. The Career Development Office can use your knowledge to help advise alumni and students considering making the transition. We can also host an online information exchange for alumni working in public interest. It's an opportunity to share what you know about organizations or job opportunities and get answers to questions. Please email Terry Galligan at tgalligan@law.berkeley.edu for more information or to share your experience and advice.

Volunteer for the Alumni Network
You remember what it's like: You're thinking about law school and whether Boalt would be a good fit; or you've made it to Boalt and you're trying to learn the ropes; or you're thinking about what happens after graduation. The world of law school and the career universe beyond is full of questions and uncertainty. But you've been there, and you can help. By joining the Alumni Network, students can contact you with questions about the school, the profession and your career. To sign up, email alumni@law.berkeley.edu. To see your listing, go to http://www.law.berkeley.edu/perl-bin/alumni.pl. If you're already a network member, let us know if you have any changes in your practice.

Stay Connected! Join the Boalt Email Group
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