As of August 1, 2005, the Earl Warren Legal Institute has been renamed the Institute for Legal Research as a result of the organization of research units at Berkeley Law.
The Institute for Legal Research (ILR) is an Organized Research Unit (ORU) of the University of California, Berkeley, established by the UC Regents in 1967. The Institute’s mission is to serve as a center for interdisciplinary research, teaching, and public service. Prior to the appointment of Harry N. Scheiber as Director in July 2002, the Institute was concerned almost exclusively with criminal justice studies. Under Professor Scheiber’s directorship, the Institute has been reorganized and become committed to scholarly activities in five programs:
• Constitutional Law and History
• Criminal Justice Studies
• Environmental Law and Policy
• Law of the Sea Institute
• Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law
Research and other activities of the Institute are funded by the University, as well as the Dean of the School of Law and outside foundation and governmental organizations, such as the California Sea Grant program and the UCOP Marine Council.
Collaboration with other campus ORUs and programs has been an important objective, and accordingly the Institute has had varied co-sponsorship of activities with the Institute for Governmental Studies, the Robbins Religious and Civil Law Collection, the Center for the Study of Law and Society, the Jefferson Memorial Lectures, and the Berkeley Center for Law, Business, and Economics.
Our Institute has also partnered with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the University of Washington, Inha University (Korea), Waseda University (Japan), the Fridtjof Nansen Institute (Norway), the Japanese Society for Sociology of Law, the Japanese Federation of Bar Associations, the Harte Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies at Texas A&M University, the Environmental Law Institute, the California Supreme Court Historical Society, the American Society for Legal History, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and other U.S. and foreign research institutions and universities.
Each ILR program has cooperative relationships with individual scholars (some of whom receive non-stipend appointments as Institute fellows) and with other university and research programs in the United States and abroad.
Contact Information
ILR381 Boalt Hall
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Phone: 510-642-5125
Fax: 510-643-2698
Email: ilr@law.berkeley.edu
Administration
DirectorHarry N. Scheiber
Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History
360 Boalt Hall
Phone: 510-643-9788 / 643-3595
Email: hscheiber@law.berkeley.edu
Senior Administrative Analyst
Karen Chin
381 Boalt Hall
Phone: 510-642-5125
Email: kchin@law.berkeley.edu
Administrative Assistant
Toni Mendicino
381 Boalt Hall
Phone: 510-643-7969
Email: tmendicino@law.berkeley.edu