Professor Harry N. Scheiber
Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History
Plenary Speaker at 2007 Ninth Circuit Judicial Council
Harry N. Scheiber, the Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley, will be a plenary-session speaker July 19 at the 2007 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Honolulu.
Scheiber's address will consider the federal judiciary and the impact of martial law in Hawaii during World War II. As coauthor with his wife, Jane L. Scheiber, an assistant dean at UC Berkeley, he is now completing a book on this often-forgotten episode in U.S. constitutional history. The July 19 schedule will include a talk by Associate Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court of the United States. Hawaii's Governor Linda Lingle is scheduled to welcome attendees at the opening session.
The conference theme is “Collision Course: When Liberty and Order Clash.” This event is expected to bring together some 800 judges, judiciary employees, government officials, and private attorneys. Scheiber is director of UC Berkeley's Institute for Legal Research, headquartered at Boalt Hall. His previous writings include the books "The Wilson Administration and Civil Liberties," a study of World War I, and the recently published "Earl Warren and the Warren Court: The Legacy in American and Foreign Law." He is past president of the American Society for Legal History, and is an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Since joining the Boalt faculty in 1980, he has been chair of the UC Berkeley Academic Senate and associate dean for the Law School's doctoral program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy.
