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Media Advisory: Media Advisory: Rep Waxman cites Berkeley Law report, calls on FERC to combat climate change 7/29/2014
Press Release: New Report: Fed Agency Can Enforce Existing Law to Mitigate Climate Change Despite Congressional Inaction 7/23/2014
Press Release: New Report: Interior Dept. Can Act on Existing Law to Reduce Carbon Emissions 6/3/2014
Media Advisory: Attorneys Ted Olson ’65 and David Boise to address Berkeley Law graduates 5/8/2014
Press Release: Envisioning Human Rights: The Next Generation at BAM/PFA 4/15/2014

Teaching and Research at Berkeley Law

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In a paper co-authored by Prof. Katerina Linos and Kimberly Twist, the two discuss results of a survey conducted before and after SCOTUS decisions. Their ‘real-world’ findings show that people are more apt to accept the ruling if they watch news shows that emphasize the court’s majority viewpoint.

News Briefs

Memorial Service Planned for O’Neil

A memorial service for Beth Cobb O’Neil, Berkeley Law’s admissions director from 1976-1988, will be held July 19 at 2 pm in the UC Berkeley Alumni House. Online condolences for the family may be left here, and donations to the law school’s Beth Cobb O’Neil Scholarship Fund here. O’Neil, who died May 22, also worked for UC Berkeley’s Educational Opportunity Program, ran the San Francisco Foundation Scholars Program, and was Mills College’s Dean of Admissions. Throughout her career, she pioneered minority admissions policies and worked to find ways to create a diverse student body in the face of challenges to affirmative action. (6/25/14)

Mayo ’12 Receives Education Fellowship

Kelsey Mayo ’12 has been awarded a coveted National Academy of Education (NAE) Spencer Dissertation Fellowship. Only 30 fellows—each of whom receives a $25,000 award—were chosen from more than 600 graduate student applications. The fellowship encourages top young scholars to work on education-related issues, and fellows are invited to discuss their work at two NAE meetings in Washington, D.C. A Berkeley Law Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program Ph.D. candidate, Mayo studies education law from a sociological perspective. She focuses on legal environments for school choice and charter schools, and mobilizing educational rights. (6/23/14)

Gideon’s Promise Selects Stuckey ’15

Nathan Stuckey ’15 has been accepted to this year’s highly selective Gideon’s Promise Summer Law Clerk Program. Sixteen chosen clerks will assist Southeast public defender offices that partner with Gideon’s Promise, a nonprofit which mobilizes and trains advocates to provide indigent clients with quality representation. Stuckey will work this summer at the public defender office in Augusta, Georgia. Gideon’s Promise, which partners with 32 such offices across 13 states, recruits talented law students who want to improve the struggling indigent defense system and who display the traits needed to become a promising public defender. (6/6/14)

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