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• Human Rights Center Fellows to Confront Injustice Worldwide (5/17/2013)
  
• Clinic Students Play Vital Role in Capital Case (5/10/2013)
  
• Berkeley Law Standouts Earn Campus Awards for Public Service (5/8/2013)
  
• Six Professors Appointed to Faculty Chairs at Berkeley Law Ceremony  (5/1/2013)
  
• Micah West ’13 Wins Sax Prize for Excellence in Clinical Advocacy (4/24/2013)
  

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Press Releases and Media Advisories

• Press Release: Remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder at the University of California School of Law Commencement 5/11/2013
• Media Advisory: US Attorney General Eric Holder to speak at Berkeley Law commencement 5/8/2013
• Media Advisory: Reforming Copyright for the Internet Age 4/17/2013
• Press Release: New Report Finds California Lags in Fracking Regulations 4/11/2013
• Media Advisory: Does Internet transparency threaten our democracy? Author Evgeny Morozov speaks about the folly of smart technology  

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News Briefs

Nancy Lemon ’80 Wins ABA’s Corbitt Award

Berkeley Law Lecturer Nancy Lemon ’80 has been awarded this year’s Corbitt Award from the American Bar Association (ABA) Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence. The annual award recognizes the exceptional service and leadership of an attorney who is working to improve the legal responses to domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Lemon, the director of Berkeley Law’s Domestic Violence Practicum, has been teaching a seminar on the topic—the first law school one of its kind—since 1988. She received the Corbitt Award May 9 at an ABA conference in San Francisco. (5/14/13)

Executive Program Hosts Thai Delegation

Berkeley Law’s International Executive Legal Education (IELE) program concluded a two-week intensive training session on E-Commerce regulations for a delegation of judges visiting from Thailand. The high-ranking Supreme Court and appellate court judges were selected to participate in a national Thai competition; they were honored at a closing ceremony on May 10. Since 2010, IELE has provided year-round programs for more than 500 participants from Asia, Europe, Latin America, and Africa. This also marks the fourth straight year the program has trained members of Thailand’s National Broadcasting and Telecommunications Commission. (5/14/13)

Kinch Hoekstra Receives Mentoring Honor

Berkeley Law Professor Kinch Hoekstra has received the university’s Faculty Award for Outstanding Mentorship of Graduate Student Instructors (GSIs), one of only four faculty members so honored this year. The award is sponsored by the UC Berkeley Graduate Council’s Advisory Committee and the GSI Teaching and Resource Center. Hoekstra, who holds a joint appointment with the Department of Political Science, specializes in the history of political, moral, and legal philosophy. An authority on ancient, renaissance, and early modern political thought, he taught philosophy at Oxford from 1996 to 2007. (5/14/13)

Alum Takes Charge of SEC Enforcement Division

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has named Vincente Martinez ’97 Chief of its Enforcement Division Office of Market Intelligence. Created in 2010, the office gathers and evaluates thousands of tips, complaints, and referrals that come into the SEC each year. The Berkeley Law alum said he looks forward to advancing the office’s “meaningful contributions to the protection of investors by further developing our ability to proactively identify risks and ferret out misconduct.” Martinez worked for eight years in the Enforcement Division before leaving in 2011 to direct the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s whistleblower office. (3/4/13)

Listenbee ’78 Heads US Juvenile Justice Office

President Obama has named Robert Listenbee, Jr. ’78 as Administrator of the U.S. Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Chief of the Defender Association of Philadelphia’s Juvenile Unit for 15 years and an attorney there since 1986, Listenbee recently co-chaired U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s National Task Force on Children Exposed to Violence. He serves on the policy committees of the National Legal Aid & Defender Association and the National Center for Juvenile Justice. In 2011, Listenbee won a MacArthur Foundation Champion for Change award for his leadership in reforming Pennsylvania’s juvenile justice system. (2/28/13)

 

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