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• Samuelson Clinic Outlines Smart Grid Concerns in FCC Comment (11/17/2009)
  
• Chris Bebenek ’11 Wins Berkeley Law Research and Writing Award (11/10/2009)
  
• Professor Franklin Zimring Takes Aim at Florida’s Attorney General (11/6/2009)
  
• Health Care Study: Public Option Would Generate Savings, Benefits  (11/4/2009)
  
• ABA Hails Marjorie Shultz ’76 As One of America’s 50 ‘Legal Rebels’ (10/22/2009)
  
• Berkeley Law Center Plays Key Role in Producing Shriver Report (10/19/2009)
  

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Press Releases and Media Advisories

• Media Advisory: Women Scientists and American Competitiveness 11/9/2009
• Media Advisory: Conference takes on national health reform's impact in California 11/5/2009
• Media Advisory: HIV & Neglected Diseases Patent Pool Conference 11/4/2009
• Press Release: New health care study: public option would generate more benefits, savings than projected 10/30/2009
• Media Advisory: Global flow of personal information raises consumer privacy risks 10/26/2009

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In Brief

Helene Kim to Lead New International Program

Helene Kim has been named the first executive director of Berkeley Law’s new International Executive Legal Education Program. Her extensive legal and management experience includes stints working at the Great Wall Law Firm in Shanghai and with McKinsey & Co. in Seoul. Kim also co-founded an organization that developed an online learning application that provides college preparatory counseling and cross-border foreign language learning instruction through real-time video-conferencing. A graduate of Harvard Law, Kim served on then-Senator Barack Obama’s Asian-American Pacific Islander Leadership Council during his presidential campaign in 2008.

IP Faculty Rated Nation’s Best by Recent Poll

A recent informal poll conducted by University of Chicago Law School professor Brian Leiter ranked Berkeley Law’s intellectual property faculty as the best in the nation. More than 300 people cast votes in the poll, which asked participants to rank listed faculties “in terms of their scholarly distinction in the areas of intellectual property and Cyberlaw.” Berkeley Law’s intellectual property group—Amy Kapczynski, Peter Menell, Robert Merges, Pamela Samuelson, Suzanne Scotchmer, Paul Schwartz, Talha Syed, and Molly Van Houweling—was rated first among faculty units from 24 law schools.

Miller Institute Files Third-Party Intervention

The Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law has submitted a third-party intervention to the European Court of Human Rights on Kaos GL v. Turkey. The case raises questions regarding states’ obligations to protect rights of sexual expression for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people under the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms. The institute partnered with two human rights organizations in drafting the intervention, which argues that open-ended and vague obscenity clauses that restrict freedom of expression are incompatible with global understandings of sexual expression as a basic right. Drafters included Miller Institute senior fellow and lecturer in residence Alice Miller, and Berkeley Law students Janaki Gandhi ’10 and Celeste Kaufman ’10.

 

Raymond Ocampo, Jr. ’76 Wins Diversity Award

Raymond Ocampo, Jr. ’76 will receive a Spirit of Excellence Award from the American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession. Commission chair Fred Alvarez called Ocampo “a tireless champion of diversity throughout his career” and “a vocal leader during a time when silence about inequities was the professional norm.” Ocampo was the first minority director of Hastings College of Law’s Legal Educational Opportunity Program. Later, as Oracle Corporation’s general counsel, he required outside counsel to assign women and minorities to company cases. After retiring from Oracle, Ocampo co-founded the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology in 1997 and was executive director for two years.

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