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Top Stories
- Targeting Laws That Afflict Homeless People in California (2/19/2015)
- Professor Takes Aim at Unreliable Data on Police Use of Lethal Force (2/17/2015)
- Berkeley Law Authors Hailed for Eclectic Works (2/13/2015)
- New Clinic Provides Final Piece to Environmental Law Program (2/9/2015)
- Center Releases First Casebook on Reproductive Rights and Justice (2/5/2015)
Press Releases and Media Advisories
- Press Release: Report by UCLA and Berkeley Law Schools IDs Benefits of Energy Data 1/22/2015
- Media Advisory: Saving Mono Lake: Lessons Learned for CA Watersheds, Nov. 17 10/28/2014
- Press Release: Berkeley Law and UCLA examine emerging market for used electric vehicle batteries 9/17/2014
- Press Release: Envisioning Human Rights photography exhibit opens 8/28 at Berkeley Law 8/13/2014
- Media Advisory: Rep Waxman cites Berkeley Law report, calls on FERC to combat climate change 7/29/2014
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Teaching and Research at Berkeley Law
In equal protection cases, David Schraub sees a one-way street that needs two-way traffic. His article notes that while judges consider whether certain minority groups qualify as a “suspect class” deserving of heightened judicial review, they should also reassess such designations as times change. If not, Schraub foresees a constitutional doctrine “past its point of expiration.”
News Briefs
Lemon ’80 Hailed for Domestic Violence Work
Nancy Lemon ’80, who directs the Domestic Violence Practicum at Berkeley Law, was recently given the American Society of Criminology’s Praxis Award. The annual award honors those who increase the quality of justice for groups that have experienced class, ethnic, gender, racial, and sexual disparities in policing and punishment. Earlier in 2014, Lemon also received the Abby J. Liebman Award from the California Women’s Law Center, as well as the Lady Justice Innovator Award from the Pro Bono Project of Silicon Valley. Lemon pioneered the study of domestic violence in law schools and authored the subject’s seminal textbook. (1/16/15)
Pineda ’77 Named One of Most Powerful Latinas
People en Español magazine has named Patricia Salas Pineda ’77 one of the 25 most powerful Latinas of 2014. The highest-ranking Hispanic executive at Toyota North America, the world’s largest automaker, Pineda is group vice president of Hispanic business strategy. She joined Toyota in 2004 as group vice president of corporate communications and general counsel, and later oversaw its national philanthropy efforts. Previously, Pineda spent 20 years at New United Motor Manufacturing, a corporate joint venture between Toyota and General Motors, where she was vice president of human resources, government, and legal affairs. (1/13/15)
Connolly ’88 Joins Marin County Supervisors
Damon Connolly ’88 began his elected position this week on the Marin County Board of Supervisors. Connolly has served in several public policy positions, including chair of the Marin Energy Authority’s Board of Directors, vice mayor and city council member in San Rafael, and president of San Rafael’s Dixie School District Board. A certified mediator, he was a partner at Girard Gibbs before starting his own practice in 2008. As a Supervising Deputy Attorney General for California, Connolly prosecuted energy companies that engaged in fraudulent practices. Those efforts resulted in a $1.6 billion settlement, the largest of its kind. (1/9/15)
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