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Media Advisory: Supreme Court of California to Hold Special Session at Berkeley Law 10/8/2013
Media Advisory: Legal Luminaries to Attend Forum on Supreme Court of California 9/30/2013
Media Advisory: How to Turn High Speed Rail into an Economic Engine for San Joaquin Valley 8/15/2013
Press Release: Reports Assess Shelters for Survivors of Sexual Violence 6/21/2013
Press Release: Remarks by Attorney General Eric Holder at the University of California School of Law Commencement 5/11/2013

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News Briefs

Hulse Joins Career Development Office

Kristen Uhl Hulse has joined Berkeley Law’s Career Development Office as associate director for private sector counseling and programs. An attorney with international firm experience, Hulse has an extensive background in law student career and professional development. After working as a career advisor at Georgetown University Law Center from 2009 to 2011, she spent the past year advising LL.M. students at Berkeley Law. Before transitioning to an attorney-counselor role, Hulse worked in the Washington, D.C., and London offices of Dechert LLP, focusing on investment management and aiding the firm’s pro bono and recruitment efforts. (11/15/13)

Chien ’02 Tapped for White House IP Post

Colleen Chien ’02 has been named senior advisor for intellectual property and innovation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is taking a leave of absence from her position as associate law professor at Santa Clara University to help coordinate science and technology policy across the executive branch. A renowned patent expert, Chien was recently named one of the 50 most influential people in intellectual property by Managing IP magazine. Before entering academia, she practiced law at Fenwick & West, provided strategic consulting at Dean and Company, and worked as a spacecraft engineer at Jet Propulsion Lab. (11/12/13)

Bamberger to Co-Chair Jewish Studies Center

Professor Kenneth Bamberger will co-chair UC Berkeley’s new Center for Jewish Studies and lead its undergraduate program. The center will provide academic offerings, sponsor an annual series of endowed lectures, and host visiting scholars who teach undergraduate and graduate courses. It is also developing a new Designated Emphasis in Jewish Studies for graduate students and a Jewish Studies minor for undergraduates. Bamberger, faculty director of the law school’s Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israeli Law, Economy and Society, will help foster collaborations with other campus departments and community organizations. (11/6/13)

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