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Michelle Wilde Anderson
Title: Assistant Professor of Law
Office: 589 Simon Hall
Tel: 510-643-3144
Email Address: manderson@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Leslie Stone
Michelle Wilde Anderson is a scholar of local government law, land-use planning, and civil rights. Her current research focuses on county governments and special districts, particularly the governance of high poverty, unincorporated urban neighborhoods.
Prior to joining Boalt Hall in 2008, Anderson worked as an Environmental Law Fellow for Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP, a law firm that represents citizen groups and public agencies in land-use and environmental law matters. She clerked for the Honorable Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Honorable Marilyn Hall Patel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. A Boalt Hall graduate in 2004, Anderson earned the Thelen, Marrin Prize for Law Journal Writing and served as the Senior Articles Editor of the California Law Review.
Anderson developed a base of expertise in the fields of urban policy and city planning before law school. She earned a master's degree in Regional and Urban Planning at the London School of Economics and Political Science and worked at the European Commission's Urban Policy Unit in Brussels; an urban planning firm in London; and an organization dedicated to social justice in Connecticut public housing.
Anderson's recent publications include "Mapped Out of Local Democracy," forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review (2010), "Cities Inside Out: Race, Poverty, and Exclusion at the Urban Fringe" in the U.C.L.A. Law Review (2008), and "Colorblind Segregation: Equal Protection as a Bar to Neighborhood Integration" in the California Law Review (2004).
Anderson is a member of the California bar.
