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Melissa Murray
Title: Assistant Professor of Law
Office: 419 Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Tel: 510-643-6127
Email Address: mmurray@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Joelle Brown
Melissa Murray joined the faculty as an assistant professor in fall 2006 and she teaches family law and criminal law. Her research focuses on the roles that criminal law and family law play in articulating the legal parameters of intimate life. Prior to coming to Boalt, Murray served for two years as an associate in law at Columbia Law School.
Murray is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she was notes development editor of the Yale Law Journal. She earned special recognition as an NAACP-LDF/Shearman & Sterling Scholar and was a semifinalist of Morris Tyler Moot Court.
Following law school, Murray clerked for Sonia Sotomayor of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and Stefan Underhill of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.
Her recent publications include, "The Networked Family: Reframing the Legal Understanding of Caregiving and Caregivers" in the Virginia Law Review (2008), "Equal Rites and Equal Rights" in the California Law Review (2008), "Strange Bedfellows: Criminal Law, Family Law, and the Legal Regulation of Intimate Life" in the Iowa Law Review (2009), "Disestablishing the Family" in the Yale Law Journal (with A. Ristroph) (forthcoming), and "Marriage Rights and Parental Rights: Parents, the State and Proposition 8" in the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (forthcoming).
Education:
B.A., University of Virginia (1997)J.D., Yale Law School (2002)
