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Brent K. Nakamura
Year: 4th Year Grad Student - JSP
Email: bnakamura {at} berkeley [dot] edu
Phone: (415) 935-3256
Website: http://www.bnakamura.com/Education:B.A., Northwestern University, Sociology (Honors), Political Science (Honors), Legal Studies (2006)
Concentrations:• Tax Controversy, Litigation, and Procedure
• Health Care Law & Governance
• Tort Reform: Medical Malpractice
• Problem-Solving Courts
• Juvenile Justice & Gender
• The Professions (Law & Medicine)
• Women & Crime (Historically)
• Regents-Intern Fellowship, UC Berkeley Graduate Division (2006-08)
• Judge Martin Pence Scholarship, Berkeley Law (2007-10)
• Mentored Research Award, UC Berkeley Graduate Division (2010-11)
• Jurisprudence Award (First in Class), Civil Procedure, Berkeley Law (2008)
• Winner (Best Oralist), James Patterson McBaine Honors Moot Court Competition, Berkeley Law (2009)
• Jurisprudence Award (First in Class), Quantitative Methods II, Berkeley Law (2009)
• Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies (BELS) Fellow, Center for the Study of Law & Society (CSLS) (2010)
Activities:
• Co-Director, James Patterson McBaine Honors Moot Court Competition (2009-2010)
• Member, Board of Advocates, Berkeley Law (2009-10)
Research:
• Project Manager & Graduate Student Researcher, Professor Lauren B. Edelman, Center for the Study of Law & Society (Summer 2007-Spring 2009)
• Mellon-USLI Research Fellow, Professor Jonathan Simon, Legal Studies Program (Spring 2008-Spring 2009)
• Graduate Student Researcher, Professor Herma Hill Kay, Berkeley Law (Summer 2009-Present)
• Graduate Student Researcher, Professor Anne Joseph O'Connell, Berkeley Law (Fall 2007-Spring 2008)
• Graduate Student Researcher, Professor Kenneth A. Bamberger, Berkeley Law (Spring 2007-Summer 2007)
• Research Assistant, Professors Robert L. Nelson and Laura Beth Nielsen, American Bar Foundation (Spring 2004, 2005-2006)
• Research Assistant, Professor Linda A. Teplin, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Psycholegal Studies Program (Winter 2005-Spring 2005)
Teaching:
• Research Fellow, Legal Studies Honors Seminar (LS198), Professor Jonathan Simon, UC Berkeley (Fall 2008)
• Teaching Assistant, Quantitative Methods, Professors Daniel L. Rubinfeld & Justin McCrary, Boalt Hall School of Law (Spring 2008)
• Summer Law Intern (Paid), United States Department of Justice, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Washington, DC (Summer 2010)
• Summer Law Intern (Paid), United States Department of Justice, Tax Division, Civil Trial Section, Eastern Region, Washington, DC (Summer 2009, Split)
• Summer Associate, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP, San Francisco, CA (Summer 2009, Split)
• Summer Associate, Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, Oakland, CA (Summer 2008; Summer 2009, Split)
• Program Planner/Consultant (Paid), Hawaii Girls Court, Hawaii State Judiciary, Girls Court, Family Court of the First Circuit, Honolulu, HI (Summer 2006)
• Judge's Aide/Law Clerk to Judge Karen M. Radius, Hawaii State Judiciary, Family Court of the First Circuit, Honolulu, HI (Summer 2004; S
