Mallika Kaur ’10 and Lindsay Harris ’09 co-edited How to Account for Trauma and Emotions in Law Teaching, which makes the case for engaging — and even encouraging — emotion in the classroom and the courtroom.
With faith in America’s democratic institutions waning, the center — named after former dean Christopher Edley Jr. — will probe underlying problems and train students to become effective guardians of our political system.
UC Berkeley law professor Dylan Penningroth’s book “Before the Movement” reveals the many ways Black Americans, long before the Civil Rights Movement, navigated the law by asserting their civil rights of property.
In Legal Briefs: The Ups and Downs of Life in the Law, Hecht details his brushes with Nixon over four episodes — divulging some details publicly for the first time.
In their new book, Graphic: Trauma and Meaning in our Online Lives, Alexa Koenig and Andrea Lampros draw lessons from experts and the center’s own work to protect students’ mental health.
Before the Movement explores how Black people worked within the laws of property, contracts, and more to assert their rights — even while other parts of the legal system offered discrimination, hostility, and violence.
Released today, Worse Than Nothing provides a deep legal and historical analysis and argues that the increasingly popular method for understanding the Constitution is unworkable.
Fifteen books published in 2019 and 2020 were highlighted at a recent event, including work by Ian Haney López, Franklin Zimring, and Dean Erwin Chemerinsky.
Zimring, a pioneering scholar in the study of violent crime for half a century, shares the prestigious Stockholm Prize in Criminology with UC Berkeley Ph.D. Philip Cook.
