Last month 1Ls Ted Lee, Samson Lim, and Oscar Sarabia Roman of Berkeley’s Consumer Advocacy and Protection Society (CAPS) submitted a public comment to the Federal Communications Commission in conjunction with the Center. Contrary to the claims made by NorthStar Alarm Services in a petition submitted in January, the CAPS students argued that soundboard technology constitutes […]
CAPS Students Submit Comment to the FCC on the Use of Soundboard Technology
Jessie Sherwood, Robbins Collection Associate Librarian
Jessie Sherwood has joined the Robbins Collection as the Associate Librarian, where she will oversee the complex copy cataloging of the Robbins Collections holdings. She will also update our online resources for manuscript research and contribute to research projects, exhibitions, and trainings. Previously, Jessie was the Manuscript Cataloger at the Robbins Collection, where she processed […]
Judicial Independence and Accountability in Latin America Response Papers
In 2017, Pablo Echeverri, Assistant Professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law, and Laurent Mayali co-hosted a symposium a the Robbins Collection, “Judicial Independence and Accountability in Latin America.” Participants in the conference were asked to write response papers, which we are publishing here as a collection of essays. The essays begin with an […]
The 270-Day Report
The Center turned nine months old in January. And, like any self-respecting nine-month-old, we are on the move…. Launching, with a Splash The big news since our last newsletter: The Center has officially launched! On November 14, Dean Chemerinsky, Elizabeth Cabraser ’78, and a star-studded cast of speakers welcomed an equally luminary group of practitioners, […]
Lecture: Discretionary Referendums in Constitutional Amendment
On March 14, Professor Richard Albert, the William Stamps Farish Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin, spoke on comparative referendums. His event, “Discretionary Referendums in Constitutional Amendment: A Comparative Perspective,” was hosted by the Robbins Collection. The timing for Professor Albert’s talk was fortuitous, as the U.K. Parliament was in the […]
Lecture: Jewish Law and the #MeToo Movement
In October 2017 the #MeToo movement became an internationally viral phenomenon, due to the sexual abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein and other men in media. The movement encouraged women to share their experiences of sexual assault and harassment, to draw attention to the fact that many women face these experiences at some point in their […]
American Opinion on Immigration: Implications for Policy
March 19, 2019; 4-5:30 p.m.; Social Science Matrix Conference Room; 8th Floor, Barrows Hall, University of California, Berkeley. Speakers: Morris Levy, University of Southern California; Cecila Mo, University of California, Berkeley; Cara Wong, University of Illinois; Moderated by Laura Stoker, University of California, Berkeley.
Jennifer Nelson Receives ACRL Grant
Jennifer Nelson, reference librarian for the Robbins Collection, has won the prestigious Association of College and Research Libraries European Studies Section De Gruyter European Librarianship Study Grant for 2019. Her winning project, “lucundum mihi est reperiri typographum: A Case Study of an Early Modern Publishing Success Story,” is an archival study of the letters by […]
Discretionary Referendums in Constitutional Amendment: A Comparative Perspective
The Robbins Collection is pleased to host Professor Richard Albert, William Stamps Farish Professor of Law at the University of Texas at Austin to Berkeley Law, for his talk, “Discretionary Referendums in Constitutional Amendment: A Comparative Perspective.” Professor Albert focuses his research on constitutional amendment from comparative, doctrinal, historical and theoretical perspectives. The talk will be in R230 in […]
The 2019 Robbins Collection Lecture on Canon Law
In 2013, Dr. Jennifer Haselberger made national news when she publicly resigned as the top canon lawyer for the Archdiocese of Saint Paul and Minneapolis and exposed their mishandling of sexual abuse. On February 25, 2019, Dr. Haselberger gave the 2019 Robbins Collection Lecture on Canon Law, “How the Church Can Overcome the Sexual Abuse […]