Andrea Russi

 

Associate Director
Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
2850 Telegraph Avenue, Suite 500
Berkeley, CA 94705-7220
Tel: (510) 643-2003
Fax: (510) 643-4533
Email Address: arussi@law.berkeley.edu

Andrea Russi is the Associate Director for the Berkeley Center for Criminal Justice. Prior to joining BCCJ, Andrea spent nearly eight years as a federal prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. She handled both trial and appellate work in a wide variety of criminal cases, with a focus on child exploitation cases. Russi argued more than twenty cases before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and worked on numerous high profile appeals, including the first major prosecution of the Mexican Mafia prison gang. Andrea has also been an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law, teaching appellate advocacy and advanced legal writing. Prior to her work as a federal prosecutor, Andrea was an associate at the law firm of Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles. Andrea clerked for the Honorable William D. Keller of the United States District Court for the Central District of California and for the Honorable David R. Thompson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. During law school, Andrea served as Editor-in-Chief of the UCLA Law Review.

Education:
B.A., University of California, Berkeley (1992)
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (1996)