Professor Michael Musheno has been named Berkeley Law’s new Director of Legal Studies. The Legal Studies Program, an interdisciplinary major for undergraduates in law and legal studies, provides a substantive liberal arts curriculum on law and legal institutions, practices, and discourses. A criminal justice professor at San Francisco State, Musheno has developed and directed legal studies programs both there and at Arizona State. He has already served Berkeley Law as a Legal Studies Program lecturer, a researcher, and a Distinguished Affiliated Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society. Musheno will be oversee the Legal Studies Program’s daily administration and act as chief faculty adviser to all Legal Studies majors.