The Berkeley Law News Quiz

 

 

Welcome to our pop quiz! Test your knowledge and match wits against the rest of the law school community about what’s going on. 

The winner of this season’s competition will receive a signed copy of Professor Dylan Penningroth’s new book, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights. (The winner will be randomly drawn from the pool of those who answer every question correctly.)

 

Fall 2023

1. Students in our Death Penalty Clinic have turned to a new storytelling strategy to bolster their clients’ quest for clemency. What medium are they using?(Required)
2. Berkeley Law had another outstanding hiring year for faculty. How many new professors were announced over the summer?(Required)
3. Four research centers – three new and one rebooted – are making their mark on the school’s intellectual output. Which of these is not new?(Required)
4. In this year’s quadrennial national rankings from the Washington & Lee Law Journal, eight of Berkeley Law’s student-run journals ranked in the top 10. Which journal held its number-one ranking in its category?(Required)
5. Professor Emerita Eleanor Swift — a a trailblazer for women in legal academia and a beloved mentor to countless students — died Sept. 20. Swift joined the faculty in 1979 and retired from teaching in 2014. The fifth woman hired to the law school’s faculty, Swift became an eminent scholar and also made it her mission to mentor women, both inside the classroom and in her research field. What was her primary research field, for which she was honored by the Association of American Law Schools in 2022?(Required)
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