Contact: Erin Campbell, Communications Dept., 510-643-8010, ecampbell@law.berkeley.edu On Tuesday, September 16, Equal Justice Society Director Eva Patterson ’75 and UC Regent Ward Connerly will visit Boalt to discuss Proposition 54, the Racial Privacy Initiative. The initiative is a proposed amendment to the state constitution that would ban state institutions from collecting data or categorizing people […]
Eva Patterson ’75 and UC Regent Ward Connerly Discuss Proposition 54
Judge Thelton Henderson Receives Jensen Public Service Award
Contact: Abby Cohn, Communications Dept., 510-643-8010, acohn@law.berkeley.edu Berkeley, CA – U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson ’62 has been chosen as the 2004 recipient of Boalt Hall’s Judge D. Lowell and Barbara Jensen Public Service Award. The award is given annually to a prominent Boalt graduate who has demonstrated outstanding dedication to public service in the legal […]
Boalt Hall Patent Law Conference
Contact: Erin Campbell, Communications Dept., 510-643-8010, ecampbell@law.berkeley.edu What: “Ideas Into Action: Implementing Reform of the Patent System,” a two-day conference at which federal government officials, industry leaders, lawyers, scholars and policy makers will address how patent reform should be implemented. The conference, open to the media and registered guests only, is hosted by the Federal […]
Clinic Helps Victims of Human Rights Abuse Pursue Justice in U.S. Supreme Court
Contact: Erin Campbell, Communications Dept., 510-643-8010, ecampbell@law.berkeley.edu Students in Boalt’s International Human Rights Law Clinic filed an amicus curiae brief involving two cases currently before the U.S. Supreme Court. Sosa v. Alvarez-Machain and United States v. Alvarez-Machain will decide whether survivors of severe human rights violations can use the Alien Tort Claims Act (ATCA) to […]
Boalt Clinic Helps Death Row Inmate Win Supreme Court Victory
Contact: Erin Campbell, Communications Dept., 510-643-8010, ecampbell@law.berkeley.edu On Tuesday, February 25, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with Thomas Miller-El, a black Texas death row inmate, who claimed that the Dallas County District Attorney ‘s Office demonstrated racial bias in the jury selection for his trial. In the case, Thomas Joe Miller-El v. Janie Cockrell, the […]
Boalt Hosts Conference in Honor of the Fifty-Year Anniversary of the Warren Court
Contact: Erin Campbell, Communications Dept., 510-643-8010, ecampbell@law.berkeley.edu On February 27 and 28, Boalt Hall will host a conference honoring the constitutional legacy of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren (Boalt Hall Class of 1916). Timed to commemorate the fifty-year anniversary of the Warren Court ‘s initial term, Earl Warren and the Warren Court : […]