Events

Upcoming Events

If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact Justin Tri Do at jtrido@law.berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7 business days in advance of the event.


2024 – 2025 Law & Literature

Friday
September 27, 2024
12:00 pm (PT)

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Session 2: Reginald Rose | Twelve Angry Men
Location:
 Zoom
Speaker(s): Dr. Julie Empric

Using great works as text, these programs provide participants the opportunity to reflect on how literature provides insight into contemporary issues. All are welcome to register to participate; we ask those participating to be prepared to discuss the readings during out time together.

Access to Justice Requires Access to Law

Thursday
October 10, 2024
12:00 pm (PT)

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Location: Zoom
Speaker(s): Anna Russell, Cornell Law School, Deputy Director of the Law Library; Brian Carver, Google, Free Law Project; Michael Lissner, Free Law Project

Join Berkeley Judicial Institute and U.S. Court Librarian Anna Russell for a discussion about Access to Justice with Free Law’s Brian Carver and Michael Lissner. What information is available to the public, and what is the best way to find that material? What impact might this information being public mean for justice?

Judges Talking 2024

Friday
November 1, 2024
12:00 pm (PT)

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Location: Zoom
With Denise Neary & Michele Statz
EXCLUSIVELY FOR JUDGES

Imagine what good things could happen if more judges just talked to each other? 
 
Please join Berkeley Judicial InstituteDenise Neary, and Michele Statz for an informal, freewheeling discussion for judges about all things judging.

2024 – 2025 Law & Literature

Friday
November 22, 2024
12:00 pm (PT)

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Session 3: (1) Isabelle Allende | The Judge’s Wife & (2) Zora Neale Hurston| The Conscience of the Court
Location:
 Zoom
Speaker(s): Dr. Julie Empric

Using great works as text, these programs provide participants the opportunity to reflect on how literature provides insight into contemporary issues. All are welcome to register to participate; we ask those participating to be prepared to discuss the readings during out time together.

Judges Talking 2024

Friday
December 13, 2024
12:00 pm (PT)

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Location: Zoom
With Denise Neary & Michele Statz
EXCLUSIVELY FOR JUDGES

Imagine what good things could happen if more judges just talked to each other? 
 
Please join Berkeley Judicial InstituteDenise Neary, and Michele Statz for an informal, freewheeling discussion for judges about all things judging.

2024 – 2025 Law & Literature

Friday
January 24, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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Session 4: Ian McEwan | The Children Act
Location:
 Zoom
Speaker(s): Dr. Julie Empric

Using great works as text, these programs provide participants the opportunity to reflect on how literature provides insight into contemporary issues. All are welcome to register to participate; we ask those participating to be prepared to discuss the readings during out time together.

2024 – 2025 Law & Literature

Friday
March 21, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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Session 5: Walter Van Tilburg Clark | The Ox-Bow Incident
Location:
 Zoom
Speaker(s): Dr. Julie Empric

Using great works as text, these programs provide participants the opportunity to reflect on how literature provides insight into contemporary issues. All are welcome to register to participate; we ask those participating to be prepared to discuss the readings during out time together.

2024 – 2025 Law & Literature

Friday
May 30, 2025
12:00 pm (PT)

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Session 6: Shakespeare | Macbeth
Location:
 Zoom
Speaker(s): Dr. Julie Empric

Using great works as text, these programs provide participants the opportunity to reflect on how literature provides insight into contemporary issues. All are welcome to register to participate; we ask those participating to be prepared to discuss the readings during out time together.


If you require an accommodation for effective communication (ASL interpreting/CART captioning, alternative media formats, etc.) to fully participate in this event, please contact Justin Tri Do at jtrido@law.berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7 business days in advance of the event.


 

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