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The University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, commonly referred to as Berkeley Law and Boalt Hall, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

. Berkeley Law is consistently regarded as an elite and prestigious law school (with acceptance rates lower than every U.S. law school except Yale and Stanford). The law school has produced leaders in law, government, and society, including: Chief Justice of the United States
Chief Justice of the United States
The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Chief Justice is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States...

 Earl Warren
Earl Warren
Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.He is known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring...

, Secretary of State of the United States Dean Rusk
Dean Rusk
David Dean Rusk was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Rusk is the second-longest serving U.S...

, Attorney General of the United States Edwin Meese
Edwin Meese
Edwin "Ed" Meese, III is an attorney, law professor, and author who served in official capacities within the Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Administration , the Reagan Presidential Transition Team , and the Reagan White House , eventually rising to hold the position of the 75th Attorney General of...

, United States Secretary of the Treasury
United States Secretary of the Treasury
The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also with some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United...

 and Chairman of the Federal Reserve
Chairman of the Federal Reserve
The Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the central banking system of the United States. Known colloquially as "Chairman of the Fed," or in market circles "Fed Chairman" or "Fed Chief"...

 G. William Miller
G. William Miller
George William Miller served as the 65th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Carter from August 6, 1979 to January 20, 1981...

, Solicitor General of the United States Theodore Olson
Theodore Olson
Theodore Bevry Olson is a former United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004 under President George W. Bush.- Early life :...

, and lead litigator of the Korematsu v. United States
Korematsu v. United States
Korematsu v. United States, 323 U.S. 214 , was a landmark United States Supreme Court case concerning the constitutionality of Executive Order 9066, which ordered Japanese Americans into internment camps during World War II....

 Civil Rights Case Dale Minami
Dale Minami
Dale Minami is a San Francisco-based lawyer best known for heading the legal team that overturned the wrongful conviction of Fred Korematsu, whose defiance of the World War II Japanese American internment order lead to Korematsu v...

.

History

The Department of Jurisprudence was founded at Berkeley in 1894. In 1912, the department was renamed the School of Jurisprudence, which was then renamed the School of Law in 1950.

The School was originally located in the center of the main UC Berkeley campus in the Boalt Memorial Hall of Law, built in 1911 with funds largely from Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt donated in memory of her late husband, John Henry Boalt
John Henry Boalt
John Henry Boalt was an attorney who resided in Oakland, California in the late 19th century. His widow, Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt, donated funds to the University of California in 1906 to construct the original Boalt Hall on the Berkeley campus...

. In 1951, the School moved to its current location in the new Boalt Hall, at the southeast corner of the campus, and the old Boalt Hall was renamed Durant Hall.

In April 2008, the law school rebranded itself from "Boalt Hall" to "Berkeley Law", in order to more closely tie the law school's name with the campus upon which it resides. The administration hopes that this move will further increase the law school's prestige, since people will now associate it with the Berkeley campus.

Academics

Boalt Hall has approximately 850 J.D.
Juris Doctor
Juris Doctor is a professional doctorate and first professional graduate degree in law.The degree was first awarded by Harvard University in the United States in the late 19th century and was created as a modern version of the old European doctor of law degree Juris Doctor (see etymology and...

 students, 100 students in the LL.M. and J.S.D. programs, and 45 students in the Ph.D.
Doctor of Philosophy
Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated as Ph.D., PhD, D.Phil., or DPhil , in English-speaking countries, is a postgraduate academic degree awarded by universities...

 program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. The School also features specialized curricular programs in Business, Law and Economics, Comparative Legal Studies, Environmental Law, International Legal Studies, Law and Technology, and Social Justice.

The JD program's admissions process is highly selective. Boalt Hall is known to value high undergraduate GPAs, perhaps even more than high LSAT scores. Consequently, Berkeley has the fourth highest 75th percentile GPA, surpassed only by Yale Law School
Yale Law School
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...

, Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the oldest continually-operating law school in the United States and is home to the largest academic law library in the world. The school is routinely ranked by the U.S...

 and Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located in the area known as the Silicon Valley, near Palo Alto, California in the United States. The Law School was established in 1893 when former President Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law...

. According to U.S. News and World Report, Boalt has the third-lowest acceptance rate among American law schools, with about 10% of applicants admitted; only Yale
Yale Law School
Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...

 and Stanford
Stanford Law School
Stanford Law School is a graduate school at Stanford University located in the area known as the Silicon Valley, near Palo Alto, California in the United States. The Law School was established in 1893 when former President Benjamin Harrison joined the faculty as the first professor of law...

 have lower rates. Most recently, admitted applicants generally have an undergraduate GPA of between 3.7 and 3.9 and a Law School Admission Test
Law School Admission Test
The Law School Admission Test is a half-day standardized test administered four times each year at designated testing centers throughout the world. Administered by the Law School Admission Council for prospective law school candidates, the LSAT is designed to assess Reading Comprehension,...

 (LSAT) score of between 165 and 170 (92nd and 98th percentile of all test-takers).

Boalt's grading system for the JD program is unusual among law schools. Students are graded on a High Honors (HH), Honors (H), and Pass (P) scale. Approximately 60% of the students in each class receive a grade of Pass, 30% receive a grade of Honors, and the highest 10% receive a grade of High Honors; lower grades of Substandard Pass (or Pass Conditional, abbreviated PC) and No Credit (NC) may be awarded at the discretion of professors. The top student in each class or section receives the Jurisprudence Award, while the second-place student receives the Prosser Prize.

For a typical class in the JD program, the average age of admitted students is 24 years old, over a range of ages from 20 to 48 years old. As state institutions, Boalt and UCLA had the lowest tuition of the top 15 law schools in the country in 2005. The tuition for the 2008-09 school year is $35,847 for California residents ($48,091 for nonresidents), though the sum has been rising each year.

The faculty of Berkeley Law also provide academic direction and the bulk of the instruction for the undergraduate program in Legal Studies, which is organized as a major in Letters and Science
UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science
The College of Letters and Science is the largest of the 14 colleges at the University of California, Berkeley and encompasses the liberal arts. The college was established in its present state in 1915 with the merger of the College of Letters, the College of Social Science, and the College of...

. The Legal Studies program is not intended as a pre-law program, but rather as a liberal arts program "that can encourage sustained reflection on fundamental values."

Berkeley Law has a chapter of the Order of the Coif
Order of the Coif
The Order of the Coif is an honor society for United States law school graduates. A student at an American law school who earns a Juris Doctor degree and graduates in the top 10 percent of his or her class is eligible for membership if the student's law school has a chapter of the...

, a national law school honorary society founded for the purposes of encouraging legal scholarship and advancing the ethical standards of the legal profession.

It is an American Bar Association approved law school since 1923. It joined the Association of American Law Schools
Association of American Law Schools
The Association of American Law Schools is a non-profit organization of 170 law schools in the United States. Another 25 schools are "non-member fee paid" schools, which are not members but choose to pay AALS dues. Its purpose is to improve the legal profession through the improvement of legal...

 (AALS) in 1912.

Rankings

Over the last five years, US News & World Report has ranked Boalt Hall as high as 6th and low as 9th in the United States. It has the second smallest student body and the smallest student/faculty ratio of all the UC schools. While it is the most expensive law school in the UC system, it is only slightly more expensive than UCLA. However, it grants a median amount in financial aid for the system, and students tend to graduate with the least amount of debt on average than most of the other UC schools, with the exception of Davis.

According to Brian Leiter
Brian Leiter
Brian Leiter is an American philosopher and legal scholar who is currently John Wilson Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School, and founder and Director of Chicago's new Center for Law, Philosophy, and Human Values and the editor of the Philosophical Gourmet Report. He taught from...

's Law School rankings, Boalt ranks 7th in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citation
Citation
Broadly, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source . More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated alphanumeric expression Broadly, a citation is a reference to a published or unpublished source (not always the original source). More precisely, a citation is an abbreviated...

s of tenure-stream faculty. In terms of student numerical quality, Boalt ranks 14th in the nation.

According to The Daily Journal, 15 of the top 100 lawyers in California are Boalt alumni. Law and Politics' Super Lawyers magazine ranks Boalt as #9 in the country, just above Yale Law based on the amount of Super Lawyers it produces. 890 alumni are in their list of the top 5% of peer rated attorneys for 2009.

It is listed as "A" (#5) in the January 2011 "Best Public Interest Law Schools" ratings by The National Jurist: The Magazine for Law Students.

Bar passage rates

Based on a 2001-2007 6 year average, 88.1% of UC Berkeley Law graduates passed the California State Bar.

Post-graduation employment

Based on a 2001-2007 6 year average, 98.8% of UC Berkeley Law graduates were employed 9 months after graduation.

Boalt Hall in popular culture

  • Sandy Cohen
    Sandy Cohen
    Sanford "Sandy" Cohen is a fictional character on the FOX series The O.C., portrayed by Peter Gallagher.Sandy, a lawyer, raconteur, and son of Sophie Cohen, is married to Kirsten Cohen. Their eldest child, Seth, is something of a social misfit. Sandy's father left his mother when he was young and...

    , a character on the popular television series The O.C., is a lawyer and a Boalt Hall alumnus. "The O.C. at Boalt" is a student group that, in addition to screening episodes of The O.C. during the lunch period, offers the Sandy Cohen Fellowship, a summer grant for students who plan to work as public defenders (on The O.C., Sandy Cohen worked as a public defender while living in Orange County). In recent years, "The O.C. at Boalt" has also managed to bring Peter Gallagher
    Peter Gallagher
    Peter Killian Gallagher is an American actor, musician and writer. Since 1980, Gallagher has played many roles in numerous Hollywood films. He starred as Sandy Cohen in the television drama series The O.C. from 2003 to 2007...

    , the actor who plays Sandy Cohen, to Boalt to speak on an annual basis.
  • Matthew Perry
    Matthew Perry (actor)
    Matthew Langford Perry is a Canadian-American actor and comedian, best known for his Emmy-nominated role as Chandler Bing on the popular, long-running NBC television sitcom Friends...

     played a Republican graduate of Boalt Hall on multiple episodes of The West Wing
    The West Wing (TV series)
    The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999 to May 14, 2006...

    .
  • Kelly Rutherford
    Kelly Rutherford
    Kelly Danne Melissa Rutherford is an American actress known for her roles of Stephanie "Sam" Whitmore on Generations, Megan Lewis on Melrose Place from 1996 to 1999 and currently as Lily van der Woodsen on Gossip Girl...

     played lawyer Samantha 'Sonny' Liston, a graduate of Boalt Hall, on E-Ring.
  • Joanie Caucus
    Joanie Caucus
    Joanie Caucus is a character in Garry Trudeau's comics strip Doonesbury.She first appeared in September 1972 in which she has a fight with her husband, Clinton, over her rights as a woman. She finds that her recently acquired feminist beliefs clash with his idea of how a wife should behave, and she...

    , a character in Garry Trudeau
    Garry Trudeau
    Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip.-Background and education:...

    's comic strip Doonesbury
    Doonesbury
    Doonesbury is a comic strip by American cartoonist Garry Trudeau, that chronicles the adventures and lives of an array of characters of various ages, professions, and backgrounds, from the President of the United States to the title character, Michael Doonesbury, who has progressed from a college...

    , attended Boalt Hall.
  • In Catch Me if You Can
    Catch Me If You Can
    Catch Me If You Can is a 2002 American biographical comedy-drama film based on the life of Frank Abagnale Jr., who, before his 19th birthday, successfully performed cons worth millions of dollars by posing as a Pan American World Airways pilot, a Georgia doctor, and a Louisiana parish prosecutor...

    , Martin Sheen
    Martin Sheen
    Ramón Gerardo Antonio Estévez , better known by his stage name Martin Sheen, is an American film actor best known for his performances in the films Badlands and Apocalypse Now , and in the television series The West Wing from 1999 to 2006.He is considered one of the best actors never to be...

     plays Roger Strong, the District Attorney of New Orleans and a Boalt Hall alumnus.
  • In the movie Intolerable Cruelty
    Intolerable Cruelty
    Intolerable Cruelty is a 2003 romantic comedy film directed by Joel and Ethan Coen and starring Academy Award winners George Clooney, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Geoffrey Rush and Billy Bob Thornton with Cedric the Entertainer...

    , a copy of the California Law Review
    California Law Review
    The California Law Review is the flagship law journal of UC Berkeley School of Law . Founded in 1912, the Review was the first student law journal published west of Illinois....

     is featured prominently on a table in the senior partner's office.

Centers at Berkeley Law


Law Journals at Berkeley Law


List of noted alumni

  • Earl Warren
    Earl Warren
    Earl Warren was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States.He is known for the sweeping decisions of the Warren Court, which ended school segregation and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public-school-sponsored prayer, and requiring...

    , 1914 - Governor of California
    Governor of California
    The Governor of California is the chief executive of the California state government, whose responsibilities include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced...

    , Chief Justice of the United States
    Chief Justice of the United States
    The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Chief Justice is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States...

     Supreme Court
    Supreme court
    A supreme court is the highest court within the hierarchy of many legal jurisdictions. Other descriptions for such courts include court of last resort, instance court, judgment court, high court, or apex court...

  • Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong, 1915 - professor at Boalt from 1919 to 1957, the first woman law professor at a major American law school
  • Hugh Samuel Johnson
    Hugh Samuel Johnson
    Hugh Samuel "Iron Pants" Johnson American Army officer, businessman, speech writer, government official and newspaper columnist. He is best known as a member of the Brain Trust of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1932-34. He wrote numerous speeches for FDR and helped plan the New Deal...

    , 1916, Administrator of the National Recovery Administration
    National Recovery Administration
    The National Recovery Administration was the primary New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The goal was to eliminate "cut-throat competition" by bringing industry, labor and government together to create codes of "fair practices" and set prices...

     (1933–1934) during the Great Depression
    Great Depression
    The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s...

  • Walter Gordon
    Walter A. Gordon
    Walter Arthur Gordon was the first African American to receive a doctorate of law from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school. He had an extremely long and varied career where he served as a police officer, lawyer, assistant football coach, member of the California Adult Authority, Governor of the...

    , 1922 - first All-American
    1918 College Football All-America Team
    The 1918 College Football All-America team consists of American football players selected to the College Football All-America Teams selected by various organizations for the 1918 college football season.-Key:* WC = Walter Camp...

     at UC Berkeley
    University of California, Berkeley
    The University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...

    , first African American
    African American
    African Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have at least partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa and are the direct descendants of enslaved Africans within the boundaries of the present United States...

     graduate of Boalt Hall, Governor of the United States Virgin Islands, Federal District Judge
    United States federal judge
    In the United States, the title of federal judge usually means a judge appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate in accordance with Article II of the United States Constitution....

    .
  • Roger J. Traynor
    Roger J. Traynor
    Roger John Traynor served as the 23rd Chief Justice of California from 1964 to 1970, and as an Associate Justice from 1940 to 1964...

    , 1927 - Chief Justice, California Supreme Court, 1964–1970
  • Melvin Belli
    Melvin Belli
    Melvin Mouron Belli was a prominent American lawyer known as "The King of Torts" and by detractors as 'Melvin Bellicose'. He had many celebrity clients, including Zsa Zsa Gabor, Errol Flynn, Chuck Berry, Muhammad Ali, Sirhan Sirhan, the Rolling Stones, Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye Bakker, Martha...

    , 1929 - attorney known as The King of Torts
  • Dean Rusk
    Dean Rusk
    David Dean Rusk was the United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Rusk is the second-longest serving U.S...

    , 1940 - United States Secretary of State
    United States Secretary of State
    The United States Secretary of State is the head of the United States Department of State, concerned with foreign affairs. The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence...

    , 1961–1969
  • Harry Pregerson
    Harry Pregerson
    Harry Pregerson serves as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He was appointed to the Ninth Circuit in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter...

    , 1950 - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

  • G. William Miller
    G. William Miller
    George William Miller served as the 65th United States Secretary of the Treasury under President Carter from August 6, 1979 to January 20, 1981...

    , 1952 - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
    United States Secretary of the Treasury
    The Secretary of the Treasury of the United States is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, which is concerned with financial and monetary matters, and, until 2003, also with some issues of national security and defense. This position in the Federal Government of the United...

    , Chairman of the Federal Reserve
    Chairman of the Federal Reserve
    The Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System is the head of the central banking system of the United States. Known colloquially as "Chairman of the Fed," or in market circles "Fed Chairman" or "Fed Chief"...

  • Allen Broussard
    Allen Broussard
    Allen Broussard was an African-American judge who rose to become a justice of the California Supreme Court.He was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana on April 13, 1929, the son of Clemire and Eugenia Broussard. At the age of 16, he moved with his family to California...

    , 1953 - Associate Justice, California Supreme Court, 1981–1991
  • Jess Jackson, 1955 - Notable Attorney in the '70s; founder of Kendall-Jackson Wines
  • J. Clifford Wallace, 1955 - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

  • Cruz Reynoso
    Cruz Reynoso
    Cruz Reynoso is a civil rights lawyer, professor emeritus of law, and the first Chicano Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court . He also served on the California Third District Court of Appeal...

    , 1958 - Associate Justice, California Supreme Court, 1982–1987
  • Edwin Meese III, 1958 - former U.S. Attorney General
    United States Attorney General
    The United States Attorney General is the head of the United States Department of Justice concerned with legal affairs and is the chief law enforcement officer of the United States government. The attorney general is considered to be the chief lawyer of the U.S. government...

  • Senior Chief Judge Lloyd D. George
    Lloyd D. George
    Lloyd D. George is a United States federal judge.Born in Montpelier, Idaho, George was raised in Las Vegas, and was the class president of the 1948 class of Las Vegas High School. He received a B.S. from Brigham Young University in 1955 and, after serving in the U.S. Air Force from 1955 to 1958,...

    , 1961- Federal judge on the United States District Court for the District of Nevada
    United States District Court for the District of Nevada
    The United States District Court for the District of Nevada is the Federal district court whose jurisdiction is the state of Nevada. The court has locations in Las Vegas and Reno....

     in the US Courts
    Courts of the United States
    Courts of the United States include both the United States federal courts, comprising the judicial branch of the federal government of the United States and state and territorial courts of the individual U.S...

    .
  • Pete Wilson
    Pete Wilson
    Peter Barton "Pete" Wilson is an American politician from California. Wilson, a Republican, served as the 36th Governor of California , the culmination of more than three decades in the public arena that included eight years as a United States Senator , eleven years as Mayor of San Diego and...

    , 1962 - former U.S. Senator
    United States Senate
    The United States Senate is the upper house of the bicameral legislature of the United States, and together with the United States House of Representatives comprises the United States Congress. The composition and powers of the Senate are established in Article One of the U.S. Constitution. Each...

    , Governor of California
    Governor of California
    The Governor of California is the chief executive of the California state government, whose responsibilities include making annual State of the State addresses to the California State Legislature, submitting the budget, and ensuring that state laws are enforced...

  • Thelton Henderson
    Thelton Henderson
    Thelton Eugene Henderson is currently a federal judge in the Northern District of California. He has played an important role in the field of civil rights as a lawyer, educator, and jurist.-Career:...

    , 1962 - Judge, United States District Court for the Northern District of California
    United States District Court for the Northern District of California
    The United States District Court for the Northern District of California is the federal United States district court whose jurisdiction comprises following counties of California: Alameda, Contra Costa, Del Norte, Humboldt, Lake, Marin, Mendocino, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, San Francisco, San...

  • Kathryn M. Werdegar, 1962 - Associate Justice, California Supreme Court, 1994–present
  • William B. Shubb
    William B. Shubb
    William B. Shubb is a United States federal judge.Born in Oakland, California, Shubb received an A.B. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1960 and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law in 1963. He was a law clerk, Hon. Sherrill Halbert, U.S....

    , 1963 - appointed Senior Chief Judge
    Chief judge
    Chief Judge is a title that can refer to the highest-ranking judge of a court that has more than one judge. The meaning and usage of the term vary from one court system to another...

     of the Eastern District of California
    United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
    The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California is composed of six divisions.The Bakersfield division has jurisdiction over certain cases in Inyo and Kern counties and on federal lands and National Parks...

     in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals of the U.S. Courts
    Courts of the United States
    Courts of the United States include both the United States federal courts, comprising the judicial branch of the federal government of the United States and state and territorial courts of the individual U.S...

     system in 2004.
  • Henry Ramsey, 1963 - former Alameda County Superior Court judge and former dean of Howard Law School
  • Rose Bird
    Rose Bird
    Rose Elizabeth Bird served for 10 years as the 25th Chief Justice of California. She was the first female Justice, and first female Chief Justice, on that court, appointed by then Governor Jerry Brown...

    , 1965 - Chief Justice, California Supreme Court, 1977–1987
  • Howard Lincoln
    Howard Lincoln
    Howard Charles Lincoln is an American lawyer and businessman, known primarily for being the former chairman of Nintendo of America and the current Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Seattle Mariners baseball team, representing absentee majority owner Hiroshi Yamauchi...

    , 1965 - Chairman and CEO of the Seattle Mariners
    Seattle Mariners
    The Seattle Mariners are a professional baseball team based in Seattle, Washington. Enfranchised in , the Mariners are a member of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's American League. Safeco Field has been the Mariners' home ballpark since July...

    ; former chairman of Nintendo of America
  • Theodore Olson
    Theodore Olson
    Theodore Bevry Olson is a former United States Solicitor General, serving from June 2001 to July 2004 under President George W. Bush.- Early life :...

    , 1965 - U.S. Solicitor General
    United States Solicitor General
    The United States Solicitor General is the person appointed to represent the federal government of the United States before the Supreme Court of the United States. The current Solicitor General, Donald B. Verrilli, Jr. was confirmed by the United States Senate on June 6, 2011 and sworn in on June...

    , 2001–2004
  • Michael Tigar
    Michael Tigar
    Michael E. Tigar is an American criminal defense attorney known for representing controversial clients. He is also a member of the Duke Law School faculty.-Early life and education:...

    , 1966 - Professor at Washington College of Law, American University
    American University
    American University is a private, Methodist, liberal arts, and research university in Washington, D.C. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University", which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893...

  • Larry W. Sonsini, 1966 - Chairman of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
    Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is a law firm in the United States that specializes in business, securities, and intellectual property law. The firm's Chairman, Larry Sonsini, is well known as an attorney and advisor to technology companies....

  • Neil Goldschmidt
    Neil Goldschmidt
    Neil Edward Goldschmidt is an American businessman and former Democratic politician from Oregon who held local, state, and federal offices over three decades. After serving as the governor of Oregon, Goldschmidt is widely considered the most influential figure in the state's politics, both as an...

    , 1967 - U.S. Secretary of Transportation
    United States Secretary of Transportation
    The United States Secretary of Transportation is the head of the United States Department of Transportation, a member of the President's Cabinet, and fourteenth in the Presidential line of succession. The post was created with the formation of the Department of Transportation on October 15, 1966,...

    , Governor of Oregon
    Governor of Oregon
    The Governor of Oregon is the top executive of the government of the U.S. state of Oregon. The title of governor was also applied to the office of Oregon's chief executive during the provisional and U.S. territorial governments....

  • David B. Frohnmayer
    David B. Frohnmayer
    Dave Frohnmayer was the 15th President of the University of Oregon. He was appointed president on July 1, 1994. His last day as president was June 30, 2009. His tenure as president is the second-longest after John Wesley Johnson. He is the first native of the U.S. state of Oregon to run the...

    , 1967 - Oregon Attorney General
    Oregon Attorney General
    The Oregon Attorney General is a statutory office within the executive branch of the state of Oregon, and serves as the chief legal officer of the state, heading its Department of Justice with its six operating divisions. The Attorney General is chosen by statewide partisan election to serve a term...

    , University of Oregon
    University of Oregon
    -Colleges and schools:The University of Oregon is organized into eight schools and colleges—six professional schools and colleges, an Arts and Sciences College and an Honors College.- School of Architecture and Allied Arts :...

     President
  • Robert K. Tanenbaum
    Robert K. Tanenbaum
    Robert K. Tanenbaum is an attorney, author of crime novels, and the creator of a series of novels featuring Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi, lawyers for the New York District Attorney's office....

    , 1968 - novelist and former Mayor of Beverly Hills, CA
  • Larry Hillblom
    Larry Hillblom
    Larry Lee Hillblom was an American businessman, and a co-founder of DHL Worldwide Express, a shipping company.-Background:Larry Hillblom was born and raised in Kingsburg, California. Larry Hillblom was a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law and briefly...

    , co-founder of DHL Express
    DHL Express
    DHL Express is a division of the German logistics company Deutsche Post providing international express mail services. DHL is a world market leader in sea and air mail....

  • Judge Lawrence R. Leavitt, 1969 - Magistrate Judge in the District of Nevada, a division of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals of the U.S. Courts
    Courts of the United States
    Courts of the United States include both the United States federal courts, comprising the judicial branch of the federal government of the United States and state and territorial courts of the individual U.S...

     system.
  • David Weissbrodt, 1969 - former head of United Nations Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and U.N. Special Rapporteur on the rights of non-citizens
  • Mary C. Dunlap, 1971 - feminist and queer activist and co-founder of Equal Rights Advocates
    Equal Rights Advocates
    Equal Rights Advocates is a non-profit women's rights organization that was founded in 1974.ERA's stated mission is "to protect and secure equal rights and economic opportunities for women and girls through litigation and advocacy."...

  • Dale Minami
    Dale Minami
    Dale Minami is a San Francisco-based lawyer best known for heading the legal team that overturned the wrongful conviction of Fred Korematsu, whose defiance of the World War II Japanese American internment order lead to Korematsu v...

    , 1971 - leader of legal team that overturned the wrongful conviction of Fred Korematsu
    Fred Korematsu
    was one of the many Japanese-American citizens living on the West Coast during World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy attacked Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, authorizing the Secretary of War and his military commanders to require all...

  • Mario G. Olmos, 1971 - former presiding judge of Fresno County Superior Court and notable attorney
  • William Horsley Orrick
    William Horsley Orrick
    William Horsley Orrick may refer to:*William Horsley Orrick, Sr., of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe*William Horsley Orrick, Jr. , United States federal judge...

     Sr., 1941 - founding member of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
    Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is an international law firm founded in San Francisco. Orrick traces its roots back to 1863, making it the oldest continuously-operating law firm in San Francisco, and the second-oldest privately-held company in San Francisco after Levi Strauss & Co....

  • Neil Gotanda, 1972 - Professor at Western State University College of Law
    Western State University College of Law
    Western State University, College of Law is a private, for-profit American law school in Fullerton, California. It was the first law school established in Orange County and has over 11,000 alumni....

     and expert in constitutional law and Asian American jurisprudence
  • Michael H. Posner
    Michael Posner (lawyer)
    Michael H. Posner is an American lawyer, the Founding Executive Director and later the President of Human Rights First , and the current Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the United States.- Early years :Posner received a B.A...

    , 1972 - Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) of the United States
  • Marsha S. Berzon, 1973 - Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

  • John L. Burris, 1973 - civil rights attorney
  • Anthony Ishii, - Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
    United States District Court for the Eastern District of California
    The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California is composed of six divisions.The Bakersfield division has jurisdiction over certain cases in Inyo and Kern counties and on federal lands and National Parks...

  • Leigh Steinberg
    Leigh Steinberg
    Leigh William Steinberg is an American sports agent and sports lawyer. His client list has included Steve Bartkowski, Steve Young, Troy Aikman, Warren Moon, Bruce Smith, Thurman Thomas, Kordell Stewart, Jeff George, Ben Roethlisberger, Myron Rolle, Matt Leinart, Mark Brunell, Ricky Williams,...

    , 1973 - sports agent
  • Richard Delgado
    Richard Delgado
    Richard Delgado is a professor at the Seattle University School of Law. He is teaches civil rights law. He is a proponent of critical race theory, and a critic of law and literature movement...

    , 1974 - Professor at University of Pittsburgh School of Law
    University of Pittsburgh School of Law
    The University of Pittsburgh School of Law was founded in 1895, and became a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools in 1900...

     and expert in civil rights law and critical race theory
  • Barry Scheck
    Barry Scheck
    Barry C. Scheck is an American lawyer. He received national media attention while serving on O.J. Simpson's defense team, winning an acquittal in the highly publicized murder case. Scheck is the director of the Innocence Project and a professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York...

    , 1974 - co-founder of the Innocence Project
    Innocence Project
    An Innocence Project is one of a number of non-profit legal organizations in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand dedicated to proving the innocence of wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing, and to reforming the criminal justice systems to...

  • Christopher Schroeder, 1974 - Professor at Duke University School of Law
    Duke University School of Law
    The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...

  • Lance Ito
    Lance Ito
    Lance Allan Ito is an American Los Angeles County Superior Court judge, best known for his presiding decision during the O. J. Simpson murder trial. He currently hears felony criminal cases at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center.-Early life and career:Ito was born to Jim and Toshi Ito...

    , 1975 - California Superior Court judge, presided over O.J. Simpson criminal trial
  • Katharine Bartlett, 1975 - Dean of Duke University School of Law
    Duke University School of Law
    The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...

  • Zoë Baird
    Zoë Baird
    Zoë Eliot Baird is an American lawyer who is president of the Markle Foundation. She is most known for her role in the Nannygate matter of 1993.-Biography:...

    , 1977 - Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

    's first unsuccessful nominee for attorney general in 1993.
  • David M. Louie
    David M. Louie
    David M. Louie is a second generation Chinese American, serving as Attorney General of Hawaii.-Early Life and Education:Born in Oakland, Louie was raised in Los Angeles by his father Paul and mother Emma...

    , 1977 - Attorney General of Hawaii
    Attorney General of Hawaii
    The Attorney General of Hawaii is the chief legal and law enforcement officer of Hawaii. In present-day statehood within the United States, he or she is appointed by the elected governor with the approval of the state senate and is responsible for a state department charged with advising the...

  • Elizabeth Cabraser, 1978 - partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
    Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP is a sixty-plus attorney AV-rated law firm with offices in San Francisco, New York and Nashville. Lieff Cabraser is one of the largest law firms in the United States that only represents plaintiffs.-Practice Areas:...

  • André Bertrand
    André Bertrand
    André Bertrand is a French attorney expert in the area of intellectual property.He holds a PhD from the University of Paris and an LLM from UC Berkeley , from which he graduated in 1978....

    , 1978 - French attorney, successful author of many treatises in the area of Intellectual Property
    Intellectual property
    Intellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...

  • George B. Daniels
    George B. Daniels
    George B. Daniels is a United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.Daniels was born in Allendale, South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1975. He received a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall...

    , 1978 – Judge, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
    United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
    The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York is a federal district court. Appeals from the Southern District of New York are taken to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit The United States District Court for the Southern District of New York (in case...

     (2000–)
  • Nancy K.D. Lemon, 1980 - domestic violence law expert, lecturer at Boalt Hall
  • Frederick Hertz
    Frederick Hertz
    Frederick Hertz was a British sociologist, economist and historian of Austrian origin.-Life and work:...

    , 1981 - notable San Francisco Bay attorney
  • William S. Price III
    William S. Price III
    William S. "Bill" Price III is one of the three co-founders and a partner emeritus of TPG Capital, formerly known as the Texas Pacific Group, which is one of the largest private equity firms globally....

    , 1981, co-founder, Texas Pacific Group
    Texas Pacific Group
    TPG Capital is one of the largest private equity investment firms globally, focused on leveraged buyout, growth capital and leveraged recapitalization investments in distressed companies and turnaround situations. TPG also manages investment funds specializing in growth capital, venture capital,...

  • Paul Krekorian
    Paul Krekorian
    Paul Krekorian is an American politician and member of the Los Angeles City Council representing the second district. He was previously a member of the California State Assembly, and the Assistant Majority Floor Leader representing California's 43rd Assembly District...

    , 1984 - California State Assemblyman and former Member of Burbank, CA Board of Education and City Council
  • Catherine Fisk, 1986 - Professor at Duke University School of Law
    Duke University School of Law
    The Duke University School of Law is the law school and a constituent academic unit of Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States. One of Duke's 10 schools and colleges, the School of Law began as the Trinity College School of Law in 1868. In 1924, following the renaming of Trinity...

  • Kevin Quinn
    Kevin Quinn (academic)
    Kevin P. Quinn, S.J., J.D., Ph.D. is an American Jesuit, lawyer and law professor. Quinn is currently serving as the 25th President of the University of Scranton, located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, effective July 1, 2011....

    , S.J.
    Society of Jesus
    The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...

    , 1988, Jesuit, law professor, President of the University of Scranton
    University of Scranton
    The University of Scranton is a private, co-educational Catholic and Jesuit university, located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in the northeast region of the state. The school was founded in 1888 by Most Rev. William O'Hara, the first Bishop of Scranton, as St. Thomas College. It was elevated to a...

     since 2011
  • Reynato S. Puno MA of Laws - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines
  • David Kappos
    David Kappos
    David "Dave" J. Kappos is the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office . Prior to being confirmed to this post by the U.S. Senate on August 7, 2009, Kappos was the vice president and assistant general counsel, intellectual...

    , 1990 - Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property, Director of US Patent and Trademark Office
  • Craig Walker (businessman)
    Craig Walker (businessman)
    Craig Walker is currently the first entrepreneur in residence to join the Google Ventures team. Walker was previously the Group Product Manager for Real-Time Communications at Google, where he oversaw all of Google’s voice communications products, including Google Voice, Google Talk, and Google...

    , 1995 - founder of Grandcentral
    GrandCentral
    Google Voice is a telecommunications service by Google launched on March 11, 2009. Google Voice had some 1.4 million users in October 2009, 570,000 of whom used the service 7 days a week...

    , Yahoo! Voice
    Yahoo! Voice
    Yahoo! Voice is a Voice over IP PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service , provided by Yahoo! via its Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging application. Yahoo! Voice uses the Session Initiation Protocol , GIPS codec and the Dialpad engine for voice transport...

    , Entrepreneur-in-residence at Google Ventures
    Google Ventures
    Google Ventures is the venture capital investment arm of Google Inc. that makes financially driven investments in technology companies. Google Ventures seeks to invest in start-up companies in a variety of fields ranging from Internet, software, and hardware to clean-tech, bio-tech, and health...


List of noted faculty

  • Stephen Barnett
    Stephen Barnett
    Stephen Roger Barnett was an American law professor and legal scholar who campaigned against the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 and the effects its antitrust exemptions had on newspaper consolidation...

     (1935–2009), legal scholar who opposed the Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970
    Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970
    The Newspaper Preservation Act of 1970 was an Act of the United States Congress, signed by President Richard Nixon, authorizing the formation of joint operating agreements among competing newspaper operations within the same market area. It exempted newspapers from certain provisions of antitrust...

  • Bob Berring
    Bob Berring
    Robert Charles "Bob" Berring, Jr. is a noted figure in law, as a professor, librarian, scholar and researcher.-Biography:...

     – leading law librarian
  • Robert Cooter
    Robert Cooter
    Robert D. Cooter, a pioneer in the field of law and economics, began teaching in the Department of Economics at UC Berkeley in 1975 and joined the Boalt Hall faculty in 1980. He has been a visiting member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and a recipient of various awards and...

     – leading scholar in Law and Economics
    Law and economics
    The economic analysis of law is an analysis of law applying methods of economics. Economic concepts are used to explain the effects of laws, to assess which legal rules are economically efficient, and to predict which legal rules will be promulgated.-Relationship to other disciplines and...

  • Maria Echaveste
    Maria Echaveste
    Maria Echaveste , is a former U.S. presidential advisor to Bill Clinton and White House Deputy Chief of Staff under the second Clinton administration. She is one of the highest-ranking Latinas to have served in a presidential administration...

     – former deputy chief of staff to President Bill Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

  • Christopher Edley, Jr.
    Christopher Edley, Jr.
    Christopher Fairchild Edley, Jr. is Dean of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law . After receiving his undergraduate degree from Swarthmore College, he attended Harvard Law School, where he later served as a professor. He is married to Maria Echaveste, former deputy chief of staff...

     – Dean of Boalt Hall (2004-); co-founder of The Civil Rights Project formerly at Harvard University
    Harvard University
    Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

    .
  • Aaron Edlin
    Aaron Edlin
    Professor and author Aaron S. Edlin is a noted expert in law and economics, specializing in antitrust. In 1997–1998, he served in the Clinton White House as Senior Economist within the Council of Economic Advisers focusing on the areas of industrial organization, regulation and antitrust...

     – Richard W. Jennings '39 Endowed Chair since 2005
  • Melvin A. Eisenberg
    Melvin A. Eisenberg
    Melvin A. Eisenberg is the Koret Professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. After studying at Columbia University and Harvard University , he worked in the firm Kaye Scholer Fierman Hays & Handler, as assistant counsel in the Warren Commission, and joined Berkeley in 1966...

     – author of a leading Contracts casebook and chief reporter for the Principles of Corporate Governance, issued by the American Law Institute
    American Law Institute
    The American Law Institute was established in 1923 to promote the clarification and simplification of American common law and its adaptation to changing social needs. The ALI drafts, approves, and publishes Restatements of the Law, Principles of the Law, model codes, and other proposals for law...

  • William A. Fletcher
    William A. Fletcher
    William A. Fletcher is a United States federal appeals court judge who has sat on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1998.-Education and legal training:...

     – Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

  • Phillip P. Frickey – pioneer in the study of legislation and statutory interpretation
  • Lucas Guttentag – founding director of the American Civil Liberties Union
    American Civil Liberties Union
    The American Civil Liberties Union is a U.S. non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigation, legislation, and...

     National Immigrants' Rights Project
  • Ian F. Haney Lopez – influential critical race theorist and author of White By Law
  • Angela P. Harris
    Angela P. Harris
    Angela P. Harris is a legal scholar in the fields of critical race theory, feminist legal scholarship, and criminal law. She has taught these subjects at UC Berkeley School of Law since joining the faculty there in 1988. In 2009, Professor Harris joined the faculty of the State University of New...

     – leading scholar of feminist legal theory and critical race theory
  • Michael Heyman – Chancellor of the Berkeley campus (1980 to 1990), Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1994 to 1999)
  • Phillip E. Johnson
    Phillip E. Johnson
    Phillip E. Johnson is a retired UC Berkeley law professor and author. He became a born-again Christian while a tenured professor and is considered the father of the intelligent design movement...

     – professor of law and one of the fathers of intelligent design
    Intelligent design
    Intelligent design is the proposition that "certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause, not an undirected process such as natural selection." It is a form of creationism and a contemporary adaptation of the traditional teleological argument for...

  • Amy Kapczynski – co-founder of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines
  • Herma Hill Kay – former Dean of the School of Law (1992–2000), instrumental in the battle for no-fault divorce in California
  • Hans Kelsen – one of the preeminent jurists of the 20th century
  • Linda H. Krieger – employment discrimination law expert
  • Goodwin Liu
    Goodwin Liu
    Goodwin Hon Liu is an American lawyer and educator who currently serves as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. Before his appointment by California Governor Jerry Brown, Liu was Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law...

     – constitutional law professor, associate dean, and former controversial nominee to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

    , who withdrew as a nominee when it became clear that he would not be confirmed by the United States Senate. Associate Justice, California Supreme Court (2011-Present).
  • Justin McCrary – labor economist; co-director of the Berkeley Law and Economics Program and the NBER Crime Working Group
  • Paul J. Mishkin – former author of the popular casebook on Federal Courts, Hart and Wechsler's The Federal Courts and the Federal System
  • John T. Noonan, Jr.
    John T. Noonan, Jr.
    John Thomas Noonan, Jr. is a Senior Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with chambers in San Francisco, California. He was appointed in 1985 by President Ronald Reagan.-Education and practice:...

     – Senior Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
    The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit is a U.S. federal court with appellate jurisdiction over the district courts in the following districts:* District of Alaska* District of Arizona...

  • William L. Prosser
    William Prosser
    William Lloyd Prosser was the Dean of the College of Law at UC Berkeley from 1948 to 1961. Prosser authored several editions of Prosser on Torts, universally recognized as the leading work on the subject of tort law for a generation. It is still widely used today, now known as Prosser and Keeton...

     – former Dean of the School of Law (1948–1961), author of several well-known treatises and pioneer in the field of strict products liability
  • Pamela Samuelson
    Pamela Samuelson
    Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management at the University of California, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the UC Berkeley School of Information and Boalt Hall, the School of Law. She was appointed Visiting Professor of Law at...

     – intellectual property law expert
  • Sho Sato – first Asian American
    Asian American
    Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The U.S. Census Bureau definition of Asians as "Asian” refers to a person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan,...

     law professor at a major American law school
  • Paul Schwartz – leading international scholar of information privacy law
  • Eleanor Swift
    Eleanor Swift
    Eleanor Swift is a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law. She is best known for her work on the theory of evidence, and additionally teaches civil procedure, the legal profession, and periodic seminars.-Early career:...

     – led the establishment of Boalt's Center for Clinical Education, which brings clients in need of legal advice to Boalt, where students and faculty provide counsel.
  • Charles Weisellberg – 4th, 5th, and 6th Amendments Scholar.
  • John Wilkins – first African American professor at Boalt
  • John Yoo
    John Yoo
    John Choon Yoo is an American attorney, law professor, and author. As a former official in the United States Department of Justice during the George W...

     – former deputy assistant Attorney General and author of controversial (and subsequently withdrawn) Justice Department memoranda relating to Presidential wartime authority.

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