NAME Melanie Rowen EMAIL mrowen@berkeley.edu DEPARTMENT/UNIT Career Development Office TITLE Associate Director for Public Interest Programs WHEN I STARTED WORKING HERE: January 2012 WHAT I DO IN FIVE WORDS OR LESS: Advise public interest-oriented students THE BEST PART ABOUT WORKING HERE: Working with students who are overcoming tremendous challenges just to be here, and who […]
ESU AND Symposium on Habeas IN WAR TIME
The ESU members, Thembianne Jackson, Victoria Berdin, and Nancy Donovan played a major role in the CLR sponsored Symposium on Habeas in War Time held on April 6th. Special shout out to them and other ESU colleagues in a job well done. As we have come to expect ESU “hit it out the park” again […]
Prof. Nancy Lemon’s new book
The fifth edition of Nancy Lemon’s seminal textbook, Domestic Violence Law, has been published by West Academic Publishing. Nancy’s expertise in the field includes creating and teaching the first law school class on the subject beginning in 1988 here at Berkeley Law. The book covers many topics in 17 chapters, including the US legal system’s […]
Olivia Layug-Balbarin is a Rock Star!
The Clinical Program is currently down one staff member (due to Farrah Fanara’s fabulous promotion to Director of the Visiting Scholars Program!) and if Olivia hadn’t stepped up and helped out, I would have been completely buried. Her competent and gracious support has made my life MUCH MUCH better and she totally deserves this Shout […]
Thank you to Claudia Alvarenga and Caroline Cheng
We would like to send a really special shout and a very big thank you to Claudia Alvarenga and Caroline Cheng for going above and beyond to help the Field Placement and Pro Bono Programs in our time of need. We appreciate all your help and support! Sue Schechter and Deborah Schlosberg
Jim Fahey Safe Homes for Women Awards
On April 17, 2018, 6 students received the Jim Fahey Safe Homes for Women award, including a check for $900 each. This award is given annually by Nancy K. D. Lemon, Lecturer in Domestic Violence Law. The Jim Fahey Safe Homes Fund for Women endowment was established in 2007 to provide scholarships for graduate students […]
Equal Justice Society – Anti-bias workshop
Professor Henry Hecht would like to spread the word about an upcoming social justice event happening at the Oakland Marriott on June 22 and 23. The Equal Justice Society, an Oakland non-profit headed by Berkeley Law alumna Eva Paterson ’75, presents Fighting Racism and Other Forms of Bias: What’s Working! –a two-day workshop convening activists, academics, […]
Mad Love
We have the best IT team. Everyone in IT is friendly, competent, hard-working and caring. Y’all are some of my favorite people to work with. I think all of us at Berkeley Law can say the same. Thank you so much for trouble-shooting our problems and delivering top-notch service. I’ve got mad love and respect […]
Chihuahualicious!
Lucy Rachwald adopted her family at the Oakland SPCA five years ago, and she has won the best family member award by unanimous vote ever since. Every day, she enjoys sunbathing on the balcony, celebrating everyone’s return home, and barking at anyone who comes close to the house, making the doorbell no longer necessary.
Thank you FSU & Janine Nesset Tominaga!
Last week, the CDO hosted our Annual Clerkship Celebration. In the 2018-19 term, 92 Berkeley Law graduates will be clerking in 33 different states – a Berkeley Law record. 60 members of the Class of 2018 earned federal and state judicial clerkships – 52 will be clerking in the 2018 term and 8 will be […]