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\"\"\u00a0Ahmed Lavalais \u201917, Clinical Teaching Fellow, Policy Advocacy Clinic<\/p>\n

Ahmed Lavalais is a tenacious advocate for juvenile defendants and the poor. As a law student, he was a key player in the Policy Advocacy Clinic (PAC), pursuing non-litigation strategies to address systemic racial, economic and social injustice in the community. In one of PAC\u2019s most gratifying success stories, Lavalais and his fellow students persuaded California\u2019s Alameda County to repeal its juvenile justice fees\u2014the first in the state to do so. Named one of the 2017 Law Students of the Year by National Jurist<\/em> magazine, Lavalais will be a powerful voice in PAC\u2019s legal advocacy.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0Jodi\u00a0Collova, \u00a0Director of LL.M. Writing and Academic Support<\/span><\/p>\n

Jodi Collova has a J.D.,\u00a0cum laude,\u00a0<\/i>from the University of Minnesota Law School, and a Masters of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University.\u00a0 She has significant experience as a\u00a0law librarian and as a legal writing instructor at Loyola Law School of Los Angeles, at Golden Gate University, where she designed an LL.M. legal research and writing workshop, and at the University of San Francisco, where she taught an online tax research course as well as first-year legal research and writing.\u00a0Jodi\u00a0has just returned from teaching a two-unit intensive legal writing course to Chinese law students in Shanghai.\u00a0 She previously practiced employment law and has taught mindfulness meditation sessions for law students. She is a Pilates instructor in her free time.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0Catherine Fisk ’86, Professor of Law<\/p>\n

Catherine Fisk\u00a0was Chancellor\u2019s Professor of Law and a member of the founding faculty of the University of California, Irvine Law School from 2008 to 2017. Fisk was the Douglas Blount Maggs Professor of Law at Duke University from 2004 to 2008, and before that, she was a professor at the University of Southern California Law School and Loyola Law School of Los Angeles. She regularly teaches Labor Law, Employment Law, and Employment Discrimination, along with Civil Procedure, First Amendment, and Legal Profession. Read more about Fisk here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0Frank Partnoy, Professor of Law<\/p>\n

Frank Partnoy has taught at the University of San Diego (USD) School of Law for 20 years and directs its Center for Corporate and Securities Law. A 1992 Yale Law School graduate, Partnoy worked as a derivatives structurer at Morgan Stanley before spending two years as a lawyer at Covington & Burling. He studies financial markets and fraud and is the author of six books, including two law school textbooks.\u00a0He joins Berkeley Law in 2018.\u00a0Read more about Partnoy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u00a0Whitney\u00a0Mello, Executive Assistant to Dean Chemerinsky<\/p>\n

Whitney\u00a0received her J.D. from the University of San Diego in 2008. After graduation, she pursued work as a law clerk for a private law firm.\u00a0Later,\u00a0Whitney\u00a0moved to Washington, D.C., where she worked for more than six years as a legislative assistant, a staff assistant to Congress, and as an executive assistant for a Washington public relations organization.\u00a0Whitney\u00a0comes to Berkeley Law most recently from the Institute of Governmental Studies here on campus, where she worked as the executive assistant to the director for over two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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