As members of the Berkeley Law faculty and staff, we write to express our despair and outrage about the killings of Michael Brown and Eric Garner in Missouri and New York. These cases again exposed the failure of the criminal justice system to value Black lives. The Brown and Garner cases have undermined our trust as legal scholars, advocates, and educators in the fundamental fairness of our legal system. We share with our students the struggle to reconcile the constitutional values that we teach in the classroom with the reality that race determines how communities of color experience our legal system. We support the members of our community who are exercising their constitutional right to free speech through protest and peaceful civil disobedience. We call on the United States Department of Justice and other authorities to investigate further. As a community of legal scholars and advocates, we commit to addressing these issues in the days to come.
Dimple Abichandani
Executive Director of Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Kathryn Abrams
Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law
Jill E. Adams
Executive Director of the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice
Amatullah Alaji-Sabrie
Legal Assistant, Administrative Coordinator Kadish Center
Kara Alba,
EJW Fellow, East Bay Community Law Center
Anhara Alexander
Offsite Office Manager
Ty Alper
Clinical Professor of Law
Roxanna Altholz
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
Robert P. Bartlett, III
Professor of Law
Sunil Bector
Lecturer
Alex Bender
EJW/AmeriCorps Fellow, East Bay Community Law Center
Cheryl Berg
Lecturer-in-Residence
Alexey Berlind
Programs Administrator, Human Rights Center
Robert Berring
Professor of Law
Eric Biber
Professor of Law
Carolyn Patty Blum
Clinical Professor of Law, Emerita
Evelyn Borchert
Associate Director, Advanced Degree Programs
Martha Brown
Administration & Finance Director, East Bay Community Law Center
George Brown
Lecturer in Law
Emily S. Bruce
Lecturer in Residence
Barbara Bryant
Lecturer
Bruce Budner
Lecturer
Stephen Bundy
Professor of Law Emeritus
Richard M. Buxbaum
Jackson H. Ralston Professor of International Law (Emeritus)
Marilyn I. Byrne
Assistant Dean, Administration
Stephanie Campos
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Betsy Candler
LL.M. Legal Research & Writing Director
Catalina Cariaga
Manager,Financial Analyst
Ariana Ceja
Program Assistant, Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Jong Cho
Database and Enrollment Specialist
Sujit Choudhry
Dean and I. Michael Heyman Professor of Law
Erin M. Clarke
Lecturer in Residence
Stephen Cody
Director, Atrocity Response Program
Sarah Crowley
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Catherine Crump
Assistant Clinical Professor
Sarah Cunniff
Attorney-Counselor
Galen Currens
Assistant Registrar
Allison Davenport
Clinical Instructor
Brendan Darrow
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Eric Dauster
IS&T/Media Services
Lisa de Carbonel
Library Systems Editor
Meir Dan-Cohen
Professor of Law
Jordan Diamond
Executive Director of the Center Law, Energy, and the Environment
Elisa Della-Piana
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Sharon Djemal
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Patricia Donnelly
Assistant Dean, Instructional and Information Technology and Services
Nancy Donovan
Holly Doremus
James H. House and Hiram H. Hurd Professor
Lauren B. Edelman
Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology
Christopher Edley, Jr.
The Honorable William H. Orrick, Jr. Distinguished Professor and Faculty Director of Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy
Aaron Edlin
Richard Jennings Professor of Law and Professor of Economics
Romeo Ferrer
Office of the Dean
Laurel E. Fletcher
Clinical Professor of Law
Paul Fogel
Lecturer
Mary Louise Frampton
Adjunct Professor of Law and Executive Committee of Henderson Center
Louise Francis
Executive Director, Int’l & Executive Legal Education
Kaitlyn Fryzek
Lutheran Volunteer, East Bay Community Law Center
David Gamage
Assistant Professor of Law
Meg Gentes
Admn Asst/Scheduler
Mark P. Gergen
Robert and Joann Burch D.P. Professor of Tax Law and Policy
Tomomi Glover
Lecturer
Anne D. Gordon
Lecturer and Advocacy Fellow
Meghan Gordon
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Sophia Green
Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy Project Administrator
Rosann Greenspan
Executive Director, Center for the Study of Law and Society
Megan Hailey-Dunsheath
Instructor
Patty Heard
Patron Services Manager, Law Library
Henry L. Hecht
John and Elizabeth Boalt Lecturer in Residence
Eliza Hersh
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Annik Hirshen
Dean of Students
Marci Hoffman
Associate Library Director
Kristen Holmquist
Lecturer in Law
Cory Isaacson
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Hana Ivanhoe
Lecturer
Chris Jay Hoofnagle
Lecturer in Residence
Kate Jastram
Lecturer in Residence
Marc Janowitz
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Gracie Jones
Housing Paralegal, East Bay Community Law Center
Dino Johnson
Manager of Instructional Technology
Juliana Johnson
Office Manager, East Bay Community Law Center
Raha Jorjani
Lecturer
Nancy Lemon
Director, Domestic Violence Practicum
Ian Haney Lopez
John H. Boalt Professor of Law
Herma Hill Kay
Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law
Trish Keady
Associate Registrar
William Kell
Lecturer in Residence
Magdalene King’ori-Brewer
Financial & Planning Analyst
Michael Kiparsky
Associate Director, Wheeler Institute for Water Law & Policy
Anna Kirsch,
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
K. Alexa Koenig
Executive Director of Human Rights Center
Tanya Koshy
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Chaney Kourouniotis
Assoc. Director of Communications, LLM Program
Christopher Kutz
C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law
Prasad Krishnamurthy
Assistant Professor of Law
Julie Lagarde
Fellowship Coordinator, Human Rights Center
Andrea Lampros
Communications Manager, Human Rights Center
Laura Lane
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Erin Le
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Taeku Lee
Professor of Political Science and Law
Michael Levy
Associate Director, Berkeley Law Library
Su Li, PhD
Statistician in Empirical Legal Studies
David Lieberman
James W. and Isabel Coffroth Professor of Jurisprudence
Michael Lindsey
Director of Library Web Development
Katerina Linos
Professor of Law
Kristin Luker
Elizabeth Boalt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology
Tam Ma
Lecturer
Claudia Macias
Student Services Advisor
Nadia Macias
Associate Director of Admissions
Rhonda V. Magee
Visiting Professor of Law
Alexia Mayorga
EJW/AmeriCorps Fellow, East Bay Community Law Center
Florence McCafferty
Development Assistant, East Bay Community Law Center
Justin McCrary
Professor of Law
Toni Mendicino
Administrative Assistant
Peter Menell
Koret Professor of Law
Robert P. Merges
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law
Ted Mermin
Jessica Michalski
Paralegal
Saira Mohamed
Assistant Professor of Law
Niki Moore
Lecturer
Calvin Morrill
Associate Dean and Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology
Melissa Murray
Professor of Law
Michael Musheno
Faculty Director of the Legal Studies Program
Kim Natividad
Director of Student Services
Nell Green Nylen
Research Fellow, Wheeler Institute for Water Law & Policy at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment
Jamie O’Connell
Lecturer in Residence
David Oppenheimer
Clinical Professor of Law
Theo Pelletier
Richard Perry
Lecturer-in-Residence
Andrea Peterson
Professor of Law Emerita
Victoria Plaut
Professor of Law and Social Science
john a. powell
Professor of Law, African American and Ethnic Studies
Patricia Plunkett Hurley
Lecturer in Residence
Hunter Pyle
Lecturer
Shruti Rana
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Serina Rankins
Clean Slate Paralegal, East Bay Community Law Center
Elisabeth Remick
Katherine Renfro
Library Assistant
Deputy CFO
Victoria Richey
Jesuit Volunteer, East Bay Community Law Center
Tamura Rosby
Administrative Assistant, East Bay Community Law Center
Stephen Rosenbaum
John and Elizabeth Boalt Lecturer
Bertrall Ross
Assistant Professor of Law
Andrea Roth
Assistant Professor of Law
Whitney Rubenstein
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Gregory ‘gar’ Russell
Director of Operations
Lindsay Saffouri
Director of First-Year Skills Program
Pamela Samuelson
Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law
Elizabeth Sanchez
Receptionist, East Bay Community Law Center
Bidish Sarma
Arnold and Porter Clinical Teaching Fellow
Sue Schechter
Lecturer-in-Residence and Field Placement Director
Deborah Schlosberg
Director of Student Advising, Advanced Degree Programs
Brianna L. Schofield
Research and Policy Fellow
David Schraub
Darling Foundation Fellow in Public Law
Paul M. Schwartz
Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law
Kim Thuy Seelinger
Director, Sexual Violence Program, Human Rights Center
Jeff Selbin
Clinical Professor of Law
Elisabeth Semel
Clinical Professor of Law
Sheri Showalter
Director of Human Resources
Marjorie Shultz
Professor, Emerita
Lucinda Sikes
Lecturer in Residence
Rebecca Silbert
Executive Director of Warren Institute
Jonathon Simon
Adrian A. Kragen Professor of Law
Chris Spaulding
Clinical Instructor
Sarah Song
Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Political Science
Avani Mehta Sood
Assistant Professor of Law
Tyann Sorrell
Executive Assistant to the Dean, Berkeley Law
Tirien Angela Steinbach
Lecturer in Residence and Executive Director of EBCLC
Eric Stern
Director of Operations, Career Development Office
Rachel Stern
Assistant Professor of Law and Political Science
Leslie Stone
Faculty Support Assistant
Eric Stover
Adjunct Professor of Law and Public Health and Faculty Director of the Human Rights Center
Talha Syed
Assistant Professor of Law
Eric Talley
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Law, Business and the Economy
Linda Tam
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Karen Tani
Assistant Professor of Law
Christina Tarr
Librarian
Chad Taylor
Web developer
Ken Taymor
Executive Director of Berkeley Center for Law, Business & the Economy
Kristin Theis-Alvarez
Associate Director of Admissions
Edward Tom
Dean of Admissions
Dennis Tominaga
Assistant Dean of Financial Aid
Janine Nesset Tominaga
Career Resources Administrator
Christopher Tomlins
Professor of Law
Jennifer M. Urban
Assistant Clinical Professor of Law
Amy Utstein
Director of Administration, Berkeley Law Clinical Program
Tania Valdez
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
Professor of Law
Laura Van Tassel
Project Coordinator
Kathleen Vanden Heuvel
Associate Dean, Capital Projects and Director of Law Library
Don Vo
IS&T Helpdesk
Leti Volpp
Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law
Kate Walsham
Clinical Instructor, East Bay Community Law Center
Heather Warnken
Legal Policy Associate, Warren Institute on Law & Social Policy
Courtney Weber
Jesuit Volunteer, East Bay Community Law Center
Kate Weisburd
Clinical Instructor
Steven Weissman
Lecturer
Charles Weisselberg
Associate Dean and Shannon Cecil Turner Professor of Law
Carolina Zanni
Administrative Manager, East Bay Community Law Center
Scott Zimmermann
Adjunct Lecturer