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ALSO: A new initiative and new institute take flight. PAGE 8 Alums use novel ways to expand access to law. PAGE 12 Defense School a capella troupe hits the right notes. PAGE 26 Team FEATURES COLUMNS 12 All 18 Defense 2 From Access Team The Dean ALUMNI INNOVATORS HUMAN RIGHTS SURGING FORWARD A pioneer of the law’s do-it- Vigilant on behalf of the With palpable optimism yourself movement, Ralph vulnerable, the International evident throughout the law “Jake” Warner ’66 helps pave Human Rights Law Clinic school, Erwin Chemerinsky the way for four 2013 grads to and Human Rights Center shares his thoughts about rethink legal services. target injustice worldwide. what lies ahead. By Andrew Cohen By Michael Bazeley

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SECTIONS 3 In Brief 8 Forefront 26 Creative Works Expanding the Clerkship Base Equal Justice Artistic Contributions from Platform Pioneers Bridging the Bench Divide Our Community Tops in Tinseltown New Quartet Joins Faculty Bringing Berkeley Back to Africa 28 Fast Forward Habeas Corpus Then and Now Four Student Action Figures New Centers Take Flight Public Mission Gold Standard Video Game Preservation 30 Advancement Updates from Development & Parole Models Alumni Relations 34 Class Notes All in the Alumni Family

JIM BLOCK (GALEN AGES AND NISHA GIRIDHAR, JESSE CHOPER AND ROBERT COLE); MARCO MELGRATI (ILLUSTRATION) MARCO MELGRATI COLE); AND ROBERT JESSE CHOPER GIRIDHAR, AND NISHA AGES (GALEN BLOCK JIM TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 1 MEETING OUR REMARKABLE GRADUATES IS TRULY ONE OF THE GREATEST JOYS OF BEING DEAN. –ERWIN CHEMERINSKY

From the Dean

Dear Berkeley Law Community,

Great law schools have many positive attributes, but none more important than the educational quality they provide. That’s a big reason I was so thrilled to become Berkeley Law’s dean last year, and why I’m so optimistic about our future. A recent study ranking law school faculties by their scholarly impact rated our cur- Transcript rent faculty seventh in the country—a wonderful reflection of our terrific educators. This year we’ve added three exceptional new colleagues (see page 10): Seth Davis is EDITOR & DIRECTOR, COMMUNICATIONS teaching Torts and Indian Law; Frank Partnoy is teaching Business Associations and Michael Bazeley other business law courses; and Erik Stallman ’03 is an assistant clinical professor in MANAGING EDITOR & SENIOR WRITER, COMMUNICATIONS the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic. Rebecca Wexler has accepted our Andrew Cohen offer to join us next year and will teach in the areas of trade secrets and evidence law. CONTRIBUTING EDITORS We’ve also added wonderful students throughout our programs. Our 314 first-year Craig Lancaster J.D. students bring outstanding credentials and the highest median LSAT score in the Younie Park law school’s history. They are also among the most diverse classes in our history: 58 DESIGN & CREATIVE DIRECTION percent women, 46 percent students of color, 16 percent engineering or science Arnaud Ghelfi, l’atelier starno majors, 8 percent first-generation college students, and 4 percent active military and CONTRIBUTING PHOTOGRAPHERS veterans. Five African-American students are currently editors-in-chief of our law Jim Block Rachel DeLetto journals, a school record (see inside back cover). Shoey Sindel Meanwhile, we have 260 LL.M. students from more than 55 countries, and impres- CONTRIBUTING WRITERS sive new Ph.D. students in our Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and J.S.D. Rachel DeLetto Andrew Faught Program. And there are now 330 undergraduates in our Legal Studies major. Kim Westerman New research centers and programs are also bolstering our real-world impact. This

CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS semester, we launched the Law, Economics, and Politics Center, led by Professor Aaron Benedetto Cristofani Edlin, and the Center on Race, Sexuality & Culture, led by Professor Russell Robinson Marco Melgrati (see page 6). In September, Judge Jeremy Fogel joined us as director of the Berkeley UPDATE YOUR ADDRESS Judicial Institute, which will focus on court administration and judges (see page 9). Email: [email protected] Phone: 510.642.1832 I’m still beaming from Alumni Reunion Weekend, attended by more than 600 U.S. Mail: Berkeley Law graduates October 5-6. I tremendously enjoyed interacting with so Development & Alumni Relations University of California, Berkeley, many alumni, and meeting our remarkable graduates is truly one of the greatest School of Law joys of being dean. I look forward to doing so here and around the country. 224 Boalt Hall #7200 Berkeley, CA 94720-7200 If I can be of assistance to you in any way or if you want to share thoughts about the law school, please do not hesitate to contact me directly at VISIT WWW.LAW.BERKELEY.EDU [email protected] or (510) 642-6483. Transcript is published by the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Communications Warm regards, Department.

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MYTH BUSTERS: Galen Ages ’16 and Nisha Giridhar ’18 help debunk the notion that judges do not seek aspiring public-interest lawyers for clerkships. EXPANDING THE CLERKSHIP BASE “I DON’T THINK Another year, another judicial clerkship myth says Marina Henri ’18, who won the school’s shattered by Berkeley Law. Eleanor Swift Award for Public Service and now BIG-FIRM In 2017, amid jarring national data about the lack clerks for federal judge Martha Vazquez in New STUDENTS ARE of ethnic-minority clerks, 11 African-American Mexico. “Clerking is a public-interest position, and CONSIDERED students and alums landed federal clerkships. many judges would agree that clerks are serving This year, the Class of 2018’s record-setting per- their community.” MORE formance underscores that all Berkeley Law stu- Henri’s class set school records for same-term QUALIFIED, dents—not just those headed to big firms—have clerkships (54) and states represented (26). that opportunity. Overall, 100 grads are clerking in 32 states— BUT THEY’RE Forty-three percent of this year’s grads who more than 80 percent in federal courts. MORE LIKELY obtained clerkships worked in a public-interest The Career Development Office cultivates TO APPLY.” capacity the previous summer. alumni who clerked to help students navigate “I don’t think big-firm students are considered the application process. That roster includes

JIM BLOCK BLOCK JIM more qualified, but they’re more likely to apply,” public-interest attorney Galen Ages ’16, who

TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 3 strives “to do everything I can to assist Berkeley and Saira Mohamed and the CDO’s Eric Stern for In Brief Law students eager to serve in the federal changing that perception. judiciary.” Clerking for federal judge Leslie Abrams in Nisha Giridhar ’18 had thought clerkships were Georgia, Giridhar says infusing judicial chambers “exclusively for students entering the private sec- with more public-interest-minded clerks “adds tor.” Active in several public-interest endeavors necessary diversity in perspective.” as a student, she credits professors Karen Tani —Andrew Cohen

as an in-house counsel, artificial intelli- Platform gence, and deal valuation. In May, a daylong event on the #MeToo movement examined best practices for creating safe and inclu- Pioneers sive workplaces. After attending the general counsel acad- Adam Sterling ’13 had three main goals in emy, Salesforce Vice President and Associate launching Berkeley Law’s new Executive General Counsel Wei Chen called it “transfor- Education initiative: relevant training, flex- mative.” She entered the training “hoping to ible options, and career enhancement. improve the way I carry on my day-to-day Jim Gilbert, hired as the initiative’s direc- tasks. I came out two days later full of new tor in April, is fueling that effort by broaden- ideas and a sense of urgency to re-examine ing open enrollment offerings, developing and transform the way my team and I work.” custom programming for in-house legal Customized trainings have included teams and corporate clients, and growing venture capital academies in Madrid, Seoul, revenue to help the law school achieve its and Zurich; a yearlong U.S. business and educational mission. law program for Kazakhstani scholars; and The platform offers innovative academies practice-area trainings for Thai judges. for lawyers, judges, organizational lead- “These programs draw people from ers, and investors through courses and all over the world,” Sterling says. “We’re certificates, MCLE programs, and tailored covering many emerging areas, and in trainings. most instances this training helps our par- The academies include America’s first law ticipants advance their careers and better NEW TERRAIN: Adam Sterling ’13 moderates an school certificate program in blockchain. serve their clients and organizations.” Executive Education event panel on financial fraud. Others tackle banking law and fintech, life —Andrew Cohen

The Goldbergs and Black-ish. for Terry Rossio to write Godzilla TOPS IN TINSELTOWN Helped Emmy Rossum attain vs. Kong, Linda Woolverton to Six alums made the annual Hollywood Reporter pay parity with Shameless co- write a movie for Skydance, and list of entertainment’s top 100 lawyers: star William H. Macy. Niki Caro to direct Disney’s live- action film Mulan. Helped propel Harold Brown ’76 recoup millions from Prince’s Cliff Gilbert-Lurie ’79 indie hits Little Miss Sunshine, (Gang Tyre Ramer & Brown). Cli- estate after Warner Bros. (Ziffren Brittenham). Repre- The Danish Girl, and Juno. ents include Dwayne Johnson, Records claimed it held licensing sents iconic TV producer Dick Gwyneth Paltrow, and Jim Par- rights Universal had acquired. Wolf and structured his deal for Michael Schenkman ’90 sons. Helped finalize Johnson’s Got all claims against Sony F.B.I. on CBS. Repped showrun- (Bloom Hergott Diemer Rosen- Fast and Furious spinoff deal Music dismissed in Kesha’s suit ner Bruce Helford and actress thal LaViolette Feldman Schenk- and his reported $20 million for against producer Dr. Luke. Sara Gilbert for Roseanne’s man & Goodman). Closed deals Red Notice. Other superhero cli- revival, and Sandra Bullock for for the married filmmaker and ents: Henry Cavill (Superman) Patti Felker ’83 her movie Bird Box. Tina Fey and producer team of Christopher and Chris Hemsworth (Thor). (Felker Toczek Suddleson Claire Danes are other clients. Nolan and Emma Thomas Abramson). Helped drive renego- (Dunkirk), Westworld’s two Scott Edelman ’84 tiations for Modern Family stars Linda Lichter ’76 showrunners, and Disney and (Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher). while repping Eric Stonestreet. (Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler Universal for Glass, M. Night Shy- Helped Universal Music Group Redid deals for child actors on & Feldman). Made major deals amalan’s sequel to two films.

4 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 STARTUP SAVVY: Raymond Asiimwe credits his LL.M. year for helping to widen his firm’s reach.

says Raymond Asiimwe LL.M. ’18, who founded one of Uganda’s first tech- and startup-focused law firms. “It was great to learn how these laws work and to develop strategies that benefit my firm in experience and connections.” Intrigued by the startup ecosystem, a rare focal point in East Africa, Asiimwe persuaded some classmates from his Ugandan law school to help him represent startups. Soon after, Bytelex Advocates—which provides legal services for emerging growth and high-tech companies—was born. “Tech startups typically don’t have any money at first,” Asiimwe says. “But we discovered that most weren’t failing because of a lack of investors, they just didn’t have the business and legal advice to run the right way.” Bytelex now represents companies in industries including fintech, biotech, logistics, and off-grid energy. Without deep training in BRINGING technology, Asiimwe came to Berkeley to “learn from experts in key areas and develop partnerships with professionals I can contact for advice.” BERKELEY One such partnership is with San Francisco-based Zipline, which delivers medical supplies to remote areas via drones. Bytelex BACK TO AFRICA noticed a need to rapidly expand to serve Zipline and clients in Rwanda and Tanzania. It’s no stretch to say Berkeley Law helped grow tech and startup While his work often requires creative lawyering, Asiimwe finds law in East Africa. it “extremely rewarding to help build companies in a region which “Berkeley is known around the world as a tech-space leader,” needs innovation that will hopefully lead to jobs.” —Rachel DeLetto

Habeas Corpus Then and Now

Habeas corpus debates have pus’ role in our constitutional in office is shut down Guantana- shaped defining moments in framework, history’s role in con- mo Bay, and that didn’t happen.” British and American history. A stitutional interpretation, and the The Constitution bars the Writ’s California Law Review sympo- separation of powers in wartime. suspension unless required sium about Professor Amanda “Amanda’s book is incredible,” for public safety by instances Tyler’s new book on the subject said University of Virginia Law of rebellion or invasion. Its showed the enduring challenges Professor Saikrishna Prakash. suspension in World War II led of this longstanding safeguard “Not quite Harry Potter, but to the internment of more than against unlawful detention. close.” 110,000 Japanese-Americans The habeas corpus concept Tyler unpacks the Writ of after Pearl Harbor was bombed. has its roots in English common Habeas Corpus in Anglo-Ameri- “Had we followed the Writ’s law, holding that an arrested can history, from Britain’s estab- original meaning, we wouldn’t person or representative can lishment of it in 1679 through its be looking back 70 years later petition a court to decide the role during the war on terror. and saying, ‘What the heck were detention’s legality. U.S. Ninth Circuit Judge John they doing?’” said U.S. Sixth Top jurists and legal scholars Owens noted how the Writ’s ten- Circuit Judge Amul Thapar ’94. probed issues raised by Habeas sions persist. “Lincoln, one of our —Andrew Cohen Corpus in Wartime: From the greatest presidents, struggled HIGH PRAISE: Professor Amanda Tower of London to Guantanamo with it,” he said. “President Tyler’s new book is a big hit with

RACHEL DELETTO (RAYMOND ASIIMWE) (RAYMOND DELETTO RACHEL Bay. Among them: habeas cor- Obama said the first thing he’d do judges and scholars. New Centers Take Flight

Berkeley Law launched two new research centers this summer. The school now has 20 centers and initiatives where- in faculty and researchers can study solutions to wide-ranging challenges.

Center on Race, Sexuality & Culture Focus: Examining questions of identity and discrimination through intersection- ality; considering how race, gender, and sexual orientation (among other identities) overlap to produce distinct experiences of vulnerability and resilience. Director: Professor Russell Robinson Public “Too often, the most privileged members of a marginalized group dominate representa- Mission TOP TRIO: Oscar Sarabia tions of the group in court Roman with fellow 1Ls and BAR/BRI honorees Casey cases and in popular cul- Duckworth (left) and ture,” Robinson says. “This Gold Ashley Johnson. center seeks to foreground people at the margins … and develop legal and cultural frames that embrace the multiple Standard dimensions of all of our lives, identities, and forms of discrimination that we face.” With its nation-best showing across three Among 10 chosen 1L Fellows from 1,600- Law, Economics, and coveted selections, Berkeley Law’s public plus applicants, Parikh and El-Farra split mission is flourishing. last summer working in a Latham office Politics (LEAP) Center (1) Three of the 10 finalists for BAR/BRI’s (Washington and Atlanta, respectively) and Focus: Supporting research and help- One Lawyer Can Change the World Schol- in a client’s legal department (Comcast and ing students and faculty learn about the arship—including winner Oscar Sarabia Paramount Studios). intersections of law, economics, and poli- Roman—are current 1Ls. Roman, Casey (3) For a second consecutive year, tics, often through the use of quantitative Duckworth, and Ashley Johnson were cho- Berkeley Law landed the most Equal Justice or mathematical methods. sen from more than 1,200 entries. Works fellowships, which support excep- Director: Professor Aaron Edlin Roman’s essay described migrating tional lawyers who develop innovative proj- to the United States as a child, getting ects serving low-income populations. Susan “Berkeley Law is blessed to be deported 15 years later, and wanting to Beaty ’18, Lydia Sinkus ’17, Tori Porell ’18, on the campus of one of the “impact the lives of those who need a voice.” Margaret Burgess ’15, and Peter Weiss ’18 world’s very best research He says, “Berkeley really values training are among the 67 fellows. universities,” Edlin says. its students through meaningful work with “I’m not surprised,” Porell says. “The “LEAP plans to leverage that clients in need.” chance to do substantive client work right strength by bringing together (2) Berkeley Law students tallied five of away as a 1L (through the Student-Initiated faculty from political science, 28 overall selections for Latham & Watkins’ Legal Services Program) was so formative economics, the policy school, and the prestigious 1L Fellowships (Sanjana Parikh, for many of us. The earlier law students business school for discussions and Lana El-Farra) and 2L Diversity Scholar- can get out there, the earlier they become interdisciplinary research on public law, ships (Djenab Conde, Andrew Huang, Jack better advocates and more inspired to do

regulation, and public policy.” Siddoway). public-interest work.” —Andrew Cohen SINDEL SHOEY

6 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 JIM BLOCK (BROOKES DEGEN) PAROLE MODELS they’d seen from students during the entire proceeding.” staff members congratulated their efforts as being among the best ments about the riskof copyright piracy. in Los Angeles, refuting video game industry trade association argu attorney were “the architects of our overall strategy,” says clinic supervising reply rounds. Thai and Chipman drafted adetailed first petition and witnesses, and wrote lengthy briefs during the initial comment and erwise be lost once publishers deactivate the supporting servers. exemption to the law inorder to preserve online games that may oth- helped Oakland’s Museum and of Digital Art Entertainment seek an tects the use of copyrighted works. for exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which pro - video games Igrew up playing,” he says. law doesn’t block otherwise legitimate fair uses, and preserving Policy Clinic did just that. he could do that inaway that reflected his about at his(parole) hearing and made sure Deragon. helping Lee and Hadi spent more than twice that students to make a14-month commitment. prisoners navigate the parole process, asks Project work.” he says. “They did unbelievably amazing the time and effort they put in on my case,” from SanQuentin Prison. Zahraa Hadi ’18 “instrumental” to hisrelease Deragon, who calls Mei-Wah Lee ’18 and limited? Good luck trying to convince Chris the lawSo impact students can make is Degen Who says youcan’t mixbusiness with pleasure? For Brookes Video Game Preservation FREEDOM DAY: Noting how preserving games such as Star Wars Galaxies and “They were pithy and persuasive,” Walker says. “Copyright Office Degen and Deamer testified at a Copyright Office public hearing The students conducted extensive research, recruited expert Degen, Michael Deamer ’18, Derek Chipman ’18, and Thao Thai ’18 Every three years, the U.S. Copyright Office reviews arguments “It combined two things Ireally care about: ensuring copyright “We discussed everything he’d have to talk Post-Conviction Law’s Berkeley Advocacy “Words cannot express my gratitude for Deragon and Mei-Wah Lee ’18 on the morning

(PCAP), which (PCAP), helps life-sentence ’19, aproject with the Samuelson Law, Technology &Public Robert Walker Robert of Deragon’s release from SanQuentin. Zahraa Hadi ’18 (left) with Chris . Legal Services Projects provide legal and moral support.” empathy, and making ourselves available to consistent, treating Chris with respect and participated inrehabilitative programs. worked, earned anassociate’s degree, and scenarios.” mock hearings and raised various potential true feelings,” Lee says. “We also conducted Part of Berkeley Law’s Student-Initiated Hadi says she and Lee prioritized “being During 21-plus years inprison, Deragon - , where 1Lsengage before 2019. —Andrew Cohen vents old games from being lost,” Deamer says. “focused on how the exemption ismeant to be astopgap that pre Neverwinter Nights constitutes aprotected fair use, the students at Oakland’s Museum and of Digital Art Entertainment. GAME ON: The Copyright Office plans rule to on the proposed exemption Samuelson Clinic student Brookes Degen ’19 kicks it into gear have.” have.” of the most memorable experiences I’llever his family proved wonderfully overwhelming. ive post-release plans.” his crime and working …to create support stand and address the factors contributing to Hadi and Lee for helping Deragon “under UnCommon Law’s Keith Wattley. He credits 20percent.just stark contrast from California’s average of hasPCAP a64 percent client release rate—a in pro-bono work guided by upperclassmen, “Indescribable,” Lee says. “Probably one In the end, watching Deragon reunite with studentsPCAP aresupervised by —Andrew Cohen

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Equal Justice A NEW INITIATIVE STRIVES TO MAKE AMERICA’S CIVIL JUSTICE SYSTEM MORE ACCESSIBLE

A new Berkeley Law initiative explores how to make the civil justice system more accessible and fair to those seeking relief. Through interdisciplinary, independent, SEEKING EQUITY: Anne Bloom is the executive director of the and academically based research, the Civil Justice Research Initiative. Civil Justice Research Initiative (CJRI) examines how the system can better deliver justice Chemerinsky originally launched the CJRI in to everday people seeking redress in courts. Topics November 2016 while dean at UC Irvine School of of interest include inadequate court funding; the Law. In writing his book Closing the Courthouse provision of legal services to those who cannot afford Door, he found little independent research regarding private lawyers; the effects of arbitration clauses; access to courts. UCI Law received approximately $1 restrictions on class-action lawsuits; and other bar- million in support for the project, led by a $250,000 riers to legal remedies. gift from Richard Bridgford of Bridgford, Gleason & “Too often, the courthouse doors are closed to Artinian. those who have suffered serious injuries and viola- The initiative is now a joint project of Berkeley Law tions of their rights,” says Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, and UCI Law. Executive Director Anne Bloom, now

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8 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 been neglected” through systematic and rigorous research. “Our legal system and democratic institutions are crafted on the notion that we’re all entitled to our day in court,” says Bloom, who coordinates CJRI projects and events with Chemerinsky and UCI Faculty Director Shauhin Talesh (Ph.D. ’11). “But we have relatively little research on how well that principle is operating.” In 2017, the CJRI’s inaugural conference in Irvine focused on access to legal services for low-income Americans, the access to justice implications of new developments in arbitration, and recent developments in complex litigation. At the initiative’s first Berkeley symposium in April 2018, scholars and practitioners from around the country discussed recent court oucomes research— including a sharp decline in plaintiff victories in federal courts. A recent CJRI white paper explored this development in more detail and made recommendations for future research to illuminate why it is happening. A copy is available on the CJRI’s website, www.civiljusticeinitiative.org. Future events will focus on topics such as civil jury improvement, ethical concerns in domestic arbitration, and access to justice issues in the context of racialized violence. In addition to organizing confe- rences and producing white papers, the initiative posts research on the civil justice system on its web- Bridging the site, provides links to other organizations conducting research on access to justice issues, and hosts a speakers series featuring prominent litigators and policymakers in the civil justice field. Bench Divide “We want to provide quality research to inform policy discussions and encourage scholars and practi- A NEW INSTITUTE FUELS GREATER tioners to engage more with each other in discussing SYNERGY BETWEEN THE LEGAL civil justice issues,” says Bloom. “It’s imperative that ACADEMY AND THE JUDICIARY we work together to research and identify workable solutions to the growing limits on the public’s access to justice.” His official title is executive director of the new Law students will serve as CJRI project research Berkeley Judicial Institute (BJI). But as Judge assistants and scholars from around the country Jeremy Fogel sees it, he’s really a bridge builder. are affiliated research fellows. The initiative also “There’s far less synergy and collaboration works with other researchers to assess how best to between the legal academy and the judiciary than is gather reliable data about the civil justice system and needed,” laments Fogel, a senior judge of the U.S. whether to create a central repository for scholars Northern District Court of California. “Our ability to and policymakers. partner with each other about immediate concerns With wealth stratification rapidly increasing, courts is limited. Academics can do wonderful research, but underfunded, and growing attacks on the rule of law, it doesn’t always connect with judges.” Bloom relishes the initiative’s challenge. “The way I Fogel saw that firsthand in 30-plus years on the see it,” she says, “this work is more important than bench and seven years heading the Federal Judicial

MARCO MELGRATI ever.” —Andrew Cohen Center (FJC), the research and education arm of the

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government’s judicial branch. The divide fueled his push to lead Berkeley Law’s groundbreaking initiative, which will greatly expand its collaboration with the New Quartet judiciary and focus scholarly attention on important challenges faced by judges. The institute will provide education and resources Joins for jurists and help faculty and students better understand how the judiciary works. Focal points include judicial integrity, ethics, impartiality, and political Faculty influence. Fogel, who aims to make legal scholarship more relevant to jurists’ daily work and have it expand their AWARD-WINNING EDUCATORS understanding of key legal specialties, brings ample EXPAND BERKELEY LAW’S TEACHING experience to his new post. PROWESS IN SEVERAL AREAS At the FJC, he probed ways to improve judicial administration, evaluated federal court practices and Three accomplished educators joined the faculty policies, and produced education and training for this semester, and another will arrive next year. judges and court staffers. As a judge, he was a faculty A prominent expert on financial markets and member and program planner for California Judicial fraud, Frank Partnoy taught at the University of Education and Research. San Diego School of Law for 21 years, directed its Dean Erwin Chemerinsky calls Fogel “the ideal per- Center for Corporate and Securities Law, and won son to lead the institute.” its Thorsnes Prize for Excellence in Teaching three “We have the opportunity to be a leader in research times. Previously, he was a fixed income deriva- and training on the crucial issues of judicial indepen- tives specialist at Morgan Stanley and a lawyer at dence and judicial integrity,” Chemerinsky says. Covington & Burling. Berkeley Law scholars from the core faculty and A Yale Law graduate, Partnoy has testified before the school’s Jurisprudence and Social Policy program Congress on credit rating agencies, and some of will work closely with judges and practitioners on var- his proposals were included in the 2010 Dodd- ied BJI research projects. The institute will also exam- Frank Act. Last year, he co-authored a popular ine judicial conduct and provide training and piece in The Atlantic with Berkeley Law Professor resources to help judges understand complicated Steven Davidoff Solomon about their adventure as legal issues by supporting academic research, host- shareholder activists. ing workshops and working groups, and developing “Berkeley is an amazing place in every way,” case management resources. says Partnoy, who has written seven books. “The Judicial education has a robust, but focused, his- business law faculty are among the best in the tory at Berkeley Law. Professor Peter Menell has orga- country. Very few schools can offer such a wide nized more than 60 intellectual-property seminars for range of courses and the chance to interface with judges. He also leads the Patent Case Management Judicial Guide, which taps the expertise of top litigators, patent jurists, and scholars to offer sound guidance for patent litigation. In addition, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology is working with the FJC to develop technology webinars for federal judges. LEADING VOICE: With more cases involving complex legal fields and Frank new technologies, social science, and empirical meth- Partnoy has written ods—amid the nation’s combative political and social more than rhetoric—judges face growing stress, isolation, and 50 opinion pieces for scrutiny. The New “The challenges and daily work of judges should be York Times central to the legal academy,” Menell says. “The BJI and the Financial will bring judges more directly into collaboration with Times.

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10 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 the Samuelson Law, Technology & FIRST COURSE: Seth Davis teaches Public Policy Clinic, returning to his Torts and will also alma mater is “a dream come true.” teach Federal He recalls “great experiences work- Indian Law as a 1L elective and as an ing with tech law clinics during my upper-class course. time at the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT)” and witnessing “firsthand the influence of (clinic Director) Jennifer Urban’s work on notice and takedown.” Stallman, whose career has focused on IP and telecommunications law and policy, recently served as policy counsel at Google. Before that, he the business and legal communities in such inter- was general counsel at the CDT, counsel and policy esting, substantive ways.” advisor to two congresswomen, In four years at UC Irvine School of Law, Seth a private practice and govern- Davis was twice named Upper Level Courses ment attorney, and a clerk for Professor of the Year. Researching and writing on U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of federal litigation, administrative law, federal Indian Appeals Judge Susan Graber. law, and property law, he has placed his work in “I’m thrilled about coming back many leading law reviews, journals, and amicus to Berkeley’s unique combination briefs. of intellect and collegiality,” says A Columbia Law graduate, Davis clerked for U.S. Stallman, who will co-teach the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals Judge clinic’s seminar and help steer Douglas Ginsburg and was a litigation associate at its copyright and telecommuni- O’Melveny & Myers. There, he did extensive pro cations policy work. bono work with Indian Nations and intertribal Rebecca Wexler will join the organizations. faculty next year, after clerking “It’s exciting to join a world-class faculty and with federal judge Katherine Polk amazingly talented students,” says Davis, whose Failla (Southern District of New teaching load includes Torts and Federal Indian York). A visiting fellow at Yale Law. He lauds the school’s “commitment to social Law, her alma mater, she studies justice and public interest work; deep strengths in the nexus of information law, the study of law and society and of morality, law, technology, and criminal justice. STAR SCHOLAR: Rebecca Wexler won and political theory; and … commitment to inter- Wexler has been a lawyer-in-residence at the first prize in the disciplinary scholarship.” Data and Society Research Institute and a fellow at Berkeley Technology Law Journal Student For Erik Stallman ’03, new associate director of the Legal Aid Society’s criminal defense practice, Writing Competition and she recently clerked for U.S. Second Circuit in 2015. Court of Appeals Judge Pierre Leval. In law school, she received Yale’s prize for best copyright law paper and twice won its award for best paper con- cerning the Bill of Rights. “I’m excited to join a community that shares a goal of serving the public good,” says Wexler, who before law school made documen- BACK IN BERKELEY: tary films for national broadcast tele- Erik Stallman ’03 has vision, museums, and educational worked on IP and telecommunications distribution. “Since I work on issues law and policy issues at the intersection of law and tech- in both the private nology, it’s also great that Berkeley and public sectors. has such an inspiring tech-law

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ALL ACCESS The law movement’s do-it-yourself pioneer, Ralph “Jake” Warner ’66 always marched to an unconventional beat. He shunned the security and serenity of an Ivy League Ph.D. program for chaotic, unfamiliar terrain 3,000 miles away. As Berkeley Law’s student association president, he led efforts that eliminated class rankings and redirected vending machine profits to minority student outreach. And while most classmates flocked to big law and DA offices after graduating, Warner joined Legal Aid in Richmond. His legacy, of course, is Nolo—a four-letter word to the legal establishment soon after it launched in 1971. When publishers rejected their pitches for self-help legal books, Warner and Ed Sherman started their own shop. Nolo grew beyond their wildest expectations, churning out instructive guides that have helped millions of people save money by handling basic legal matters themselves. The iconic books, software, and forms cover topics from Nolo founder Ralph divorce and immigration to wills and small-business for- mation. Warner ran Nolo for most of its first 40 years and wrote some of its best-selling books. The software came “Jake” Warner ’66 when personal computers gained popularity. Then Warner pounced on the internet boom, making Nolo the go-to site helped clear the for free legal information. Now retired, Warner has also advocated for reforms de- path for four 2013 signed to make legal services and the justice system more accessible, written children’s stories, and just published his second novel. graduates who are Recently, he talked with Transcript Managing Editor rethinking legal Andrew Cohen about his colorful career. Andrew Cohen: What sparked your interest in law school? services Ralph “Jake” Warner: I was going to get my Ph.D. in history and teach. Senior year at Princeton, sequestered in the library writing this intensive senior thesis, it hit me: I’ll INTERVIEWED BY ANDREW COHEN spend the rest of my life in a carrel with the faint hope of carving out some niche of expertise on a 10-year period. I freaked out. My father and grandfather were lawyers, I EMPOWERMENT AGENT: Warner’s do-it-yourself vision has enabled millions of people to take on didn’t want to go to Vietnam, and I wanted to get away from

JIM BLOCK JIM basic legal tasks and avoid legal fees. the East Coast. Law school seemed like a logical path.

TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 13 FLEXIBLE FRIENDS: Hannah Genton ’13 (left) and Noam Cohen ’13 happily run the virtual firm CGL, which they co-founded. EXPANDING THE TIME-SPACE CONTINUUM Jennifer Gumer pondered “The ability to practice leaving law for good after law on your own terms is an six-plus stressful years at a anomaly in the legal world,” large firm. But her thinking Cohen says. “We believe changed after learning about working remotely and hav- CGL, a growing virtual firm ing control over one’s time is run by Hannah Genton ’13 a recruiting advantage.” and Noam Cohen ’13. With no costs for office “Now I can use my hard- maintenance and lawyers earned legal skills in a way who have Big Law experi- that actually works for me,” ence, CGL offers affordable, says Gumer, an NYU Law sophisticated services for graduate. “I work the hours I clients such as early-stage want from wherever I want, startups with price-sensitive face time,” Genton says. Angeles) signed 18 clients interact directly with clients, needs. CGL lawyers enjoy The final straw: parent- in just seven months. and use more of my own more flexibility than peers hood. “That’s really when “Clients are recognizing judgment and creativity to at big or small firms and can CGL was born, with the birth the value, and our growth address their needs. Those serve a wider base of clients of our little ones,” she says. is attributable, almost en- are freedoms I could have while untethered to a single In fall 2017, Cohen and tirely, to word of mouth and only dreamt of in Big Law.” location. Genton took a leap of faith to the support of our former Virtual law firms have Genton and Cohen worked create their new reality—a clients, colleagues, employ- been around for more than a at large national firms and practice where they control ers, and classmates,” Cohen decade. The advantages for recommend that first step whom they represent, what says. “And there are many practitioners are obvious. for training, mentorship, services they provide, and attorneys like us out there: No set working hours, and connections. where and when they do so. people who studied at top no physical office, ample Over time, however, “we CGL focuses on corporate universities and worked rewards. Hired on a per-hour didn’t connect to the pre- and commercial law, and for top firms, but who felt or per-project rate, CGL attor- determined hierarchical recently expanded into compelled to leave their neys enjoy greater work-life structure, advancement cannabis compliance and big law or in-house gigs in balance while saving time based on seniority rather regulatory counseling. search of a more balanced, and money not having to than merit, set compensa- Genton (who lives in San sustainable life and career commute. tion structures, or expected Francisco) and Cohen (Los path.” —Andrew Cohen

Why Berkeley? So how did you end up here? My advisor said UC had the best affordable law school west I’d read in the UCLA Law catalog that the school was of the Mississippi, but I inadvertently applied to UCLA in- founded in 1947. One night some friends come over for din- stead. I thought that was the “UC” he recommended. This ner and I say, “I’m going to this law school that was founded was the early ’60s, long before the internet. I just didn’t less than 20 years ago, but apparently it’s the best one west

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14 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 that Berkeley is the UC school my advisor recommended, realize that half the country was in a way legally disenfran- not UCLA. Luckily, I still had two days before Berkeley’s chised by silly rules and regulations that made no sense. I application deadline. started to wonder why we couldn’t turn divorce into filling out forms and checking boxes. Why did every divorce need What was law school like for you? lawyers who held you over a barrel? Boalt is so different now than it was when I was a student. I felt out of place. I thought the strict casebook method was That first booklet, How to Do Your Own Divorce—was it the a silly way to learn small points of law. I think there were start of your broader publishing plan? eight women in my class, and hardly any minorities. That’s Not at all. Our third year at Legal Aid, the state did publish why I ran for student association president. its first forms for divorce, and Ed Sherman wrote this booklet, which I edited. Soon after we’d left Legal Aid, we took it How did ‘Berkeley in the ’60s’ impact your experience? to a few other places around town, taught some classes in There were a million things going on around us: the anti- how to fill out the forms, small-scale stuff. It didn’t get any war movement, the war on poverty, growing sensibilities real traction until the head of the Sacramento County Bar about class and race, the free-speech movement. You’d Association stumbled onto it. think law students would be out front on that, but they weren’t at What happened? all. When I ran for student asso- “We said, hey, we He thought it was potentially ciation president, I won by seven dangerous to the public and that votes. I got very few votes from the could make books he needed to warn Californians 3Ls, probably split the 2Ls, and got about it. The day after the state nearly every vote from the 1Ls. That like this accessible legislature had de-convened, he reflected an ongoing shift in ideas issued a press release decrying and ideals that happened at light our booklet. It was a slow news speed in the mid-’60s. ... in all kinds of day, so every news channel and paper in the state carried it. What motivated your push to vastly legal subjects. It That media attention essentially curtail the use of letter grades? launched Nolo. Before that, the students were all was a vast market ranked and obsessed with where How quickly did things change? they stood. It made for a tense envi- no one was filling.” Sales of How to Do Your Own ronment. Professors were starting Divorce went from around 300 to get a little scared of students all over America, and I was copies over a six-month period to 3,000 a month. Now it has pleasantly stunned that the faculty-student committee ac- sold more than a million copies. We said, hey, we could make cepted our idea of abolishing grades. The culture was start- books like this accessible to the public in all kinds of legal ing to change. subjects. It was a vast market no one was filling; the bigger publishers were afraid of getting sued by bar associations. By How did your time at Legal Aid shape your perspective? the time I retired in 2011, Nolo had sold more than 20 mil- I’d planned to do environmental work in Washington, but lion books and software packages in dozens of legal areas. I got divorced and didn’t want to be separated from my kids. Legal Aid in Richmond drew all sorts of interesting How did Nolo capitalize on the internet explosion? people from different backgrounds committed to making Our books and software had a strong track record with law- an impact. I grew up upper-middle class in Brooklyn and yers, most of whom grudgingly agreed that Nolo produced Westchester County. Suddenly, working in a low-income quality work. We knew the right online approach could community with people who had never interacted with a help millions of people receive sound information about lawyer before was really empowering. basic legal tasks and make the legal system more accessible. The California Judicial Council and others started Is that where the idea for Nolo was born? putting forms and instructions online, which also helped. Absolutely. The eligibility criteria for Legal Aid was so Still a long way to go, but we’ve moved past a lot of legal lin- rigid. If you were just above the poverty line—say a market go and bureaucratic layers. Many more people now realize clerk or gas station attendant—you weren’t eligible. If you that lawyers are a valuable resource, but not essential for got a divorce, lawyers would set a high fee and people didn’t routine legal tasks.

TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 15 What’s the most gratifying aspect of Nolo’s growth? that product, which you can get at Costco for $40. More Advancing the belief that our legal system could be made broadly, it’s great that more than a million people a month more democratic, accessible, and affordable to the gen- get free legal information online from Nolo. eral public. It’s one of the ideas America was formed on, that the legal system is a huge part of our civil, civic, dem- You retired and sold your share of the business in 2011. ocratic process. What are you up to these days? I’m taking courses at Cal through the Osher Lifelong Learn- Looking back, is there a certain publication you appreciate ing Institute, which is great fun, and I’m on the committee most? that helps pick its professors. I’ve taken an astronomy course, I’m proud of Will Maker, which we wrote in 1983. We’ve a film course on Bergman, and I’m about to take a course on modified it over time, and it’s still useful because wills Checkov. Also, my new novel (Coming of Age in Berkeley) just and trusts are largely the same as they’ve been for de- came out. I always liked to write, and after doing so much in- cades. Millions of wills have been accomplished through structional writing for Nolo, fiction was a blast. I wrote a mys- tery novel with my wife in the ’80s, and this one is largely set on the Cal campus. It’s part love story, part thriller, and all Berkeley. n

Most first-year associates at large firms worry about adapting to a new culture and meeting their billable-hour requirements. Although those were concerns for Corey Laplante ’13, he also worried about America’s vast justice gap. Working at Skadden Arps in Los Angeles, Laplante heard about a local member-funded grant foundation and wondered if raising money for legal aid organizations could find traction within Big Law. Soon thereafter, The Associ- ates Committee—which supports legal aid and impact litigation by nonprofits throughout the nation—was born. “Nothing like that existed in Big Law … and I wasn’t sure we’d be able to raise much money,” Laplante says. “But I sensed that many of my fellow associates were hungry for more civic engagement.” THE EQUALIZER: He conferred with then co-worker Corey Laplante ’13, Cameron Mabrie ’12, who help build the founder of The Associates initiative and began drafting incorpora- Committee. tion documents. Laplante set a $1,000 contribution threshold and reached out PUSHING BIG to his Big Law network. “So many friends and former classmates stepped up right away,” he LAW TO MAKE recalls. “They became members and encouraged their colleagues to join, and some also joined our board of directors.” A BIG DENT The Associates Committee welcomed BLOCK JIM

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The first in her family to attend college, include “re-imagined” events and a Kristen Corpion ’13 entered Big Law at weekly e-newsletter that highlights local age 24 without any roadmap. job postings, CLEs, legal organizations, “I had some support, but there wasn’t and more. much practical guidance,” she says. “No top-down, pretentious hierar- She excelled as an associate, held civic chies,” Corpion says. “We want to con- leadership positions, became the first nect and transform legal communities woman and youngest lawyer to win the from fragmented and exclusionary to title Best Closer in South Florida, and collaborative and welcoming.” received the Greater Miami Chamber of Sidebar officially launched on October Commerce Rookie of the Year Award. Yet 6 with Welcome to the SoFlo Legal Scene, for many reasons, “I felt lost early in my which brought together voluntary bar career,” Corpion says. associations, community organizations, When she asked peers if they felt simi- and law professionals through a legal lar angst, responses rang the same bell: organization fair, workshops, collabora- Pay your dues. Don’t rock the boat. tion rooms, and more. Co-sponsored by “My happiness was never considered,” more than 10 area organizations, the she says. “The only end goal was uninter- event welcomed attendees to disrupt rupted trajectory on the standard lawyer traditional conventions and to innovate. conveyor belt. Later, I realized most law- “We’re entering into strategic part- yers feel lost or dissatisfied with some nerships with these organizations as aspect of navigating the profession. I well as companies, thought leaders, wasn’t the only one.” and law schools,” Corpion says. “Lo- Corpion eventually launched her solo cal lawyers have been extremely practice, and she began teaching part- receptive and supportive. The time at Florida International University. demand for cultural change While more gratified professionally, she and a more authentic dialogue still wanted to solve the issues she faced is greater than I imagined. early in her career. Sidebar’s goal is to continue Thus was born Sidebar, a burgeoning identifying voids in the pipe- venture led by “self-identified modern line to entering and thriving legal professionals,” that helps peers in the legal community, and NAVIGATION SYSTEM: Kristen Corpion ’13 aims to make legal thrive in their local legal community. developing resources to help communities more welcoming Sidebar’s localized, custom resources fill those voids.” —Andrew Cohen and synergetic.

75 members in just a few months. But whose main purpose is providing legal prisoners eligible for parole. after exhausting his personal connec- aid. Priority goes to supporting early- “Our main goal is to make this all tions, Laplante needed a new recruit- stage nonprofits that use innovative sustainable,” says Laplante, now at the ment method. On a whim, he started approaches to tackle systemic legal litigation boutique Wilkinson Walsh + messaging associates on LinkedIn. problems. Eskovitz. “We’re hoping some larger “I figured it would be a dead end, and Recent grants supported criminal firms will team up with us and help I worried we had reached our ceiling,” he defense and restorative justice services spread the word among their current says. “But three years later, we’ve now for at-risk youth, combated wealth- and future associates. The idea is to put raised nearly $450,000 in grant funds.” based discrimination, aided immigrant something in place that will endure long The committee accepts applica- communities, and provided training, after any of our current members are tions from any 501(c)(3) organization counseling, and legal representation for associates.” —Andrew Cohen

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The International Human Rights Law Clinic and the Human Rights Center make their mark from Berkeley to Bangladesh

BY MICHAEL BAZELEY

thnic cleansing in Bosnia. Genocide in Rwanda. ated the International Human Rights Law Clinic. Now, two A new international court to handle war decades later, Berkeley Law is seen as a leader, not a crimes. Human rights issues—both horrific and follower. hopeful—thrust themselves onto the world Using interdisciplinary research and innovative technol- stage during the 1990s. ogy, the IHRLC and HRC were among the first efforts of But in the human rights space, Berkeley Law their kind on an American university campus, and are often E did not yet have a voice. at the forefront of human rights activities. Together and “The world found itself in a situation with multiple entry separately, they fight on behalf of victims of political vio- points for the international human rights movement, a lence. Against genocide and torture. And for equal treat- feeling that there was so much to do,’’ says Patty Blum, then ment under the law for marginalized communities. a professor at the law school who had been working on The two typically confront human rights issues from dif- various refugee issues. “But Berkeley was behind the times.’’ ferent angles—the clinic through litigation, policy recom- That all changed in 1998, when Blum and Eric Stover, mendations, and advocacy; the center through research the new director of the campus Human Rights Center, cre- and science-based investigations.

18 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 ILLUSTRATION BY BENEDETTO CRISTOFANI TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 19 The emergence of the clinic and center as meaningful players in human rights did not happen overnight. Blum had been devoted to refugee issues for years. But it wasn’t until a “perfect storm of energy” in the 1990s—including Blum’s work, a push by then-Dean Herma Hill Kay to jumpstart a clinical program, and a growing number of Berkeley Law graduates dispersed among human rights organizations— provided the right synergy. In fact, it was a law school alumnus who steered the clinic to its first case— the plight of Haitian descendants living in the Dominican Republic who were being denied the rights of other citi- zens—including buying property or going to school. Led by then staff attorney Laurel E. Fletcher, the clinic carried the grievances of two Haitian girls to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, which eventually ordered the Dominican government to recognize their nationality. “I was always surprised because it felt like we were such a small program, so you tend to think, ‘What can we do?’’’ says Fletcher, now the clinic’s co-director and a clinical professor of law. “I’ve been amazed at how much we’ve been able to accomplish.” While the clinic was finding its sea legs, HRC (started a few years earlier at the Townsend Center on campus) had begun shaping a different mission—using research and scientific methods to investigate serious human rights violations and war crimes. Global Investigators That focus came from faculty director Stover, who had already built a life’s work out of war crime investigations

LEADING THE WAY: International Human Rights Law Clinic Co-directors Roxanna Altholz ’99 and Laurel E. Fletcher (top); Human Rights Center Faculty Director Eric Stover and Executive Director Alexa

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20 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 Confronting in Rwanda, Argentina, Guatemala, and Iraq. Stover joined Human HRC in 1996, soon after leading international forensic teams on exhumations of mass graves in Bosnia and Croatia, collecting evidence that eventually made its way Trafficking to the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. Sex and labor trafficking form a multi-billion dollar indus- “In human rights work up to that point, lawyers pre- try in America, and California is the hub. A leading source dominated in these investigations,” Stover explains. “But of research and policy guidance on the problem, Berkeley I was able to draw on the empirical methods of scientists Law recently examined anti-trafficking efforts in five Bay and health professionals and apply them to human rights Area counties and Los Angeles County’s novel trafficking and war crimes investigations. And I brought these meth- investigation bureau. ods to Berkeley.’’ Students helped interview 50 police officers and service That type of work still defines the center nearly 25 years providers for the Bay Area report, led by Human Rights Cen- later. ter Faculty Director Eric Stover. Its findings describe insuf- In March 2017, barrels filled with lethal sarin gas fell ficient housing and services for victims and roadblocks to from the sky onto Syria’s Latamna Surgical Hospital. There prosecuting traffickers, from language barriers and negative was sparse media coverage of the strike in the rural attitudes toward victims (many are undocumented immi- Al-Lataminah village, which the Syrian army had already grants) to mistrust between victims and law enforcement. purportedly bombarded with chlorine gas. “I was surprised by the paucity of resources devoted to At the center’s Human Rights Investigations Lab, stu- addressing this problem,” says Michael Youhana ’18. “We dents began collecting social media footage of the after- tried to highlight the sometimes divergent perspectives of math, digital information (including photos of retreating local service providers, police officers, and prosecutors.” helicopters and detonated bombs) they hope lawyers can Kevin Walker ’17, a Los Angeles reserve police officer use to prosecute war criminals and other perpetrators of while in college, helped Stover facilitate the study of his human rights violations. former department’s trafficking bureau. “There’s no other place I can do this,” says Andrea “We looked at the bureau’s first year and explained what Trewinnard ’19, who coordinated the Al-Lataminah proj- worked well and what could be replicated elsewhere,” Stover ect. “We’re using findings in an empowering way.” says. “Rather than operate in traditional silos, police inves- Such fact-gathering—using photos, videos, and other tigators, social workers, and prosecutors collaborate to help information posted on the Internet—heralds a new era in victims leave that life.” war crime investigations. But the law has not caught up Students developed a questionnaire and then inter- with these methods. One of the center’s key projects is viewed bureau members, and even rode with officers on pressing for shared international standards for gathering, sting operations. “Seeing the problem first-hand helps handling, and preserving open-source evidence, and then them truly understand the complexity of the issue,” says presenting it in courts. Stover. Other HRC areas of focus include promoting the health In 2003, the International Labor Organization asked and protection of marginalized populations affected by Stover about leading a U.S. trafficking study. Although it was humanitarian crises, and promoting accountability for later called off, “we’d already assembled student research sexual violence amid political unrest and armed conflicts. teams and wanted to keep going,” he recalls. “We knew The center’s early sexual violence research work took place California had more trafficking than any state.” in Kenya, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. Stover and International Human Rights Law Clinic Co- More recently, HRC contributed to the landmark convic- director Laurel E. Fletcher led the first university-based tion of former Chad dictator Hissène Habré for sexual vio- study of human trafficking in the U.S., and a California lence and has been studying how to protect refugees from study for which students interviewed social workers, activ- gender-based violence as they travel through Central America. ist groups, and forced laborers. Their findings influenced In its work, the center has collaborated with leading California’s first anti-trafficking law, passed in 2005, and human rights organizations, doctors, forensic experts, and subsequent research has shaped myriad reform efforts. investigative journalists. “Trafficking victims often don’t speak English, live far “There’s a growing realization that human rights can no off the beaten track, and have no viable way to leave their longer be treated as a siloed area of practice,” says HRC situations,” Stover laments. “That’s why this work is critical.” Executive Director Alexa Koenig Ph.D. ’13, co-founder of —Andrew Cohen

TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 21 22 Words Own Their In positions. diverse range of them well intheir continues to serve experience that clinic provided describe how the skills. Five alums versatile—legal ing valuable—and instill students, 300 Berkeley Law trained more than Law Clinic has Human Rights the International For decades, two it to far corners of the globe—and close to home. to victims of the most serious violations. That work takes and training students by enlisting them to provide justice menting humanrightsabuses, increasingaccountability, The clinic, meanwhile, has built on its mission of docu Advocating forAccountability since I started in this field 15 years ago.” groundswell inways thatIhaven’t ofengagement seen antagonistic to individual rights, you’re beginning to see a alism and authoritarianism, both of which are inherently use inhumanrightsinvestigations. “Given theriseofnation the investigations lab and a leading voice on technology

TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 FALL TRANSCRIPT - and communications.” investigations, advocacy, proach tasks such as factual case strategy and how to ap - informs my decisions about many of my cases, which traumatic context at play in of and sensitivity to the the constant awareness That time helped me develop environmental devastation. human rights abuses and world who have experienced munity members around the closely with vulnerable com - ethical challenges of working the many emotional and helped prepare me for “My year with the clinic Francisco Accountability Counsel, San Global Communities Director, Singh ’10 Sarah INTERNATIONAL HUMANRIGHTS - - the Gualcarque River, Lenca land. which sits on indigenous sition to the Agua Zarca hydroelectric dam being built on country tohelpinvestigate. Cácereshadbeenleadingoppo Roxanna Altholz’99traveled totheCentralAmerican Cáceres was killed in her hometown, the clinic’s co-director The work won coverage in the The New York Times. corruption andhumanrightsabusesintheirhomeland. attempts to hold the warlords and others accountable for The reportshowed how theextraditions undermined Colombian warlords to the U.S. on drug trafficking charges. to reformpoliciesandpracticesforwhenitbrings problem solving.” ing, empathy, and creative building deep understand- That proximity isessential to tices we sought to change. closer proximity to the injus systemcourt brought us in ability through the U.S. civil sought justice and account and survivors of torture who directly with asylum seekers thinking and change. Working exposure to systems-level direct client engagement, and elements of that experience: This stems from two key ues to inform my daily work. “My time at the clinic contin America, Minneapolis Partnerships), Teach for Senior Vice President (Public Mahle ’01 Anne DOMESTIC SOCIAL JUSTICE In 2010, the clinic authored a report calling on the U.S. Years later, afterHonduran environmental activist Berta - - - and consumers.” behalf of injured investors wrongdoers accountable on endeavor corporate hold to clinic to work every day as I bring skillssharpened at the blazing new trails …Inow tion, claim development, suspension. Case investiga a first-of-its-kind project novel complaint achieved national energy project. The harms related to aninter rights and environmental can villagers alleging human on behalf of indigenous Mexi develop and file a complaint advocacy organization to “I worked with alocal Diego San and Rudman &Dowd, Chicago Associate, Robbins Geller Cochran ’12 Brian BIG LAW - - - -

TK Her murder was highly suspicious. Altholz and the international legal team she joined released a report that impli- cated company officials and revealed corruption and abuse of authority by state actors. Back in the U.S., the clinic has found no shortage of issues to tackle. Domestic work has confronted immigration, employment rights, and access to clean water. In 2012, the clinic took the lead in coordinating the legal support component of UC Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Program, the first anywhere to provide comprehensive support services to students who lack legal status in the U.S. Clinic students supplied information about immigration law, held weekly office hours to consult with individuals, and

ON LOCATION: 2018 Human Rights Center fellow Olivia Rempel interviews students at the Soweto Baptist School—which is near a polluted stream that can flood into school buildings during the rainy season—in Kibera, Kenya. NICOLE WALTERS (KENYA) WALTERS NICOLE

placed cases with pro bono attorneys. Because of that work, Fletcher says, similar support services are now available throughout the university system. SMALL FIRM ACADEMIA Other ongoing initiatives advance racial justice and DeCarol Kathleen Kelly include a report on the impact of unsolved homicides among Davis ’17 Janus ’02 African Americans in Oakland. Associate, Bryan Schwartz Author and Lecturer, Law, Oakland Stanford University Student Work From the very beginning, their teaching missions mean “My knowledge of interna- “The International Human both the HRC and IHRLC have leaned heavily on students. tional law was limited and Rights Law Clinic provid- The hands-on work is crucial, whether students are gath- my future work was likely ed such critical training ering facts in the field or helping craft legal briefs. At the to revolve around domestic for me to put what I was clinic, students litigate before national and international employment issues, but learning in the classroom judicial forums, contribute to studies, work on policy analy- something about the spirit to work in a real-world sis, and help draft statutes and standards. of the IHRLC—its professors, context. It gave me skills Altholz says she sees students go through a “transforma- the rigor, the study of more like how to research, tion” as they begin to realize what they and the law can widespread oppression—led how to advocate, and accomplish. me to it. It was one of the how to interact with “We try to give a supportive environment [for students] best decisions I ever made in clients, preparing me to be risk-takers,” she says, “We want to teach students law school. Not only did the for a career as a lawyer. what challenges look like in a professional context. They clinic teach me the doctrine, I was so inspired by my will find skills and knowledge that are transferable to any structures, and legal strate- experience of receiving line of work they do (see page 22).” gies pertaining to interna- on-the-job training in the Lucero Chavez ’10 parlayed her clinic experience into tional law, it taught me how clinic seminar that I now positions with the ACLU of Southern California and Public to be an advocate—not an use this form of teach- Counsel in Los Angeles, where she has represented unac- adversary—and made me a ing in my own social companied migrant children seeking residency in the U.S. smarter, more critical, and entrepreneurship class While a student, Chavez helped gather forensic and docu- empathetic attorney.” at Stanford!” mentary evidence that pointed to government participa-

TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 23 Protecting Human Rights tion in “forced disappearances” during the Guatemalan Defenders civil war of 1960-96. She also visited the country to solicit witness statements. More than 300 human rights defenders were killed in 27 “Only by being on the ground and seeing archives of pre- countries last year. viously hidden government documents could I understand “This has been a growing worldwide crisis,” says Laurel E. the depth of government corruption,” Chavez says. “Reading Fletcher, co-director of Berkeley Law’s International Human about it in a casebook would not have been enough.” Rights Law Clinic. “It tracks the increase in authoritarian At the HRC, its fellowship program has been integral to regimes and the rise of popular nationalism. The numbers the center’s mission from the start. More than 300 fellows of human rights activists killed is dwarfed by the far greater have walked through its doors over the years. Last year, the numbers affected by States around the world that are using work of fellows spanned 10 countries, including nomadic laws and legal regulation arbitrarily to target and restrict herders in Mongolia displaced by climate change, Central legitimate human rights activities.” American migrants on Mexico’s southern border, and With three initiatives, Berkeley Law is bringing attention Syrians in Berlin documenting attacks on hospitals. to the sobering challenges facing defenders, and, hopefully, The center’s investigations lab trains more than 80 stu- helping to protect their work by boosting government dents a semester—from a variety of majors—to find, ana- accountability. lyze, and verify online information and contribute to major One effort has LL.M. students helping the United Nations human rights reports and investigative journalism pieces. Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders prepare his Stover says students have allowed HRC to offer services annual global report. Their work includes drafting legal anal- to clients that they might otherwise be unable to afford. yses of trends in the types of abuses and violations that “It’s really because of the students that we can do this,’’ defenders face around the world. he says. “You give them the opportunity and they want to Another clinic project provides legal support to the Center be engaged.’’ for International Law and Justice, which is spearheading development of a proposed international protocol to estab- Collaborations lish universal guidelines for governments to investigate While the two entities often work separately, projects threats against defenders. sometimes draw them together. “Threats and intimidation are often the first signs of fur- In 2003-04, Fletcher and Stover led the first university- ther human rights abuses and violations,” says Antonia based study of human trafficking in the United States. David ’19, a student involved in the project. “This protocol Findings influenced California’s first anti-trafficking law, will be an important contribution to international human passed in 2005 (see page 21). rights law to safeguard the essential work of these Then in 2008, the duo co-authored Guantanamo and Its defenders.” Aftermath, a searing report on U.S. detention and immigra- On another front, the clinic collaborated with the Oakland- tion practices and their impact on former detainees. based Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights to Interviewing 50 key informants and 62 former detainees, publish a report that identifies the challenges women they found that many of the latter group had lost homes, human rights defenders confront with increased govern- businesses, and assets, and that more than two-thirds suf- ment crackdowns on their activism—and their successful fered from residual psychological and emotional trauma. resistance strategies. Those who defend women’s rights are The report garnered notable media coverage. increasingly targeted for repression, harassment, violence, “It’s nice because we have a doubled barrel approach,’’ and even death. Such persecution includes a surge of gov- Stover says. “We complement each other.” ernment attempts to silence LGBTI activists. The clinic held a public briefing on the report for State rep- New Challenges resentatives at the United Nations in Geneva this past sum- While they can savor hard-won victories, the clinic and mer to urge governments to adopt its recommendations for center are continually leaning in against a tornado of abuses. providing greater security to these defenders and the popu- That’s been particularly true in the last decade or so, as the lations they serve. U.S. and other countries have adopted a more cavalier atti- “We have a privilege and a responsibility to do what we tude toward human rights, often in the name of national can to strengthen human rights protections for defenders,” security. Fletcher says. —Andrew Faught “Historically, the United States has been such a symbolic

24 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 leader in the human rights space,” Koenig notes. “9/11 really human rights criminals, who now believe they can act with was a bit of a turning point, with the willingness to com- impunity. promise in the treatment of different populations. That’s “I think the problem is when the U.S. pulls out of the deeply problematic.” room, it’s not as if the world holds constant,’’ Fletcher says. Under the Trump administration, the U.S. has begun a “It’s eroding institutions. It’s hollowing them out from retreat from multilateralism and international alliances, within.” historically critical for holding bad actors accountable. Earlier Despair is not an option, though. this year, the U.S. pulled out of the United Nations Human Some of the clinic’s most important work remains sup- Rights Council. Officials called the council an ineffective porting “front-line” human rights defenders who are push- “cesspool of political bias.” But some advocates worried the ing for change in their communities (see page 24). decision reflects a broader U.S. antipathy toward the U.N. “I’m emotionally touched every day of my job,’’ Altholz From Fletcher’s vantage point, the move exacerbates says. “But at the end of the day, I feel extraordinarily hon- what is already a “corrosion” of consensus about how the ored. I’m not a bystander to history.’’ n international community should respond to crimes around the globe, such as in Syria. This lack of accord emboldens Andrew Faught and Andrew Cohen contributed to this story. Border Accountability U.S. Customs and Border Protection Anastasio Hernández Rojas retained the agents have killed more than 50 peo- clinic to sue the U.S. before the Inter- ple along the Mexico-U.S. border since American Commission on Human 2010, including unarmed minors shot Rights. In 2010, agents repeatedly beat in the back, yet none have been held and tased Hernández, a father of five accountable. Prosecutors routinely who died two days later. ground such cases while courts dis- Despite eyewitness and video evi- miss civil complaints. dence, the Department of Justice con- MAKING HIS POINT: Bernardo Hernández Rojas, Against that disturbing backdrop, cluded that the agents acted lawfully. whose brother was killed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, with a petition prepared International Human Rights Law The clinic’s complaint alleges U.S. by the International Human Rights Law Clinic. Clinic Co-director Roxanna Altholz ’99 responsibility for torturing and killing works feverishly—and creatively—to Hernández and insufficiently investigat- the agents’ actions being excessive help victims’ relatives achieve legal ing the perpetrators, in violation of inter- under international law, the laws and redress. national human rights law. policies that led to the DOJ’s conclusion “When it became clear that differ- “It’s the first time the Inter-American themselves violate international law,” ent types of litigation in the U.S. and Commission has considered a case Altholz explains. Mexico wouldn’t offer redress, we against the U.S. involving an extrajudi- The commission is reviewing the gov- looked at international strategies,” cial killing by law enforcement,” Altholz ernment’s response and will soon issue she says. says. an admissibility report. Working with a San Diego nonprofit Clinic students have conducted Despite the struggles to prevent bor- led by classmate Andrea Guererro ’99, extensive legal research, drafted plead- der agents from acting with impunity, Altholz oversaw a 2015 clinic report ings, developed a multi-media presenta- Altholz remains resolute. that urged reframing law enforce- tion for advocacy groups to use, and “My frustration and anger funnels ment killings as human rights viola- helped generate broad media coverage into stubbornness and working harder,” tions. It provided an instructive legal about the case. she says. “And as a teacher, doing this roadmap for family members and “They are exploring novel arguments with students feels like a gift because I advocacy organizations. challenging the Fourth Amendment’s can see how transformative the work is The following year, relatives of excessive use of force doctrine: Beyond for them.” —Andrew Cohen

TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 25 Creative Artistic Contributions From Our Community Works A CAPPELA TROUPE: THE PRO BONOTES Pro Bonotes Offer Harmonious Fun Their weekly sessions provide group teaching assistants, and others. Their Last spring, the group wrote and therapy and individual expression, frivo- repertoire has grown—along with their performed its first musical parody, lous fun and scintillating sound. The Pro crowds. “Unwritten, feat. Briefs.” The lyrics Bonotes, Berkeley Law’s a capella For several members, choir or musi- focus on the difficulty of writing a troupe, are fast becoming an in-house cal theater had been a regular part brief, and whether grand jury records sensation. of life before law school. When they in a certain case should be released. “I always come away from rehearsal enrolled at Berkeley, there was a sud- The choice of songs is a democratic feeling happier and lighter,” says Gillian den, palpable hole. brainstorm, with selections ranging Miller ’20. “Even if I was stressed and “The Pro Bonotes are a way of not from Katy Perry to Eve 6 to Ben E. King. overwhelmed beforehand.” just filling that void, but embracing A co-director this year, Goldenberg Formed in fall 2016, The Pro Bonotes a capella,” Daina Goldenberg ’20 says. helps lead the warmup sessions that give a schoolwide concert each “It gave me a new kind of musical ful- help quickly shed any worries of job semester and perform for gather- fillment, and introduced me to some of interviews, moot court arguments, or ings of admitted students, 1Ls, the most welcoming new friends.” journal deadlines. “Warmup is so important,” she says. “It sounds and looks silly, but it’s how we shake off the day and get ready to make beautiful music.” For Chris Brown ’19, singing with the group is “an amazing experience.” “Having a fun, non-academic thing to rely on during your free time, especially in a stressful environment, is essential,” he adds. While a capella is a new form of musical expression for many Pro Bonotes, wading into the unknown has been freeing and empowering. “There’s something about making funny and weird noises together that really makes people grow on you,” says Rich Vyas ’19. “What I really like about this group is that because we’re relatively small, every single member is essential to making the song sound PITCH PERFECT: Berkeley Law’s popular good. Goose-bumpy stuff we create.

a capella crooners rehearse a new number. Goose-bumpy.” —Andrew Cohen (4X) BLOCK JIM

26 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 PHOTOGRAPHER: ANYA KU ’20 BRINGING OAKLAND’S FLAVOR TO LIFE

Anya Ku wasn’t aspiring to culinary renown when she and high school friend Elazar Sontag began to interview and photograph Oakland locals cooking dishes from their respective cultures. WRITER: BILL PETROCELLI ’63 She was simply passionate about photography and her city’s vibrant diversity. A Window “I’ve lived in Oakland my entire life. There’s a special sense of com- Into Words munity here,” Ku says. “Even though it’s a unique experience going into a During law school, Bill Petrocelli stranger’s home, asking them to cook moonlighted as a folk singer—a talent you dinner and tell you their life story, that didn’t resonate as a career guide after a few minutes you automatically until 50 years later (2013), when he warm up and become friends because became a novelist. The craft, he says, you both love Oakland.” is “a lot like being a folk singer … The city’s authentic character shines because both involve storytelling.” brightly through Ku’s images and After graduating, Petrocelli worked Sontag’s words. Their book, Flavors of in the California Attorney General’s Oakland, was published when Ku was Office and in a poverty-law firm before just 20. Oakland Mayor Libby Schaff launching his own practice. wrote the foreword, and the book In 1976, he and his wife, Elaine, CITY SHUTTERBUG: 2L Anya Ku has earned rave earned praise from culinary icon Alice founded Book Passage. Anchored in reviews for her photography work. Waters (owner of Berkeley’s famed San Francisco, it has become one of the Chez Panisse restaurant) and other country’s most successful independent high-profile Bay Area foodies. It also landed a coveted spot in the Oakland Museum bookstores, a multi-genre hub with of California gift shop. three locations and a national reach. A self-taught photographer, Ku honed her colorful style through practice. “I credit He calls his new novel, Through the YouTube videos for most of my successes in life,” she jokes. Bookstore Window, a “literary thriller.” Despite her early artistic achievements, Ku wanted to do more for her hometown The protagonist, Bosnian War survivor after graduating from UC Berkeley in 2017. and San Francisco bookstore manager “As a lawyer, I can make a direct impact on people’s Gina Perini, sets out to help a 15-year- lives. That’s really motivating for me,” she says. Ku old girl in an abusive Indiana foster plans to focus on youth advocacy, “specifically in home who has a surprising connection Oakland, working for the people who helped me get to Perini’s roots. where I am.” Choosing a female narrator and an At Berkeley Law, she found a new extension of her unfamiliar post-war setting, Petrocelli community in the La Raza Law Students Association. knows, may seem as incongruous as a Recipient of the Cruz Reynoso Fellowship to sup- thriving lawyer opening a bookstore. port her recent summer public-interest work at the “I like to write about what I know and California Attorney General’s Bureau of Children’s what I want to learn,” he says. Fiction, Justice in Oakland, Ku is co-chairing La Raza this school year. he adds, “is one of the few things you She somehow still makes time for creative pursuits, offering freelance photog- should get better at as you get older. raphy services through her website, Kutography.com. As a 1L, taking portraits The wisdom of age isn’t really valued in helped her connect with her classmates—and maintain balance. commercial culture, but telling a story “Photography is something that makes me feel more human,” Ku says. “It has in novel form is distilling lived experi-

ANYA KU ’20 (FOOD); OMAR ABDUL-RAHIM (KU); JIM BLOCK (PETROCELLI) BLOCK JIM (KU); ABDUL-RAHIM OMAR (FOOD); ’20 KU ANYA definitely helped me survive law school so far.” —Rachel DeLetto ence.” —Kim Westerman

TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 27 Fast Four Student Action Figures Forward NOOR-UL-AIN HASAN ’20 A QUICK STUDY ON EQUITY AND INCLUSION

As a person of color from a low-income family who understands the hardships of navigating the education system, Noor-ul-ain Hasan has long championed equity and inclusion. Despite juggling a double major at Northwestern (English and Legal Studies), she dived into several hot- button issues with the school’s Campus Inclusion Task Force. Hasan also co- EARLY RISER: Noor-ul-ain Hasan has received several honors for her efforts to promote diversity. founded a program that tackled racism and socio-economic inequality, Diversity and Inclusion team. Just 23, myself channeling my inner English designed to bring students “from all she was charged with crafting a corpo- major and using the power of storytell- walks of life to come together and solve rate infrastructure for employees who ing to combat that.” issues of inequity” at the university. were transitioning gender identities. Hasan made a video with a trans- Named one of Northwestern’s “Top “I had to ease the social setting, to woman colleague to illustrate Allstate’s Ten Graduating Seniors to Watch,” create a space in which education was new direction and help generate wide- Hasan still figured she needed more available and transgender employees spread buy-in. Her success and exten- practical experience before applying to could be safe during their often lengthy sive area volunteer work landed her on law school. After graduation, she went transition periods, among many complex Chicago Scholars’ annual “35 Under 35 to work for Allstate in Chicago as part of company subcultures,” Hasan recalls. Young Leaders Making an Impact” list. its Leadership Development Program. Some fallout, of course, was inevitable. At Berkeley Law, Hasan is associate Hasan promptly became the youngest “With any diversity issue, there editor of the California Law Review,

person ever appointed to the company’s can be resistance,” she says. “I found academic empowerment chair of the SINDEL SHOEY

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RACHEL DELETTO (3X) given inapool of 3,400 applicants. As from Sallie Mae—one of four awards bang, receiving a$20,000 scholarship Procedure. Support Program fellow for 1LsinCivil Coalition for Diversity, and anAcademic students, the group recruits, supports, co-founder Sadaf Tabatabai ‘19. Led by launching Women inTech Law with tion right now,” she says. startup space issuch abig conversa- leadership roles inthe technology and inequalities of women versus men in landscape. “It felt so obvious since the within UC Berkeley’s dynamic tech no groups that focused women on Kakonwas surprisedto a1L, As find KON ’19YARDEN KA I didn’t have to uproot my son from schedule into afew days per week, alma mater. return to Berkeley, her undergrad more flexible. that her 2Land 3Lyears would be old son’s routines, she understood to home to sustain her now 9-year- starting at adifferent school closer trickier for Gonzalez than most. After The law school-juggling can act be ’19 GONZALEZ KATIE sibility quickly, and Ithink that’s what I ous capacities. “It was alot of respon Defense, supporting reservists invari- and also worked for the Department of physically and mentally,” he says. the military, Iwanted to push myself experience and team environment of on the world.” Draw n to the “practical about having some sort of influence Harris “became really passionate While studying abroad inGermany, MICHAEL DAVID HARRIS’20 She ended her own 1Lyear with a Kakon promptly filled that void by “Since I’m able to arrange my That allowed her to transfer and Harris joined the Army Reserves - different way of approaching a conflict “Women have adifferent perspective,a offer insights and recruit members. Kakon gladly reports, has reached out to Virtually every Bay Area tech-law firm, or engineering isrequired for success. notion that adegree incomputer science male-dominated sector—and dispels the lenges of entering and thriving ina ship, and educational resources. ed inthe field through outreach, mentor and empowers women who areinterest parents.” dent great about providing support for stu and access to jobs. Berkeley isalso student organizations, clinical work, in terms of courses to choose from, “Berkeley Law has more opportunities his school and our family,” she says. you’re allthinking, ‘How do we get mission, that’s put to the side. Instead, Harris says. “But when you start a ferent political and ideological beliefs,” a valuable support network. Association of Military Veterans has been the community right away.” The school’s ability to engage in“real client work in for its public-service mission and the you.” how far you can go until it’s pushed upon needed,” Harris says. “You’re never sure essay on colorism among South Asian big law firm,” says Hasan, whose recent she willwork next summer. from Kirkland &EllisinChicago, where received a$25,000 Diversity Fellowship the summer wound down, she also “It’s really encouraging,” she says. In doing so, it highlights the chal - “In the military, people have very dif- That mindset led himto Berkeley Law, “I’d love to eventually practice at a - - - spective and value that you need.’” negative. We’re saying: ‘We have aper narrative about these differences being challenges. One of our goals isto flip the dealing with colleagues, clients, and or aproblem, adifferent demeanor in beliefs.’” together because we have different in mind instead of saying ‘we can’t work country should also keep those values law school, acity, acommunity, and a the team more effective?’ I a think this done together? How do we make —Kim Westerman culture from the inside.” inclusion, and I’d like to transform that Law really struggles with diversity and in ananthology by NYUPress. “Big tal marketplaces willsoon be published women communities insocial and digi- experience it as ateam.” He loves Berkeley Law, and we get to aged to work towards hisgoals, too. through law school, and he’s encour says. “He gets to see me work my way when it gets challenging? and the school’s Parent Network. And Clinic, the Foster Education Project, La Raza Workers’ and Tenants’ Rights professional goals. They include the that resonate with her personal and by getting involved instudent groups week, Gonzalez has built community “I have my son as motivation,” she On campus only afew days per - - Updates from Development & Alumni NEW LEADER DRIVEN Relations TO INCREASE ENGAGEMENT

TEAM BUILDER: Mary Briese Matheron is eager to help coalesce the Berkeley Law community.

which she attended from 1974 to 1978, she endured a particularly brutal loss to Penn State. “We nicknamed it the cher- ry turnover game because we made so many errors. Our play was really awful,” she recalls. “Afterwards, in the locker room, a group of us said, ‘OK, it’s time. Who wants to play? Who wants to step up? Who wants to be serious?’” The following year, What would the world be like Matheron says. “He’s so genu- Maryland won its conference if Berkeley Law didn’t exist? ine and cares so deeply about and reached the national New Assistant Dean for the school.” But, she adds, he championship game. Development and Alumni needs help. “That season didn’t begin Relations Mary Briese Matheron says Berkeley in September, it began in Matheron doesn’t mean for Law has “abundant people February of the year before,” this question to be dramatic. resources,” citing a dedicated Matheron says, drawing the Instead, she wants to inspire dean, brilliant faculty, accom- corollary that now is the time alums to consider how much plished clinic and center lead- for Berkeley Law to seize the the law school has given to ers, and exceptional students moment for its own turning them, to the legal profession, who value the school’s public point. and to the world. mission. “But we’re stymied If substantially increas- Matheron started her new by the lack of resources,” she ing alumni participation and post in July after successful laments. giving represents the cham- law school alumni develop- For Chemerinsky, such pionship, Matheron says her ment stints at Yale and resources are integral to team’s preseason work is to Georgetown. Berkeley Law’s long-term suc- break down silos within the She knew Berkeley Law was cess. “This requires a signifi- Berkeley Law community and unique—both in its strong cant increase in our develop- build a meaningful, ongoing commitment to public service ment efforts,” he says. “Mary intermingling of graduates, and its notable financial obsta- is the perfect person—in students, and faculty. cles—compared with other experience, philosophy, and In other words, doing more top schools. Just one meeting temperament—to lead this to engage alumni in the life of with Dean Erwin Chemerinsky effort.” the school. persuaded her to embrace this Matheron draws her leader- Chemerinsky is confident new challenge. ship approach from her time Matheron will achieve that. “I “Erwin is a strong, expe- as a college basketball player know she’ll be a huge hit with rienced administrator and and coach. While playing for our alumni,” he says. Advancement

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30 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 CLASSROOM DEDICATED IN CHOPER’S NAME

Even in a 15-minute ceremony, the flood of Advancement accolades flowing toward Professor Emeritus Jesse Choper was overwhelming. Friends and colleagues gushed about Choper while dedicating Classroom 130 in his name. The May event capped an inspiring alumni campaign that raised more than $1 million for the honor. Calling him “a legendary teacher, a terrific scholar, and an exemplary administrator,” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said that Choper’s “true legacy is the thousands of eager minds he so skillfully honed.” Choper, 83, joined Berkeley Law in 1965 and fast became an immensely popular professor and one REASON TO CELEBRATE: Jesse Choper gets a congratulatory hug from fellow professor emeritus Robert of America’s most prominent Cole after a classroom dedication ceremony in Choper’s honor. legal scholars. Students coveted his Constitutional emotionally and financially.” For more than 50 years, Academy of Arts and Law, Corporate Law, and Former Berkeley Law Boalt Hall has been the cen- Sciences’ executive coun- Supreme Court courses, Alumni Association President ter of my life.” cil, and as the Order of the and his Constitutional Law Stu Gordon ’65 added, “You’ve Chemerinsky read state- Coif’s national president. textbook (12th edition) and meant so much to the school, ments from alums who could A California Horse Racing Corporations textbook (8th) so much to every one of us, not attend the ceremony. Board member since are staples among U.S. law and so much to me as one of U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of 2006, he was also UC schools. my dearest friends.” Appeals Judge Amul Thapar Berkeley’s Faculty Athletics Berkeley Law’s dean from Choper, who clerked for ’94 wrote that Choper has Representative. 1982 to 1992, Choper over- U.S. Supreme Court Chief “been the most influential Chemerinsky noted that saw major improvements Justice Earl Warren ’14, teacher in my life. … I was the late Sanford Kadish, in the first-year writing came to Berkeley after delighted to learn that some- Choper’s predecessor as program, judicial clerkship teaching at the University one of your pedigree was so dean, described how he placements, and fundrais- of Pennsylvania and the approachable and committed “devoted himself unsparing- ing. Friend and former stu- University of Minnesota. to mentorship.” ly to the needs of the school dent Mario Rosati ’71 said, Honored many times Choper served on the and the university,” had an “He really reached out to throughout his career, he Association of American Law “extraordinary quickness of the alumni and got them said, “Nothing means as Schools’ executive com- mind,” and was “without pre-

JIM BLOCK BLOCK JIM involved in the law school much to me as today’s event. mittee, on the American tentions.” —Andrew Cohen

TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 31 DOING THEIR SCHOOL PROUD

Varied as their career living in subsidized housing ley Law in 1980, helped hired me, what I knew about journeys may be, Berkeley in a rough area, her parents found the field of law and law you could write on an Law’s 2018 Citation instilled optimism—and the economics. He co-authored aspirin tablet,” he said, Award trio share a deep importance of education. the subject’s seminal text- thanking his colleagues “for appreciation for how the At Berkeley Law, Ta helped book—translated into nine taking an enormous gamble Advancement school paved those paths. launch the Coalition for Diver- languages and downloaded on me.” Young Alumni Award win- sity, served on the Admis- more than 400,000 times. Of Nellis’ many real estate ner Quyen Ta ’03 said, “Being sions Committee, and worked “If there was a Hall of projects, he is proudest of part of this institution made with the International Human Fame for law professors, two UC outside counsel roles: all the difference for me.” Rights Law Clinic and the Robert Cooter would be cho- creation of the UC Merced Faculty Lifetime Achievement Asian American Law Journal. sen on the first ballot,” Dean campus and the UCSF Medi- Award winner Robert Cooter Now a partner at Boies Erwin Chemerinsky said. cal Center at Mission Bay. described his professorship Schiller Flexner, she has won “Very few professors can say Nellis spent 18 years at as “the greatest job in the many awards for her profes- they’re responsible for creat- Orrick, Herrington & Sut- world.” Citation Award winner sional achievements and ing a new field.” cliffe after 30 at Morrison & Noel Nellis ’66 called Berke- efforts to diversify the legal Cooter, who co-founded Foerster, chairing both real ley Law “one of my proudest profession. the Latin American and estate departments and associations.” “For women, people of Caribbean Law and Econom- helping them expand into Ta was just two when color, people who grew up ics Association and the global firms. her family fled Vietnam’s poor like me … my story is Berkeley Electronic Press, Dubbed “Mr. Berkeley” for humanitarian crises of the as likely as winning the Mega has co-taught many courses his relentless UC volunteer late 1970s, eventually set- Millions lottery,” she said. with lawyers. work, he was president of tling in San Jose. Despite Cooter, who joined Berke- “When this law school the Berkeley Law Alumni Association, helped created the Berkeley Center for Law and Business, and chaired capital campaigns. “The quality of the law school begins with the faculty,” said Nellis, a UC Berkeley Foundation trustee. “I was very fortunate to be taught by so many extraordinary professors.” “This truly is an incred- ibly distinguished group,” Chemerinsky said of the trio. “Our Citation Award committee could not have possibly made better selections.” —Andrew Cohen

MEDAL WORTHY: Citation Award winner Noel Nellis ’66 (left), Young Alumni Award winner Quyen Ta ’03, and Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award winner

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32 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 BERKELEY OPERATION LAW ALUMNI OUTREACH ASSOCIATION The Berkeley Law Alumni Association continues to expand and evolve under BOARD OF new president Karen Boyd ’96. DIRECTORS The association’s board members • Run a pilot program in Los Angeles work to foster Berkeley Law’s tradition

for Berkeley Law alumni who have President Advancement of educational excellence; strengthen left the Bay Area as a model for other Karen Boyd ’96 relationships among alumni, faculty, geographic centers nationally and Vice Presidents and students; and promote the devel- globally; and opment of law school resources. Carly O’Halloran Alameda ’06 The founding partner of Turner Boyd • Increase alumni engagement and Duane Valz ’96 in Redwood City and an adjunct lec- financial support to help address Directors turer at the law school from 2002 to priorities around scholarship, public Gregory Call ’85 2009, Boyd cites three main priorities service, and the other important Michael Charlson ’85 for the board during the coming year: work of the school and alumni community. Paul Clark ’80 • Expand the Admitted Students Benson Cohen ’04 Outreach Committee’s successful Nancy Fineman ’86 Board members serve three-year work this year in recruiting African- (communications chair) terms. They commit to helping the American students to reach out to Bill Friedman ’11 school with fundraising and to being other historically under-represented Tyler Gerking ’02 actively involved through efforts such communities; (fundraising chair) as mentoring current students, host- Sonia Gonzales ’07 ing events, and recruiting prospective Yury Kapgan ’01 students. Jennifer Kobayashi ’01 “This is a very exciting time to be John Kuo ’88 engaged with our law school,” Boyd (past president) says. “There’s a renewed sense of spirit David Larwood ’86 under Dean Chemerinsky’s leadership, Gloria Lee ’04 and it’s great to see more people want- Jose Luis Lopez ’09 ing to get involved.” —Andrew Cohen Mark Lubin ’77 (treasurer) Tam Ma ’11 Michael Martinez ’78 Nicole Ozer ’03 Spencer Pahlke ’07 Lynn Pasahow ’72 (mentorship chair, past president) Jay Purcell ’11 (secretary) Smita Rajmohan ’14 Cara Sandberg ’12 (recruiting chair) Jay Shafran ’63 REUNION REVELRY: David Zapolsky ’88 Anhthu Le ’04 and her husband Yusef Alexandrine ’07, Race Student Representative and the Law panelist Travis Mitchell ’19 Eva Paterson ’75, and photo bomber Nicole Nicoladis ’93 enjoy the Faculty Advisor festivities at Alumni Jonathan Simon ’87 Reunion Weekend. JIM BLOCK (4X) BLOCK JIM

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All in the Notes Alumni Family

regional strategy practice of Best Lawyers in America Your 1955 from Virginia’s Piedmont for the 22nd consecutive J. Clifford Wallace received region to The Woodlands, year. Founder and name Classmates the national medal of honor Texas. He is working to com- partner of McManis Faulkner Want to Hear from the Daughters of the plete his third book on in San Jose, he was also American Revolution. human settlement patterns named a 2018 Northern From You! (the first two are available California Super Lawyer. on Amazon.com). Myron Sugarman, a trusts CONTACT US and estates lawyer, joined the 1966 new San Francisco office of BY EMAIL Michael Tigar published Loeb & Loeb. A UC Berkeley [email protected] Mythologies of State and Foundation advisory trustee, Monopoly Power, an acerbic he is consistently recognized BY MAIL collection of essays. It in Chambers High Net Worth Development & reveals and deconstructs and Best Lawyers in America. Alumni Relations mythologies surrounding the University of California, 1960 U.S. criminal justice system, Paul Crost, who practiced Berkeley, School of Law James Willett of Downey racism, free expression, labor and employment law 224 Boalt Hall #7200 Brand was named a 2018 workers’ rights, and interna- for 40 years representing Berkeley, CA 94720-7200 Top Lawyer by Sacramento tional human rights. unions and employees, Magazine. retired from Reich, Adell, Crost & Cvitan and now 1967 focuses on mediation and 1965 Michael Dean was named to arbitration. A Best Lawyer Michael Halloran is the co- the 2019 edition of Best selection since 1987, he is a founder of Halloran Farkas + Lawyers in America. A part- commissioner on the Los Kittila, which has grown to ner at Wendel Rosen Black & Angeles County Employee seven lawyers since launch- Dean, he has been on the list Relations Commission. ing on January 1, 2017. The every year since its incep- firm focuses on corporate tion in 1983. Michael was and complex commercial also named a Northern 1968 matters with attorneys in California Super Lawyer. Mark Reutlinger, professor five locations nationwide. emeritus at Seattle James McManis was University School of Law, E.M. Risse relocated his selected to the 2019 edition recently published the third

34 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 edition of his Washington State Bar’s Access to Justice Administration. He had been Wills and Intestate Committee. A business litiga- deputy counsel and deputy Succession. tion lawyer, he has practiced assistant to the President, at Ice Miller in Columbus and previously served as since 1985. the first director of the Department of Homeland Charles Hansen of Wendel Security’s Office of Rosen Black & Dean Counternarcotics appeared in the 2019 edition Enforcement. of Best Lawyers in America for the 13th consecutive 1983 Karin Immergut was nomi- year. He was also named a Anna Elento-Sneed, presi- nated to fill a federal court Northern California Super dent of ES&A, Inc., was rated judgeship in Multnomah Lawyer. one of Hawaii’s top labor and County, Oregon. She has 1971 employment lawyers by presided over more than Bill Bedsworth is now the Chambers USA 2018. She 250 trials in state court as longest-serving justice ever 1978 achieved a Band 1 ranking, an Oregon circuit court in California’s Fourth District Holly Fujie, a Los Angeles the highest tier awarded, and judge, which followed her six Court of Appeal, Division 3. County Superior Court judge, has been ranked every year years as Oregon’s U.S. He was honored by the Board presided over the marriage of since 2007. attorney. of Trial Advocates’ California Alice Zone and Andrew chapter with its first-ever judi- Martinez, the son of Fujie’s Adrienne Lotson was cial award—named the classmate Michael Martinez. 1984 named president of the William W. Bedsworth Judicial Kurt Eggert sings in a choir Dartmouth College Alumni Civility Award. that appeared on “America’s Council. An administrative 1979 Got Talent!” A professor at law judge and hearing offi- Andrew Demetriou has been Chapman University Fowler cer in New York City, she 1973 nominated for a three-year School of Law, he performed was the first African- Les Hausrath of Wendel term on the ABA’s Board of with the Angel City American woman enforce- Rosen Black & Dean was Governors, representing Chorale—which got a ment representative for the selected to the 2019 edition California. He is a partner at “golden buzzer” that National Collegiate Athletic of Best Lawyers in America Lamb and Kawakami in Los skipped them to the live Association. and named a Northern Angeles. shows. California Super Lawyer. Maria Stratton was Steven Morger, a partner at 1988 appointed as a judge on the Wendel Rosen Black & Dean, Joyce Wallach joined 1974 California 2nd District Court has been named a Northern Ferguson Case Orr Paterson Mark Greenfield joined of Appeal. She had been a California Super Lawyer. as of counsel in the firm’s Norton Rose Fulbright as a Los Angeles County Superior Ventura office. She brings partner in its Los Angeles Court judge since 2006. more than 30 years of expe- office. He represents private 1985 rience specializing in busi- equity sponsors, corporate Peter Hsiao joined King & ness and corporate law. acquirers, and sell-side 1981 Spalding as a partner to entrepreneurs in sophisti- Monica Dell’Osso, a partner head its environmental team cated mergers, acquisitions, at Wendel Rosen Black & on the West Coast. 1989 and divestiture activity. Dean, was selected to the David Aladjem, a partner at 2019 edition of Best Lawyers Downey Brand, was recog- in America for the 14th con- 1987 nized on Sacramento 1977 secutive year and was also Uttam Dhillon was named Magazine’s 2018 Top John Gilligan was re- named a Northern California as acting administrator of Lawyers list. He was also appointed as chair of the Ohio Super Lawyer. the U.S. Drug Enforcement named Best of the Bar

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2018 by the Sacramento partner and chair of its cyber- at Reed Smith (San County Public Defender’s Business Journal. security and privacy practice. Francisco), was elected as Office, the oldest and largest Working out of the firm’s secretary-treasurer of the (about 700 lawyers) in the Baltimore and Washington California Academy of country. He had worked as a offices, she returns after a Appellate Lawyers. supervising attorney in the year as senior minority coun- San Diego County Public sel for the U.S. Senate Select Defender’s Office and as Committee on Intelligence criminal justice director for investigation into Russia’s the American Civil Liberties alleged interference in the Union of Southern California. 2016 presidential election.

Kevin Chechak, an FBI Joseph Lee joined Hewlett 1996 supervisory special agent in Packard Enterprise (Palo Margaret Wu was promoted the bureau’s Office of the Alto) as vice president/ to deputy general counsel for General Counsel, has been associate general counsel, Michelle Gonzalez is the litigation and capital strate- appointed unit chief of the heading up the IP sales and director of Washington gies at the University of FBI Legal Instruction Unit in licensing team. State’s new Women’s California Office of the General Quantico, Virginia. Commission, which will Counsel. advise the governor, the leg- 1993 islature, and state agencies 1991 Arnold Brown is the new on issues affecting women— 1997 James Abrams, a partner at leader of Schwabe’s technol- such as domestic violence, Kacy Keys was profiled in Greene Radovsky Maloney, ogy industry group. He has child care and support, sex- the Los Angeles Times. She was named a Northern been a technology entrepre- ual harassment, equal com- heads development in the California Super Lawyer for neur, in-house and outside pensation, access to govern- West for Seritage Growth the sixth time in the last counsel, and leader of tech- ment services, and barriers Properties, which is convert- seven years. nology standards-setting for women of color. ing many former department organizations. stores to new uses. Konrad Moore, who spent Chan Lee was elected to the most of his professional board of directors at Pro career defending indigent peo- Bono Partnership, which pro- 1998 ple accused in criminal provides free business and Cecilia Estolano was ceedings, started a website transactional legal services appointed to the UC Board of called ProvocativeTalk.com. to nonprofits in Connecticut, Regents. She is the co-founder New Jersey, and New York. and CEO of Estolano LeSar North American general Advisors, an urban planning 1992 counsel at Sanofi, Chan was and public policy firm. Ronald Boyer published The also named a Justice in Blue Wave Starts with Me, Action Honoree by the Asian which he wrote “for 1994 American Legal Defense and 2000 people who have never Elizabeth Camacho was pro- Education Fund. Esha Bandyopadhyay joined volunteered with a moted to partner in Loeb & Fish & Richardson’s Silicon campaign before who Loeb’s Los Angeles office. Michelle Waites was re- Valley office as a principal in are thinking that they She works on land use and elected to the national board the litigation practice group. are not going to sit development law and repre- of directors of Lambda Legal. She has vast experience out 2018 and they are not sents clients in connection counseling and representing going to sit out 2020.” with development projects Fortune 100 companies, across varied sectors. 1995 startups, and inventors in IP April Doss rejoined Saul Ricardo Garcia was chosen commercial litigation mat- Ewing Arnstein & Lehr as a Raymond Cardozo, a partner to lead the Los Angeles ters. Esha also works to

36 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 ROD GILMORE ’86 DUAL THREAT TACKLES FOOTBALL AND LAW Rod Gilmore played football and baseball at Stanford, went to a Top 10 law school, and now enjoys double-career success as a lawyer and ESPN college football analyst. But his achievements are a study in determination and details, not privilege and prestige. Doty Barlow Britt & Thieman. “My plan didn’t work out,” he says. “I wanted to combine His priorities in both forums: streamlined storytelling. sports and law and work for a team in Major League Baseball “Clients and players have a story,” Gilmore says. “You have or the National Football League. I got close a couple times, but to understand those stories and convey them concisely. As it never happened.” an analyst, you may see five intriguing things on a play, but Gilmore worked at a Los Angeles firm after law school, you can’t discuss them all. Same mindset practicing law: Don’t and later he became a transactional partner at a firm in San overload your client with extra detail. Synthesize the informa- Francisco. Yet as his legal career took flight, his quest to work tion, highlight the key content, and move forward.” in sports stayed grounded. As for the public scrutiny that he gets as a national broad- In the early 1990s, however, Gilmore was asked to discuss caster, thick skin has long been part of Gilmore’s world. His sports law issues on a local radio show. Soon after, he filled in father was the first African American elected to Oakland’s city for some Stanford football and baseball broadcasts. That led to council, and his wife was Alameda’s first African-American a larger role on Sports Channel Bay Area and an analyst spot mayor. on the Pac-12 Network’s Game of the Week. Gilmore’s fortitude absorbed another significant challenge “Then, out of the blue, ESPN calls in 1996 saying they’re ex- in 2016, when he was diagnosed with blood cancer (multiple panding their college football coverage,” he says. “They invited myeloma). me to audition, and here we are 22 years later.” “There’s no definitive cure yet, but lots of good treatments,” In addition to his weekly game analyst duties during college he says. “Things are going in the right direction. If I’d skipped football season, Gilmore appears on ESPN studio shows and my annual physical in 2016, 2017 would have been my last contributes to “SportsCenter” and “Outside the Lines.” He now year. I’m grateful for the chance to keep doing what I love.” splits his time between broadcasting and practicing law at —Andrew Cohen

advance women and minori- tion’s coal program and its of Developers Alliance, sup- fourth book, Amsterdam ties in technology and law. vice president of litigation porting professional growth Exposed, which won the for climate and energy. for developers. She was Hollywood Book Festival’s named to the San Francisco grand prize. It takes place

Rafael Mandelman was Business Times’ Most during David’s 3L year at

elected to the San Francisco Influential Women in Bay Berkeley Law, when was an Board of Supervisors. Area Business list in 2017, exchange student in and to its 40 under 40 and Holland. Marek Reavis is the public 50 Women in Tech

defender in Humboldt County Dominating Silicon Valley after serving as interim pub- lists in 2015. 2002 lic defender since March. He Sabra Truesdale, associate previously worked as a dep- Audrey Scott leads the new general counsel of intellec- Abigail Dillen was named uty public defender at the San Francisco office of Loeb tual property at Western president of Earthjustice, Conflict Counsel Office. & Loeb. Her practice focuses Digital, was featured in a the nation’s largest environ- on a broad range of estate story in Modern Counsel mental nonprofit. She previ- Neha Sampat, a proponent planning issues. magazine about how focus- ously served as managing of diversity and women in ing on fitness and wellness attorney of the organiza- leadership, sits on the board David Weinir published his can help unite a company.

TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 37 CINDY TOBISMAN ’98 2005 Brooke Killian Kim, litigation partner at DLA Piper in San A NOVEL Diego, has been named a IDEA FOR 2018 Rising Star attorney by LEGAL Law360. THRILLERS 2006 Joshua Weishart, a profes- While accepting the Harper Lee Award for Legal Fiction in August, Cindy Tobisman said she sor at West Virginia “wanted to create a lawyer-character for whom justice was not an abstract idea ... a character who University College of Law, understood the law as a tool to make the world a better place, especially for people who have the won the school’s Significant cards stacked against them.” Scholarship Award for “Equal Proof—part legal thriller, part action-adventure tale—answers this call. Written under the name Liberty in Proportion.” It says C.E. Tobisman, it’s the second novel in Tobisman’s Caroline Auden series (a sequel to the highly state courts lack suitable regarded Doubt). review standards on educa- While grieving the death of a grandmother, the protagonist uncovers illegal practices by the wo- tion cases to properly man’s former care home. This knowledge puts Auden’s life in danger, forcing her to go on the run. enforce education laws, and Tobisman took a somewhat circuitious path to becoming a novelist. After earning her B.A in Rhe- recommends new standards. toric from UC Berkeley in 1992—Phi Beta Kappa and the department’s top student—she waited tables at a pool hall in Emeryville and made digeridoos in her backyard to sell at music stores. After deciding to attend law school, Tobisman applied to only one. Berkeley Law accepted her 2008 application, and she focused on appellate law. Now a partner at Greines, Martin, Stein & Richland in Robyn Christo, an attorney Los Angeles, she has been in Best Lawyers in America (Appellate Law) each of the past six years. at Epstein Law Firm in San The through line of Tobisman’s legal career and fiction craft? “Creativity,” she says. “Appellate Rafael, was selected to the law is creative. There isn’t some monolithic ‘law’ out there, waiting to be found. Courts render Northern California Super disparate opinions on tangentially relevant fact patterns. It’s an appellate attorney’s job to find and Lawyers’ Rising Stars list for then synthesize what’s out there and turn it into a persuasive argument.” the seventh time. No more Because she writes long appellate briefs for a living, Tobisman anticipated a smooth transition than 2.5 percent of the to writing novels. But, as she quickly learned, “there’s no ‘good time’ to write. Life is always busy state’s lawyers are chosen. and no one ever taps you on the shoulder and tells you it’s time. I treat my life like Swiss cheese—I write in the holes.” Jordan Diamond was If waiting in line at the grocery store, she’s tapping out ideas for a character. If driving to an ap- appointed to the California pointment, she’s dictating a scene to email herself later. Every instance furthers her lifelong dream Ocean Protection Council. of writing fiction. The executive director of “A book is magic,” Tobisman says. “You can time-travel, you can experience other people’s lives. Berkeley Law’s Center for Storytelling is hardwired into us. That’s how we process our existence and make sense of our Law, Energy & the world.” —Kim Westerman Environment and co-director of its Law of the Sea Institute, she is the youngest member of the council’s 2003 2004 leadership team. Don Miller was promoted to Jeewon Serrato joined partner at Loeb & Loeb’s Los Norton Rose Fulbright as Shawn Gebhardt joined the Angeles office. He has liti- head of its data protection, Chicago office of Ulmer & gated IP and entertainment privacy, and cybersecurity Berne in its business litiga- issues for major clients in unit. She also serves on the tion practice group. He was the motion picture, televi- U.S. Department of Homeland honored last year by the sion, music, and book pub- Security’s Data Privacy and National Immigrant Justice lishing industries. Integrity Advisory Committee. Center as a Rising Star for his

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pro bono work in complex immigration cases and In Memoriam ensuring access to justice. Siegfried D. Hesse ’50 James R. Farrand ’71 Brian K. Lewinstein ’20 John W. Holmdahl ’51 Rex R. Perschbacher ’72 —— Bernard M. King ’52 Wesley Y. Chang ’73 Barrie C. Altenhof D.C. Kinsell, Jr. ’52 Raymond E. Shine ’73 Doroth Bachand Eugene Garfinkle ’54 Marcia J. Wilson ’73 Georgia V. Becker Joseph Mast ’55 Taylor R. Culver ’75 Peter Berck Bruce P. Dohrmann ’56 Gerhard Frohlich ’75 Alice V. Chetkovich Harry A. Jackson ’56 John R. Plotz ’75 Ann G. Feldman Robert H. Laws, Jr. ’56 Diane L. Silva ’76 Lois Gill Jay W. Powell ’59 Roberta K. Spurgeon ’76 Milton L. McGhee ’60 Frank T. Ramirez ’77 Doris Shoong Lee John Poppin ’61 Jane M. Gisevius ’78 Kenneth H. Hoffmann Donald R. Hopkins ’65 Charles R. Pengilly ’80 Harmon K. Howard, Jr. Patrick A. Murphy ’65 Jennifer B. Hammett ’81 Nancy Rice Kibbey W. Paul Foster ’66 Craig T. Cuden ’82 Margaret J. Miller 2009 Nicholas I. Goyak ’66 Thomas D. Nevins III ’83 Cyril M. Peletz Darius Graham is the new Roger C. Peters ’66 David B. Rosenberg ’84 Harvey Peskin David P. Curnow ’67 Stephen D. Treuer ’84 Jacki Fox Ruby program director at the Harry G. Kip Edwards ’71 Melissa Clayton Tydlaska ’00 Stephen R. Reinhardt and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, one of the nation’s largest private foun- dations. A former World AN ENDURING LEGACY Economic Forum Global A towering international law presence who taught for 26 Shaper, Darius has been years at Berkeley Law, David Caron ’83 was fondly remem- named by the Baltimore bered by top scholars in the field—including many former Business Journal as one of students—at a September conference honoring his career. the city’s 40 Under 40. Caron died in February at age 65. Colleagues recalled his dynamic classes, scholarship, and mentorship at a memorial Francisco Moreno (LL.M.) service and daylong conference that addressed myriad in- was appointed by Chilean ternational law topics. “The reach and significance of David’s President Sebastian Piñera work is overwhelming,” Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said. as Undersecretary of A Berkeley Law professor from 1987 to 2013, Caron co-led the school’s Miller Institute for Finance. During Piñera’s first Global Challenges and the Law and, with Professor Harry Scheiber, its internationally reco- administration, Francisco gnized Law of the Sea Institute. Caron became dean at Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s served as the Ministry of College London in 2013 and stayed as a professor after leaving the deanship in 2016. Planning’s chief of staff He held many high-level positions in international law and dispute resolution, including (2010-11) and as the judgeships in The Hague at the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal and International Court of Justice. Ministry of Finance’s head of Caron also was president of the American Society of International Law and the Institute for legislative affairs (2011-14). Transnational Arbitration. A 1974 Coast Guard Academy graduate who spent five additional years as an officer and Sarah-Jane Morin was named deep-sea diver, Caron was the academy’s 2014 Distinguished Alumnus of the Year. a partner at Morgan Lewis Fellow Berkeley Law professor, international law scholar, and veteran Richard Buxbaum ’53 (San Francisco), where she cited Caron’s military background as a driver of his pragmatic scholarship. International Court focuses on tax law issues. of Justice Judge Joan Donoghue ’81 agreed, saying “Whenever I’m working on a topic and discover David has written something on it, I’m just like Goldilocks—the bowl of porridge is just right. On topic after topic, David was able to synthesize and integrate the right balance.” 2011 Friends recalled how Caron graciously hosted Berkeley alums with his wife Susan, sang Tam Ma was appointed beautifully at Am Jur shows, and played Santa Claus at the school’s annual holiday party. assistant secretary of the Asa Solway ’09, who last year created a field placement program with Caron for Berkeley California Health and Human Law students in The Hague, hailed his “rare ability to be both larger than life and immensely Services Agency’s Office of personable. I’m forever grateful to have known him as a friend, colleague, and mentor.” Program and Fiscal Affairs.

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Growing up in the quintessential California beach town of Santa Cruz, Greg Adams never imagined the U.S. Marine Corps in his future. But during his very first week of college, 9/11 shook the world—and his own personal path. As the magnitude of the attacks sank in, 2012 Adams came to see them as his generation’s Shruti Chopra (LL.M.), an IP Pearl Harbor. and corporate associate at Rather than going to law school right after graduating from UC Berkeley, he found himself dis- Morrison Cohen, was cussing Officer Candidate School with a Marine recruiter. “A friend of mine had died in Fallujah, selected as a Young Lawyer and military service was on my mind after 9/11,” Adams says. “Something just clicked.” Fellow by the ABA’s Section The Marine Corps offered all officer candidates an initial six-month intensive leadership trai- of Intellectual Property Law. ning at The Basic School in Quantico, Virginia. Adams used that training to become an effective She is co-chair of the ABA leader of fellow Marines while holding “a strong idea that I’d attend law school eventually.” Privacy, Cybersecurity, & After two deployments in short succession as a logistics officer, he was accepted into the Digital Rights Committee. Marine Corps’ highly competitive Funded Law Education Program. With a full law school scholarship, he returned to Cal and enrolled at Berkeley Law. After graduating, Adams was sent to Rachel Jones was Camp Lejeune in North Carolina to work in criminal prosecution for three years. appointed as a judge at the “Trial by fire,” Adams says. “Within a year, I was taking on felony-level cases. I quickly became Sitka Superior Court in comfortable with discomfort as I assumed positions of increasing responsibility.” Alaska. He was put on the high-profile United States v. Hassoun trial in 2015 and then got assigned to the complex trial team, tackling difficult cases involving sexual assault and child pornogra- Rabiah Rahman joined phy. When his three-year stint ended, Adams and his family returned to The Basic School in Myers, Widders, Gibson, Virginia. Jones & Feingold, based in Now a Marine Corps Judge Advocate and Major, Adams plans to leave active duty next sum- Ventura, as an employment mer and transition to the reserves. He already has two judicial clerkships lined up: first with and labor law associate. Trevor McFadden at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, then with Edith Brown Clement at the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Having just welcomed a fourth child to his family, Adams is grateful for his time with the 2013 Marines and ready for what lies ahead. Samona Taylor joined the “I accomplished what I set out to on active duty, which was a tremendous experience,” he California Department of says. “It’s important for me to be the best attorney I can be, and now it’s time to offer my family Justice as a deputy attorney more stability.” —Kim Westerman general in the Health, Education, and Welfare section (San Francisco). Arevik Stepanyan has joined previously was a litigation Sacks, Glazier, Franklin & associate with Gibson, Dunn 2017 Lodise as an associate. She & Crutcher. Marco Zorzi (LL.M.) is the 2015 first counsel outside the U.S. Laura Iris Mattes joined for Udacity, Inc., a Silicon Outten & Golden’s San 2016 Valley startup that provides Francisco office as an asso- Shane Young joined Outten & timely digital education ser- ciate in the firm’s class Golden’s New York City office. vices in fields that include action practice group after He had been a fellow at the self-driving cars, artificial clerking for federal judge National Basketball Players intelligence, and robotics. William Orrick III (Northern Association, the labor union He works in the company’s District of California). for NBA players. Berlin office.

40 TRANSCRIPT FALL 2018 JIM BLOCK POSTSCRIPT ’19, Berkeley Journal of Criminal Law; Drew Washington Conde ’19, California Law Review; Alycia Tulloch ’19, Journal of African American Law &Policy; Djenab dents of color and has 28 African Americans. within the school, whose 1Lclass is46percent stu title simultaneously. It reflects agrowing diversity in-chief at Berkeley Law journals, the most to hold that students African-American Five editors- arecurrent Reaching Higher Ground From left to right: Saxon Cropper-Sykes ’20, Berkeley Berkeley Journal of Entertainment &Sports Law; -

path to these positions.” our own communities that they too have aright and a drives our legal community, and signals to individuals of cally “gives us avoice inshaping the scholarship that dents of color generally and African Americans specifi- diversity within top journal positions,” Cropper-Sykes says. including academia, “it’s extremely important to have greater Travis Mitchell ’19, Berkeley Business Law Journal. Washington agrees, noting that representation of stu Given the racial inequities throughout the legal profession, - University of California, Berkeley NON-PROFIT Office of Communications ORGANIZATION U.S. POSTAGE Boalt Hall PAID Berkeley, CA 94720-7200 UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

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