Latest News as of 4/19/12

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1) Sign up for Commencement
2) 3 more jurors needed for Sat.
3) Resrch Conf Topics
4) Law-related Course Update
5) Life after Cal
6) Graduating?

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1) Sign up for Commencement

Sign up for Commencement

DEADLINE is Friday April 20

Pick up Tickets:

Where: Lauri’s office
When: Mon 4/23  -  Fri 4/27
Hours: 8:30-12 or 1:30-4

If you need to buy additional tickets, please make sure you enter your name in the online form so Business Services at Boalt will know who made the purchase.

Last day to purchase tickets: Thursday May 10th.
Pick up in Lauri’s office Friday May 11th.

There will be no tickets at the door the day of the ceremony.

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2) 3 more jurors needed

3 more jurors needed

(Note from Lauri: this is a great opportunity for any of you who would like to see how a Boalt course works and watch some amazing law students in action.)
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Perhaps the best way to understand the legal process is to serve as a juror.

We would like to offer the Legal Studies majors the opportunity to serve as jurors in Professors Cynthia McGuinn and Rich Schoenberger’s Advanced Trial Prep class’ final trials at Berkeley Law.

This Saturday, April 21, the students will conduct a full on jury trial including short jury selection, opening statements, direct and cross examinations and closing arguments.  Most of the students have extensive experience in Mock Trial competitions.

We are looking for 8-10 jurors to observe the trial and conduct deliberations in a very interesting child endangerment case!  Broken bones, felonies, intrigue!  What could be more interesting!

The trials will be held from approximately 8:00 to 3:00 p.m. at Boalt Hall’s courtroom classroom.

We need 3 more jurors!  Food will be provided!

If interested in attending the trial on 4/21, please reply to Professor Schoenberger at rschoenberger@walkuplawoffice.com  ASAP, right away, now! Thanks.

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3) Resrch Conf Topics

Resrch Conf Topics

Next Friday, 4/27, your colleagues will present in the 4th Annual Legal Studies Undergraduate Research Conference.
The sessions will be held in the 2240 Piedmont Seminar room as well as the Goldberg Room over at Boalt.
Here is an updated schedule with topics included:

Tentative Schedule with Topics

1pm-2:15pm

Session 1: (Goldberg Room): New Explorations in Criminal Justice
Michael Pietro Durfey: Labor, Prisons, and Penology
Alexia Arocha: Funding and Politics in International Criminal Tribunals
Caitlin de Rousse: Historical Narrative and Joint Criminal Enterprise

Session 2: (JSP Seminar Room): New Explorations in Law and Economics

Daniel Ganz: Efficiency and Efficacy of Felony Murder Laws
Cecilia Cheng: A Law and Economics Approach to the CA Expedited Jury Act
Marie Medvednik: New Developments in the Innovative Design Protection and Piracy Prohibition Act (IDPPPA), formerly known as Design Piracy Prohibition Act (DPPA),

2:30pm-3:45pm

Session 1: (Goldberg Room): International Law and Society
Kathryn Lang: The Lord’s Resistance Army: How Framing of Human Rights Violations Influences U.S. Foreign Policy
Tiffany Wu: Representations of Illegality in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro: A Comparative Case Study
Israel Guerrero: Rhetoric in International Criminal Justice

Session 2: (JSP Seminar Room): Contemporary Social Problems
Layla Oghabian: Corporate Interests and Contemporary Media
Katherine Connolly: Creating the “Other” in Times of Political Crisis
Erica Furer: Privacy Policies in Technology Companies
Royze Adolfo: Network Neutrality and Constituent Advocacy

4pm-5:15pm

Session 1: (Goldberg Room): Legal Innovations
Angela Roh: Public-Private Partnerships in Police Reform in Post-Conflict Societies
Will Heegaard: Facing Existential Risk: How the US Created, Confronted, and Survived the A-Bomb and the Ozone Hole
Madeline Hale: Protecting Women from Themselves:
A Feminist Legal Analysis of the Woman-Protective Antiabortion Argument

Session 2: (JSP Seminar Room): Survivors of the Law
Sung Ho Kim: Exploring the Legal Consciousness and Mobilization of the Mental Illness Sufferers
Jessica Trieu: Teenagers of the Incarcerated: Collateral Damage?
Adam Storer: Laborers under French Law

Come out to support your classmates!

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4) Law-related Course Update

Law-related Course Update

Please find the following list of law-related courses for Fall 12:

AAS 141: Law in Asian American Community (4)
ESPM 162: Bioethics & Society (4)
ISF 100E: Globalization of Rights, Values and Law in the 21^st Century (4)
UGBA 107:  Social & Political Environment of Business (3)
UGBA 175: Legal Aspects of Management (3)
MediaStud 104D: Privacy in the Digital Age (4)
NativeAmStud 100: Native American Law (4)
PACS 126: International Human Rights (4)
Phil 115: Political Philosophy (4)
Poli Sci 150: The American Legal System (4)
Pub Pol 190.4: Law & Public Policy (4)
Rhetoric 159B: Great Themes in the Rhetoric of Contemporary Political & Legal Theory (4)
Rhetoric 166: Rhetoric in Law & Politics (4)
Rhetoric 167: Advanced Topics in Law and Rhetoric (4)
Rhetoric 168: Advanced Topics in Contemporary Law & Legal Discourse (4)

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5) Life after Cal

Life after Cal

First Year Out: Surviving Life After Cal

Wednesday May 2nd, 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m.

First Year Out is a “life skills” seminar designed to teach you the basics of banking, investing, personal finance, insurance, and health care after graduation. One 14K gold Jostens class ring by Jostens will be raffled off to attendees! Food and drink will be provided.

RSVP: http://caa.convio.net/site/Calendar?id=105481&view=Detail

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6) Graduating?

Graduating?

The Last Grrr-rah!

Saturday, May 5th, 8:00 p.m.-11:00 p.m.

What’s the best method for networking with successful young alumni? With tacos and margaritas, of course! Celebrate Cinco de Mayo and the end of your college career with your classmates as young alumni welcome you to the Cal alumni family.

RSVP: http://alumni.berkeley.edu/services/student-programs/student-alumni-relations-council/last-grrr-rah

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