Supt. Bill Huyett shakes Sonya Sotomayor’s hand/Photo courtesy of Mark Coplan/BUSD It was easy to follow Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s travels around Berkeley on Wednesday and Thursday by following Twitter. She visited some classrooms at Rosa Parks Elementary School on Wednesday, presided over a moot court competition at Zellerbach Hall on Wednesday night, visited […]
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Supreme court justice coming to Berkeley
Justice Sonya Sotomayor: Credit: U.S. Supreme Court Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomayor will be coming to Berkeley next month to preside over the final arguments in Berkeley Law School’s moot court. The court’s newest justice will hear law students’ arguments on Feb. 2, according to a press release issued by the law school. She will […]
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Protests greet John Yoo on first day of classes
Cindy Sheehan, the anti-war activist, and dozens of protestors from Code Pink, The World Can’t Wait, the Boalt Alliance to Abolish Torture and other groups marched through Berkeley Law School today to protest John Yoo’s position as a member of the faculty. After holding a brief press conference outside the law school, the group marched […]
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What torture advocate John Yoo really thinks of Berkeley
John Yoo, the embattled Bush administration official who authored the memos sanctioning torture, compares his residency in Berkeley as akin to living in West Berlin during the height of the Cold War. In a interview with the Los Angeles Times, Yoo, who teaches at the Boalt School of Law, said “I think of myself as […]
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UC students help avert a death sentence
Krishnapriyan, Hand-Bender Clark and Weisburd. Six students at UC Berkeley Law department helped to convert a potential death sentence into a life sentence for a mentally ill Virginia man who faced capital murder charges for his role in the deaths of his ex-girlfriend and brother. Justin Slater, 24, will now be eligible for parole at age […]
