The Institute for Legal Research is a legal research center at the UC Berkeley School of Law. It was founded in 1967 as the Earl Warren Legal Institute, after American jurist and politician Earl Warren, and was originally an Organized Research Unit of the University of California, Berkeley. It was renamed to its current name in July 2005, and became part of the UC Berkeley School of Law in July 2009.[1]
Directors
edit- Richard M. Buxbaum (1969–1974)[2]
- Lawrence Sullivan (1977–1982)[3]
- Franklin Zimring (1983–2002)[4]
- Harry N. Scheiber (2002–present)[1]
Other personnel
edit- Gordon Hawkins: senior fellow (1984–2001)[5]
- Stephen Sugarman: director of Institute's Family Law Program (1988–1999)[6]
References
edit- ^ a b "Institute for Legal Research". Berkeley Law. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
- ^ "Richard Buxbaum". Berkeley Law. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
- ^ Choper, Jesse; Fox, Eleanor M.; Hovenkamp, Herbert; Popofsky, M. Laurence; Schwartz, Louis B. (1991). "Tribute: Retirement of Lawrence Sullivan". California Law Review. 79 (5): 1221–1228. JSTOR 3480731.
- ^ "Franklin Zimring CV". Archived from the original on 2015-12-08. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
- ^ Woods, Greg (2004). "Gordon Hawkins Obituary" (PDF). UC Berkeley School of Law.
- ^ Medicine, Institute of; Board, Food and Nutrition; Prevention, Standing Committee on Childhood Obesity (2011-08-08). Legal Strategies in Childhood Obesity Prevention: Workshop Summary. National Academies Press. p. 92. ISBN 9780309210225.
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