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Kathryn Abrams - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project examines the mobilization of undocumented immigrants in Phoenix, beginning with resistance to SB 1070 and "enforcement by attrition" and continuing through the Trump administration. It seeks explain the emergence of a social movement of undocumented immigrants and analyze the practices through which social movement organizations support...
Social SciencesKathryn Abrams - Professor, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: On Campus
This project will have two facets: 1) Some students will work with the Center on Reproductive Rights and Justice (in collaboration with Arneta Rogers, the executive director, and me). CRRJ brings together organizers, advocates, scholars, and students; it focuses primarily on reproductive justice issues, which involve group based inequalities in...
Social SciencesAnne Bloom - Executive Director, Law
Status: Full- no new appr needed Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Civil Justice Research Initiative (CJRI) is a think tank that explores, through interdisciplinary, academically-based and independent research, how the civil justice system can be made more available to everyone seeking relief. The CJRI is chaired by Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and directed by Anne Bloom, an attorney...
Social SciencesColleen Chien - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Firms increasingly set prices that are personalized to the individual consumer, using automated systems that draw on people's behavioral and personal data–a practice regulators have begun to call 'surveillance pricing'. Lawmakers in the U.S. and E.U. are actively debating how to respond, from transparency and disclosure requirements to limits...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesColleen Chien - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: On Campus
The "second chance gap" is the gap between eligibility and delivery of relief from criminal records through expungement. While "Clean Slate" laws automate this relief, a secondary gap persists: many beneficiaries remain unaware that their records have been cleared. This lack of notification may prevent individuals from re-entering the...
Digital Humanities and Data Science Social SciencesEthan Elkind - Director, Climate Program, Center for Law, Energy and the Environment
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Center for Law, Energy, & the Environment’s (CLEE) Climate Break podcast brings listeners stories of climate progress and interviews with climate innovators from California and around the world, in under 2 minutes. Our episodes are solution-oriented and almost entirely produced by Berkeley students—including undergraduates, law students, and journalism...
Environmental IssuesSilvia Fregoni - Staff Researcher, Berkeley Center for Law & Business
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Mergers and acquisitions bring together companies with different organizational practices, priorities, and cultures. However, we know relatively little about what happens to those differences after an acquisition. Does the acquiring company transmit its organizational practices to the target? Does the target retain important elements of its pre-acquisition culture? And...
Kristin Luker - Professor, Law, Sociology
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 9-11 hrs Location: Off Campus
This project is part of Professor Luker’s forthcoming book on how contraception and abortion, once common parts of American family life, came to be regulated in the late nineteenth century, liberalized a century later, and became the focus of intense political controversy. The book examines how this history has shaped...
Social SciencesJoy Milligan - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: Off Campus
The Berkeley Center on Comparative Equality Anti-Discrimination Law brings together academics, advocates and activists from six continents to address issues of systemic inequality and discrimination. The Center is directed by Law Professors Joy Milligan and David Oppenheimer. We are assisted by two recent Berkeley graduates who were URAP students...
David Oppenheimer - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
Professor David Oppenheimer seeks 4-5 research apprentices to work with him on five book projects. They are 1) a series of essays on global systemic racism; 2) a simulated housing discrimination casefile used for teaching civil procedure; 3) a textbook on comparative equality and anti-discrimination law; 4) a legal...
Social SciencesDiana Reddy - Professor, Law
Status: Current Term Now Closed Weekly Hours: 6-8 hrs Location: On Campus
This project is a multi-phase exploration of the relationship between the many laws that regulate work in the United States, social movement activism, political economy, and evolving public opinion on work and inequality...