Brian Carver, Assistant Professor at the School of Information (and Boalt alumnus), seeks a full-time Research Assistant for Summer 2010 to assist him with his research on copyright and cyberlaw. The RA may research current case law in these areas, may research specific legal questions and write memoranda about the research, may conduct literature reviews and summarize law journal articles, and may assist in case book editing.

Start and end dates are flexible, but full-time availability for at least eight weeks and demonstrated interest in the subject matter, through coursework or extra-curricular activities, is preferred. Pay is GSR Step I.

Please send a cover letter and resume to Brian Carver at: bcarver@ischool.berkeley.edu

Professor Carver hopes to complete interviews by March 18th.

LAW CLERKS—SUMMER 2010:
BERKELEY CENTER ON HEALTH, ECONOMIC & FAMILY SECURITY

The Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security (Berkeley CHEFS) seeks law students for clerkships in summer 2010. The law clerks will engage in legal and policy research on work-family issues and health care reform. Applicants are encouraged to express interest in one of these topics and provide information about any work experience, academic courses, or research in these areas.

Summer law clerks must be available to work full time during the summer. The positions are unpaid, but Berkeley CHEFS is willing to assist students who are seeking to secure funding from other sources. Please see below for more information on the mission and direction of Berkeley CHEFS.

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to chefs@law.berkeley.edu.
Application deadline is March 15, 2009.

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The mission of the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security (Berkeley CHEFS) is to address the increasing insecurity faced by American workers and families through the development of integrated and interdisciplinary policy solutions.

The economic security of American families is a growing national concern but policy proposals to address the needs of working families with regard to health security, economic security, and work-family balance are too often advanced separately. With faculty experts in law, social welfare, public health, political science, public policy, medicine, and economics, Berkeley CHEFS initiates robust dialogue and research aimed at developing policy recommendations to assist the engineering of legislative, institutional, and regulatory reforms. Berkeley CHEFS’ programmatic goals include:

*Increasing health security through promoting universal health coverage and improved care delivery at the national, state, and local levels;

*Developing better protections for workers who are on voluntary or involuntary leave from their jobs; and

*Supporting working families in a flexible workplace.

For more information, please visit: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/chefs.htm.

University of California, Berkeley School of Law
Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Classification: Graduate Student Researcher
Working Title: Henderson Center Graduate Student Researcher (GSR)
Pay Rate: $15.53/hr

The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice (Henderson Center) at UC Berkeley School of Law is seeking a Graduate Student Researcher (GSR) for spring 2010, to assist with literature searches and summarizing (abstracting) empirical scholarly articles. Much of the literature searches and abstracting will be related to mental health, girls and incarceration.
Job Description: The Henderson Center GSR will work under the supervision of the Senior Research Associate on a variety of research and administrative tasks associated with developing research proposals and assisting with current research projects on equal opportunity programs and the impact of a restorative justice program at an Oakland, California middle school.
Responsibilities: The Henderson Center GSR will be responsible for performing comprehensive literature reviews, summarizing (abstracting) literature, and transcribing interview data.
Requirements:
• Ability to start work immediately and commit to a regular work schedule, approximately 10 to 15 hours per week.

• Substantial experience with the use of library search engines.

• Substantial experience in summarizing (abstracting) empirical scholarly articles.

• Ability to accurately transcribe digitally recorded interviews.

• Proficiency in Microsoft Word.

• Ability to work independently and as part of a small team to set priorities and meet deadlines.

• Ability to preserve the confidentiality of the research study.

• Demonstrated commitment to social justice.

Desired Qualifications:
• Experience working with a research team at an academic institution or nonprofit.
• Background in juvenile mental health issues, particularly related to girls and the juvenile system.

Interested students should submit a resume, a one page statement of interest, and a brief (5 to 10 pages) writing sample to Wilda White, Executive Director, wwhite@law.berkeley.edu.
Established in 1999, the Henderson Center is a research and training center that fosters scholarship on race and poverty that views the law in a larger social context, works in partnership with communities to educate the public and influence policy, and prepares UC Berkeley School of Law graduates to pursue public interest legal careers. For more information, see www.law.berkeley.edu/HendersonCenter.htm.

RESEARCH ASSISTANT POSITION—SPRING 2010:
BERKELEY CENTER ON HEALTH, ECONOMIC & FAMILY SECURITY

The Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security (Berkeley CHEFS) is seeking a law student research assistant (RA) for the spring 2010 semester. The RA will engage in research on health care reform. Possible upcoming research projects include: preemption and ERISA, immigrant access to health care, antitrust issues in delivery system reform, outcome-based regulation, transparency gaps in health care markets, and due process in the age of technology.

Please see below for more information on the mission and direction of Berkeley CHEFS. The RA will be paid at the standard GSR rate or in lieu of pay, RAs may request credit for their independent research. Preference is given to RAs available to work 10 hours per week.

To apply, please send a cover letter and resume to chefs@law.berkeley.edu.
Applications must be received by January 8, 2009.

The mission of the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security (Berkeley CHEFS) is to address the increasing insecurity faced by American workers and families through the development of integrated and interdisciplinary policy solutions.

The economic security of American families is a growing national concern but policy proposals to address the needs of working families with regard to health security, economic security, and work-family balance are too often advanced separately. With faculty experts in law, social welfare, public health, political science, public policy, medicine, and economics, Berkeley CHEFS initiates robust dialogue and research aimed at developing policy recommendations to assist the engineering of legislative, institutional, and regulatory reforms. Berkeley CHEFS’ programmatic goals include:
- Increasing health security through promoting universal health coverage and improved care delivery at the national, state, and local levels;
- Developing better protections for workers who are on voluntary or involuntary leave from their jobs; and
- Supporting working families in a flexible workplace.
For more information, please visit: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/chefs.htm.

Professor Shultz is looking for a Research Assistant to work with her on two projects - one on law school admissions testing and diversity, the other on disputes over parental status after use of reproductive technology. Estimated time will average approximately 30 hours per month, with ups and downs in the work flow. If interested, please send a resume and transcript to mshultz@law.berkeley.edu. If you have any particular background on either of these topics, include a note about that.

In connection with a study of the impact of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), which seeks to reduce bribery by American firms doing business abroad, I need a research assistant preferably a JD candidate or a candidate with a law degree to collect and review a variety of background materials that describe how the Act has been implemented to date and what influences it has had, e.g. the Act’s influence on other OECD countries (in encouraging similar anti-corruption laws), varying levels of enforcement over time by the Department of Justice under different Administrations (e.g. number of prosecutions, filed, amounts of fines collected, and the like), and company’s assessment of what impact the law has had on their business.

This work would require tracking down and reading articles in law and related business and social science journals, tracking down and reading reports issued by the World Bank, IMF, and the OECD, identifying annual reports on prosecutorial activity issued by the US Department of Justice, and materials on the occasional symposia that have been held on the Act and similar laws. It would also entail examining the legislative history of the Act and subsequent Amendments, and reports on oversight hearings held by relevant Congressional Committees.

The RA would be responsible for producing three work products:
1) Copies of the most important articles and reports;
2) An annotated bibliography of relevant materials, organized into various topics or themes as determined by the RA; and
3) A memo identifying main themes and general agreements (if any) among the studies.
From all these reports we will write the first of a series of articles. A coauthership will be part of the work and once funding is obtained the prospects of a long term work are possible

Ultimately, this project, if additional funding is secured, should develop into a book or series or articles, but the first step will be an article that identifies the impediments to implementation and compliance with the FCPA. I’m hoping to attract an RA who would have a longer term interest in the project and who could at least be a co-author on at least on the initial article. [JD candidates can probably arrange to fulfill their writing requirement with work stemming from this project.

Work will commence at Nov 15 2009. Time commitment is variable and to be arranged.

Please contact Rivka Amado at 510- 388- 7814
Email; ramado@law.berkeley.edu

The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCLBE) seeks 2-3 current law students to volunteer to assist with research and writing related to public and private investments in renewable energy. Topics likely will include federal funding and commercialization related to Department of Energy grants, loan guarantees and tax incentives under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), as well as historical comparisons with federal investments in other industries and sectors, including public health and biotechnology. Students may also have the opportunity to be involved in a one-day conference on these topics in December 2009.

Time commitment: 3-6 hours/week.

Contact: Ken Taymor (ktaymor@law.berkeley.edu) / Braden Penhoet (bpenhoet@law.berkeley.edu)

I’m currently conducting an experimental ethnography of the mental health courts operating in Delaware, and would like to do a comparison with the San Francisco Behavioral Court.  I would like someone to conduct observations of court sessions and interviews with court actors (and possibly participants).  Data collection could begin as soon as you like, but no later than Summer 2010.  Funding may be available, but is not at present.  Instead, research experience on a large, mixed methods, comparative project is offered, with possible co-authorship.

If interested, please email santhi@udel.edu to arrange a meeting while I’m at Boalt on October 1 and 2 and to receive the full project description.

Chrysanthi Leon (Boalt JD ‘06, PhD ’07)
Assistant Professor
Sociology and Criminal Justice
University of Delaware
302 831-8683
santhi@udel.edu

The Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity is looking for an RA to work on education law and policy projects, including a review of case law and policy literature on comparability and school finance, and analysis of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary School Act. Up to 10 hours per week. Background in discrimination or constitutional law helpful but not required. No 1Ls, please. Send c.v. and transcript to emui@law.berkeley.edu. The deadline is September 16th.

WANTED: RESEARCH ASSISTANT FOR PROF. FARBER’S DELTA DISASTER PROJECT

10 hours per week for Fall and Spring semesters

Working with Professors Dan Farber you will assist with legal perspectives for a major project on risk assessment and management in the California Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta flood protection (levees), water distribution, and power supply systems.

California’s Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta is a high-risk region. The California Sacramento – San Joaquin Delta flood protection, water distribution, and power supply systems are embedded in a complex and sensitive ecosystem. They also co-exist with communications, transportation, and emergency services. Like infrastructure systems in other parts of the U.S., their effectiveness and performance have eroded over time due to age, deferred maintenance, increasing societal demands, and natural hazards.
The responsibilities for this project include:

1. To contribute to an assessment of local, state and federal operators in the Sacramento Delta levee, water and power systems. The overall task of the legal team is to define the legal dimensions of the probability of system failure, considering human and organizational uncertainties. This will include working with an interdisciplinary team (Berkeley Law, Haas Business, UCB Engineering) to assist with mapping and interviewing system operators.

2. Analyze current and past laws and regulations affecting system operations.

Please send a resume and a short statement of your interest and any relevant experience (courses, familiarity with the region, etc) to Professor Farber at: dfarber@law.berkeley.edu.

Professor Farber is looking for an RA to work on several projects, including a new edition of a book about the First Amendment, the final stages of revising an environmental law casebook, the introduction to a CLR issue, and an article about how government agencies and courts should take uncertainties into account when creating legal rules. Up to 10 hours per week. Background in environmental or constitutional law helpful but not required. No 1Ls, please. Send c.v. and transcript to dfarber@law.berkeley.edu.

Professor Elisabeth Semel is in need of a research assistant who is available approximately 10 hours a week, preferably for the entire academic year. Projects include concluding an article on an aspect of Justice Stevens’s capital punishment jurisprudence, and research on race discrimination in jury selection and on counsel standards in death penalty cases.

Please send resumes to Professor Semel at esemel@law.berkeley.edu

The Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law, at Berkeley Law seeks a GSR with fluent French for a project on water rights in Senegal. Student will translate and edit legal research papers from French to English. Excellent English writing skills are mandatory. Work will begin ASAP. Please send a resume and a short statement of your interest and language qualifications, etc) to Emily Best ebest@law.berkeley.edu.

BCLBE is seeking a research assistant to work with Executive Director Ken Taymor and Prof. Robert Bartlett on a project relating to the structuring and regulation of credit derivatives. The position is paid at standard GSR rates, with hours to be determined, starting immediately for the summer and possibly extending into next academic year. Interest and familiarity with corporate finance and basic accounting principles preferred. Contact Ken Taymor for additional information or submit CV to: ktaymor@law.berkeley.edu.

Help Wanted with Attorney Supervised Research & Writing

available immediately

civil litigation projects

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