Professor Ty Alper, Associate Director of the Death Penalty Clinic, seeks an RA for the fall 2011 semester (and possibly spring 2012). Approximately 8-10 hours per week on research related to criminal law, capital punishment, and lethal injection as a method of execution. May involve some medical literature research. If interested, please email resume and cover letter to talper@law.berkeley.edu.

Professor Jamie O’Connell is seeking a research assistant to start immediately or at the beginning of the fall semester, for an article on democratization in the Middle East and Western countries’ foreign policy. Possible tasks including reviewing of academic articles, policy analyses, and press reports on topics such as dynamics of democratic transitions, Western countries’ current efforts to support democratization in Tunisia, and internal political developments in Egypt. The project will require, on average, 5-10 hours of work per week, weighted toward the first half of the fall (August through mid-October). Please apply by emailing the following to joconnell@law.berkeley.edu.

* Cover email describing:
o why you are interested in the position
o any relevant background or skills you may have, whether general — research/writing skills or prior experience as a research assistant on unrelated subjects — or specific — e.g., prior study of or experience working on democratization processes, political transitions, US or other Western countries’ foreign policies, Middle Eastern politics, and/or comparative politics (generally).
* Resume
* One or two references (with email and phone number) — if possible someone connected with UC Berkeley (e.g., faculty) and someone for whom you have worked, not just taken a class from. The same person could be both.

THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED

RA needed for issues in two substantive areas: health care andeducational diversity.  If interested, please send c.v. and cover noteto Marjorie Shultz,mshultz@law.berkeley.edu, or leave hard copy under
my door at Boalt 311A.”

UGBA102B-2 – GSI – Introduction to Managerial Accounting:

FTE: 50% time (120 hours) Total Compensation: $2,995.20 (at step 1.0) Dates of Appointment: Session D (7/5/11 – 8/12/11) Section Day/Time: Tuesdays/Thursdays 10:30am-1pm

Potential candidate must have some accounting background and have completed managerial accounting class with the letter-grader no less than B+. CPA or professional experience in public accounting is a plus, but not mandatory.

A GSI is responsible for facilitating discussion sessions which are held two times a week: Tuesday and Thursday from 10:30 – 1:00. Additional responsibilities include grading and proctoring exams.

UGBA102B-2 is held during 2nd 6 weeks of the summer session.

UGBA120B-1 –GSI – Advanced Financial Accounting:

FTE: 50% time (120 hours) Total Compensation: $2,995.20 (at step 1.0) Dates of Appointment: Session D (7/5/11 – 8/12/11) Section Day/Time: Tuesdays/Thursdays 10:30am-1pm

Potential candidate must have strong accounting background. CPA or professional experience in public accounting is a plus, but not mandatory.

A GSI is responsible for facilitating discussion sessions which are held two times a week: Tuesday and Thursday from 10:30 – 1:00. Additional responsibilities include grading and proctoring exams.

UGBA120B-1 is held during 2nd 6 weeks of the summer session.

If you are interested in any of the above positions please contact Rosina Rocco at rrocco@haas.berkeley.edu

Entering students – Don’t forget to submit your Statement of Legal Residence by June 1. The online form can be found on the SLR tab in BearFacts.
Continuing students - If you are petitioning for residency, submit the form through BearFacts and deliver/mail the supporting documents to 120 Sproul Hall. The online form and supporting documents must be received by June 1.
For more information on residency, visit the Residency Office’s website or call them at 510-642-5990.

Research Assistant for International Law / International Arbitration

Professor David Caron seeks a research assistant for the coming summer to work with him on a variety of projects in the field of international law and international arbitration. Demonstrated past interest in international matters is desirable. Please submit a c.v. and statement of interest to Professor Caron at ddcaron@law.berkeley.edu.

The Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy has two paid summer research positions available. Start dates are flexible between now and 6/1. A minimum 8 week commitment is required. There is a possibility for continued GSR work in the fall semester.

Full time, paid summer legal intern. A research assistant is needed this summer to work with faculty at Berkeley Law and the general counsel of the Silicon Valley Bank Group to help investigate the scope and regulation of the expanding private marketplace for the stock, options and other securities of successful large companies such as Facebook. This project will provide an opportunity to gain insight into a cutting edge source of financing for high tech growth companies and liquidity for their investors and employees. Completion of a securities regulation course is preferred, but not required. To apply for this summer position, please forward a resume, cover letter, and references to Phyliss Martinez at the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, bclbe@law.berkeley.edu

Paid summer legal intern (full or part time). A research assistant is needed this summer to work with Professor Nancy Wallace at the Haas School of Business and Ken Taymor, Executive Director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, to help investigate the scope and regulation of a little known private corporation at the heart of the nation’s mortgage foreclosure crisis: MERS Corp. MERS is a private corporation that holds title to roughly half of all the home mortgages in the nation, has revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars, is being sued by a wide range of homeowners and government officials and was an essential player in facilitating the mortgage securitization process that contributed to the country approaching the brink of depression. Our project will investigate the structure, financing, operation and legality of MERS and analyze the litigation surrounding it. This project will provide an opportunity to work with business and law faculty to gain insight into the financial crisis, how law functions in the creation of innovative financing structures, and how home ownership is financed in the United States. To apply for this summer position, please forward a resume, cover letter, and references to Phyliss Martinez at the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy, bclbe@law.berkeley.edu

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

Berkeley CHEFS is part of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy (Warren Institute), UC Berkeley Law School’s multi‐disciplinary research center tackling the most pressing issues in civil rights, work‐family and health care reform, and criminal justice, facing California and the nation.

WI- Health, Economic & Family Security: Investigates vital needs of working families with regard to health and economic security, and work-family balance. Currently, we operate programs on improving health insurance and care delivery, job protection for employees on leave, and work-place flexibility.

Summer Internships: In 2011, the Warren Institute will host a small number of full-time and part-time Summer Interns. Our summer internship program provides an excellent opportunity to gain meaningful hands-on experience working on cutting edge issues and to work with leading scholars and advocates in the field.

This summer we are offering paid internships for legal interns to assist us with two health law reform projects:

- Increasing Accountable Care Organizations: Legal interns will assist us in researching the legal and regulatory barriers to implementation of Accountable Care Organizations for safety net providers. This project involves questions of administrative law, anti-trust law, state law on the corporate governance of medicine, and federal and state fraud and abuse laws.
- Improving Seamless Health Coverage: The second project focuses on how to implement the Affordable Care Act’s premium tax subsidies so as to ensure maximum enrollment and the least penalties for those individuals going through major life transitions (and thus health benefit transitions). This project involves the intersection of health law and policy with tax law and policy and mixes in some interesting health privacy questions.

To apply for a summer internship, please forward a resume, cover letter, and references to Phyliss Martinez at CHEFS@law.berkeley.edu.

Professor Doremus seeks a half-time research assistant for Summer 2011. The specific work will depend on the interest and skills of the student and the needs of the professor. The student may contribute to one or more of a variety of projects, including a case book update and papers on the Clean Water Act’s role in protecting aquatic ecosystems; climate federalism; the demand for perfection in conservation-based restrictions on the use of water rights; and the effect of institutional context and structure on the development and use of scientific information by natural resource agencies. If interested, please send statement of interest, cv and unofficial Boalt transcript to hdoremus@law.berkeley.edu.

Graduate Student Researcher (25%)
May – August 2011
Forensic Projects, Human Rights Center

Background

A Graduate Student Researcher is needed to assist the Human Rights Center’s growing portfolio of forensic projects, including “Building Justice in El Salvador: Expanding Forensic Analysis for the Identification of Disappeared Persons.” This project builds on the work completed over the past three years as the “DNA Reunification Project” (see http://www.law.berkeley.edu/HRCweb/el_salvador.html) and will continue to work in partnership with the Asociación Pro-Búsqueda de Niñas y Niños Desaparacidos (Pro Busqueda), an NGO based in San Salvador, El Salvador. Pro Busqueda seeks to reunite children who went missing during the war (1980-1992) with their biological families using DNA technology to confirm kinship. With the assistance of a group of volunteer scientists, the Alliance of Forensic Scientists for Human Rights and Humanitarian Investigations, a DNA database containing the DNA samples of over 900 Salvadoran family members seeking their missing children has been created to expedite the identification and reunification process.

During the next phase, the project will work with Pro Busqueda and the Alliance to: 1) develop Pro Busqueda’s forensic capabilities, and 2) serve as the main U.S. contact for young persons adopted from El Salvador and their adoptive families.

In addition to this project, the Human Rights Center seeks to develop additional projects related to the use of forensic science and DNA technology for human rights investigations. The GSR will work with the Executive Director and others to conduct research on recent innovations and possible applications, including an evaluation of funding opportunities and means by which the Human Rights Center might make a contribution to the field.

Responsibilities

The Graduate Student Researcher will be responsible for:

• Serving as liaison to partner organizations including Pro Busqueda and the Alliance of Forensic Scientists for Human Rights and Humanitarian Investigations (the Alliance);
• Representing the interests of the project as necessary;
• Responding to inquiries and investigating cases of transnationally adopted youth from El Salvador;
• Working with Pro Busqueda and the Alliance in the submission of quarterly grant reports to the U.S. Department of State;
• Developing outreach tools to provide transnationally adopted youth with information about Pro Busqueda and other resources to help them in their decision to seek out their biological families;
• Identifying and building relationships with international adoption agencies and international adoption advocates that may be allies of Pro Busqueda in locating transnationally adopted youth from El Salvador;
• Translation and interpretation as needed.

Qualifications

• Fluency in Spanish
• Excellent and meticulous research skills
• Highly organized and motivated
• Highly personable and empathetic
• Able to work independently
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Interest in one or more of the following: Latin America, youth and families, international adoptions, human rights violations during armed conflict, use of forensic science as evidence for criminal prosecutions.

Time

This position is a 25% position starting May 14 through August 16, 2011.

For more information and to apply

Please see the Human Rights Center’s website at http://hrc.berkeley.edu and Pro Busqueda’s website, www.probusqueda.org.sv, for more information.

To apply, please send a resume/CV and letter regarding your interest in the position to:

Alexey Berlind, Program Administrator
aberlind@berkeley.edu

The undergraduate Legal Studies Program may have openings for you to serve as a Graduate Student Instructor (GSI) in the fall semester of 2011. For a given course, a GSI attends and helps facilitate faculty lectures, organizes and teaches discussion sections, grades examinations and papers, holds office hours, and provides individual mentoring of undergraduate students.

A schedule indicating the lecture courses for which there may be openings is here. For each class, the days and times of faculty lectures and discussion sessions are indicated. You would be required to attend faculty lectures and direct two sections for a course you are selected to serve as a GSI. Be sure to check these days and times before applying for a particular course because there is no flexibility to adjust them to your schedule.

To be considered, send a brief statement (no more than 1 page total) about your qualifications related to one or more courses you are available to serve as a GSI in the fall term; a resume/CV; and an informal transcript electronically to: Michael Musheno at mmusheno@law.berkeley.edu no later than noon on Wednesday, April 13, 2011.

The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy seeks a research assistant (GSR) to work on a project on civil rights law and lending discrimination. Strong writing, editing, and research skills are required. GSRs will work under the direction of Warren Institute Fellow, Joy Milligan. Positions are for 10-15 hours per week approximately. Schedules and hours worked are flexible. The position is for the summer but could begin now if desired. Please send a brief letter, resume and writing sample to jmilligan@law.berkeley.edu.

Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Social Policy and Law

2011 Summer Internship Program – now accepting applications

The Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Social Policy and Law (Warren Institute) at
UC Berkeley Law School is a multi-disciplinary research center that tackles the most pressing issues in civil rights, work-family and health care reform, and criminal justice, facing California and the nation. The Institute engages a wide range of legal and policy issues within these areas, providing valuable intellectual capital to public and private sector leaders, the media and the general public, while advancing scholarly understanding. Central to its methods are concerted efforts to build bridges connecting the world of research with the world of civic action and policy debate so that each informs the other, while preserving independence, quality and credibility of the academic enterprise.

WI- Race, Ethnicity & Diversity: Engages the most difficult topics related to civil rights, race, and ethnicity. Currently, we operate programs dealing with voting rights, education, and immigration.

WI- Health, Economic & Family Security: Investigates vital needs of working families with regard to health and economic security, and work-family balance. Currently, we operate programs on improving health insurance and care delivery, job protection for employees on leave, and work-place flexibility.

WI- Criminal Justice: Works to enhance public safety and foster a fair and accountable justice system through research, analysis and collaboration. Currently, we operate programs on juvenile justice and criminal justice.

Summer Internships: In 2011, the Warren Institute will host a small number of full-time Summer Interns. Our summer internship program provides an excellent opportunity to gain meaningful hands-on experience working on cutting edge issues and to work with leading scholars and advocates in the field. Internships are unpaid, but we are willing to assist students seeking funding from other sources. We will sponsor two types of summer interns:

Legal summer internships: Open to students who have completed at least their first year of law school. We may consider individuals who have graduated law school and will start a judicial clerkship in the fall.

Social science summer internships: Open to graduate students who have completed at least one year of graduate study, including quantitative analysis coursework or other high level analytical skills.

To apply for a summer internship, please forward a resume, cover letter, and references to Phyliss Martinez at CHEFS@law.berkeley.edu.

If you are interested in exploring trademark law, you should consider attending the International Trademark Association’s (INTA’s)  Academic Day on Monday, May 16 (which is part of its Annual Meeting in San Francisco).

Academic Day is a series of programs and networking events designed specifically for professors, adjunct professors and students of trademark law.

Events specifically for law students include:

1. Getting Involved with INTA: Working Lunch for Law Students

2. Networking 101

3. Getting Your Foot in the Door: Resume Writing and Interviewing for a Trademark Position
Click here for more information about INTA’s Annual Meeting.

Various affordable registration options are available. Contact INTA’s Senior Academic Programs Coordinator at cdiep@inta.org for further information.

Hey 1Ls!

Fenwick & West (www.fenwick.com) and APALSA will be hosting an OCIP panel on Wed, March 30th at 12:45pm in Room 110 called “OCIP and Firms: the Myths and the Realities.” Fenwick will be providing Gregoire for lunch – please respond to the poll (below) by Wed, March 23rd to indicate that you’ll be coming.

RSVP here: http://www.doodle.com/bm4ivm86zdp99a5n

Fenwick is a great firm in the Bay Area, and it’s never too early to start making connections, especially when you can mention those at your interviews!

Thanks,
Joey Cachuela & Michelle Ma
APALSA Co-Chairs 2010-11