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
Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969. The Warren Court presided over a major shift in American constitution ...
, 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.
Directors
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Richard M. Buxbaum (1969–1974)
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Lawrence Sullivan (1977–1982)
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Franklin Zimring
Franklin E. Zimring is an American criminologist, law professor, and the William G. Simon Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law.
Early life and education
Zimring was born on December 2, 1942 in Los Angeles, California, to television ...
(1983–2002)
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Harry N. Scheiber
Harry N. Scheiber (born 1935 in New York, New York) is an American jurist and legal scholar. He is the Stefan Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law where he is also the director of the In ...
(2002–present)
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Other personnel
*Gordon Hawkins Gordon Hawkins may refer to:
* Gordon Hawkins (criminologist)
* Gordon Hawkins (singer)
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: senior fellow (1984–2001)
*Stephen Sugarman
Stephen D. Sugarman was the Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law, where he has taught since 1972. He was the associate dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law from 1980 to 1982, and then again from 2004 to 2009. At UC Be ...
: director of Institute's Family Law Program (1988–1999)
References
External links
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Legal research institutes
University of California, Berkeley
1967 establishments in California
Research institutes established in 1967
Research institutes in California
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