Attend Dean's Speaker Series Featuring UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky

The 2024-2025 Dean’s Speaker Series will open with Erwin Chemerinsky, dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of law at UC Berkeley School of Law. Chemerinsky will speak on "A Divided Supreme Court: The 2023-24 Term" on Thursday, September 5 at 12:30 PM in Classroom D. Lunch will be provided.

Chemerinsky is the author of nineteen books, including leading casebooks and treatises on constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent major books are Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism (2022) and Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights (2021). In 2016, Chemerinski was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2024, National Jurist magazine again named Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States. He received his BS from Northwestern University and his JD from Harvard Law School.

For more information about Chemerinsky, please visit the Berkeley Law website. This event is sponsored by the William French Smith Lecture Series.