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2022-2023 BLAJ Session 1: Personal Jurisdiction–Revolution or Devolution?

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

Berkeley Law and the Judiciary: a virtual series for judges, Session 1: November 2022, Berkeley Judicial Institute Executive Director Jeremy Fogel in conversation with Professor Andrew Bradt on "Personal Jurisdiction–Revolution or Devolution?" –  Reading Material: The False Promise of General Jurisdiction   --- B-CLE is only certified to give credit for California. If you are seeking credit for another jurisdiction, please check with your state bar to determine if California CLE credits are recognized, through reciprocity, in your jurisdiction.   Directions: Viewing on our B-CLE platform is completely complementary. To access the course, click "Add to Cart", then go to "Check Out". Afterwards, click "Order Free Program(s)". The course will then be ready On-Demand.

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  • 60
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  • 1/16/26
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2022-2023 BLAJ Session 2: Social Media at the Supreme Court: The Future of Section 230

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

Berkeley Law and the Judiciary: a virtual series for judges,Session 2: December 15, noon Pacific, Professor Andrew Bradt in conversation with Professor Tejas Narechania about Social Media at the Supreme Court: The Future of Section 230 - Reading Materials: (1) Elon Musk, internet freedom, and how the Supreme Court might force big tech into a catch-22, SCOTUSblog (2) Petition for Certiorari, Gonzalez v. Google (3) Justice Thomas concurrence, Biden v. Knight

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  • 1/1/26
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2022-2023 BLAJ Session 3: Mindfulness and Judging

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

January 12, 12:00 pm Pacific, with BJI's Executive Director, Judge Jeremy Fogel (ret.), on Mindfulness and Judging. Judge Fogel will talk about the application of mindfulness practices to the work that judges and other legal professionals do, including managing job-related stress, identifying and mitigating unconscious tendencies and assumptions in decision-making, and maintaining a calm, professional demeanor.

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  • 1/1/26
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2022-2023 BLAJ Session 4: Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

Join Dean Erwin Chemerinsky as he talks about his book Worse Than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism.

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  • 1/1/26
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2022-2023 BLAJ Session 5: Current Developments in Voting Rights and Election Law

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

Session 5: March 9, one Pacific, with Professor Emily Rong Zhang on Current Developments in Voting Rights and Election Law - Reading Material: (1) Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee (The Syllabus is sufficient background for the program. For those seeking to delve into the Court’s reasoning, pages 13-19 of the majority opinion (Section III (A), (B), & (C)(1)) announce the new legal standard for Section 2 time, places, and manner voting claims, and pages 12-29 of the dissent (Section II (A) & (B)) articulate the dissent’s main points of disagreement with the majority.)   (2) When are majority-Black voting districts required? - SCOTUSblog

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  • 1/1/26
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2022-2023 BLAJ Session 6: Current Developments on Forensic Evidence

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

Session 6: Join us as Professor Andrew Bradt talks with Professor Andrea Roth about Current Developments in Forensic Evidence.

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BLAJ Session 7: Judging Energy Law

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

Join Berkeley Judicial Institute as Professor Sharon Jacobs talks about Energy and Environmental Law.

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Brain Science for Judges

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

Program occurred August 9. 2024 Event Information Are you seeing more issues involving neuroscience coming into court?  It’s not just your imagination! Want help in better understanding neuroscience evidence?  Please join Berkeley Judicial Institute, moderator Professor Emily Murphy and authors Professors Owen Jones , Jeffrey Schall, Francis Shen, Morris Hoffman, and Anthony Wagner for a discussion of BRAIN SCIENCE for Lawyers, Judges and Policymakers. From the publisher's page:Brain Science for Lawyers, Judges, and Policymakers Owen D. Jones, Jeffrey D. Schall, Francis X. Shen, Morris B. Hoffman, and Anthony D. Wagner Provides a user-friendly introduction to brain science; no prior knowledge of brain science is required  Offers comprehensive and clear overviews of brain anatomy, brain function, and brain-imaging technologies  Written by a team of leading neurolaw scholars and scientists, who among them work in law, psychology, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience  Includes more than 20 detailed illustrations and an extensive glossary of terms  For more, see: Excerpt from the book: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4757769   Law and Neuroscience: Progress, Promise, and Pitfalls https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3178272

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  • 12/1/27
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Collaborative Courts—the experience in Northern District of California

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

Join Berkeley Judicial Institute’s Director of Research Katherine Hood as she interviews Magistrate Judge Laurel Beeler and A Curiae’s Wyatt Lim-Tepper as they talk about the experience of building and maintaining collaborative courts in the Northern District of California.

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  • 2/21/25
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Judicial Emotions: Risks and Resources

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

Join Berkeley Judicial Institute as Judge Kevin Burke interviews judicial emotion expert Professor Kathy Mack about the place of emotion in everyday judicial work.

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  • 2/13/25
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Promoting Hope and Opportunity in the Justice System: Mama Love and the Gemma Project

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

Occurred on June 28, 2024 Event Information Interested in providing more hope and opportunity in the justice system? Please join Berkeley Judicial Institute and Moderator Judge Laurel Beeler for what promises to be an uplifting discussion.  Lara Love Hardin will talk about her compelling and best-selling memoir, The Many Lives of Mama Love.  Ms. Hardin and Cynthia Chase will talk about The Gemma Project.

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  • 2/1/26
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Seating Juries

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

Program recorded on September 1, 2023 Please join Judge Beth Freeman and Judge Trina Thompson as they consider and discuss ways to seat a jury.     They will talk about: Advantages and disadvantages of different practices Their experience of what works best for potential jurors, for the parties, the lawyers and the judges Northern District of California’s experience Learn more about the Northern District of California jury practice.

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  • 3/20/25
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Unjust Debts

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  • Instructor(s):  BJI

Program occurred August 16, 2024 co-sponsored by Civil Justice Research Initiative Event Information Join Berkeley Judicial Institute and Berkeley Law bankruptcy guru Professor Abbye Atkinson as we talk to University of North Carolina School of Law's Professor Melissa Jacoby about her book, UNJUST DEBTS. From the publisher's page: UNJUST DEBTS:How Our Bankruptcy System Makes America More Unequal A groundbreaking look at the hidden role of bankruptcy in perpetuating inequality in America, from an expert in the field Bankruptcy is the busiest federal court in America. In theory, bankruptcy in America exists to cancel or restructure debts for people and companies that have way too many—a safety valve designed to provide a mechanism for restarting lives and businesses when things go wrong financially. In this brilliant and paradigm-shifting book, legal scholar Melissa B. Jacoby shows how bankruptcy has also become an escape hatch for powerful individuals, corporations, and governments, contributing in unseen and poorly understood ways to race, gender, and class inequality in America. When cities go bankrupt, for example, police unions enjoy added leverage while police brutality victims are denied a seat at the negotiatingtable; the system is more forgiving of civil rights abuses than of the parking tickets disproportionately distributed in African American neighborhoods. Across a broad range of crucial issues, Unjust Debts reveals the hidden mechanisms by which bankruptcy impacts everything from sexual harassment to health care, police violence to employment discrimination, and the opioid crisis to gun violence. In the tradition of Matthew Desmond’s groundbreaking EVICTED is a riveting and original work of accessible scholarship with huge implications for ordinary people and will set the terms of debate for this vital subject. For more: Fake and Real People in Bankruptcy, Melissa B. Jacoby   https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4228047

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  • 12/1/27
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