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The old Boalt Hall was renamed Durant Hall in honor of the first president of the University of California Berkeley, Henry Durant (1802-1875), president from 1870 to 1872. Durant Hall was then home to UC Berkeley's East Asian Library from 1951 to 2007. That library also grew too big for Durant Hall, and like the law school, was suffering from ...
The University of California, Berkeley School of Law [5] (Berkeley Law) is the law school of the University of California, Berkeley. The school was commonly referred to as "Boalt Hall" for many years, although it was never the official name. [6] This came from its initial building, the Boalt Memorial Hall of Law, named for John Henry Boalt ...
The University of California, Berkeley did not rename its School of Jurisprudence to a School of Law until the state legislature passed a bill in 1947 authorizing UCLA to create a "school of law." Boalt Hall's newly-hired dean, William Lloyd Prosser , got wind of this in 1948 while visiting UCLA to help plan the new law school and decided that ...
Bernard Ernest Witkin (May 22, 1904 – December 23, 1995) was an American lawyer and author. He is best remembered as the founder of the California law treatise, Summary of California Law, which came to be known as "Witkin" and gave rise to the Witkin Library of legal treatises.
Donald Trump's "Get out the Vote" rally on the campus of East Carolina University (ECU) was the portrait of a fading spectacle. His visit to campus coincided with the beginning of homecoming week ...
Because of Boalt's racist legacy, Berkeley law lecturer Charles P. Reichmann proposed in 2018 that the building be renamed. [7] The school announced its decision to remove his name from the building in January 2020, and was removed from the building on the morning of January 30, 2020. [6] [8]
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She then attended law school at the University of Chicago, graduating third in her class in 1959. After law school, she clerked for one year for Justice Roger Traynor of the California Supreme Court. She joined the faculty at Boalt Hall in 1960 [5] and became dean of that faculty in 1992. [6] Kay died on June 10, 2017, at the age of 82. [7]