Clifford S. Heinz '34 Ethics in Education Speaker Series: The History Department Presents Erwin Chemerinsky
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, 6 p.m. Garland Auditorium RSVP Here
Erwin Chemerinsky is one of the foremost legal scholars in the country, particularly in the realm of constitutional law and civil procedure, and has argued numerous First Amendment cases before the Supreme Court. He is currently the Dean of Berkeley Law, and prior to this post served as the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.
He has authored 16 books and more than 200 law review articles, and is a contributing writer to the Los Angeles Times’ opinion section; his most current book, No Democracy Lasts Forever: How the Constitution Threatens the United States (2024), was met with rave reviews. In 2016, he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2017, National Jurist magazine again named him as the most influential person in legal education in the United States, and in 2022 he became the President of the Association of American Law Schools.