Christopher Fairfield Edley Jr. (born January 13, 1953) was the
Dean
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of the
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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from 2004 to 2013. He serves as President of the Opportunity Institute, an organization he co-founded with
Hillary Clinton
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advisor
Ann O'Leary.
Edley has been a leading figure in Democratic policy circles for four decades, serving as a senior member of five presidential campaigns, as an economic policy and budget official under Presidents
Jimmy Carter
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and
Bill Clinton
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, and as a chair of the
Obama-Biden transition team. In 2011 he was appointed by
U.S. Secretary of Education
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Arne Duncan as co-chair of the congressionally chartered National Commission on Equity and Excellence in Education.
He is married to
Maria Echaveste, former deputy chief of staff for U.S. President
Bill Clinton
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.
After receiving his undergraduate degree in mathematics from
Swarthmore College he attended
Harvard Law School, where he later served as a professor, teaching
Administrative Law
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an
d founding the Harvard Civil Rights Project.
He served as an advisor to President Clinton's
One America Initiative, was a member of the
United States Commission on Civil Rights
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, and chaired President Clinton's 1998 Affirmative Action Review. In the
2008 presidential election, he supported and advised candidate
Barack Obama
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, one of his former students at Harvard Law School.
[ Bazelon, Emily (2007-11-26]
On the Advice of Counsel
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'' He was elected to the
Common Cause National Governing Board in 2010. On August 16, 2013, he announced his intention to resign as
Berkeley Law
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dean, effective December 31, 2013.
According to legal journalist
Emily Bazelon
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, Edley "has written thoughtfully and moderately about
affirmative action."
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Published works
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*Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy
References
External links
*
President Clinton's Affirmative Action Review
1998
Faculty Bio
American legal scholars
African-American legal scholars
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UC Berkeley School of Law faculty
Harvard Law School faculty
United States Commission on Civil Rights members
Clinton administration personnel
The Century Foundation
Harvard Law School alumni
Swarthmore College alumni
Activists from New Rochelle, New York
Lawyers from New Rochelle, New York
1951 births
Living people
New Rochelle High School alumni
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