The Institute for Legal Research is a legal research center at the

UC Berkeley School of Law The University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Berkeley Law) is the Law school in the United States, law school of the University of California, Berkeley. The school was commonly referred to as "Boalt Hall" for many years, although it was ...

. It was founded in 1967 as the Earl Warren Legal Institute, after American jurist and politician

Earl Warren Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was an American attorney and politician who served as the 30th governor of California from 1943 to 1953 and as the 14th Chief Justice of the United States from 1953 to 1969. The Warren Court presid ...

, and was originally an Organized Research Unit of the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

. It was renamed to its current name in July 2005, and became part of the UC Berkeley School of Law in July 2009.

Directors

* Richard M. Buxbaum (1969–1974) * Lawrence Sullivan (1977–1982) * Franklin Zimring (1983–2002) * Harry N. Scheiber (2002–present)

Other personnel

* Gordon Hawkins: senior fellow (1984–2001) * Stephen Sugarman: director of Institute's Family Law Program (1988–1999)

References

External links

* Legal research institutes University of California, Berkeley 1967 establishments in California Research institutes established in 1967 Research institutes in California {{Law-stub