Dean's Speaker Series: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky | September 5

The 2024-2025 Dean’s Speaker Series will open with Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Jesse H. Choper Distinguished Professor of Law at UC-Berkeley Law. Dean Chemerinsky will speak on A Divided Supreme Court: The 2023-24 Term on Thursday, September 5th at 12:30 pm in Classroom D. Lunch will be provided.

Dean Chemerinsky is the author of nineteen books, including leading casebooks and treatises on constitutional law, criminal procedure, and federal jurisdiction. His most recent major books are Worse than Nothing: The Dangerous Fallacy of Originalism (2022) and Presumed Guilty: How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights (2021).

In 2016, Dean Chemerinsky was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2024, National Jurist magazine again named Dean Chemerinsky as the most influential person in legal education in the United States. He received his B.S. from Northwestern University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

This event is sponsored by the William French Smith Lecture Series.

For more information about Dean Chemerinsky, please visit https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/erwin-chemerinsky/.

For those who are interested, Dean Chemerinksy will also be appearing for a book talk at Chevalier's Books on Wednesday, September 4 at 6:00 pm. Additional information may be found at Chevalier's Books