Boalt Hall

The School of Law, commonly referred to as Boalt Hall, is one of 14 schools and colleges at the University of California, Berkeley. Boalt has approximately 850 J.D students, 30 students the LL.M and J.S.D programs, and 10 students in the Ph.D program in Jurisprudence and Social Policy. There are 57 faculty.

Table of contents

1 History 2 List of noted alumni 3 External link

History

The Department of Jurisprudence was founded at Berkeley in 1894. In 1912, this department was elevated to the School of Jurisprudence, which was then renamed the School of Law in 1950.

The School was originally located in the Boalt Memorial Hall of Law, built in in 1911 with funds largely from Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt and named in memory of her late husband, John Henry Boalt. In 1951 the School moved to its current location in the new Boalt Hall, at the southeast corner of the central campus.

List of noted alumni

• Earl Warren, 1914 - Governor of California, Chief Justice, Supreme Court of the United States
• Walter Gordon, 1922 - Governor of the Virgin Islands, judge, member of National Football Foundation Hall of Fame
• Melvin Belli, 1929 - attorney
• Edwin Meese III, 1958 - United States Attorney General
• Pete Wilson, 1962 - US Senator, Governor of California
• Theodore Olson, 1965 - United States Solicitor General
• Neil Goldschmidt, 1967 - Secretary of Transportation, Governor of Oregon
• Leigh Steinberg, 1973 - sports agent
• Lance Ito, 1975 - judge, presided over O. J. Simpson trial

External link

• Official site