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...then went to the University of Pennsylvania Law School to further pursue his beliefs in criminal justice reform. He later became a law professor and taught in the subsequent years at The University of Nebraska College of Law, Penn’s Law School, and finally at the Boalt School of Law at Berkeley, where he retired in 1987. During his twenty years there, he received the UC Berkeley Distiguished Teaching Award in 1983. He is best known for “Studies on Bail”, his book that was published in 1966 arguing for the reform...
...actually rejected by the admissions board. Despite the momentary elation it might have brought to these students, the college simply apologized and encouraged them to “continue to work toward [their] four-year degree.” And last month, UC-Berkeley’s law school, Boalt Hall, accidentally sent a welcome message to all 7,000 applicants. There are only 800 spots in each Boalt class. While Ryan Fawaz ’06—an applicant to Boalt—avoided the confusion by being accepted early, he still did not manage to escape another...
When affirmative action was banned in the state of California in 1996, the number of black and Latino students admitted to Boalt Hall fell sharply...
...Boalt Hall professors and administrators said they see Edley, who founded the Harvard Civil Rights Project and serves on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, as the man who can right the ship...
...mail yesterday, Edley said it would take a great deal of effort to bring a more diverse student body to Boalt Hall without the tool of affirmative action...