UC Davis School of Law

Academics and Clinicals

Lectures

The Law School regularly hosts prominent speakers to help ensure King Hall students hear a variety of perspectives on current legal issues. These lectures and symposia keep King Hall at the leading edge of legal education.

Over the years, many distinguished speakers have come to King Hall for the following lectures and symposia.

Fenwick & West Lecture Series in Technology, Entrepreneurship, Science, and Law (TESLaw)

To support the excellent programs, offerings, and leadership provided by the UC Davis School of Law, Fenwick & West is sponsoring the TESLaw Lecture Series, a five-year program of annual symposia. On November 6, 2009, the second annual symposium presents CleanTech in the New "Environmental" Environment: Mapping the evolving landscape for CleanTech entrepreneurs and professionals. Information on this program can be found here.

Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Lectureship on Constitutional Law (February 25, 2010)

The 18^th Edward L. Barrett, Jr. Lecture on Constitutional Law will be delivered by Judge Stephen R. Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

President Jimmy Carter nominated Judge Reinhardt to the newly created seat on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on November 30, 1979. He was confirmed by the Senate on September 11, 1980. Judge Reinhardt is known as one of the nation's most distinguished and respected jurists.

About Edward L. Barrett, Jr.: This endowed lecture was established in 1986 to mark the retirement of King Hall's founding dean, Edward L. Barrett, Jr., and the Law School's twentieth anniversary.

Professor Barrett is a nationally renowned constitutional law and criminal procedure scholar and teacher. He has published two books, one of which is his widely-used Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 1985), and articles in leading law reviews across the country.

He was born in Wellington, Kansas, in 1917, and raised in Utah, receiving a bachelor's degree from Utah State University in 1938. He entered UC Berkeley School of Law in 1938, graduating first in his class in 1941. Professor Barrett worked with the California Judicial Council before joining the U.S. Navy in 1942. Professor Barrett joined the Berkeley faculty in 1946 and became professor of law in 1950. In 1957 he served for six months as special assistant to the Attorney General in Washington, D.C., where he assisted the development of the Civil Rights Act of 1957 - the first major civil rights legislation since the Civil War. He was a Guggenheim Scholar in 1964 and became the first dean of UC Davis School of Law that same year.

Over the years, Professor Barrett has engaged in many other professional activities and remains an important member of the King Hall community.

Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Lecture on Family Law (February 11, 2010)

California Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno will deliver the 27^th Brigitte M. Bodenheimer Lecture on Family Law.

Justice Carlos R. Moreno was sworn in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of California on October 18, 2001, following his nomination by Governor Gray Davis. Justice Moreno has served as President of the Mexican American Bar Association and is the current Chair of the California Blue Ribbon Commission on Children in Foster Care. In March 2009, Justice Moreno visited King Hall to deliver the keynote speech for the La Raza Law Students Association's César Chávez Week celebration.

About Brigitte M. Bodenheimer: Established in 1981 in memory of Professor Brigitte M. Bodenheimer, this endowed lecture brings scholars and practitioners to UC Davis School of Law to discuss recent developments affecting the family.

Professor Bodenheimer was an internationally renowned teacher, scholar, and reformer of the law. She is especially remembered for her work as Reporter of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act (UCCJA), which was enacted in all 50 states, and for her service as a United States delegate in the drafting of the Hague Convention of October 25, 1980, on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction.

Born in Berlin in 1913, Brigitte Bodenheimer received a doctorate of laws degree from the University of Heidelberg in 1934. She then studied at Columbia University and the University of Washington, where she received her second law degree in 1936. Following her graduation, she worked for the Federal Public Housing Authority in Washington, D.C. In 1947, she and her husband, Professor Edgar Bodenheimer, moved to Utah, where she undertook a broad range of professional and legislative tasks, including a far-ranging revision of the Utah juvenile court law. Professor Bodenheimer joined the law faculty of the University of Utah in 1962. In 1966, she moved to Davis with her family.

During her first years at UC Davis School of Law, she drafted the UCCJA and completed studies on child custody law and adoption law for the California Law Revision Commission. From 1972 until her retirement in 1979, she served as professor of law, teaching in the fields of family law and community property law. Professor Bodenheimer died in 1981.