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information about him and a flyer about the event as well Here is
the first piece:
Goodwin Liu is an Associate Justice of the California Supreme court,
an appointment he has held since September 1, 2011. Prior to his
appointment to the states highest court, Justice Liu was a Professor
of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. His areas of concentration
include constitutional law, education law, policy and the United
States Supreme Court.
Justice Liu is a prolific and influential scholar. He has published
articles on constitutional law and education policy in the
California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, NYU Law Review, Stanford
Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, among others. His 2006 article,
“Education, Equality, and National Citizenship,” won the Steven S.
Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law,
conferred by the Education Law Association. Justice Liu is also a
popular and acclaimed teacher. In 2009, he received UC Berkeley’s
Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s most prestigious
honor for individual excellence in teaching. He earned tenure at
Boalt Hall in 2008 and was promoted to Associate Dean. The Boalt
Hall Class of 2009 selected him as the faculty commencement speaker.
Justice Liu serves on the Board of Trustees of Stanford University.
He has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Alliance
for Excellent Education, the American Constitution Society, the
National Women’s Law Center, and the Public Welfare Foundation. In
2008, he was elected to the American Law Institute. He has also
served as a faculty advisor to the California College Prep Academy,
a public charter school co-founded by UC Berkeley and Aspire Public
Schools.
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Justice Goodwin Liu is an
Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court. He was confirmed
to office by a unanimous vote of the California Commission on
Judicial Appointments on August 31, 2011, following his appointment
by Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. on July 26, 2011. The Governor
administered the oath of office to Justice Liu in a public ceremony
in Sacramento, California on September 1, 2011.
Before joining the state’s highest court, Justice Liu was
Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). His
primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education law and
policy, and the U.S. Supreme Court. He has published widely on these
subjects in books, law reviews, and the general media.
The son of Taiwanese immigrants, Justice Liu grew up in
Sacramento, where he attended public schools. He went to Stanford
University and earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 1991. He
attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship and earned a
masters degree in philosophy and physiology. Upon returning to the
United States, he went to Washington D.C. to help launch the
AmeriCorps national service program and worked for two years as a
senior program officer at the Corporation for National Service.
Justice Liu graduated from Yale Law School in 1998, becoming the
first in his family to earn a law degree. He clerked for Judge David
Tatel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then
worked as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Education, where he developed and coordinated K-12
education policy. He went on to clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court for
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the October 2000 Term. In 2001,
he joined the appellate litigation practice of O’Melveny & Myers in
Washington, D.C., and worked on an array of antitrust, white collar,
insurance, product liability, and pro bono matters.
Justice Liu is a prolific and influential scholar. He
has published articles on constitutional law and education policy in
the California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, NYU Law Review,
Stanford Law Review, and Yale Law Journal, among others. His 2006
article, “Education, Equality, and National Citizenship,” won the
Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education
Law, conferred by the Education Law Association. Justice Liu is also
a popular and acclaimed teacher. In 2009, he received UC Berkeley’s
Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s most prestigious
honor for individual excellence in teaching. He earned tenure at
Boalt Hall in 2008 and was promoted to Associate Dean. The Boalt
Hall Class of 2009 selected him as the faculty commencement speaker.
Justice Liu serves on the Board of Trustees of Stanford
University. He has previously served on the Board of Directors of
the Alliance for Excellent Education, the American Constitution
Society, the National Women’s Law Center, and the Public Welfare
Foundation. In 2008, he was elected to the American Law Institute.
He has also served as a faculty advisor to the California College
Prep Academy, a public charter school co-founded by UC Berkeley and
Aspire Public Schools.
Justice Liu is married to Ann O’Leary, Director of the Children and
Families Program at the Center for the Next Generation. They have
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