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Professors with connections at Berkeley

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:21 pm
by kjdsalinger
Trying to find out which professors I should be a research assistant for that would help out the most in terms of applying to clerkships. I have already contacted Chemerinsky about being a RA but other than that I don't know who else to reach out to. Even with Chem I don't really know who he is connected to, just that he's a giant in ConLaw so it can't hurt to work for him.

Re: Professors with connections at Berkeley

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:26 pm
by talons2250
kjdsalinger wrote:
Fri Jun 24, 2022 2:21 pm
Trying to find out which professors I should be a research assistant for that would help out the most in terms of applying to clerkships. I have already contacted Chemerinsky about being a RA but other than that I don't know who else to reach out to. Even with Chem I don't really know who he is connected to, just that he's a giant in ConLaw so it can't hurt to work for him.
Look for professors who clerked on SCOTUS. Orin Kerr and Russell Robinson come to mind.

Re: Professors with connections at Berkeley

Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:16 pm
by LBJ's Hair
Orin Kerr is like, far and away the most important Fourth Amendment scholar in the country and incredibly well-respected. A highly complementary rec letter from him would go very, very far in any chambers

Re: Professors with connections at Berkeley

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:53 am
by nr320
If what you want is a clerkship and you don't care about having friends and/or being labeled a massive gunner, John Yoo is absolutely your guy.

Re: Professors with connections at Berkeley

Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2022 1:41 pm
by nr320
LBJ's Hair wrote:
Fri Jun 24, 2022 7:16 pm
Orin Kerr is like, far and away the most important Fourth Amendment scholar in the country and incredibly well-respected. A highly complementary rec letter from him would go very, very far in any chambers
Also just a heads up: Orin Kerr would definitely be great, but he's a notoriously bad mentor. I have friends who put a lot of time and effort into being close to him, and they have gotten rec letters out of it but not much else.