You are warmly invited to a fun-filled feast of activities to help celebrate the Boalt community's many accomplishments during Alumni Weekend. A conversation with Dean Edley and newly minted California Supreme Court Justice Goodwin Liu kicks off the weekend events on Friday, September 30, and the agenda includes a special 50th anniversary Citation Award Dinner that evening. We encourage you to participate in the weekend events and help launch Boalt's centennial year-which will look forward to our next 100 years.

Weekend honorees include Citation Award winners Pat Herron '64 and Jess Jackson '55, Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award winner Kathleen Vanden Heuvel '86, Young Alumnus Award winner Mitch Zuklie '96, and Professor Richard Buxbaum '53, who will be recognized for 50 years of teaching at Boalt. The D. Lowell and Barbara Jensen Public Service Award will be presented to Penny Cooper '64 on Saturday. Some of the special events include a Golden Circle Brunch for classes of 1960 and earlier, a bevy of compelling panels and presentations, tours to see the sparkling new South Addition and other renovations, and class dinners for reunion classes ending in 1 or 6.  

Register here for Alumni Day and Reunion Dinners.
Register here for the Citation Award Dinner. 

Boalt is excitedly preparing to conduct its first-ever silent and live auctions, which will kick off its centennial year as part of the Citation Award Dinner on Friday, September 30. Proceeds from these auctions will support a variety of important student funding needs. The special live auction features a host of top-shelf items, including a magical getaway to Cabo San Lucas, exclusive packages of some of California's finest wines, and seating for 10 in an AT&T Park Legacy Suite for the Cal-Utah football game on Saturday, October 22. A "paddle-raise" also will be held to raise additional funds for the student financial aid program. Be sure to get in on the action by registering here.

The Class of 1961 is well on its way to raising the funds necessary to endow a scholarship fund to help students with substantial financial need. At the same time, the Class of 1996 has set a goal to raise $200,000 to name a classroom.

Don't let your class be left out of an important opportunity to leave a legacy as Boalt enters its second 100 years. Contact your Reunion Class Liaison Fran Davis at 510-642-3473 or [email protected] to discuss your fundraising idea.  

Alumni News
Class of '64 Duo to Be Honored at Upcoming Alumni Weekend

Classmates Pat Herron and Penny Cooper, both 1964 Boalt graduates, will be honored over the course of Alumni Weekend. Herron will receive the law school's highest honor, the Citation Award, at a special dinner on Friday, September 30. Cooper will receive the D. Lowell and Barbara Jensen Public Service Award at a luncheon event on Saturday, October 1. You can register here to join the celebrations for Pat and Penny, two of only 11 women in their graduating class-and two of only three women from that class who went into practice.

Soon after graduating from Boalt, Herron was the founding managing partner of Knox, Herron and Pierce in Point Richmond. In 1977, she became the first woman on the Superior Court in Contra Costa County, and two years later was named its first female presiding judge. After 10 years on the Superior Court, Herron spent 19 years as a private judge with Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services and worked to improve protections for seniors.

Cooper was inducted into the Trial Lawyer Hall of Fame last year by the State Bar of California. She formed one of the nation's top criminal defense firms with Boalt lecturer Cris Arguedas, and together they were the first women defense lawyers to try a major white-collar crime case. Renowned for her cross-examination skills, Cooper managed to obtain acquittals and reduced sentences in several high-profile cases during her career.

School News

After 50 years on the Boalt Hall faculty, Richard Buxbaum '53 is retiring. In his honor, a group of Boalt alumni in Germany have established the Richard Buxbaum '53 International Law Students Graduate Fellowship, which now includes contributions from all around Europe, Asia, and the United States. Well over the $50,000 required to establish the fund has been contributed, and ongoing support continues to increase the amount that will be available to assist international students to attend law school at Boalt. An overview of the fellowship is available here.

On August 31, Boalt Professor of Law Goodwin Liu was confirmed as the newest Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California. An expert in constitutional law, education policy, and civil rights, Liu was unanimously approved by the three-member Commission on Judicial Appointments after supporters spoke on his behalf at a public hearing in San Francisco. The following day, Liu was sworn in at a ceremony in Sacramento with Governor Jerry Brown.

Boalt alumni hosted Dean Edley for special events.

In late June, law deans from nine U.S. and ten Chinese Universities exchanged ideas during the two-day U.S.-China Law Deans Summit at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The agenda included topics such as the role of law schools in society, building the rule of law, and modes of collaboration among law schools to support academic and institutional goals. China's Vice Minister of Education, Hao Ping, also attended the summit, which sought to create better understanding of the deans' objectives and constraints, and their impact on legal education.

Ask the Archivist 
Peeving POTUS

Q. I collect old law books, though I don't have any that are tremendously valuable. I'm really more interested in stories connected with the books than with the contents. Do you have any rare books in the Archives that have great stories to tell?
- WRH, San Francisco

A. How about the book that ticked off the President of the United States?

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