Berkeley Law Transcript 2015

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DEPTH ON A fast-growing group of alumni judges hears

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By Jon Jefferson

udging might not be the oldest profession, but it does date back eons: almost as far back as people’s propensity to squabble. Judges settle disputes between neighbors—and nations. They’re asked to issue Solomonic decrees about the custody of children or embryos. Sometimes they change

the course of history, as Berkeley Law alumnus and U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren ’14 did in 1954 when he wrote, in 26

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