Goodwin Liu is a law professor at Boalt Hall specializing in constitutional law, education policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court. He is also Co-Director (with Christopher Edley, Jr.) of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity, a multidisciplinary research center at UC Berkeley devoted to issues of racial justice in California and the nation. Before joining the Boalt faculty in 2003, Professor Liu was an appellate litigator at O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, D.C., and clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the U.S. Supreme Court. He also served as special assistant to the Deputy Secretary of Education during the Clinton Administration. A Stanford alumnus, Rhodes Scholar, and graduate of Yale Law School, Professor Liu serves on the board of directors of the ACLU of Northern California, the American Constitution Society in Washington, D.C., and Chinese for Affirmative Action in San Francisco.

E-mail Goodwin Liu at: gliu@law.berkeley.edu