Charles Weisselberg
Faculty Director, Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law
Yosef Osheawich Professor of Law
cweisselberg@law.berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-643-8159
688 Simon Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 MC:7200
Faculty Support Contact: Tyler Slay
Areas of Expertise: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Criminal Justice
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Charles Weisselberg joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 1998. He served as the founding director of the Center for Clinical Education, the Law School’s in-house clinical program, which he developed and administered from 1998 to 2006. Weisselberg also served as Associate Dean for the J.D. Curriculum from 2013 to 2015, and then as Associate Dean for Advanced Degree Programs. He directs the Sho Sato Program on Japanese and U.S. Law, and teaches criminal procedure, criminal law, and other courses.
After graduating from law school, Weisselberg practiced with a private law firm, taught in the clinical program at the University of Chicago Law School, and served as a trial attorney with Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc. He taught at the University of Southern California Law School for 11 years, where he litigated post-conviction, civil rights, and immigration cases with his students and colleagues before numerous federal and state courts.
Weisselberg’s research focuses primarily on criminal procedure, immigration detention, and legal education. Some of his most recent publications include “On Both Sides of the Atlantic Ocean: Judicial Dialogue Between U.S. and European Courts” in EU Defence Rights in Criminal Proceedings (Hart 2021) (forthcoming); “Exporting and Importing Miranda” in the Boston University Law Review (2017); “Against Innocence” in The Integrity of Criminal Process—From Theory to Practice (Hart 2016); “Big Law’s Sixth Amendment: The Rise of Corporate White-Collar Practices in Large U.S. Law Firms” (co-authored) in the Arizona Law Review (2011); “Constitutional Criminal Procedure in the Shadow of the War on Terror — A Look at Recent Decisions and the Rhetoric of Terrorism” in Counter-Terrorism and Beyond: The Culture of Law and Justice After 9/11 (Routledge 2010); “Japan’s New Clinical Programs: A Study of Light and Shadow” (co-authored) in The Global Clinical Movement: Educating Lawyers for Social Justice (Oxford 2010); and “Mourning Miranda” in the California Law Review (2008). For a decade beginning in 2008, Weisselberg also published annual reviews of the Supreme Court’s criminal cases in Court Review, the journal of the American Judges Association. He is currently at work on an article examining the potential of state bar associations to reform legal education.
Weisselberg is active in legal education groups, bar associations, and criminal justice organizations. He is a past chair of the Association of American Law School’s Section on Clinical Legal Education. He has lectured at professional gatherings in the United States and abroad on topics ranging from graduate professional legal education to police interrogation. Weisselberg regularly works with pro bono counsel in trial and appellate cases, and helped launch the Law School’s Ninth Circuit Practicum.
Education
B.A., The Johns Hopkins University (1979)J.D., University of Chicago (1982)
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Charles D. Weisselberg is teaching the following courses in Fall 2022:
• 230 sec. 001 - Criminal Law• 230 sec. 002 - Criminal Law
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Courses During Other Semesters
Fall 2021 230 sec. 004 Criminal Law View Teaching Evaluation
231 sec. 001 Criminal Procedure - Investigations View Teaching Evaluation
Spring 2021 230.2 sec. 001 Police Interrogations and Investigations: A Comparative Perspective View Teaching Evaluation
231.51 sec. 001 People, Prisons and the Pandemic View Teaching Evaluation
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