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Goodwin Liu
Title: Assistant Professor of Law
Office: 443 Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Tel: 510-642-7509
Fax: 510-643-2673
Email Address: gliu@law.berkeley.edu

Goodwin Liu's primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court. His latest work in progress, "Education, Equality, and National Citizenship," seeks to anchor a federal legislative duty to remedy educational inadequacy and inequality in the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause.

Liu is the author of "The Parted Paths of School Desegregation and School Finance Litigation," forthcoming in Law & Inequality (2005); "School Choice to Achieve Desegregation" in Fordham Law Review (2005) (with William L. Taylor); "Brown, Bollinger, and Beyond" in Howard Law Journal’s 2004 volume commemorating the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education; "Separation Anxiety: Congress, the Courts, and the Constitution" in Georgetown Law Journal (2003) (with Hillary Rodham Clinton); and "The Causation Fallacy: Bakke and the Basic Arithmetic of Selective Admissions" in Michigan Law Review (2002). With Christopher Edley, he is co-director of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project called "Rethinking Rodriguez: Education as a Fundamental Right" in Boalt's newly launched Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity.

Before joining the Boalt faculty in 2003, Liu was an appellate litigator at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the October 2000 term and for Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1998 to 1999. He also served as special assistant to the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education from 1999 to 2000, and as senior program officer for higher education at the Corporation for National Service (AmeriCorps) from 1993 to 1995.

Liu, a Rhodes Scholar, serves on the board of directors of the American Constitution Society in Washington, the ACLU of Northern California, and Chinese for Affirmative Action in San Francisco. He is currently chair of the Haas Center for Public Service National Advisory Board at Stanford University. From 2001 to 2004, he was a vice-chair of Stanford's Trustee Task Force on Minority Alumni Relations.

Education:
B.S., Stanford University (1991)
M.A., Oxford University (1993)
J.D., Yale Law School (1998)