Legal Education
Jun. 5, 2023
Cancel “Berkeley?”
“Berkeley” denoted Bishop George Berkeley, a prominent Irish philosopher. I had only a passing acquaintance with 18th century philosophy, but I was aware of the brilliant Bishop’s dark side: a fondness for slavery.
Myron Moskovitz
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UC Berkeley SOL Boalt Hal
In 2020, the powers-that-be at my law school alma mater canceled the name their forebears had told me to call the institution: “Boalt Hall”.
The reason? Some obscure academic had uncovered where the “Boalt” came from. Turned out that the building was named after lawyer John Henry Boalt, whose widow had donated some of the funds to construct the building. But it seems that Mr. Boalt had promoted the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, which pre...
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