Martin Meyerson Berkeley Faculty Research Lecture: Franklin Zimring
Channel: UC Berkeley Events
Date: 2021-03-29

“Police Killings – An American Tragedy”
Lecture by Franklin Zimring, William G. Simon Professor of Law at UC Berkeley

Franklin Zimring's main focus of his scholarly career has been the empirical study of crime and the institutions of criminal law and juvenile justice. Zimring attended Wayne State University and earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School, where he became the only graduate directly appointed to its faculty in 1967. His 18 years on the Chicago faculty included a decade as director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice and appointment to the Llewellyn Chair in Jurisprudence. In 1985, Zimring joined the faculty at Berkeley and became director of its Earl Warren Legal Institute from 1985 to 2002. He currently directs the Criminal Justice Research Program of the Institute for Legal Research.

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