Goodwin Liu is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law. His primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court. Along with Dean Christopher Edley, Jr., Professor Liu is Co-Director of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity, a multidisciplinary think tank on civil rights law and policy. Professor Liu’s recent work includes “Rethinking Constitutional Welfare Rights” in Stanford Law Review (forthcoming 2008); "History Will Be Heard: An Appraisal of the Seattle/Louisville Decision" in Harvard Law & Policy Review (forthcoming 2008); “Improving Title I Funding Equity Across States, Districts, and Schools,” in Iowa Law Review (forthcoming 2008); and “Seattle and Louisville” in California Law Review (2007). In 2007, his work won the Education Law Association’s inaugural Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law. Previously, Liu was an appellate litigator at O’Melveny & Myers in Washington, and he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and for Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He served as special assistant to the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education from 1999 to 2000. He received his B.S. from Stanford University, M.A. from Oxford University, and J.D. from Yale Law School.