The Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society at UC Berkeley brings together researchers, community stakeholders, policymakers, and communicators to identify and challenge the barriers to an inclusive, just, and sustainable society in order to create transformative change. The Haas Institute serves as a vibrant network of researchers and partners advancing research and policy related to marginalized communities, touching all who benefit from a truly diverse, fair, and inclusive society. The Haas Institute General and Law Summer Fellowships are fourteen weeks part-time paid internships (pay rate based on educational degree or year in school) running from May 20 to August 21. Two separate fellowship programs are offered: General and Law.
The General Fellowship Program will take place May 20 to August 21, 2015. All undergraduate, graduate and professional students who are interested in social and racial justice are welcome to apply. Applications are due March 1, 2015. (Details below)
The Law Summer Fellowship Program 2015 will take place May 20 to August 21, 2015. All undergraduate, graduate and professional students who are interested in social and racial justice are welcome to apply. Applications are due February 20, 2015. (Details below)
Applications submitted after the dateline or without a cover letter and writing sample will not be considered.
2015 General Summer Fellowship Program Application dateline: March 1, 2015
The information below is for the General Fellowship program. We are also accepting applications for Summer Law Fellows.
The Opportunity
The Haas Institute Summer Fellowship is a 14-week part-time paid internship (pay rate based on educational degree or year in school) that runs from May 20 to August 21. All undergraduate, graduate, post-doc, and professional students (domestic and international) are welcome to apply. International applicants must cover and arrange their own visa, travel, and accommodations expenses.
Responsibilities
Summer fellows will work on a wide range of projects relating to marginalized groups, racial equity, and social cleavages such as race, LGBTQ, disability, religion, socio-economic disparities, new and emerging research on local and regional governments, and Global North/Global South relations. In particular, summer fellows are expected to assist and work on research and policy analysis; extensive statistical, data and financial analysis; literature reviews, bibliographic annotation; writing for reports, memos, discussion papers, journal articles and book chapters; planning and coordinating meetings, conferences, and other speaking engagements including preparation of presentations.
Commitment
All summer fellows are expected to:
Work at the Haas Institute office on the UC Berkeley campus, or remotely based on project’s needs and individualized work plan; Have a commitment to social and racial justice, and civil liberties; Work approximately 20 hours per week for fourteen weeks (May 20 to August 21). Minimum Qualifications
Bachelors, Masters, professionals or doctoral students (completed or in progress), or equivalent combination of education/experience; Experience with Microsoft Office suite, including Word, Excel, and Power Point; Excellent verbal and written communication skills; Self-starter with ability to initiate and complete work with limited supervision; Ability to prioritize tasks and meet deadlines. Preferred Qualifications
Familiarity with data collection, data maintenance and institutional analysis; Facility for writing and copyediting content that is geared for the Institute’s outreach efforts to stakeholders such as media, policymakers, partners, community organizations, and other audiences. Knowledge of data science and data visualization; Knowledge of financial data analysis. To Apply
Please email your resume and cover letter, and a writing sample—no more than 5 pages (a single PDF file preferred) describing your experience and why you would be a good fit for this fellowship. Please send your application to the Haas Institute Summer Fellowship Program Committee at [email protected] before 5pm of March 1st, 2015.
Applications submitted after the dateline or without a cover letter will not be considered.
One of the most important things I learned in my Language and the Law class is that law enforcement will intentionally misinterpret every type of statement asking for a lawyer as not asking for a lawyer. Even directly saying it like this “I will not speak to you without a lawyer” can be taken as a simple statement of fact rather than a request for a lawyer. You literally have to state “I am now invoking my right to a lawyer” and every time they try to proceed with an interrogation you have to answer every question with “I am invoking my right to have a lawyer present”. You can’t just tell them you won’t talk without a lawyer or that you want a lawyer. You have to state that you are invoking your rights. Otherwise they could just say “well they just said they wouldn’t speak without a lawyer present. That’s not invoking their rights to a lawyer. It’s just stating a fact.” even just stating your right to a lawyer doesn’t count!
PLEASE share this addition. I am a lawyer who works in criminal defense, and this is one of the most avoidable things that people consistently get wrong about the Miranda rights.
Here are some more “ambiguous” phrases which courts have found DO NOT invoke your right to a lawyer:
“Maybe I should speak to my lawyer first.”
“I might like a lawyer.”
“I think I should have a lawyer present for this.”
“Could I speak to my lawyer first?”
“How long until my lawyer gets here?”
And perhaps most egregiously – “Get me a lawyer, dawg – ‘cause this is not what’s up.”
Here are the magic phrases which you need to know if you want to invoke your Miranda rights:
1) “Am I free to leave?”
It’s worth asking this even if the answer is obvious. Even if the officer does not let you leave, by forcing them to admit that you are not free to leave, you are creating a record which your attorney can use to prove that you were in custody. Miranda rights only apply if the interrogation is custodial, meaning that police officers will frequently claim that their suspects were “not in custody” to get around their Miranda rights.
2) “I am invoking my right to remain silent.”
Simply staying silent will not invoke your right to remain silent. As absurd as this is, you must explicitly say that you are invoking your right to remain silent in order to invoke that right.
3) “I am invoking my right to an attorney.”
As stated above, you must be not only clear and unambiguous, but clear and legally unambiguous. Don’t get cute. Don’t get sassy. And on the flip side, don’t get intimidated and use verbal ticks to minimize your request. Say the line with those words exactly – say it clearly, and say it once, and then say nothing else.
Because even after you’ve done all this, the police can still try to get you to talk. They’re not supposed to interrogate you, but they’re allowed to make casual conversation, and if that conversation just happens to circle back around to the thing they wanted to question you about, well, that’s really your fault for talking after you said you wouldn’t, isn’t it? Can’t possibly fault the poor officers when you initiated – if you really wanted to have your rights respected, you wouldn’t have talked to them in the first place.
The police know this, and they will mercilessly exploit this loophole. So, once you’ve successfully invoked your Miranda rights, any and all conversation you have with police officers will put those rights back into jeopardy.
Putting it all together:
Ask:“Am I free to leave?”
If they say no, say: “I am invoking my right to remain silent and I am invoking my right to an attorney.”
And then shut up and do not say a single thing to them for any reason whatsoever until you have actually spoken to an attorney. Yes, even if it takes hours. Yes, even if they start talking to you about something else.
Finally, a very important disclaimer:
I may be a lawyer, but I’m not yourlawyer, and I cannot guarantee that what I’ve just laid out here will always work for every situation. We didn’t get to this bizarre and absurd place overnight – we built this ridiculous system piecemeal, by deciding on a case-by-case basis that certain phrases were “too ambiguous” or certain types of questioning weren’t actually questioning at all. The law is still in flux, and is stillfundamentally out to get you, and willing to bend plain meaning beyond all recognition to do it. Even if you invoke your rights perfectly, exactly as I have specified above, there’s a chance that your invocation of rights will be disqualified on some new technicality that no one’s even thought of yet – and that’s precisely the problem.
Watch this video: “Don’t Talk To The Police”
I am begging my followers to please watch this video from start to finish. I know it’s long, but it is incredibly valuable information that everyone needs to know, especially if you’re involved in any form of activism.
Every single cop lies. Every single cop lies and manipulates and twists the situation around to get a confession. Even when they know that the person is innocent, even when they know that what they have isn’t enough to convict someone, even when they know that that confession has been made under duress or manipulation. All they care about is getting anything to put someone behind bars.
It doesn’t matter how eloquent or innocent or experienced you are. Do not talk to cops.
The video is a doozy. Aside from all the good advice, the racist dog whistling from the officer really jumps out. In fact, his whole segment was pretty effective to drive home the point that officers are literally trained to manipulate you and fuck you over. He does say he doesn’t “try” to put innocent people in prison, but he never says he tries to keep them out either. He also explicitly states that he destroys material that could be helpful to you.
In short, DO NOT TALK TO COPS.
hey y’all please please please read this and watch the video and do research if you can, this is really scary /srs
Basically treat cops like an asshole genie or fae who will take everything you say absolutely literally and look for even the slightest amount of wiggle room to fuck you over.
At times that video is amusing to me. …But I often use humor to deal/cope with sobering realities. And while peppered with anecdotes, that video is full of sobering reality.
Señora Alicia Rivera was captured in the airport when she was trying to smuggle two hundred thousand undeclared dollars. She testifies her gratitude to Saint Rita with this retablos because she got a great lawyer who managed to reduce her sentence in exchange for testifying about her husband’s corruption.
Lawyers of tumblr are you guys OK? The weirder things get in Dracula’s Castle the more lawyers pop out of the woodwork to say things like “yeah, that’s what being a new lawyer is like!”
I feel like if I’m ever in a lawyer’s office I should slip them a note telling them to blink twice if they’re being held hostage by a vampire.
Lawyers of tumblr are you guys OK? The weirder things get in Dracula’s Castle the more lawyers pop out of the woodwork to say things like “yeah, that’s what being a new lawyer is like!”
I feel like if I’m ever in a lawyer’s office I should slip them a note telling them to blink twice if they’re being held hostage by a vampire.
When asked for his opinion (the group leader) on the charges facing Roof, Spears said, “I feel sorry for the boy because of his age and I think he picked the wrong target. A better target for him would have been these gang-bangers, running around rapping, raping and stealing.” smmfkh. This mfka. Richere is #Amerikkka’s #terroristgroup. They get to do whatever the hell they want. WHEN THEY ARE NOT WEARING THEIR WHITE COWARDLY SHEETS, THEY ARE WEARING #KKKOP UNIFORMS, DRESSED AS #TEACHERS, #DOCTORS, #LAWYERS, ETC. BUT THEY WANTED TO GET RID OF THE #BLACKPANTHERPARTY. BLACK PANTHERS TOOK CARE OF THEIR OWN. THEY WEREN’T BURNING CROSSES IN #BLACKFOLK YARDS. OR BURN DOWN BLACK FOLKS HOMES. #WTF !!!
Dude said the flag is white folk culture. He damn right. White folk culture is about killing. That is what they are at best! #whitedevils. Always heard that term growing up. It gets proven on a daily. #whitesupremacy
Lawyer who is like visibly trying not to cry and teary-eyed and snifflign and drawing shaky breaths and hands trembling and constantly wiping his nose on his sleeves but he’s winning the case
