User:Erichaim

A bit about me. I am a practicing attorney and independent legal scholar. At UC Berkeley I obtained my J.D. from Boalt Hall (1987) and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy (1990). My dissertation was "Jurisprudence and Adjudication in the Civil Restraint of the Mentally Ill." My current areas of research are in American Constitutional theory, history and law, and specifically free speech, war powers, and the constitutional history of the Gilded Age and Progressive Area. My law practice is civil litigation in California, primarily in real property and commercial law disputes.