January 9, 2004

Berkeley Law School Gets New Dean; NIH Taps Leader for New Branch of Genome Institute; California Community Colleges System Hires Chancellor

By KATHERINE S. MANGAN, RICHARD MONASTERSKY, and PIPER FOGG

BERKELEY'S CIVIL-RIGHTS COUP: For years, student groups have complained that the University of California at Berkeley's law school wasn't doing enough to diversify its faculty and student body. Now they're singing the administration's praises.

Berkeley's Boalt Hall School of Law has appointed as dean a Harvard law professor who is one of the nation's top civil-rights experts. Christopher Edley Jr. also will be the first African-American to hold that position.

Mr. Edley, 50,

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