BRENT K. NAKAMURA
(415) 935-3256
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EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
• Ph.D. Candidate, Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program
• Disciplinary Field Exam: Sociology of Law (with Distinction)
• Topical Field Exam: Organizational & Professional Control of Risk in Law & Society (with Distinction)

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, Berkeley, CA
• J.D., 2010

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
• B.A., Sociology (Honors), Political Science (Honors), Legal Studies, 2006

HONORS

University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
• Best Oralist, James Patterson McBaine Honors Moot Court Competition (2009)
• Jurisprudence Awards in Civil Procedure (2007) and Quantitative Methods II (2009)

Northwestern University
• Sociology Senior Thesis with Distinction & Departmental Honors (2006)
• Political Science Honors Thesis & Departmental Honors (2006)

FUNDING

University of California, Berkeley
• Mentored Research Award (Merit-Based Funding Award) (2009-2010)
• Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies (BELS) Fellowship (Merit-Based Research Fellowship Award) (2010)
• Judge Martin Pence Scholarship (Multi-Year Berkeley Law Scholarship) (2007-2010)
• Regents-Intern Fellowship (Merit-Based Multi-Year Funding Award) (2006-2008)

Northwestern University
• Summer Undergraduate Research Grant ($3,000) (2005)

ACTIVITIES

University of California, Berkeley
• President, Law & Society Student Forum / Law & Society Graduate Association (2010-2011)
• Member, Graduate Review Committee, Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program (2010-2011)
• Co-Director, James Patterson McBaine Honors Moot Court Competition (2009-2010)
• Member, Berkeley Law Board of Advocates (2009-2010)
• Treasurer & Vice-President, Law & Society Student Forum / Law & Society Graduate Association (2007-2009)

EXPERIENCE

LEGAL
United States District Court for the Central District of California, Los Angeles, CA
• Law Clerk to the Honorable Dale S. Fischer (2012-2013)
United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC
• Summer Law Intern (Paid), Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch (Summer 2010)
• Summer Law Intern Program (SLIP)
Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP, Oakland, CA
• Summer Associate (Summer 2008, Summer 2009 (Split))
United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC
• Summer Law Intern (Paid), Tax Division, Civil Trial Section, Eastern Region (Summer 2009 (Split))
• Summer Law Intern Program (SLIP)
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges LLP, San Francisco, CA
• Summer Associate (Summer 2009 (Split))
Hawaii State Judiciary, Honolulu, HI
• Program Planner/Paid Consultant, Family Court of the First Circuit, Hawaii Girls Court (2006)
• Volunteer Judge's Aide to the Honorable Karen M. Radius, Hawaii State Judiciary, Family Court of the First Circuit (Summer 2004, Summer 2005)

ACADEMIC
University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
• Graduate Student Researcher, Professor Lauren B. Edelman (2014-Present)
• Graduate Student Researcher, Berkeley Law Human Rights Center (Fall 2015-Spring 2016)
• Legal Studies Fellow & Graduate Student Researcher, Legal Studies Program (Professor Michael M. Musheno) (Fall 2010-Spring 2011)
• Graduate Student Researcher, Professor Lauren B. Edelman (Fall 2010-Fall 2011)
• Graduate Student Researcher, Center on Health, Economic, and Family Security (Spring 2010)
• Graduate Student Researcher, Professor Herma Hill Kay (Summer 2009-2012)
• Graduate Student Researcher & Project Manager, Professor Lauren B. Edelman (Summer 2007-Summer 2009)
• Mellon-USLI Research Fellow & Graduate Student Researcher, Legal Studies Program (Professor Jonathan S. Simon) (Spring 2008-Spring 2009)
• Teaching Assistant, Quantitative Methods (Professors Daniel L. Rubinfeld & Justin R. McCrary) (Spring 2008)
• Graduate Student Researcher, Professor Anne Joseph O'Connell (Fall 2007-Spring 2008)
• Graduate Student Researcher, Professor Kenneth A. Bamberger (Spring 2007-Summer 2007)
Northwestern University
• Research Assistant, Professors Robert L. Nelson & Laura Beth Nielsen, American Bar Foundation (Spring 2005, Fall 2006-Spring 2006)
• Research Assistant, Professor Linda A. Teplin, Psycholegal Studies Program (Fall 2005-Spring 2006)

TECHNICAL
Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT)
• Senior Residential Networking Consultant (Spring 2004-Spring 2006)
• Residential Networking Consultant (Fall 2003-Spring 2004)

PUBLICATIONS

Hayashi, Andrew T., Brent K. Nakamura, and David Gamage (2013) "Experimental Evidence of Tax Salience and the Labor-Leisure Decision: Anchoring, Tax Aversion, or Complexity?" 41 Public Finance Rev. 203-226.

PRESENTATIONS

American Bar Foundation Conference on Diversity Metrics, May 2016, Chicago, IL
• "Diversity Structures as Symbolic Metrics in the Federal Courts" (with Lauren B. Edelman)
Law & Society Association, May 2014, Minneapolis, MN
• "Public Pensions: Diffusions of Investment Restrictions over Time"
Law & Society Association, June 2012, Honolulu, HI
• "Regulating Public Pensions: Policy Diffusion and Investment Risk in United States Public Pension Funds, 1957-2010"
Law & Society Association, May 2011, San Francisco, CA
• "When the Apple Is Bruised: Exploring the Mobilization of Teachers' Rights" (with Kelsey W. Mayo, Lauren B. Edelman, Calvin Morrill, Richard Arum, and Karolyn B. Tyson)
Law & Society Association, May 2010, Chicago, IL
• "Historical Hawaii Court Records: Crime, Punishment, and Gender during the Monarchy Period (1849-1892)" (with Malcolm M. Feeley)
American Economics Association (Invited Presentation), January 2010, Atlanta, GA
• "Experiments on Tax Salience" (with David S. Gamage & Andrew T. Hayashi)
Law & Society Association, May 2009, Denver, CO
• "The Socio-Legal Environments of Schools" (with Lauren B. Edelman)
Adult & Juvenile Female Offenders (Invited Presentation), 11th National Conference, October 2005, Minneapolis, MN
• "Due Process & New Process: Exploring Due Process Rights for Juvenile Status Offenders & Institutional Change"

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Bar Admissions: California, United States Tax Court