Law

Steve Sugarman
Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law
School of Law (Boalt Hall)

Expertise:
Tobacco policy (cigarette litigation); K-12 school issues (school vouchers, charter schools, school finance and student rights); auto issues (automobile insurance, no-fault auto insurance, and automobile litigation such as auto/product liability matters); other personal injury litigation (product liability in general, medical malpractice, air crash lawsuits, compensation plan alternatives to litigation including workers’ compensation and the 9/11 compensation fund); sports and the law issues (antitrust and labor, sports agents, on-field violence); family law and policy issues (divorce; social insurance issues including Social Security, welfare, and unemployment compensation); and
employment law (pensions, employee benefits and employment decisions based on factors outside of the workplace such as an employee’s or applicant’s political activism, martial status or smoking).

Contact:
(510) 642-0130
E-mail: sugarman@law.berkeley.edu
Unavailable until March 2006.

Additional contacts:
Susan Gluss, law school media relations: (510) 642-6936, sgluss@law.berkeley.edu
Roxanne Makasdjian, broadcast: (510) 642-6051, roxannem@berkeley.edu

Background:
Sugarman has spoken with national and local publications.

Sugarman has written or co-written books including "Regulating Tobacco" (Oxford 2001) and "Smoking Policy" (Oxford 1993); "School Choice and Social Controversy" (Brookings 2000), "Making School Choice Work for All Families" (PRI 1999), "Scholarships for Children," (Institute of Governmental Studies 1992), " Education by Choice: The Case for Family Control" (California 1978), "Private Wealth and Public Education" (Harvard 1970); "Pay at the Pump Auto Insurance ," (IGS 1993); "Torts Stories" (Foundation 2003) and "Doing Away with Personal Injury Law" (Greenwood 1989); "All Our Families" (Oxford 2002); "Divorce Reform at the Crossroads" (Yale 1990); and "In the Interest of Children" (Freeman 1985; and "Social Security Reform in Great Britain" (Bremen 1982).

Before coming to Boalt Hall, Sugarman served as acting director of the New York State Commission on the Cost, Quality and Financing of Education. Between 1967 and 1972 he was an attorney with the Los Angeles office of the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. At Boalt Hall, he served as associate dean from 1980 to 1982 and as director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute’s Family Law Program from 1988 to 1999.