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Christopher Edley, Jr. joined Boalt Hall School of Law at University of California, Berkeley as dean in 2004 after 23 years on the law faculty at Harvard University. He earned a law degree and a master's degree in public policy from Harvard, where he served as an editor and officer of the HARVARD LAW REVIEW.
Following graduation Edley joined President Jimmy Carter's administration as assistant director of the White House domestic policy staff. Edley served as national issues director for the 1988 Michael Dukakis presidential campaign, and as senior adviser on economic policy for President Bill Clinton's transition team in 1992. In the Clinton administration, he worked as associate director for economics and government at the White House Office of Management and Budget from 1993 to 1995 and as special counsel to the president in 1995 — directing a White House review of affirmative action. He returned to the Clinton White House in 1997 as a consultant to the president's advisory board on the race initiative.
Edley's academic work is primarily in the area of civil rights, with additional concentrations in public policy and administrative law. He has taught federalism, budget policy, Defense Department procurement law, national security law and environmental law. Edley is a co-founder of the Civil Rights Project, a renowned multidisciplinary research and policy think tank focused on issues of racial justice. He is currently serving a six-year term on the bipartisan U.S. Civil Rights Commission and is a member of the National Commission on Federal Election Reform. His recent publications include NOT ALL BLACK AND WHITE: AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, RACE AND AMERICAN VALUES, which grew out of his work as special counsel to President Clinton; and ADMINISTRATIVE LAW: RETHINKING JUDICIAL CONTROL OF BUREAUCRACY.
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