Kelly Weisberg

Bio

Professor D. Kelly Weisberg received her undergraduate degree at Brandeis University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa with a double major in sociology and French literature. She later earned a Ph.D. in sociology from Brandeis University and a J.D. from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), where she served on the California Law Review. Professor Weisberg joined the UC Law SF faculty in 1982 after two years on the faculty at Washington University School of Law, St. Louis. Before that time, she participated in federally-funded studies of juvenile parole, justice prostitution, family violence, and child sexual abuse. She served as a consultant for the American Bar Association’s Women on Law Faculties Study, and the American Justice Institute’s National Juvenile Justice Assessment Center. She testified before the U.S. Senate Subcommittee of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention on the relationship between runaway behavior and juvenile prostitution. She also worked as a legal intern at the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, conducting legal research on the rights of children during the International Year of the Child.

At UC Law SF, Professor Weisberg served as Director of the Family Law Concentration from 2004-2007. She was the Director of the 3+3 Program between UC Law SF and UC Santa Cruz from 2015-2020. She is the author or co-author of several law review articles and books on the subjects of family law, domestic violence, children and the law, and feminist legal theory. Her most recent books are:  Modern Family Law:  Cases and Materials (Wolters Kluwer Publishing Co.. 7th ed. 2020); Domestic Violence Law (West Academic Pub. Co. 2019); and Domestic Violence:  Legal and Social Reality (Wolters Kluwer Publishing Co. 2nd ed. 2019).

Professor Weisberg has been a visiting professor at Boston University; Hebrew University; and the University of Florida Levin College of Law, Center on Children and Families, where she held the Hurst Distinguished Visiting Chair.

Education

• University of California at Berkeley School of Law
  J.D., Law 1979

• Brandeis University
  Ph.D., Sociology 1976

• University of California, San Francisco
  M.A., Sociology

• Brandeis University
  B.A., Sociology and French Literature 1971

Selected Scholarship

• Modern Family Law: Cases and Materials 7th ed.
  Kelly Weisberg, Wolters Kluwer Publishing Co. 2020

• Domestic Violence Law (Hornbook Series)
  Kelly Weisberg, West Academic Publishing Co. 2019

• Lethality Assessment: An Impressive Development in Domestic Violence Law
  Kelly Weisberg, 30 Hastings Women's L.J. 211 2019

• Karen Thompson's Role in the Movement for Marriage Equality
  Kelly Weisberg, Hastings Women's Law Journal 2014

• Lindsay's Legacy: The Tragedy that Triggered Law Reform to Prevent Teen Dating Violence
  Kelly Weisberg, Hastings Women's Law Journal 2013