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Associate of the Chancellor Weisberg's biography

Kelly Weisberg is married to UC Santa Cruz Chancellor George Blumenthal and serves as associate of the chancellor.

She is a lawyer, a sociologist and professor of law at Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Before joining the Hastings faculty in 1982, Professor Weisberg worked at the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, where she conducted legal research on the rights of children during the International Year of the Child. She taught at Washington University School of Law, St. Louis, and been a visiting professor at Boston University, and also at Hebrew University, where she was a Lady Davis Fellow. She is a member of the California bar.

Her research interests focus on issues in family law and children and the law. She has participated in federally funded studies of juvenile parole, juvenile prostitution, family violence, and sexual exploitation of children. She served as a consultant for the American Bar Association, Women on Law Faculties Study, and for the American Justice Institute, National Juvenile Justice Assessment Center, for a study of child abuse. She testified before the Senate Subcommittee of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, on the relationship between runaway behavior and juvenile prostitution.

She graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brandeis University, from which she also earned a Ph.D. in sociology in 1976. She received her J.D. from UC Berkeley in 1979, where she was a member of the California Law Review.

At Hastings, she teaches Family Law, Children and the Law, and Wills and Trusts. She is the author of several law review articles and books, including Child, Family, State: Cases and Materials on Children and the Law (co-authored with Robert Mnookin) (Aspen Publishers, 5th ed. 2005); The Birth of Surrogacy in Israel (2005); Modern Family Law (co-authored with Susan Appleton)(Aspen Publishers, 3d ed. 2006); and Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women's Lives (Temple University Press, 1996).

She and Chancellor Blumenthal have two children, Aaron, a graduate of UC Berkeley, and Sarah, a freshman at Harvard University.