Junior / Assistant Specialist - Regulatory Statute Coding - School of Law

Salary range:
The UC academic salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and step at appointment. See the following table(s) for the current salary scale(s) for this position: Salary Scale. The current base hourly rate for this position is $26.35/hour - $33.87/hour.

Percent time:
40%

Anticipated start:
Summer 2026

Position duration:
One-year term position, with the possibility of renewal.

Berkeley Law seeks a Junior/Assistant Specialist to contribute to a research project on collecting data from 1947 to 2002 about the details of how Congress provides for the implementation of regulatory statutes. Our goal is to trace Congress' use of criminalization as an implementation strategy, and compare it to alternative or supplementary strategies of implementation, such as empowering and funding expert bureaucracy as an alternative to criminalization to achieve policy goals. We want to understand what explains the choice of criminalization relative to its alternatives. This project will be led by two of Berkeley Law faculty members Sean Farhang and Andrea Roth.

The job will require the candidate to work on electronic databases (Westlaw and Hein) in order to find specific federal statutes, and to read the federal statutes in order to record information about them. To do this, the successful candidate will follow a detailed coding protocol provided by the project that explains how to identify each item that we are coding for, such as the existence of regulatory commands, criminalization provisions, maximum and minimum sentences, and provisions providing for administrative adjudication, administrative sanctions, rulemaking, and allocation of funds to provide for implementation. After reading the statute, the successful candidate will enter codes into an Excel spread sheet, and will aid in maintaining, cleaning, and cross checking the dataset in Stata. Project leaders will closely supervise the successful candidate.

Duties

• Collect and code data through electronic databases (typically in Excel)
• Conduct statistical analyses of data using (Westlaw and Hein)
• Clean and manage large datasets
• Draft project reports, research protocols, and other project documents

Basic qualifications (required at time of application)

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree)

Preferred qualifications

• A Bachelor's in political science or economics field requiring substantial quantitative coursework.
• Proficiency programming in Westlaw and Hein
• Experience coding complex, detailed documents.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel)
• Prior experience as a research assistant/fellow on a political/social science or economics data coding projects

• 3 required (contact information only)

Apply link:
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05323

UC Berkeley is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging in our public mission of research, teaching, and service, consistent with UC Regents Policy 4400 and University of California Academic Personnel policy (APM 210 1-d). These values are embedded in our Principles of Community, which reflect our passion for critical inquiry, debate, discovery and innovation, and our deep commitment to contributing to a better world. Every member of the UC Berkeley community has a role in sustaining a safe, caring and humane environment in which these values can thrive.

The University of California, Berkeley is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or protected veteran status.

For more information, please refer to the University of California's Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment Policy and the University of California's Anti-Discrimination Policy.

In searches when letters of reference are required all letters will be treated as confidential per University of California policy and California state law. Please refer potential referees, including when letters are provided via a third party (i.e., dossier service or career center), to the UC Berkeley statement of confidentiality prior to submitting their letter.

As a University employee, you will be required to comply with all applicable University policies and/or collective bargaining agreements, as may be amended from time to time. Federal, state, or local government directives may impose additional requirements.

Unless stated otherwise, unambiguously, in the position description, this position does not include sponsorship of a new consular H-1B visa petition that would require payment of the $100,000 supplemental fee.

As a condition of employment, the finalist will be required to disclose if they are subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct.

• "Misconduct" means any violation of the policies or laws governing conduct at the applicant's previous place of employment, including, but not limited to, violations of policies or laws prohibiting sexual harassment, sexual assault, or other forms of harassment or discrimination, as defined by the employer.
• UC Sexual Violence and Sexual Harassment Policy
• UC Anti-Discrimination Policy
• APM - 035: Affirmative Action and Nondiscrimination in Employment

Berkeley, CA