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

Position Overview

Position title:

Assistant Specialist
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 how Congress provides for the implementation of regulatory statutes. The 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.

The project will be led by two Berkeley Law faculty members, Sean Farhang and Andrea Roth.

• 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

• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent international degree)

• 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 project

Berkeley, CA

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