Alice A. Salvo, chairwoman of the state Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation, wrote, “Professor Liu possesses a brilliant intellect, alone with exceptional gifts for research and writing, which allow him to parse complex and obscure legal doctrines and present them in the form of viable understandable concepts.”
The California Commission on Judicial Nominees Evaluation also gave Liu, the former chair of the ACS Board of Directors, its highest evaluation, the Los Angeles Times reported.
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Liu told the commission, "I am honored but also deeply humbled to serve on the California Supreme Court."
The son of Taiwanese immigrant doctors, Liu grew up in Sacramento, attended Stanford University, Oxford University and Yale Law School, and worked for the U.S. Department of Education and in private practice before joining the Berkeley faculty in 2003 as a highly respected law professor.
