Paul Bergman

Paul Bergman, J.D., is a UCLA Professor of Law Emeritus. He has taught law at Warwick University (UK); Notre Dame Law School (UK); Aix-en-Provence and his teaching awards include University Distinguished Teaching Award and the Dickson Emeritus Professorship Award. Mr. Berman has taught many courses based on courtroom movies to lawyers and judges at conferences in the US and the UK and to community groups.  A few examples: Appellate Judges Education Institutes, the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies at the University of London, the American Bar Association, New York State Court Judges Conference, the American College of Trial Lawyers, UCLA Emeriti Faculty, the Women Law Judges Association and UCLA Chancellors Society groups.   His media appearances include numerous interviews during the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, the NBC Today show and CNN’s Burden of Proof.   He is the author and/or co-author of more than 15 books, including Real to Reel—Truth and Trickery in Courtroom Movies. Articles and book chapters based on courtroom movies include Guilt or Innocence in American Courtroom Films in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture; Academic “Clip Joints Using Pop Culture to Enrich an Evidence Course in Teaching Law with Popular Culture:”; Hello Mr. Clips in the Journal of the Society for Advanced Legal Studies, University of London; A Third Rapist? Television Portrayals of Rape Evidence Rules in Law and Justice on the Small Screen; Rumpole and the Bowl of Comfort Food in Lawyers in Your Living Room: Law on Television; and Emergency! Send a TV Show to Rescue Paramedic Services in 3 different law journals; and The Movie Lawyers’ Guide to Redemptive Law Practice in Lawyers’ Ethics and the Pursuit of Social Justice.