Education
Harvard University; University of California Berkeley School of Law.
Harvard University; University of California Berkeley School of Law.
Born in 1949 in Canton, Ohio, Berring received his undergraduate degree from Harvard (1971), his law degree from University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law (1974), and his library degree from University College Berkeley"s then-named library school. Since 1982, Berring (a Boalt Hall graduate) has been a professor of Law and Law Librarian at the University of California (Boalt Hall) School of Law. He currently holds the Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law Chair appointment.
From 1986 to 1989, he held a joint appointment as dean of the School of Library and Information Studies.
He also served as interim dean of the law school from January 2003 to June 2004. Berring has written numerous works.
Recent publications include Finding the Law (with Beth Edinger, 11th ed, 1999) and Legal Research Survival Manual, (with Edinger, 2002). He also created the award-winning video series Legal Research for the 21st Century.
He was awarded the University of California, Berkeley"s Distinguished Teaching Award in 1987.
The AALL also recognized his Finding the Law as the most significant contribution to law librarianship from 1957 to 2006.