Herman Selvin was a jurist whose career in California law spanned more than fifty years. He was born in Grodno, Lithuania in 1904 and grew up in Tooele, Utah after his family immigrated to the United States when he was five years old. In 1924, he received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and he received his law degree from Berkeley Law (formerly known as Boalt Hall) in 1927. He began his practice at the Los Angeles law firm Loeb & Loeb. After serving in the US Navy during World War II, he returned to his practice at Loeb & Loeb in 1945, serving as chief trial advocate and chief appellate advocate for the next twenty years. In 1967, he joined Kaplan, Livingston, Goodwin, Berkowitz & Selvin as a named partner. Throughout his career he was a member of several organizations, commissions, and boards, including the board of governors for the State Bar of California, and he served as president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, the Boalt Hall Alumni Association, and the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners. He was also chair of the California Law Revision Commission. In this interview, Selvin discusses his experiences as a student at UC Berkeley in the 1920s; the history of UC administrative and student relations with the state and the public; his naval service in World War II; and the evolution of the philosophy and practice of law from 1928 to the 1970s. This interview is part of a group of interviews documenting University of California history.