Sandy Cohen has left his days as a public defender behind on "The O.C.," but a group of law students at the University of California-Berkeley are looking to follow in his footsteps.

Yes, they understand that Sandy is not a real person. But 60 or so students at Boalt Hall School of Law nonetheless are in the process of setting up the Sandy Cohen Fellowship, a scholarship that will send a student to work in the Orange County public defender's office this summer.

The fellowship is the work of The O.C. at Boalt, a club formed last year and devoted to the FOX series. The club is celebrating "'O.C.' Awareness Week" this week on the Berkeley campus, wearing orange T-shirts and tank tops with quotes from the show on the back, according to The Daily Californian, the campus newspaper.

"The point of the club is to have fun," founder and "commander-in-chief" John Kim says. "It's a parody of law school clubs."

The O.C. at Boalt meets on Thursdays to watch a tape of the previous night's episode and discuss the trials and tribulations of the Cohen family, their ward Ryan (Benjamin McKenzie) and the rest of the characters.

"If you think about these shows, and think about the diagram of the evolution of man, '90210' may have been the genesis, but standing upright at the end of the scale, you have 'The O.C,'" says Brendan Cody, the club's Secretary of Gossip.

The Sandy Cohen Fellowship is the club's first serious work. It's named after Peter Gallagher's character, who's a Boalt alumnus and former Orange County public defender. The club has invited Gallagher to attend the presentation of the fellowship later this year.