California Watch, February 5, 2010 by Erica Perez
http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/record-breaking-applications-inundate-uc-berkeley-law-school
Gluss attributed the rise, in part, to the tendency of more people to apply for graduate school during a recession, and in part, to Berkeley’s enhanced loan forgiveness program for students who work for nonprofit public interest groups or government agencies and earn below a certain threshold.
The Washington Post, Short Stack Blog, February 2, 2010 by James B. Rule
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack/2010/02/worse_than_identity_theft_lega.html
Nobody really wants to live in a world totally stripped of private domains and experiences. Still, entrepreneurial zeal in the merchandizing of privacy-eroding activities only seems to grow with time.
London Times, February 1, 2010 by Giles Whittell
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7010392.ece
“You have to be his inner LBJ, the leader who twists arms past their breaking point and is prepared to make some enemies in order to make some progress,” he said.
-Publishers Weekly, February 1, 2010 by Andrew Richard Albanese
http://www.publishersweekly.com/index.asp?layout=talkbackCommentsFull&talk_back_header_id=6641791&articleid=CA6717077
University of California, Berkley law professor Pamela Samuelson, in a brief filed last week on behalf of over 100 academic authors, many of them legal scholars, argued that the Authors Guild and its members “do not share the interests, professional commitments or values of academic authors.”
-San Jose Mercury News, February 4, 2010 by Mike Swift
http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_14336753
“The future of public access to the cultural heritage of mankind embodied in books is too important to leave in the hands of one company and one registry that will have a de facto monopoly,” Samuelson and the group of academics argued.
-Palo Alto Online, February 5, 2010 by Susan Kostal
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=15634
“Until the U.S. Justice Department says this is a clear antitrust problem, I don’t think the judge will find there are antitrust problems,” Samuelson said.
UC Berkeley News, February 1, 2010 by Carol Ness
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/02/01_climate.shtml
“It’s also a problem of the university for usually failing to take seriously the need to build the connections between the research, the policy implications of the research, and the institutional designs needed to actually execute those policies once adopted.”
California Supreme Court Historical Society Newsletter, Fall/Winter 2009 by Claire Cooper
http://www.cschs.org/ (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
The questions asked by the law students reflect “the kinds of things lawyers care about: what kinds of judges are these, what are their values and what is the process that they use to make a decision,” Fernholz says. In responding, the justices were “as candid as they could be consistent with their ethical duties.”
California Magazine, February 2010 by Sandy Tolan
http://alumni.berkeley.edu/news/california-magazine/winter-2009-food-thought/waterworld
“The levee system,” says Frank, “was never designed to protect and accommodate residential development.”