The Recorder, January 2, 2009 by Mike McKee
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“Advocacy before the Supreme Court is, at best, uneven,” said Richard Frank, a lecturer in residence at the UC-Berkeley School of Law. “Attorneys appearing before the court could benefit from some clinical training or preparation.”
Edley encouraged attendees to participate in the proposed program as “advocates or judges.”
Daily Californian, Dec. 5, 2008 by Amy Brooks
http://www.dailycal.org/article/103825
“I have no evidence from students or others that the actual content of any course is academically inappropriate under any principled standard one might adopt,” he said in a statement
Daily Californian, Dec. 3, 2008 by Stephanie Lee
http://www.dailycal.org/article/103778/top_uc_campus_officials_gather_to_discuss_budget_w
Looking beyond the UC system, Edley said he perceives public education throughout the state as “broken” overall. “The vast majority of students leave without having achieved a certificate, much less a degree,” he said.
Dan Farber, a professor at Boalt Hall School of Law, said that he left last night’s panel discussion impressed—but worried for the future of higher education in California. “It’s remarkable that the campus and UC have managed to maintain their quality while being starved to death,” he said
San Jose Mercury News, Nov. 19, 2008 by Howard Mintz
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_11024156
Some conservative legal scholars say the Supreme Court has “no lawful authority” to upend the voters on the subject. But a string of prominent law professors have sided with gay rights advocates, including Harvard law professor Laurence Tribe and Christopher Edley Jr., dean of Boalt Hall School of Law.
Politico, Nov. 14, 2008 by Ben Smith and Carrie Budoff Brown
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“This is a good way to try to be helpful without giving up my new life at Berkeley,” said Edley, who is now dean of the law school at the University of California at Berkeley, in an email.
The Daily Californian, Nov. 10, 2008 by Samantha Sondag
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=86F827D4-18FE-70B2-A81ABF7BB95B96F9
“For professional and personal reasons, I want to stay at Berkeley,” Edley stated in an e-mail. “I already served in the White House under Presidents Carter and Clinton, and this time would prefer lending a hand from a distance.”
“A number of law school scholars are being considered for those transition teams,” said Susan Gluss, spokeswoman for Boalt Hall.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/09/INDN13VUV3.DTL&type=printable
“Hope alone cannot change America or the world, as our president-elect understands well. But it is more than a beginning. It is the most powerful force for change our natures can summon. What will Obama do with it? What will we do with it?”
San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 6, 2008 by Tyche Hendricks, Matthai Kuruvila, and Leslie Fulbright
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/06/BAIV13USV3.DTL
Leadership is important, agreed Christopher Edley, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law and a member of Obama’s transition advisory board, but Obama’s instinct, as a former community organizer, is to encourage Americans not just to look to him to solve their problems but to look to themselves and their neighbors. “He wants the lesson to be that as individuals and communities, we have the power to create change and there are countless ways to do that, not just in Washington but in our local communities,” said Edley, who was Obama’s professor at Harvard Law School.
Contra Costa Times, Nov. 5, 2008 by Josh Richman
http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2008/11/05/cal-law-dean-to-advise-obama-transition-team/
“I’ve done two tours of duty in the White House and this is my third transition effort,” Edley told me moments ago. “My joyfulness about the election is tempered by a very deep appreciation of how extraordinarily difficult the president’s to-do list will be. The team has been working for a couple of months, but this will still be the most complex transition in our lifetime. The sleeves are already rolled up and the adrenaline is already at flood levels.”
dBusinessNews, Nov. 4, 2008
http://sanfrancisco.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=170039&type_news=latest
“It is our great honor that Bill and his law firm have chosen to continue his longstanding, generous support of civil rights by establishing the Coblentz Fund,” said U.C. Berkeley School of Law Dean Christopher Edley…. Endowments like the Coblentz Fund are critical to the important mission of preparing future generations of leaders who are passionate about civil rights. We are both grateful and honored for this opportunity to continue Bill’s legacy at Berkeley Law.”