National Public Radio, November 7, 2011 by Scott Neuman
http://www.npr.org/2011/11/07/142102081/occupy-presents-big-problems-for-big-city-mayors
“There are political questions to be answered here about how municipalities and their police forces weigh not only the interests in public safety but also their interests in maintaining public order and access to public spaces,” Sklansky says.
The New York Times, October 1, 2011 by Shoshana Walter
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/02/us/those-gosh-darn-criminals-can-go-to-heck.html?_r=2&scp=2&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt
“It used to be that police forces were overwhelmingly white and male, pretty uniformly and aggressively homophobic, and politically and culturally conservative,” he said. But as departments have diversified and surveillance technologies have proliferated, “police officers are expected to get along better with people now much more than they used to be,” he said.
Los Angeles Law Schools Examiner, September 27, 2011 by Seth Chavez
http://exm.nr/qddIGn
Edley praised Liu for his “patience, clarity, organization, humor, a balanced temperament, and good listening skills.” Edley said “there was no one on the faculty more widely respected or more genuinely admired for his fairness, collegiality, and good judgment.”
Sklansky said he was impressed with Liu’s “powerful intellect but also with his character: his decency, his open-mindedness, and his evenhandedness.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, September 1, 2011 by Bob Egelko
http://articles.sfgate.com/2011-09-01/bay-area/29952247_1_goodwin-liu-law-clerk-justice-carlos-moreno
He is someone who “listens to and understands the views of people he disagrees with,” said David Sklansky, a UC Berkeley law faculty colleague.
Questioned at Wednesday’s hearing, Liu drew a distinction between a scholar’s task “to be provocative, innovative and creative, and to work on the edges of the law,” and a judge’s duty to put personal opinions aside.
-Los Angeles Times, September 1, 2011 by Maura Dolan
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0901-goodwin-liu-20110901,0,2622495.story
In response to a question, Liu said that being an academic required him to be provocative, creative and often critical, whereas a judge’s “personal viewpoints have no role.”
-The Sacramento Bee, September 2, 2011 by David Siders
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/09/02/3879439/jerry-brown-calls-goodwin-lius.html
“I stood in this rotunda many times, perhaps even on days, governor, when you were hard at work just a few paces away,” Liu said. “But I never imagined that our paths would cross quite like this.”
San Jose Mercury News, August 7, 2011 by Howard Mintz
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_18635058
But Liu also had strong support, even from conservatives such as Kenneth Starr. John Yoo, a colleague and controversial former Bush administration lawyer, said Liu was “a good nomination for a Democratic president” and is convinced he’ll make a “fine justice” on the state Supreme Court.
Another colleague, law professor David Sklansky, was troubled by the attacks on Liu’s judgment and temperament, which is widely described as unflappable. “He’s exceptionally fair-minded,” Sklansky said.
Bay Area News Group, May 17, 2011 by Thomas Peele
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_18080289?source=rss&nclick_check=1
“The basic idea is that the Constitution guarantees every criminal defendant a right to confront the witnesses against him, and the Supreme Court has said that right can be compromised if the prosecution introduces a statement taken outside of court from the other defendant,” said David Sklansky.
Daily Journal, April 21, 2011 by David Sklansky
http://bit.ly/erOxvN (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)
I’ve watched him mediate faculty conflicts as associate dean and assess personnel cases objectively and without ideological favoritism. I’ve never seen him to be anything but thoughtful, evenhanded, and painstakingly fair. That’s not just my impression. It’s the widely shared view of those who have been fortunate enough to have Liu as a colleague or as a teacher. We know he would be an exemplary — and fair-minded — judge.
Contra Costa Times, October 24, 2010 by Thadeus Greenson
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_16421678?nclick_check=1
“I think assessing a district attorney by the crime rate is risky because lots of things that influence crime rates are beyond the control of a district attorney,” Sklansky said. “In fact, we went through a decade or two of increasing crime rates in this state and experts couldn’t agree on what was driving those rates. Then, we had a remarkable turnaround and crime rates have been falling since then, and there’s an astonishing lack of consensus about what’s causing the crime rates to fall.”
Balkinization, September 24, 2010 by David Sklansky
http://balkin.blogspot.com/2010/09/constitutional-regulation-of-police-in.html
The police share crime fighting and order maintenance duties with a proliferating array of public and private agencies, and the boundaries are blurring between policing and a range of other things—immigration enforcement, probation and parole supervision, mental health policy, family law, and school discipline, for starters…. We need ways to think about and to address the blurred boundaries between law enforcement … and the growing range of other agencies and governmental functions that pool their resources and their legal powers with the police.
National Public Radio, Morning Edition, September 14, 2010 by Ted Robbins
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129829950
David Sklansky, a former federal prosecutor who is now a law professor at UC Berkeley, says the federal courts have already been transformed by the rise in immigration prosecutions. “We’ve now reached a point where immigration prosecutions are not just the largest category of federal criminal prosecutions; they are a majority of federal criminal prosecutions,” Sklansky says. “And that doesn’t strike me as a good use of our prosecutorial machinery.”