Laurel Fletcher quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 2018
“He had a way of explaining the law, of meeting students where they were — as novices,” said fellow law Professor Laurel Fletcher. “He listened. And he made you feel you were the only person in the room when he was talking to you.”
Laurel Fletcher quoted by Al Jazeera, Sept. 11, 2017
“When you have those incidents that are regularly cropping up, I think it activates people’s fear,” Fletcher says. She believes it’s a normal “visceral response” to support strong action in the wake of “terrorist attacks” – and that’s why Guantanamo may be experiencing a resurgence in popularity, despite evidence that its methods fail to make the public safer, she says.
Roxanna Altholz and Laurel E. Fletcher write for The New York Times, July 5, 2015
For decades, Haitians and their progeny have served as a scapegoat for Dominican politicians who blame them for poverty, disease and crime. The Dominican Republic should put a halt to the sporadic roundups and summary expulsions. If it doesn’t, the international community must step in.
Laurel Fletcher and Eric Stover write for San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2015
Justice requires more than shutting down Guantanamo. It means accepting responsibility for the torture and illegal acts that we, as a nation, committed against detainees held there and in secret CIA “black sites” around the world.
Laurel Fletcher and Eric Stover’s report cited in The New Yorker, March 18, 2013
The spread of such torture around the world is the subject of … “The Guantanamo Effect,” which is based on interviews with sixty-two former detainees, conducted by Laurel E. Fletcher, the director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic, at Berkeley, and Eric Stover, the director of Berkeley’s Human Rights Center.
Laurel Fletcher and Eric Stover’s Guantanamo study cited in World Policy Blog, May 11, 2012
This problem is also demonstrated by the reckless 840-odd detentions at Guantánamo, where no more than 20 percent had committed a crime of any kind, according to studies by UC Berkeley School of Law and Seton Hall Law School in Newark.
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, January 17, 2012 by BSS News
http://www1.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=221504&date=2012-01-17
Laurel E. Fletcher and Allard Lowenstein … called for witnesses’ protection alongside maintaining transparency at all levels.
The Straits Times, November 24, 2011 by Laurel E. Fletcher, Megan Karsh and Mahdev Mohan
http://www.accessjusticeasia.org/more-to-justice-than-a-trial/
Victims deserve a pride of place in any justice process where massive human rights violations are concerned. The court’s reparations scheme has the potential to be its most remarkable contribution—both to Cambodian victims and to the development of international law.
-Los Angeles Times, April 1, 2010 by Teresa Watanabe
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-deport1-2010apr01,0,3720769,print.story
“It is a travesty that this is happening without any judicial discretion,” said Aarti Kohli, director of immigration policy for Berkeley Law School’s Warren Institute. “We’re not saying you can’t deport people. We’re saying there should be a fair judicial process that takes into account the impact on their children.”
-Futurity.org, April 12, 2010 by Claudia Morain
http://futurity.org/society-culture/deportation-hurts-young-u-s-citizens/
“As Congress considers immigration reform, it’s time to focus on how the current system tears apart families and threatens the health and education of tens of thousands of children,” says Aarti Kohli.
“The rights to health and education are firmly entrenched in international human rights law, and nearly every major human rights treaty recognizes the need for special protection of children,” says Laurel Fletcher…. “The U.S. should consider revising its policy to mirror European human rights standards, which permit judges to balance a nation’s security interest with the best interests of the child when considering deporting a parent.”
-The Oakland Tribune, December 4, 2009 by Matt Krupnick
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_13928651
In Denmark, the students will rub shoulders with world leaders, including the former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, who agreed to let the pair speak at an event she will host. Robinson, also a former U.N. human-rights commissioner, is a friend of Alice Miller, a UC Berkeley law lecturer.”The reason we were able to do that is because we’re at Berkeley, quite frankly,” said Laurel Fletcher, a Berkeley law professor…. “We’re able to leverage our academic capital.”
-National Law Journal, December 7, 2009 by Karen Sloan
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202436139320&
Law_students_try_to_shift_climate_policy_in_Copenhagen
A pair of 2Ls from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law will make the rounds at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen discussing their research on climate change and human rights…. The Berkeley students, Zoe Loftus-Farren and Caítrín McKiernan, wrote and will deliver a research paper urging policymakers to take into account the human implications of climate change.
-Youth Radio and KQED, “In Other Words” blog, December 14, 2009 by Molly Samuel
http://blogs.kqed.org/inotherwords/2009/12/14/2183/
Zoe Loftus-Farren and Cáitrín McKiernan are presenting a paper they wrote as interns at Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Clinic…. Loftus-Farren says, “A legal education is applicable to many types of work, and opens doors in terms of how to focus my work.” McKiernan adds, “People of good faith can work for change both in and out of the system. Neither side has a monopoly on the truth or how to preserve hard fought gains.”