Mark Gergen quoted in The Bay Citizen, October 16, 2012

Mark Gergen, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law who studies federal income tax and tax shelters, questioned the value of publicly humiliating tax debtors when many do not have the means to pay their debt. “I suspect a lot of these companies are beyond despair. Some of them simply can’t pay,” Gergen said. “If somebody goes bankrupt, they are already embarrassed. If you want to have this public disclosure as a way of embarrassing people, you aren’t doing a big service by adding them to this list.”

Above the Law, February 27, 2012 by David Lat
http://abovethelaw.com/2012/02/quote-of-the-day-more-like-week-old-muffins/#more-138472

“People going to bottom-tier law schools ought to know that they won’t go like hot cakes on the job market. But that doesn’t mean you’re allowed to exploit their vulnerability.”

Reuters, December 28, 2011 by Joshua Schneyer and Brian Grow
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/28/us-energy-giant-newspro-idUSTRE7BR
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The near-blanket cancellation of the contracts raises the question of whether Chesapeake ever intended to pay if it failed to find oil or gas immediately, says Mark Gergen, a contract law professor at the University of California-Berkeley law school.

CNET News, Politics and Law, April 14, 2010 by Declan McCullagh
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-20002434-38.html

Mark Gergen, a tax law professor at the UC Berkeley School of Law, says he’s not aware of any previous cases that would resolve whether a state can “impose an information reporting requirement on a foreign merchant if there is insufficient nexus to require the merchant to collect and remit a use tax.” It’s “difficult to predict how a court would come out on the question,” Gergen says.

Inside Counsel, May 1, 2009 by Melissa Maleske
http://www.insidecounsel.com/Issues/2009/May%202009/Pages/Preemption-Rejection.aspx?PrintPreview

“They haven’t closed the door on implied pre-emption, but it’s not a very wide open door,” says Mark Gergen, a Berkeley Law School professor who co-authored an amicus brief in support of Levine.

Haaretz, Dec. 11, 2008 by Ruth Sinai
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1045093.html

In a letter, Gergen said the decision would harm Tel Aviv University’s reputation. It is crucial, he wrote, that universities do not intervene in law clinic decisions about which clients to represent.