john a. powell quoted by Mad River Union, May 19, 2016
As powell put it, when “we are consciously aware of the [other] person, our stereotypes and beliefs about the person surface in our conscious mind but our emotional reaction has already occurred” before we know it. This happens even among people who are not prejudiced, he emphasized.
Pamela Samuelson quoted in The New York Times, May 19, 2016
“The open-source community will heave a huge sigh of relief if Google wins, and will be very worried if Oracle wins,” said Pamela Samuelson, professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley. “It will have a chilling effect.”
Ethan Elkind interviewed by KPCC-FM, May 18, 2016
Metro’s return on investment comes down to ridership. … “It’s really dependent on something that sounds really straight-forward, but is hard to achieve in reality, which is that you have to have enough concentration of people and jobs within a half mile of stations,” he said.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, May 18, 2016
It’s hard to sell any company, but Yahoo is finding that it may be even harder when the entire world seems to know about your supposedly secret bidding.
Franklin Zimring quoted in The Mercury News, May 18, 2016
Frank Zimring … said Alaysha’s slaying was a case of “extreme victimization” of an innocent girl caught in an enormous violence. There wasn’t a fight between equals; the gunfire blasted through the door, he said. Even an office that wouldn’t touch the death penalty with a 10-foot pole would feel an obligation to do so “in an extraordinary case of unprovoked and meaningless violence,” he said.
Paul Schwartz co-writes for Lexology, May 17, 2016
Because the failure of a target company to meet its privacy and data security obligations can present a significant risk to the acquiring company, compliance with applicable laws should be an important consideration in merger and acquisition transactions.
Pamela Samuelson writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 17, 2016
If the overwhelming majority of the university’s uses were fair, it doesn’t make sense to impose substantial and costly compliance measures on it. Colleges, students, faculty members, and academic-book-chapter authors will win if the publishers lose once again.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, May 17, 2016
Yes, Lending Club deserves more scrutiny. But companies like it are not banks — they do not have the same central importance, and are not too big to fail. So far, peer-to-peer lending seems to do more good for consumers than bad.
Jamie O’Connell quoted by Al-Monitor, May 17, 2016
“Even [US President Barack] Obama saying something wouldn’t transform a government’s behavior,” said Jamie O’Connell, a senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley law school. “But the difference between leading rights groups like Amnesty [International] or Human Rights Watch making such comments and a UN official doing so is considerable,” he told Al-Monitor in an interview.
Megan McCracken interviewed by KPBS, May 16, 2016
“We see states moving away from capital punishment, as more and more people see that there are so many problems with capital punishment and that it is really a broken system — a costly broken system.”