Robert Merges quoted in The Daily Californian, Feb. 18, 2016
“It’s not unusual to have a tangle of patents,” said UC Berkeley School of Law professor Robert Merges. “There is often a lack of clarity at the beginning stage here, and it’s really not at all unusual.”
Deirdre Mulligan quoted in Los Angeles Times, Feb. 18, 2016
“This is a really important moment in corporate leadership,” she said. “It’s certainly one of the things he’ll be remembered for.”
Christopher Edley quoted in EdSource, Feb. 17, 2016
“We will be looking at problems of opportunity and equity within the framework of education, such as health and social service interventions that are needed to support student success,” Edley said.
Christopher Edley quoted in The Washington Post, Feb. 17, 2016
“There are tremendous advantages to putting together an effort that looks across the entire range of education issues from early childhood all the way to early career,” Edley said. It helps with coordinating and integrating policies that affect different parts of children’s lives, he said, and it helps with building coalitions that can get work done.
Amanda Tyler quoted in Daily Journal (registration required) Feb. 17, 2016
“It’s an area where there’s a potential to see a shift in the court’s jurisprudence depending on who takes his place.”
Jim Dempsey quoted in Newsweek, Feb. 17, 2016
“I would strongly oppose the legislative mandate that Apple designs all future phones to be accessible,” Dempsey says. “I would rather have the courts decide this. It often happens that legislations happen without a full attention to the facts.”
David Carrillo and Melissa Murray quoted on NBCNews.com, Feb. 16, 2016
David A. Carrillo, executive director of the California Constitution Center at Berkeley Law, agreed: “California is the tail that wags the dog on so many issues.”
Maybe the famous swing justice would have extra sympathy for a Californian. As Murray put it wryly, “We are always thinking about how to resonate with Justice Kennedy.”
Christopher Edley quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 16, 2016
“We take a cradle-to-career approach to ways education policy changes could improve opportunities for upward mobility and equity,” Edley said.
Christopher Edley writes for The Huffington Post: HuffPost Education, Feb. 16, 2016
Education is the key to make opportunity less serendipitous and more systemic for all of us. True educational opportunity is the best path to the promised land where difference is not destiny and dreams are not coded by color or class. But narrowly understood, it is not enough.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Feb. 16, 2016
The battle over Argentina’s debt is at the end stage, as the hedge funds and the country enter into negotiations to resolve the dispute. The hedge funds may claim victory, reaping billions of dollars on legal technicalities, but there are no real winners in this sorry affair.