Franklin Zimring interviewed by Los Angeles Times, Dec. 5, 2015
“The reason that gun control laws do or don’t pass is not so much the number of people for or against it, but how deeply they feel,” Zimring said. “And for pro-gun, anti-more-control folks, it’s much more important to them — they care more deeply about their cause — than the average citizen.”
Robert Merges interviewed by Bloomberg BNA, Dec. 4, 2015
The good news about the boom in clean energy patents, Merges said, is that it means companies are investing in this technology. “And that’s just fantastic news from a general perspective of what’s happening in the world,” he said.
Franklin Zimring interviewed by The Washington Post, Dec. 3, 2015
In New York City, the recruitment of more officers was a crucial reason that the decline in crime was larger and more sustained than in other cities, according to Franklin Zimring. … As Zimring notes, police in New York were among the first to realize the potential for computers to aid in fighting crime.
Leti Volpp interviewed by SF Weekly News, Nov. 25, 2015
“Asians, and in particular the Chinese, were structured as aliens to be excluded,” she said, adding that people should be skeptical of embracing the “model minority” stereotype. “We’ve seen people being profiled for downloading data while Asian. Now people are being profiled for emailing while Chinese,” Volpp said.
Andrea Roth quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 2, 2015
“For many people out there, the concern about drugged driving is one of the main political hindrances to supporting legalization,” she said. “And I think anything that could be seen as a legitimate way of dealing with DUI-marijuana can only help the legalization movement.”
Jennifer Granholm writes for CNN.com, Dec. 2, 2015
My deep fear is that if you win the GOP nomination, the general election will divide the nation more than by Democrats and Republicans: It will end up pitting entire segments of our population against one another based on race, religion, gender and more.
John Yoo and John Bolton write for Los Angeles Times, Dec. 1, 2015
On one side is international pressure to vest any climate deal with what international law considers to be binding legal force. On the other is the political difficulty, even the impossibility, of approving a climate treaty under our Constitution because of the need for approval by two-thirds of the Senate.
Steven Davidoff Solomon and Eugene Kontorovich write for The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1, 2015
The moral myopia and academic perversity of these boycotts have been widely discussed. Less well understood is that in many cases they also are illegal. Under corporate law, an organization, including a nonprofit, can do only what is permitted under the purposes specified in its charter.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, Dec. 1, 2015
House Republicans are trying to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s attempt to regulate the $900 billion auto finance industry. It’s a political battle that just might lead to the end of the fledgling agency’s mission to regulate every nook and cranny of consumer finance.
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 1, 2015
The criminal process remains a crude tool of Communist Party policy in China. The suppression of activists by the party-state continues with blatant repression of speech and conduct deemed dangerous to stability.