James Rule writes for Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2015
Establishing a right to the privacy of our data, and creating meaningful choice over how it can be used, might not take privacy off the endangered species list. But it would forestall its total extinction.
Leti Volpp writes for Public Books, August 1, 2015
“This book is a great service to those of us who have long wanted for a resource we can recommend to explain why Muslim women do not need saving.… Constraint is a human condition, not one unique to Muslim women. We are all constrained; we all struggle; we all live lives we did not fully choose.”
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, July 31, 2015
China’s current nationwide crackdown on “rights defense” (weiquan) lawyers is the strongest assault to date on a small number of pioneers who have struggled to advance the rule of law.… The crackdown increases uncertainty about the future of law reform in China as long as Xi Jinping leads the party-state.
Jesse Choper interviewed for The Garden City Telegram, July 31, 2015
Jesse Choper … said in a phone interview Friday that Huckabee’s statement was “way off-base,” adding, “it does rival Donald Trump. I think he’d better more carefully examine what he’s saying, because it is totally unprecedented.”
Jonathan Simon quoted in The New York Times, July 30, 2015
“The benefit of being able to hold police accountable in many situations where they are now largely immune is probably worth the cost alone,” said Jonathan Simon. “But even more so when you consider how often the same cameras will provide damning evidence against criminal suspects as well.”
Andrea Roth quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, July 25, 2015
“We never got to see up close the encounter between the officer and Sandra Bland in the car,” she said. She added that officers know where the camera’s lens is fixed and can often “essentially choose what to put on the camera and what not to put on the camera.”
Andrea Roth writes for Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2015
“These crimes absolutely deserve serious punishment. But we should not ignore or excuse irrational overpunishment simply because an offender has done something violent.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, July 23, 2015
The takeover battle between the pharmaceutical rivals Mylan N.V. and Teva went into full-scale fight mode on Thursday when the independent foundation created by Mylan to fend off the hostile bid finally acted.
Franklin Zimring interviewed for KPCC-FM, July 22, 2015
“This is not an issue you run for Attorney General on. The people who are going to give you brownie points are not the elites,” said Zimring.
Franklin Zimring quoted in Newsday, July 21, 2015
“New York has broken new ground on what is possible with violence in a very large city,” said Franklin Zimring.… Such low rates of life-threatening violence in New York City and Los Angeles may at some point make it fair to start comparing them to other large and less violent global cities such as London and Paris instead of other U.S. urban areas, Zimring said.