David Gamage quoted in The Washington Post, March 1, 2015
“Nobody I talked to in government, including many people involved in the legislative process, thought this was a question,” recalled David Gamage, a tax law professor at the University of California at Berkeley hired to help the Treasury Department’s Office of Tax Policy implement the law. “Nobody thought the argument [limiting the subsidies] was persuasive.’’
Eric Talley quoted in Bloomberg Business, March 1, 2015
Most law schools matriculate roughly even numbers of men and women, he said, and the introductory corporations classes typically are 50 percent female. But those numbers change dramatically in more advanced corporate classes. … Talley … said it was “an awakening” when he realized that even his own advanced classes were only 40 percent female. “There’s some zeitgeist about M&A that is causing some who would love the field not to enter it.”
Jill Adams and Melissa Murray interviewed by Colorlines, February 27, 2015
“[The casebook] has the potential to enlighten a generation of legal thinkers and community leaders about how laws regarding sex, families and reproduction intersect with other areas of policy,” says Adams. “It could show how the struggle for reproductive justice is inextricably linked to efforts to … rework systems to meet the needs of marginalized communities and redistribute power.”
“The interest in controlling reproduction has been racialized almost from the start,” says Murray. “The earliest efforts to medicalize obstetrics and gynecology came from doctors who were experimenting on enslaved women. The criminalization of pregnancy has been laid out on the bodies of black women. There is a really racialized discourse in the effort to control reproduction and sexuality.”
Franklin Zimring writes for San Francisco Chronicle, February 27, 2015
The failure to collect and audit accurate information on killings by the police is a major scandal. 2015 should be the year when effective reporting of police use of fatal force becomes a practical reality. This will help reveal the high volume of chronic government violence that otherwise is disregarded as just the way things are.
Malcolm Feeley writes for The New York Times, February 26, 2015
The tremendous increase in quality of life arrests has increased the number of people being held for petty nonviolent offenses. In many jurisdictions, arrests on nonviolent misdemeanor charges have left more arrestees unable to post even low bail.
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2015
Labor unrest is on the rise in China and likely to increase as the leadership grapples with a dangerous combination of an economic slowdown and the lack of effective institutions to cope with worker unrest. A new set of regulations put forward by one province offers a potential solution while at the same time illustrating the difficulty the Communist Party faces in effectively addressing workers’ grievances.
Melissa Murray interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, February 26, 2015
In the Asia-Pacific region, Taiwan and the Philippines treat marital infidelity as a crime. Twenty U.S. states allow civil or criminal prosecution for extramarital affairs but enforcement is rare, says Melissa Murray.
Ethan Elkind quoted in The Daily Californian, February 25, 2015
“We‘ve got crumbling roads … and transit systems that are overcrowded,” said Ethan Elkind. “We have too much traffic in general … and nowhere for people who are biking or walking.”
Barry Krisberg quoted in Orange County Register, February 21, 2015
“Until the savings money from 47 gets translated back into the counties, and that’ll take a couple years, we probably have a period where things are no better than they were,” he said. “The single most important thing we can do is get the dollars into community organizations and groups who are prepared to and can run accredited drug-treatment programs.”
Jesse Choper quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, February 21, 2015
With daily headlines about beheadings and suicide bombings by the Islamic State, “the world today is an awfully scary place,” and Din has “an uphill battle,” said Jesse Choper.