Barbara Bryant writes for Daily Journal (registration required), January 2, 2015
This year’s highlights reflect a broad consensus of conduct that needs to stop – sexual harassment and sexual assaults, on college campuses and in the military, as well as revenge-motivated dissemination of private images of sexual activity or naked bodies – but also disagreement about how to do so.
Allison Davenport interviewed by PBS Newshour, January 2, 2015
“Asylum claims are very difficult to win. You have to show not just that you have a fear of return to your home country, but it’s connected to one of the five protected grounds under asylum law, which are race, religion, political opinion, membership in a particular social group, or your nationality.”
Carla Shapreau quoted in Jweekly.com, December, 31, 2014
“Families often don’t know what their ancestors owned and lost under horrendous circumstances,” Shapreau says. “Facts vary. Things can be stolen. American claimants have to navigate foreign law. Until we know all the facts, it’s hard to move forward.”
Franklin Zimring quoted in Newsday, December 31, 2014
“If it stays this low it remains unmitigated good news in ways that couldn’t have been anticipated, even just a decade ago,” said noted criminologist and law professor Franklin Zimring.
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, December 31, 2014
If China’s leadership is genuine about wanting to clean up the party, it should explore the possibility of moving the power to investigate and adjudicate cases of corruption from the party’s internal disciplinary body to the same prosecutors who handle criminal wrongdoing by non-party members, or to a new government agency.
Ian Haney López interviewed by NPR, December 30, 2014
We need to get beyond the opinion, beyond the ideas and really ask, ‘How is race really working in terms of allocating power and resources in our society?'” says Ian Haney López.
Holly Doremus quoted in Daily Journal (registration required), December 30, 2014
The case over the Scott River “will become important I think as pressure on groundwater increases as an outcome of the drought,” said Holly Doremus.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, December 30, 2014
Traditionally, blowing the whistle brought either fame or infamy. Karen Silkwood and Frank Serpico both became the subject of movies, but they suffered mightily for their efforts. They did not become rich. But in the new era, whistle-blowing can make you wealthy.
Jeffrey Selbin, Eliza Hersh and Keramet Reiter write for Los Angeles Times, December 28, 2014
Significantly, the clean-slate process itself — not just the outcome — appears to create a kind of status enhancement ritual, or rite of passage, helping people move from their old life into a new one. Proposition 47 takes an important step toward addressing the consequences of mass incarceration in California.
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, December 23, 2014
It was a year of innovation and heightened deal-making as inversions became the rage, shareholder activists adopted more aggressive and novel strategies, the hostile takeover rose from the dead and the American deal market revived while Europe and Asia were moribund.