Maria Echaveste quoted in AllGov, November 3, 2014
Beginning when she was eight years old, with her parents and her siblings, she harvested cotton. … “I know we were out there because my family needed the money. But there is something wrong about children working when they’re tired and hungry and cold or hot.”
Ty Alper quoted in The Daily Californian, November 2, 2014
“We have an opportunity in Berkeley that we don’t have in many other districts,” he said, “which is to better harness the resources at Cal, because we have this great research university in our backyard. As a faculty member, I’m excited about the new ideas I will bring to the table.”
Ian Haney López quoted in Lansing State Journal, November 1, 2014
“If we have a notion of whiteness that’s central to American political self-identity, it can only operate against a notion of non-whites, where whites are seen as people like us, people who deserve to be here, and non-whites are seen as people we need to guard against.”
Anne Joseph O’Connell quoted in California Lawyer, November 2014
“Predictive coding should be given careful consideration in a case like this,” she said, “and I am absolutely happy to endorse the use of predictive coding and to require that it be used as part of the discovery tools available to the parties.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, October 31, 2014
The hostile offer from BGC Partners to acquire the GFI Group, a New York brokerage and clearing firm, may really just be a smokescreen.
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2014
Both reports strongly reaffirmed the party’s control over law and legal institutions while alluding to pilot programs and reform plans intended to translate the leadership’s vague commitment to “governing the country according to law” into practice.
Jonathan Simon quoted in Pacific Standard, October 29, 2014
While mass incarceration is a problem everywhere in the United States … California has served as a crucible for this issue, the “Mississippi of mass incarceration,” in the words of University of California-Berkeley law professor Jonathan Simon.
Barry Krisberg quoted in Daily Journal (registration required), October 29, 2014
“As long as I can remember, the AG’s race has been hotly contested, often representing a pretty broad ideological difference between the candidates,” Krisberg said. “This is really very different.”
Deirdre Mulligan quoted in The Wall Street Journal, October 28, 2014
“These companies have stuck their necks up above the pack, making a market play as privacy-preserving apps without investing the technical resources to back up their promises,” Mulligan said, referring to both Snapchat and Whisper.
Catherine Crump quoted in CPJ Online, October 28, 2014
“Journalists who want to keep their materials safe need to use technological protection measures, such as encryption, rather than relying on the law.”