Jeffrey Selbin and Justin McCrary study cited in The Wall Street Journal, August 28, 2014
[T]he Clean Slate intervention stems the earnings slide, and may even boost earnings (also independent of the economy). The data are not robust enough to say with certainty that earnings rise post-intervention—we only have 2-3 years of earnings information post-service and were able to collect earnings information on a small number of clients—but the trends are in the right direction.
Cristián Orrego Benavente quoted in PRI, The World, August 28, 2014
“What we want with the outreach campaign is that we now begin to receive or to contact families in this country that say ‘we lost a child,’” Orrego said.
John Yoo quoted in Daily Journal, (registration required), August 26, 2014
“I am not sure why a single judge—no matter what his position in the Judicial Conference—can speak on behalf of the entire judiciary on a matter of the constitutionality of a bill.”
Steven Davidoff Solomon writes for The New York Times, August 26, 2014
The result is that companies have a great incentive to shift anything hinting at legal trouble to their in-house counsel to ensure that it is protected from disclosure. The in-house legal department thus becomes the “cover-up and damage control” arm of the company.
Ethan Elkind interviewed on KALW-FM, City Visions, August 25, 2014
“Things are getting pretty dire. Especially when the ice sheets melt, that’s going to mean sea level rise all across the world and, of course, in San Francisco and the Bay Area in general, if not all across California and beyond. That’s going to make major impacts, especially on infrastructure like the port. We have to worry about things like our airports, the delta, as well as coastal ground water resources.”
Eric Stover and Alexa Koenig interviewed on KALW-FM, Your Call, August 25, 2014
Stover: “The featured photographs remind us that human rights photography is at its best when it shuns the sensational and sentimental, and instead finds human dignity in the face of injustice.”
Koenig: “In a world where we are so saturated often with media images, it’s important to focus on the positive, the possibility for survival, the possibility for making sense out of something that often comes across as quite senseless.”
Carla Shapreau cited in Los Angeles Times, August 23, 2014
A violin maker, attorney and lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Law, Shapreau is on a research mission to bring Nazi persecution of Jewish musicians to light. She looks for valuable musical instruments and collections of sheet music that the Nazis confiscated, and anything else that will add to the world’s store of knowledge about how Jewish musicians were hounded into emigration, silence or death.
Franklin Zimring quoted in The Wall Street Journal, (registration required), August 22, 2014
Franklin Zimring, a professor at Berkeley School of Law, said the mayor’s presence at the briefing indicated he was “taking crime very seriously.”
Alexa Koenig and Eric Stover quoted in Berkeleyside, August 22, 2014
“We have an amazing opportunity to be affiliated with the campus, but we function as an independent NGO of sorts,” Koenig says. “We’re very boots on the ground, yet when we’re facing an issue we need to address we benefit from the expertise available at Cal.”
Eric Stover serves as faculty director…. “We tend to be so focused on the work and service we’re not thinking about outreach. The 20th anniversary celebration is our chance to acknowledge that there have been dozens of students and faculty involved with our work.”
Rachel Stern quoted in Earth Island Journal, August 21, 2014
“Historically, China has been struggling with problems of development, and economic development has been the biggest priority at every level of the state,” underscores Stern. “So I think in this turn towards environmental protection, the goal is not necessarily to be the greenest country on earth, but what they talk about in China is finding a new balancing point between environmental protection and economic growth.”