Rachel Stern quoted in Inside Counsel, June 11, 2014
Looking at the big picture, Stern says there has been a “long string of detentions and arrests of politically-inclined lawyers” in China. “Since at least 2004, the Chinese authorities have been watching the legal profession carefully and cracking down on outspoken lawyers, especially those who refuse to listen to warnings,” Stern said.
Franklin Zimring quoted in Los Angeles Times, June 10, 2014
“This is the only place on Earth where you’d be talking about building a psychiatric hospital for condemned prisoners,” said Berkeley law professor Franklin Zimring, who has written about the U.S. capital punishment system. “It is a measure of American greatness and American silliness at the same time.” Federal courts have ruled that it is unconstitutional to execute people who are not aware of what is happening to them. “We are curing them to make them executable,” Zimring said.
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, Real Time Blog, June 10, 2014
The agencies of the party-state are always watching for stirrings of unrest. If they detect growing strength — especially if it reflects increasing links among labor unions, NGOs and social media — there will be efforts to suppress it. Moreover, concern about worker unrest cannot be separated from the party’s unrelenting focus on stability.
Daniel Rubinfeld quoted in The Chronicle of Higher Education, June 10, 2014
Mr. Hausfeld showed excerpts of a book by Daniel Rubinfeld, an economics professor at the University of California at Berkeley, describing the association as a “cartel organization” with a “persistently high level of profits” inconsistent with competition. According to one excerpt, Mr. Rubinfeld once wrote that, to reduce the bargaining power of athletes, the NCAA creates and enforces rules regarding eligibility and terms of compensation.
Barry Krisberg quoted in Aljazeera America, June 6, 2014
“This culture is fixated on punishment and control as the way in which we deal with crime and other problems. It’s essentially a military solution,” said Barry Krisberg … adding that the city’s high crime rates, historically, are rooted in severe poverty, isolation and dim prospects for growth. “The research has been clear that doesn’t work very well.”
Jayni Foley Hein quoted in Los Angeles Times, June 5, 2014
The prospect of more and bigger accidents is real if immediate changes are not made, warned Jayni Foley Hein….. “The danger is not so much the oil itself as a commodity,” Hein said, “but the sheer number of cars carrying this oil … combined with aging infrastructure.”
George Woods interviewed by Los Angeles Times, June 3, 2014
“Access to lethality makes a difference. It isn’t rocket science. It’s a matter of changing our priorities and creating reasonable gun laws — not crazy gun laws where no one can have a gun but reasonable gun laws. And we need to train police and firefighters on what mental illness looks like.”
Paul Schwartz quoted in Government Technology Magazine, June 2, 2014
The concept of privacy simply covers a lot of territory, and that’s part of the problem, said Paul Schwartz…. “It can mean everything and it can mean nothing,” he explained. “That can have some dangerous consequences.”
Franklin Zimring writes for The New York Post, May 31, 2014
Thoroughbreds are supposed to cost millions; “top quality” studs cost $150,000 alone. Chrome is the $10,000 horse—the one that’s not supposed to compete. Except California Chrome kept winning. And with the help of a 77-year-old trainer—who had never entered a horse in the big races of the east—Chrome easily took the first two races of the Triple Crown. Our nation was built on stories like this. The little guy who isn’t supposed to win but triumphs. The hero who isn’t from the right class, or the right neighborhood, or the right tax bracket, who succeeds wildly.
Pamela Samuelson and Molly Van Houweling quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, May 31, 2014
“Copyright law is so strict, stretching up to 95 years from publication in some cases, that without the right to digitize it we are in jeopardy of losing our long-term cultural and intellectual history,” said alliance founding member Pamela Samuelson, a UC Berkeley law professor who filed briefs on Google’s behalf during the eight-year book scanning controversy.
“It’s not only academic writers who are running into problems,” said alliance founding member and UC Berkeley law Professor Molly Van Houweling, “It’s biographers and researchers and journalists and literary writers.”