Megan McCracken quoted in Los Angeles Times, May 21, 2014
“Missouri, like several other states, has really wrapped its procedures in this secrecy that prevents the courts, the prisoners and the public from knowing exactly what drugs are being used, how they are made and if they are exactly what they purport and need to be.” She noted that several states that have concealed that information have later botched executions, including Florida, Oklahoma and Ohio.
Jesse Choper quoted on CNN, May 20, 2014
For several of these states, appeals courts already have begun hearing arguments for and against. Whatever their opinions are, University of California-Berkeley law Professor Jesse Choper says, “the Supreme Court is ultimately going to decide.”
Franklin Zimring quoted in The New York Times, May 20, 2014
“The leading public health problem in prison is boredom,” said Franklin E. Zimring, a law professor and criminologist at the University of California, Berkeley. The newspaper, he said, “is an operational antidepressant that keeps its participants structured and psychologically well organized.”
Chris Hoofnagle quoted on PBS Frontline, May 20, 2014
“Gmail was a privacy disaster,” Chris Hoofnagle, director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, told Frontline. “The moment you allow people to look at the content of your communication for some advertising purpose is the moment that the government is going to come along and say, ‘If you’re going to let them listen in for advertising, why don’t you let us listen in for anti-terrorism or for serious crimes?’”
Jayni Foley Hein writes for Los Angeles Times, May 19, 2014
Nationally, the transport of oil by rail is on a steep upward trajectory, largely due to fracking in North Dakota and to drilling in Canada’s Alberta tar sands. And much of the oil being transported is especially dangerous, containing high levels of extremely volatile and combustible vapors.
Sujit Choudhry quoted in South Asia Mail, May 18, 2014
In his visits to the campus, Choudhry said he was “struck by how members of the Berkeley Law community—faculty, staff, students and alumni—strongly identify with, and love, this law school. I am thrilled, and humbled by this honor.”
Melissa Murray quoted in Ashbury Park Press, May 17, 2014
“I don’t think the (Patric) case was groundbreaking,” said Melissa Murray, a Berkeley Law professor who specializes in family law issues. “I do think it will be an important decision for filling in a vacuum in the law. It will be important for those individuals who are in families but they are not families who have been joined in marriage.”
Sujit Choudhry quoted in South Asian Link, May 17, 2014
“Berkeley Law is simply a remarkable institution,” he said. “It is among the very best law schools in the nation, and is an integral part of one of the world’s great research universities. I am deeply attracted to Berkeley Law’s public mission, it is committed to equality of opportunity, academic excellence, and diversity like no other law school that I know,” he added.
Pamela Samuelson writes for PatentlyO, May 12, 2014
In the most expansive interpretation of software copyright law since Whelan v. Jaslow, Judge O’Malley in Oracle v. Google endorsed dual protection for APIs from both copyright and patent law. This ignored an important statement from that court’s earlier ruling in Atari Games v. Nintendo that “patent and copyright laws protect distinct aspects of a computer program.”
Pamela Samuelson quoted in California Magazine, May 2014
Samuelson said the purpose of the group is to “empower” writers on a case-by-case basis. “We want to help them achieve their goals for their work,” she said. “Sometimes that means helping them to put their work in the public domain, sometimes it means Creative Commons, and sometimes it means seeking a proprietary license. Each can be an appropriate thing to do depending on the circumstance. We just want to help people understand what their choices are.”