Barry Krisberg quoted on KPCC, March 3, 2014
“It was a dramatic change in how long the parole board could make parolees wait for their next hearing,” said Barry Krisberg. “The evidence was pretty clear that this was causing people to stay in prison longer.”
Michael Kiparsky quoted in Salon, March 1, 2014
“By farming this tremendous annual crop of Kentucky bluegrass, we contribute to the annual amount of water that needs to be supplied,” notes Michael Kiparsky…. It’s estimated that half of residential water in the state is used outdoors.
Jesse Choper quoted in USA Today, March 1, 2014
Jesse Choper … says if any reasonable student can conclude that what they did was something MIT was encouraging, the administration must back him up. “The university is legally—if not morally and ethically—obligated to support him,” Choper says.
Prasad Krishnamurthy co-authors article for Economic & Political Weekly, Feb. 22, 2014
One-third of PDS [public distribution system] rice consumption growth in Chhattisgarh took place before 2004…. This finding suggests that the pre-2004 reforms to fair price shop ownership and state procurement by the Ajit Jogi government contributed to PDS consumption growth. Our findings suggest that sustained reforms, when coupled with political and social will, can improve PDS access, and that improvements may not be substantial or sustained in the absence of these factors.
Richard Rothstein writes for The Washington Post, February 28, 2014
When law and policy hold schools accountable primarily for their students’ math and reading test scores, educators inevitably, and rationally, devote less instructional resources to history, the sciences, the arts and music, citizenship, physical and emotional health, social skills, a work ethic and other curricular areas.
Barry Krisberg quoted in San Francisco Daily Journal, February 27, 2014 (registration required)
Krisberg, of UC Berkeley, said the state should model the U.S. Sentencing Commission in creating guidelines for judges…. That approach, Krisberg said, has been modeled by other states. “In almost every state that has gone to a guidelines approach, it has resulted in violent offenders serving more time, property and drug offenders serving less time, and basically overall the prison population is stabilizing or going down,” he said.
Chris Hoofnagle quoted in Bloomberg Businessweek, February 27, 2014
Chris Hoofnagle … said in an e-mail that while the Google case is “very important,” courts “almost never award the full amount of potential statutory damages in privacy cases. Defendants in these cases often have mitigating circumstances that reduce damage awards, and they argue that extra-large awards violate their due process.”
Ian Haney López interviewed on Moyers & Company, February 26, 2014
“Dog whistle politics doesn’t come out of animus at all,” Haney López tells Moyers. “It doesn’t come out of some desire to hurt minorities. It comes out of a desire to win votes. And in that sense, I want to start using the term strategic racism. It’s racism as a strategy. It’s cold, it’s calculating, it’s considered, it’s the decision to achieve one’s own ends—here, winning votes—by stirring racial animosity.”
David Gamage cited in The New York Times, February 26, 2014
As far as I know, before this month the only place that one could read about the Affordable Care Act’s new employment tax was in this paper by David Gamage.
James Tuthill writes for the San Francisco Chronicle, February 25, 2014
The path the FCC is taking leaves the authority of the commission to police the Internet in serious jeopardy. The approach cedes national policy to the court and power to control Internet practices and traffic to providers like Comcast and Verizon…. Unfortunately, right now, the future of the Internet looks a lot like the Comcast-Netflix agreement—those who can pay will prevail.