Barry Krisberg quoted in AlJazeera America, December 12, 2013
Barry Krisberg, a senior fellow at UC Berkeley Law School, told Al Jazeera that while there are factors that mitigate criminal liability—such as mental illness, age and developmental disabilities—economic status is not one of them. “It just doesn’t make sense. The notion that because someone is wealthy, we shouldn’t hold them accountable is nutty.”
Elisabeth Semel quoted in National Law Journal, December 11, 2013 (registration required)
“I’m kind of a Batson wonk,” said Semel, who has filed amicus briefs not only in Williams’ case but in other Batson-related Supreme Court cases. “I knew about the [Williams] case before it was argued. When the opinion came down, I said to his lawyer, ‘If you’re interested, I’m interested in doing an amicus brief.’ He said yes.”
Chris Hoofnagle quoted in Washington Post, December 10, 2013
“On a macro level, ‘we need to track everyone everywhere for advertising’ translates into ‘the government being able to track everyone everywhere,'” said Chris Hoofnagle, a lecturer in residence at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. “It’s hard to avoid.”
Barry Krisberg quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, December 10, 2013 (requires registration)
“Realignment has brought enormous change to California, and it appears to have affected auto thefts, in particular.”
Andrea Roth interviewed by Iowa Public Radio, December 6, 2013
“It’s certainly given them an added powerful tool. Every day you hear media reports about cold cases being solved by DNA, but a lot depends on the case. I don’t think many people necessarily realize that a DNA match doesn’t mean that it’s definitely the DNA of the person whose DNA is found at a crime scene from 20 years ago.”
Franklin Zimring quoted in Newsday, December 5, 2013
“The very best news about a Bratton police commissionership at this point in New York history is the record in Los Angeles,” Franklin Zimring, a professor at Berkeley Law at the University California. “He stepped into a department with enormous problems. Through tighter and strategic management in Los Angeles … [Bratton] managed to improve the reputation of the department … in a relatively short period of time.”
Franklin Zimring quoted in The New York Times, December 5, 2013
Criminologists have long debated how much of New York’s crime decline can be attributed to the changes he put into place, and they have struggled to explain the strong downward trends across the country through the 1990s. ”If we can’t explain that in Toledo, we can’t explain it in New York either,” said Franklin E. Zimring, a criminologist at Berkeley Law School who has written on New York City’s crime decline. But, he added, ”A lot of the long term success of policing in New York is something that is properly credited” to Mr. Bratton.
Chris Hoofnagle quoted in Online Media Daily, December 4, 2013
“Really smart people may come to different conclusions about what ‘sponsored’ means,” said Chris Hoofnagle, a lecturer in residence at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. Hoofnagle added that he thinks “sponsored by” indicates an arrangement—which was typical on PBS—where a company pays to have its name associated with a show that was created independently. Online, however, “sponsored by” often refers to content that an advertiser has created.
Richard Rothstein quoted in The New York Times, December 3, 2013
Richard Rothstein, a research associate at the liberal Economic Policy Institute and a fellow at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, said he put little stock in the PISA results. He said educators and academics should ”stop hyperventilating” about international test rankings, particularly given that students are already graduating from college at higher rates than can be absorbed by the labor market.
David Rosenfeld quoted in Contra Costa Times, December 3, 2013
It is “totally unprecedented for an employer, after extensive negotiations and where they have signed off on (individual tentative agreements), to later come back and say, ‘Oh, we made a mistake,'” said veteran labor attorney and Boalt law school professor David Rosenfeld, whose firm represents SEIU Local 1021.