Roxanna Altholz quoted in The New York Times, October 17, 2013
In 2010, the Dominican Constitution was amended to define undocumented residents as “in transit,” and the recent Constitutional Court decision retroactively applied the definition to all the undocumented parents of the children born in the country since 1929, Ms. Altholz said.
Richard Rothstein quoted The Washington Post, October 16, 2013
“If you take children who come to school from families with low literacy, who are not read to at home, who have poor health—all these social and economic problems—and just say that you’re going to test children and have high expectations and their achievement will go up, it doesn’t work,” Rothstein said. “It’s a failure.”
Franklin Zimring writes for Chicago Sun-Times, October 15, 2013
Don’t take my word for it that the backgrounds and motives of people who commit gun-carrying offenses — and their danger to the community — are too varied for a mandatory minimum penalty to be fair and reasonable. Ask the prosecutors in Cook County, who allow and agree to plea bargaining in the vast majority of felony convictions for carrying guns.
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, October 15, 2013
Instead of mild hopes for return to religious belief, China would be better served with a strong rule of law to fill the moral vacuum. Unfortunately, with economic reform as the primary current task, major law reforms are not on the agenda.
David Gamage quoted in The Wall Street Journal Law Blog, October 14, 2013 (registration required)
“Instead of having budgetary negotiation failures trigger government shutdowns, we propose that automatic continuing appropriations should maintain government spending in the interim until a new budget is passed,” write UC Berkeley law professor David Gamage and Yale Law School student David Louk.
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, October 11, 2013
So the move does no favors for the company’s tired mantra of “Don’t Be Evil,” something academics like Chris Hoofnagle, director of Information Privacy Programs at the UC Berkeley Center for law and technology have argued is “an albatross” and should be disregarded because most of Google’s self-described gallantry is prescribed by law anyway.
Pamela Samuelson quoted in Communications Daily, October 10, 2013 (registration required)
Non-practicing entity litigation “wasn’t worrisome five years ago,” said Pamela Samuelson, a UC-Berkeley law professor. Then, such litigation was aimed at big companies such as Google and Microsoft, she said. “But now a lot of the assertions are coming against small companies, and [they’re] having real significant operational impacts.”
Alan Auerbach interviewed by National Public Radio, On Point, October 10, 2013
“I don’t see how the largest economy in the world defaulting on its national debt isn’t a big deal. This is likely to raise the U.S. government’s borrowing rate and lead to a severe loss of credibility that the U.S. government can deal with the important issues it faces—not just on budget issues, but on other issues. If the U.S. government can’t even handle this issue, then why should our allies around the world think that we can deal with other important questions?”
Holly Doremus quoted in The Washington Times, October 9, 2013
“Obviously, states that are more committed to environmental protection are more likely to file suit against EPA saying, ‘You’re not doing enough,'” said Ms. Doremus, who also serves as the co-director of Berkeley’s environmental law program. “States are on both sides of pushing EPA to regulate more and pushing EPA to regulation less,” she said.
Roxanna Altholz interviewed by WNYC, The Brian Lehrer Show, October 8, 2013
The decision has implications for about a half a million people in the Dominican Republic…. The decision links the right of nationality of Dominican-born Haitians to the legal status of their parents. So, any child or any adult whose parents cannot prove their legal residency in the Dominican Republic will be stripped of their nationality.