Kim Thuy Seelinger and Hernan Reyes write for The Huffington Post, August 28, 2013
Of the different terms used in the West, at least “female circumcision” should be abandoned. At best, it is inaccurate. At worst, it inches the practice into the realm of the medicalized or sanitary, obscuring aspects that still undermine girls’ and women’s human rights.
Jesse Choper quoted in National Public Radio, August 28, 2013
“The Constitution doesn’t give me any quick answer to this,” says Jesse Choper, who teaches constitutional law at the University of California, Berkeley. “It does say that Congress shall have the power to declare war. Well, the president would say, ‘I am not declaring war. I am simply implementing foreign policy.'”
Stanley Lubman quoted in The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, August 27, 2013
The headline-grabbing trial of Bo Xilai should not be allowed to divert concern from a forceful attack on the rule of law by the Party leadership that began this spring and became public earlier this month. As articulated in Document No. 9, a memo by senior leaders to Party members, the threat of Western democratic ideals to Communist ideology and to the principle of Party leadership is being taken more seriously than at any time in the recent past.
Jonathan Simon writes for San Francisco Bay View, August 22, 2013
Secretary Beard’s public statements since coming to the job reflect a complete failure to acknowledge the gravity of the human rights abuses his agency is guilty of and an apparent commitment to defend the status quo at any cost. Recent examples include his petulant refusal to take seriously the danger posed by Valley Fever to vulnerable inmates.
John Yoo interviewed by The Wall Street Journal Digital Network, Opinion Journal, August 22, 2013
Bradley Manning stole some of America’s greatest secrets. He took them and gave them to a known anti-American website, WikiLeaks, run by Julian Assange, and that information has done irreparable harm to our national security.
Gillian Lester quoted in The Daily Californian, August 21, 2013
Lester said that one of Edley’s most notable contributions has been the establishment of research centers through the law school that are tailored to study and tackle some of the public’s most pressing issues. “One of his real strengths, his signature contributions, was to channel and help put our work toward on-the-ground policy reform,” she said. “He really made commitments to the public tradition of Berkeley Law.”
Ethan Elkind quoted in The Fresno Bee, August 20, 2013
“The system has the potential to worsen California’s development patterns—and therefore the environment, economy and public health,” Elkind wrote. In the Valley, that potential stems from a history of low-density, car-oriented housing developments that chew up valuable agricultural land. Such development, he said, leads “to traffic congestion, poor air quality and the ongoing loss of the region’s invaluable agricultural resources.”
Franklin Zimring cited in The Washington Post, August 20, 2013
Frank Zimring at Berkeley Law credits hot spot policing with much of the city’s progress in his book, The City that Became Safe. But he’s also said we don’t know if stop and frisk works.
Christopher Edley re-quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, August 20, 2013
Edley said his “health problems are more than worrisome, but much less than dire…. These developments have reminded me again how short life can be, and, for that reason, I feel an urgency to turn to some other professional goals I will pursue while continuing with you as a faculty colleague. Chief among these will be public education equity and excellence.”
The dean’s comments were also cited in Above the Law, August 21, 2013
Jesse Choper and Robert Berring quoted in The Daily Californian, August 19, 2013
Edley redefined Boalt’s financial model and raised “unheard of” amounts of money, according to former Berkeley Law dean and current professor Jesse Choper. He also expanded the faculty and modernized the school’s facilities. “Transformative is one of those overused, trendy words, but that’s what his work was — transformative,” Choper said.
“He came from high-level politics and brought incredible energy and vision,” said Berkeley Law professor Robert Berring.