Jeffrey Selbin quoted in California Magazine, August 7, 2013
Selbin expressed measured optimism that consumer power is ascendant. “I don’t think it’s a straight line, but yes, I think things may be turning around,” he said. “And I think the economic recession had a lot to do with it. Three things have hit people very hard—the mortgage foreclosure crisis, the consumer debt crisis, and the educational debt crisis.”
Mary Ann Mason writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education, August 5, 2013
Our most important finding is that family formation negatively affects women’s—but not men’s—academic careers. For men, having children can be a slight career advantage and, for women, it is often a career killer. Women who do advance through the faculty ranks do so at a high personal price: They are far less likely to be married with children than are their male colleagues.
John Yoo re-quoted in The New York Times, August 2, 2013
“Manning’s defenders will say that Manning only leaked information to the 21st-century equivalent of a newspaper, and that he could not have known that Al Qaeda would read it,” Professor Yoo wrote in National Review Online. “But WikiLeaks is not The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal, and it does not have First Amendment rights,” he added. “Manning communicated regularly with WikiLeaks’ founder and would have known about the group’s anarchic, anti-U.S. mission.”
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, August 1, 2013
The judicial system, although it should be the appropriate institution for exposure and punishment of offenders, is itself infected by corruption that up to now has gone unmentioned…. The issue of corruption in the courts has not been raised in the current anti-corruption drive, probably because judicial reform of any kind would affect the basic roots of CPC power.
John Yoo writes for National Review Online, The Corner, July 30, 2013
The military judge has seriously erred in acquitting Bradley Manning of aiding the enemy, though his guilt on numerous, lesser charges should mean that he will spend the rest of his life in jail. Manning gave a treasure trove of classified intelligence to Wikileaks which has gravely damaged our national security by releasing the names of intelligence assets, disclosed U.S. tactics and operations, and revealed secret diplomatic negotiations.
Catherine Albiston writes for San Francisco Chronicle, July 19, 2013
Attitudes about work and family are changing along with families. Men and women aged 18 to 32 want to work less, spend more time with family, and work for family-friendly employers. They want partners who both work and care for the kids. But the workplace lags behind these demographic and cultural changes, still requiring long hours, constant availability and complete devotion.
Kim Thuy Seelinger quoted in The Guardian, June 10, 2013
Rape has been thought of as “an inevitable, almost subterranean feature of war – part of the ‘boys will be boys’ thinking many had about war and how soldiers conduct it,” observes Kim Thuy Seelinger…. “The idea that targeting civilians through sexual violence could also be a strategic or intentional means of attack – and that these were international crimes for which perpetrators should be punished and survivors should be redressed – was not part of the dialogue or documentation.”
Michael Kiparsky quoted in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, July 30, 2013
Kiparsky is particularly worried over what is still to come in California. “Since we don’t yet understand the existing risks, we certainly don’t understand the risks of technologies that have not yet been used.”
Joseph Lavitt quoted in Daily Journal, July 29, 2013 (registration required)
UC Berkeley School of Law professor Joseph Lavitt said in an email that if evidence shows a brake override system would have halted Uno’s car, “any ‘state of the art’ defense by Toyota may be seriously undermined.” On the other hand, Lavitt said, “If Toyota demonstrates that its brake/acceleration configuration was the safest in use at the time of sale, it may be difficult to prove that a practically alternative design was available.”
Barry Krisberg quoted in The Crime Report, July 29, 2013
“The use of chemical sprays is a vestige of the bad ol’ days,” says Barry Krisberg, distinguished senior fellow at UC Berkeley Law School. “As we progress to an enlightened juvenile justice system, (the sprays) have no role in that system. I think most respected professionals would agree with me that it’s time to move on.”