Mary Ann Mason writes for Slate Magazine, June 17, 2013
The most important finding is that family formation negatively affects women’s, but not men’s, academic careers. For men, having children is a career advantage; for women, it is a career killer. And women who do advance through the faculty ranks do so at a high price. They are far less likely to be married with children.
Ann O’Leary writes for San Francisco Chronicle, June 16, 2013 (registration required)
Helping young children in need once was considered only a moral issue; now it is an economic imperative for our state and the country to mitigate the pernicious and long-lasting effects of childhood poverty. Studies on successful early education programs show that the return on investment is anywhere from $7 to $13 for every $1 spent. These savings are seen in more productive citizens, less crime and reduced rates of teen pregnancy— along with the increased earning power that reduces the chance of poverty later in life.
Babak Siavoshy writes for Concurring Opinions, June 14, 2013
One of the legal obstacles the ACLU may face in its lawsuit challenging NSA surveillance of telephony metadata is the state secrets privilege. In recent years, the government has used the state secrets privilege with increasing frequency to block lawsuits and prevent discovery on national security grounds.
Ann O’Leary quoted in The Christian Science Monitor, June 14, 2013
Just under half of America’s low-income children start school ready to learn. The rest “start school lacking the vocabulary and math skills that they need to succeed, and they also often are not provided the type of nutrition and health needed from the very start,” said Ann O’Leary.
Frankin Zimring quoted in Huffington Post, June 14, 2013
The big story is still the murder rate, Zimring said. “For a city of its size and diversity, New York City’s homicide experience is very close to Guinness Book of World Records, certainly by American standards, and it just keeps going lower,” he said.
John Yoo writes for USA Today, June 12, 2013
By combining telephone call records (but not the content of calls) and foreigners’ e-mails abroad — neither of which is protected by the Fourth Amendment — the NSA can at least create the data necessary to quickly identify and frustrate terrorist plans. Of course, the NSA should not receive a blank check. But it is unnecessary, and even harmful, to air its activities in public.
James Rule writes for The New York Times, June 11, 2013
While President Obama has conveniently described the costs of what appears to be pervasive surveillance of Americans’ telecommunications connections as “modest encroachments on privacy,” what we are actually witnessing is a sea change in the kinds of things that the government can monitor in the lives of ordinary citizens.
James Tuthill quoted in San Jose Mercury News, June 11, 2013
“I question whether any increase of this magnitude can be just and reasonable,” said Jim Tuthill of Lafayette, a part-time teacher at UC Berkeley’s School of Law. “This is preposterous.”
Jesse Choper quoted in The New York Times, June 11, 2013
“I have certainly heard from other members,” said Jesse H. Choper, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law and a member of the academy’s council. “They were concerned. I can’t say more.”
Stephen Rosenbaum interviewed by celebritycourtradio, June 9, 2013
The case of Oscar Pistorius really raises some underlying issues about the criminal justice system and the judicial system in general in South Africa…. What comes out from South Africa’s own reporting, a working group called the Criminal Justice System Working Group … is that more than half of the estimated two million criminal cases reported annually were never resolved. And we see that with the Pistorius case, the screw-up that’s gone on in the investigative process.