Deirdre Mulligan quoted in MIT Technology Review, June 7, 2013
Deirdre Mulligan … is also worried, and she’s not the only one. She attended the Privacy Law Scholars Conference at UC Berkeley on Friday and says the feeling was “morose.” “I think this revelation makes clear there was a cost to not having a more detailed conversation and public decision about the balances between democracy and policing,” she says.
Mary Ann Mason quoted in Inside Higher Education, June 6, 2013
For women in academe, said Mason, “At every stage, there’s a ‘baby penalty.’ In the earlier stages, graduate students have children and drop out or grad students get turned away from the academic profession, in terms of the [lack of family-friendliness] they see around them.”
Ian Haney Lopez quoted in Los Angeles Times, June 6, 2013
Removing race-based restrictions from fellowships and financial aid awards was more common in the 1970s and 1980s, said Ian Haney Lopez…. “It’s important … for Columbia University symbolically to amend this fellowship,” Haney Lopez said, in what he described as part of an ongoing effort to correct a legacy of bias in the United States.
Robert MacCoun quoted in CNN, June 6, 2013
Robert MacCoun, professor of public policy and law at the University of California at Berkeley, says arrests don’t prevent marijuana use. “These arrests rarely result in prosecution, and there is no basis for believing this is a deterrent,” he told CNN. “It’s hard to see the purpose being served. The only use I can see is putting certain people, and in this case young black men, on notice. When you look at the statistical pattern, it’s hard not to see this as racial profiling.”
Pamela Samuelson quoted in AllThingsDigital, June 5, 2013
Pam Samuelson … took a similar view. “It is quite possible for antitrust co-conspirators to mask agreements in restraint of trade by adopting differently worded documents,” she said. “Using identical language would make the anticompetitive nature of an agreement too obvious.”
Franklin Zimring quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, June 4, 2013 (registration required)
“My take on what’s going on in Northern California is that it’s relatively uneven,” said Franklin Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor and criminologist. “You have Oakland way up, and you have Richmond, which is every bit as crime-impacted, substantially down with respect to life-threatening violence. So whatever is going on is much more uneven than a single arrow pointed in a single direction.”
Pamela Samuelson quoted in AllThingsDigital, June 3, 2013
As Pam Samuelson, director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, told AllThingsD, “The DOJ would not be pursuing this case if they thought they would lose.”
David Gamage quoted in Card Hub, June 3, 2013
“To begin with, I think the term scandal is somewhat overstated. … Congress, through the tax code, has charged the IRS with regulating the political activity of non-profit organizations, yet the IRS lacks the tools to do so effectively. The underlying law is a complete mess.”
Jayni Foley Hein quoted in The New York Times, June 1, 2013
“It’s somewhat alarming how little the state knows about the fracking that has occurred in the past and the fracking that continues today,” said Jayni Foley Hein … a co-author of a recent report on fracking in California.
Charles Halpern quoted in California Lawyer, June 2013
“Mindfulness is when meditation succeeds, and we can then proceed through our days being empathetic and receptive.” Empathy is one of the central goals of meditation in law, allowing lawyers to connect better with their clients.