Barry Krisberg quoted in The Times-Picayune, April 9, 2013
A 1995 federal law, the Prison Litigation Reform Act, “specifies all kinds of things that have to happen both in terms of lawsuits and limitations on the powers of the federal court to oversee prisons and jails,” said Krisberg…. “It says that you’ve promised to make changes, but you’ve failed to make changes after substantial periods of time. Judges are extraordinarily reluctant to do this.”
Ethan Elkind interviewed by KALW-FM, City Vision, April 8, 2013
“If it’s urban water use in particular, which is the case here in the San Francisco Bay Area, excluding the agricultural areas, then it’s the most energy-intensive water because it has to be pumped, has to be treated, and has to be treated on disposal, as well. So, conserving water has an immediate benefit of conserving energy. Not a lot of people understand that connection, and that’s something we’re trying to raise awareness about.”
Paul Schwartz quoted in US News & World Report, April 5, 2013
“I don’t really see strong legal regulation in place to manage something of this magnitude,” says Paul Schwartz, University of California law professor and co-director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. The IRS is working with the same kind of oversight and rules that were developed in the paper tax-return era, says Schwartz. But with the technology it now has, the agency can “see into people’s lives” as never before.
Deirdre Mulligan and Kenneth Bamberger write for Privacy Perspectives, April 8, 2013
Our research looking at the work of privacy officers in U.S. federal agencies found that injecting privacy into strategic organizational deliberations drives home the perception that privacy is a policy decision with unavoidable connections to politics and impact—for better and for worse—on the bottom line.
Steven Weissman quoted in Greenwire, April 5, 2013
“There’s a history of the cases not leading to anywhere near the full amount of the deal showing up in cash,” said Steven Weissman.… One example of a cash-free settlement would be to adjust charges for BPA or WAPA electricity in the future, he said.
Franklin Zimring interviewed by Minnesota Public Radio, The Daily Circuit, April 4, 2013
“Public opinion in terms of the yes or no on the death penalty never varies much among the American states…. The six states you’re talking about who have formally abolished, it’s a big change…. These are states that had death rows, extremely expensive death penalty litigation systems and few or no executions.”
Mary Louise Frampton quoted in The New York Times, April 3, 2013
But restorative justice is not a quick fix, teachers’ union officials and legal experts warn. “You’re changing a culture that has been in place for a long time,” said Mary Louise Frampton, an adjunct law professor. “It’s a multiyear process.”
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, April 2, 2013
China’s current crackdown on corruption and official excess, comprehensive as it may seem on the outside, mirrors many failed anti-corruption campaigns from the past. It also risks reinforcing, rather than reducing, the sense among Chinese people that corruption has become pervasive.
Cristián Orrego Benavente and Leila Juzam interviewed by KPFA-FM, April 2, 2013
Benavente: “El Salvador underwent a very cruel civil war from 1980-1982. In many of the massacres that occurred, children were forcefully separated from their families, and their families would never see them again. The children were distributed through semi-illegal or irregular channels of adoption, both to families in and outside of El Salvador, the United States and Europe—including Australia. The collaboration of the Human Rights Center … brings an element of science to the endeavor by Pro-Búsqueda, which has already been successful in finding 382 children.”
Juzam: “We are trying to prepare approximations about the numbers of families who came to the United States and who could have lost a child. We’re trying to get in touch with professors here at UC Berkeley, and other universities, and also trying to contact the Salvadoran community using different networks.”
Paul Schwartz cited in Datenschutz-Blog, April 2, 2013
From my perspective, a highlight was, in particular, the panel on “The EU-US Privacy Collision” on which Paul Schwartz (BCLT and Berkeley Law), Christopher Wolf (Hogan Lovells), Karl-Nicolas Peifer (University of Cologne) and Michael D. Hintze (Chief Privacy Counsel and Assistant General Counsel of Microsoft Corporation) were represented.