Barry Krisberg quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, September 29, 2012
“Drug rehabilitation is not a magic bullet,” said Barry Krisberg….”It has shown positive results, but the defining characteristic of good treatment has been whether people actually complete the specified course of treatment, and that’s been a big problem.”
Franklin Zimring quoted in Newsday, September 28, 2012
The decline in shootings, murders and some other serious crimes may mean that New York City is approaching a new low level for crime, said criminology professor Franklin Zimring of the University of California at Berkeley School of Law. If those levels are maintained, it bodes well for the future of the city, said Zimring.
Joan Hollinger quoted in Latitude News, September 27, 2012
Hollinger points out that Russia and the U.S. recently signed a bilateral agreement on adoption, though its protocols have yet to be implemented. Even when they are, she’s not necessarily optimistic that it will succeed in regulating what is essentially a “wild west” environment of shady operators…. “Even though the biggest players are still in business and doing a lot of it, a great many of these smaller agencies are done with because they’ve failed to be honest and up front with parents.”
Alan Auerbach quoted Stanford Report, September 26, 2012
According to Auerbach, the current drag on most of these economic indicators is a lack, not of private sector growth, but of government spending…. “The general impression is that government has grown or is out of control under the Obama administration,” said Auerbach. “But what’s actually holding us back is very weak growth in the government.”
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, September 25, 2012
The success of the iPhone and similar products means competition among companies like Apple and Samsung, both of which rely heavily on Chinese factory supply chains, is likely to increase. This increase in competition, in turn, will crank up pressures in factories whose workers are already struggling under harsh conditions.
Taeku Lee quoted in UCR Today, September 25, 2012
“Given the high proportion of immigrants among the Asian American electorate, we find a much higher proportion of non-partisans than the national average.” Lee is a principal investigator of the survey and co-author of a book (with Zoltan Hajnal), “Why Americans Don’t Join The Party.”
Nancy Lemon quoted in The San Francisco Public Press, September 24, 2012
“They should assume from day one that the victim will not want to participate later on,” said Nancy Lemon, a professor at UC Berkeley’s School of Law and author of the text “Domestic Violence Law.” She called this practice “evidence-based prosecution.”
Charles Weisselberg quoted in The New York Times, September 24, 2012
“Sometimes you may be best served by going with a lawyer who has established relationships with the people who represent the company,” said Charles Weisselberg, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and co-author of a recent study examining white-collar practices at major law firms. “Or sometimes you may want someone more independent of the company lawyers who may not be looking to them for a referral in the future.”
Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, September 24, 2012
Romney’s 47 percent comment was not intentionally malevolent; rather, his remarks simply reflect honest and profound ignorance of the daily lives of most people. But here’s where I do fault him: He has not shown one iota of effort to break out of the cocoon.
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in The New York Times, September 21, 2012
“This is a big deal. The development of these tools in the private sector directly affects civil liberties. The ultimate application is going to be — can we apply these patterns in video surveillance to automatically identify people for security purposes and maybe for marketing purposes as well?”