Thomas Brown quoted in PaymentsSource (registration required), July 10, 2012
“The payment industry, including the mobile-payment piece, is already heavily regulated,” Brown said. “New layers of regulation could easily stifle innovation and benefit some providers at the expense of others.”
Jennifer Granholm quoted in The Detroit News, July 10, 2012
“I enjoyed poking fun at Romney,” Granholm says after “The War Room” has ended. “That was a good show.”
Christopher Hoofnagle cited in The Ice Loop, July 9, 2012
The Berkeley Law Web Privacy Census seeks to make empirical statements about internet tracking and privacy using consistent methods over time. To conduct the census, Nathan Good, Chief scientist of Good Research, and Chris Jay Hoofnagle, director of information privacy programs at the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology, worked with privacy company Abine to collect data from the top 100, 1,000, and 25,000 most popular websites.
Pamela Samuelson writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 9, 2012
The fastest way to achieve a more comprehensive digital library is for Congress to create a license so that digital libraries could provide public access to copyrighted works no longer commercially available. This approach would make it unnecessary to engage in costly work-by-work searches for rights holders and would free up orphan works.
Barry Krisberg quoted in The Wall Street Journal, July 8, 2012
“I call it ‘justice by geography,’ depending on where you get arrested,” said Barry Krisberg, a criminal-justice expert at the University of California, Berkeley.
Jesse Choper quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, July 7, 2012
Jesse Choper, a constitutional law professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, says he believes the program is in the public interest. “All the law requires you to do is prove it’s reasonable,” he says.
Aarti Kohli quoted in Contra Costa Times, July 6, 2012
The California bill is unlikely to conflict with federal law as Arizona’s did because “even the federal government acknowledges these (immigration holds) are ‘requests’ … so it’s not as if they are refusing an order from the federal government,” said Aarti Kohli, a senior fellow at UC Berkeley’s Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy.
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Mary Ann Mason writes for San Francisco Chronicle, July 6, 2012
The good news is that over the past 10 years, all the professions have scrutinized their workplaces and most are making efforts to balance work and life for fathers as well as mothers. Indeed, if fathers do not feel they have an important stake in change, it will not occur.
John Yoo quoted in Conservative Daily News, July 5, 2012
Berkeley law professor John Yoo contends Robert’s doesn’t agree with his own ruling but intended to “pull the court out of political fight.”
David Sklansky quoted in East Bay Express, July 4, 2012
Sklansky warned that adopting a particular governing structure for a police department would not cure deep-seated issues. “No structure of accountability is a cure-all — the devil is in the details.”… Sklansky also noted that studies show that civilian oversight doesn’t typically lead to stricter discipline for officers. “Civilians involved in the disciplinary system are actually more lenient on officers,” he said.