Jorge Ruiz de Velasco quoted in EdSource Extra, May 10, 2012
“California is unique in providing these schools, and there is evidence that they can provide an effective pathway to a diploma for a large number of kids who need special and supplemental services,” said Jorge Ruiz de Velasco…. “But most are failing to do that.”
Nancy Lemon cited in San Francisco Chronicle, May 8, 2012
On Monday, the mayor’s attorneys filed a list of six expert witnesses likely to be called during removal proceedings before the city’s Ethics Commission…. They include UC Berkeley law school domestic violence expert Nancy Lemon, who wrote “Domestic Violence Law.”
Stephen Rosenbaum quoted in The Daily Californian, May 7, 2012
The hurdles imposed by the commission … and the amount of time it took them to investigate “explains why it took a lawsuit to get any more meaningful action,” Rosenbaum said in an email.
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in The Columbus Dispatch, May 6, 2012
The Fair Credit Reporting Act “operates under a 1960s conception of a credit report. You literally had a file — a card paper file,” said Chris Hoofnagle, who is a lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law and an industry critic who calls the credit-reporting agencies necessary evils. “The law has not kept up with the technology.”
Christopher Edley quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, May 5, 2012
“I’ve had conversations with my students who were struck by batons, who were stopped by police and pressed to produce identification and explain themselves,” said Christopher Edley, the UC Berkeley Law School dean who wrote the report with Charles Robinson, UC’s general counsel. “It makes them feel shaky. Those transactions have to be minimized.”
An Associated Press story on this topic has appeared in more than 100 sources nationwide. Others appeared in the Los Angeles Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Charles Weisselberg quoted in Oakland Tribune, May 4, 2012
“A prosecutor’s intrusion into a defense preparation in this way severely undermines the right to counsel and the ability of a defendant to investigate a case” said Charles Weisselberg, a professor of law at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Law School. “It’s pretty egregious and striking.”
Pamela Samuelson quoted in Der Standard, May 3, 2012 (translated)
As a festival speaker for tomorrow’s opening in parliament, the U.S. American law professor Pamela Samuelson, known for her digitalization and legal expertise, will engage in a conversation about “Recognition of the Significance of Public Domain” to discuss public possession with regard to copyright on the Internet today.
John Yoo writes for The Wall Street Journal, May 3, 2012
Advocacy groups are using Padilla as a platform to attack the nation’s counterterrorism policies, which they believe should be limited to the tools used against common criminals. They advance their agenda by legally harassing officials, agents and soldiers, and so raise the costs of public service to anyone who does not hew to their extreme, unreasonable views.
Christopher Hoofnagle cited in Slate, Dear Prudence, May 3, 2012
I spoke to Chris Hoofnagle of the UC-Berkeley School of Law to see if your niece, especially since she is still a teenager, has any legal remedy for getting the video off the porn site. He said that since she doesn’t own the copyright, and if she was not a minor when she filmed it, she has virtually no recourse.
Mary Ann Mason writes for The Chronicle of Higher Education, May 3, 2012
Doctoral students in many disciplines realize the odds are against them. But students are often afraid to approach their advisers about other nonfaculty career choices, for fear of disapproval. And the professors themselves may not know how to advise students about any other careers than the research life, although given the dismal job-market statistics in recent years, that ignorance about nonacademic options becomes less and less acceptable.