Jonathan Simon cited in The Huffington Post, The Blog, April 24, 2012
Although Professor Simon concluded that the era of mass incarceration has come to an end, too expensive to continue as a public policy, he cautioned that no one should expect incarceration rates to drop precipitously. The end of “mass incarceration” only meant that the hyperbolic growth of the past 30 years would stop.
Franklin Zimring quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 22, 2012
“This seems to me much closer to a political game of Trivial Pursuit in which the district attorney simply makes up rationales … which can’t be evaluated, and relies on the fact that the targets of the legislation are unpopular,” said Frank Zimring.
Robert MacCoun quoted on KALW-FM, April 19, 2012
“Every four years we enter a Presidential ‘silly season,’ where candidates make pronouncements about law and order that are ill-considered,” he said. “It’s usually not a good time to discuss rational drug policy.”
Leti Volpp interviewed on KPFA-FM, Against the Grain, April 18, 2012
If a particular actor engages in what we might think of as a bad act … we create narratives that are very different. If the actor is somebody that is Muslim, the presumption is that that person is motivated by their culture or by Islam. If the actor is a white American, most often people think of this as an individual act of pathology, and they don’t blame this on some kind of broader, white American culture.
Jennifer Granholm and Daniel Mulhern write for POLITICO, April 17, 2012
The Romneys had four household employees, but many American families are more likely to have four employers. The central question of the campaigns is not: Should women work or should women stay home? That was answered about 30 years ago. The crucial question is: What do we expect from the private and public sectors to allow parents to raise healthy children?
Robert Merges quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2012
UC Berkeley law professor Robert Merges said Oracle is looking to cut itself into the lucrative smartphone market with the Java technology that Sun Microsystems created in the mid-1990s to write programs that work on different operating systems and devices. “People have been whispering for years that Google has built a great business on other people’s technology,” Merges said. “But Larry Ellison doesn’t beat around the bush. He has never minded stepping onto center stage.”
Christopher Hoofnagle quoted in The Kansas City Star, April 17, 2012
Chris Jay Hoofnagle believes employers may pull back from cyber-spying as they realize the downside. “Knowledge can mean liability,” said Hoofnagle. “What happens when you learn your star employee has a problem? You have to do something about it.”
Robert Merges quoted in Los Angeles Times, April 17, 2012
“Sun was fairly altruistic in their views about intellectual property assertion and ownership. Some people will see it as a sad day that the Java system built by people who wanted to have it used very widely and weren’t thinking about monetizing it has now become a big fat corporate asset,” UC Berkeley law professor Robert Merges said.
Aarti Kohli Warren Institute report cited in The Huffington Post, April 17, 2012
Immigrant rights groups have raised similar concerns with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which often works in concert with border protection. One of ICE’s key enforcement programs, Secure Communities, disproportionately nets Latinos, according to a report from Berkeley Law School.
Jason Schultz quoted in The Huffington Post, April 17, 2012
Jason Schultz … said he agrees with Askin’s assertion that many lawyers need to upgrade their technological know-how….”Lawyers need to understand tech better, but so do educators and so do firefighters. There are lots of different professions that you could make statement about,” said Schultz. “I think this is a way people demonize lawyers to say, ‘you’re in the way, get out of the way.'”