David Caron quoted in The Day, Military News, April 15, 2012
Berkeley Law Professor David Caron, an expert in international law, said the fact that it’s an election year is a “tremendous obstacle” since senators who privately support it may not want to do so publicly.
Andrea Roth quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, April 15, 2012
Most states had similar rules until 30 or 40 years ago, when some passed laws barring a claim of self-defense outside the home if the person could have fled safely, said Andrea Roth, a UC Berkeley law professor…. “California’s law perpetuates the old frontier rule,” she said. “This is not some new brainchild of the NRA.”
Pamela Samuelson, Jennifer Urban, Molly van Houweling, Jason Schultz cited in Publishers Weekly, April 14, 2012
-The UC Berkeley Center for Law and Technology (BCLT) is among the most eminent study centers for intellectual property (IP) law. Coordinated by Professor Pamela Samuelson, this last week it pulled together approximately 200 highly accomplished and well-spoken legal scholars, practitioners and librarians in a small conference on orphan works, “Orphan Works and Mass Digitization.”
-Jennifer Urban of BCLT cautioned that we need to evaluate the benefits and costs of diligent search requirements, a likely component of orphan works legislation, against the costs of collective licensing, which is more of a blunt end of the rights hammer, but would obviate the need for individualized search.
-Molly van Houweling observed that we need systems … that actively reward instead of punish efforts that produce information helping to re-unite rightsholders with their works.
-Jason Schultz noted in twitter that the key question was how people and their institutions can be part of this world, and learn to serve publics who know how to copy.
Ken Taymor quoted in Nature News Blog, April 13, 2012
“Even to the extent that there is an opportunity for some real questioning that might occur about the validity of a grant or pursuing a certain program, that just isn’t done,” Taymor said. “There’s too much incentive to [say], ‘Well, I should support this so my disease or pet project will be supported.'”
Jennifer Urban writes for Science, April 13, 2012
Despite increasing reliance on computing in every domain of scientific endeavor, the computer source code critical to understanding and evaluating computer programs is commonly withheld, effectively rendering these programs “black boxes” in the research work flow.
Shining light into black boxes
Jennifer Urban writes for Science, April 13, 2012
Despite increasing reliance on computing in every domain of scientific endeavor, the computer source code critical to understanding and evaluating computer programs is commonly withheld, effectively rendering these programs “black boxes” in the research work flow.
Christopher Edley quoted in Bar & Bench, April 12, 2012
“This partnership strengthens Berkeley Law’s commitment to tackling complex legal and policy issues across the world. Our public mission demands that we take a global approach in our work, and collaborating with an Indian law school of Jindal’s caliber serves that effort.”
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, China Realtime Report, April 12, 2012
The problems largely stem from Bo’s “smash the black” campaign, a furious effort to crackdown on corruption and organized crime carried about by former Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun that, by all accounts, involved misuse of both the courts and the police.
Barry Krisberg quoted in East Bay Express, April 11, 2012
In the 1990s, the legislature went so far as to officially change the penal code to say that the purpose of prison was punishment — period. “They took rehabilitation out of it entirely,” noted UC Berkeley law professor Barry Krisberg. “So for the past three decades the system has been guided entirely by retribution.”
Barry Krisberg quoted in Wired, April 11, 2012
“In 2004, it was reported that over one thousand youth had been sexually assaulted by staff in the Texas juvenile justice system,” says Krisberg. “It was the emergence of legislation and scandals simultaneously that had people realizing these systems were unfixable.”
Jennifer Granholm writes for POLITICO, April 10, 2012
Boehner has repeatedly hounded the president about an all-of-the-above energy strategy. So it seems weird for Republicans to be picking energy “winners and losers.” How is it that they can vote to extend tax credits for oil but not for wind?