Jesse Choper quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, March 3, 2012
“You’d have to word it so it was perfectly clear,” said Jesse Choper, a UC Berkeley law professor who submitted arguments to the state’s high court against the retroactive application of Prop. 8. The amendment would have to declare that “marriages that were once valid are no longer valid,” he said.
Franklin Zimring quoted in San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 2012
In California, “when the death penalty comes up as a political issue, it comes up as a question of basic sentiment: Which do you prefer, murder victims or the people that killed them?” Franklin Zimring, a UC Berkeley law professor who has written extensively about capital punishment, said in an interview.
Stanley Lubman writes for The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, March 1, 2012
The need to better understand China’s system goes beyond abstract arguments about the future of the global economy. The continuing expansion of the state sector of China’s economy limits the private sector and favors state-owned enterprises (SOEs) over foreign companies in some domestic markets. As SOEs extend their investments abroad, nations in which China seeks to invest need to become more aware of frequent links between state ownership and state control.
Holly Doremus quoted in Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2012
“Part of what it tries to do is turn back time,” said UC Berkeley law professor Holly Doremus. “It’s a remarkable overreach. It tries to give the irrigators everything. They threw all of the wish list in here.”
Jesse Choper quoted in Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2012
“It’s a pretty simply math problem,” he said. When a city has racially polarized voting and a minority group of voters, he said, “you get nothing in a citywide single district election.”
Edward Tom quoted in Corporate Counsel, March 1, 2012
“Prior to Proposition 209, we reserved seats for special consideration for minority status,” says dean of admissions Edward Tom. “We had just one African American student the following year.” According to Tom, “Proposition 209 sent a message to the community that the UC system did not want diverse students, and it has taken a lot of work and time to overcome the effect.”
Holly Doremus quoted in Environment & Energy News, March 1, 2012
“It is a big challenge for EPA,” said Doremus. “It is absolutely clear that they’re rejecting specific words of statute.”
John Coons, Stephen Sugarman write editorial letters to First Things, February 2012
John Coons: Our melange of state-funded and private schools have maintained choice for families who can afford either to locate in a desirable district or pay private tuition. Those who cannot do either get educated in a school chosen by strangers. We trust only the well-off parents.
Stephen Sugarman: Charter schools are now at the heart of the public school choice movement. But the one type of school currently not permitted to be a charter school is the religious school. This forces parents who prefer a religious education for their children either to pay for it, find financial aid, or settle for something else.
Holly Doremus quoted in Environment & Energy News, February 29, 2012
“The Bush administration did nothing,” agreed Holly Doremus, a professor of environmental law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. “The Obama administration EPA started exploring what they must and could do under the Clean Air Act.”
Daniel Farber quoted in Environment & Energy News, February 27, 2012
As Daniel Farber, an environmental law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, noted, while it may be unusual for so many lawyers to be arguing, there’s an obvious reason why. “That seems like a lot of lawyers to me,” he said. “But of course the challengers are raising a lot of issues.”