Daily Journal, January 25, 2012 by Elisa Della-Piana, Ted Mermin and Jeffrey Selbin
http://www.dailyjournal.com (registration required)
Sponsored by Attorney General Kamala Harris, SB 890 includes a number of commonsense measures to protect consumers from being sued on debts they don’t owe, rein in unethical debt buyer activities and reduce frivolous lawsuits.
Neon Tommy, January 25, 2012 by Gracie Zheng
http://www.neontommy.com/news/2012/01/la-county-jails-address-overcrowding
“The larger the number of people in the jail, the more vulnerable the jail inmate is going to feel. The less [the inmate] can do, the more anxious [the inmate] will be,” said Franklin Zimring, a University of California, Berkeley law professor. “What crowding does is make a restriction on liberty and also [the jail] into a potentially threatening environment,” he said.
-San Jose Mercury News, January 24, 2012 by Jennifer Granholm
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_19811871
When finalized in the summer, this strong national standard will save families in California and across the country thousands of dollars at the pump over a vehicle’s lifetime, reduce U.S. dependence on foreign oil and help to significantly reduce harmful carbon emissions.
-POLITICO, January 24, 2012 by Patrick Gavin
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=5C322D03-7BAD-464A-975B-3E1BDCC505B0
“I will be a progressive, and I will be on the left side of the spectrum,” Granholm said. And she will be, largely, supportive of what she sees coming out of the Obama administration.
-The Detroit News, January 26, 2012 by Laura Berman
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120126/OPINION03/201260406/Granholm-spout-opinions-TV?odyssey=mod
She’s promising serious and lively discussion of public policy, sharp analysis and the politically progressive slant that is Current TV’s signature. The plan is to “dive deeply for political junkies” — a promise that can be read as a threat, if you’re not too keen on politics.
The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, January 24, 2012 by Stanley Lubman
http://on.wsj.com/xRj6Xo
A new dispute over access to accounting information on U.S.-listed Chinese companies should give American investors pause…. Sovereignty should not be used as a cover for inadequate financial transparency.
Economic Policy Institute, January 23, 2012 by Richard Rothstein
http://www.epi.org/publication/bp335-boa-countrywide-discriminatory-lending/
The Obama Administration’s prosecution of Bank of America is a welcome but small step in tackling the government-sanctioned practices that contribute to racial segregation in our cities. We should do more.
San Francisco Chronicle, January 20, 2012 by Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/01/19/MNKL1MRPVJ.DTL
Lopez went to her neighbor a day after the New Year’s Eve incident, but prosecutors might be able to show she was still traumatized when she made the taped statements, said David Sklansky, a UC Berkeley law professor.
Lopez’s recorded statements about her physical pain and alleged fears of her husband might be allowed in court, under that hearsay exception, but an account of how she was injured probably wouldn’t be, said Andrea Roth, another Berkeley law professor.
Yale Daily News, January 19, 2012 by Daniel Sisgoreo
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/jan/19/law-professors-stir-national-debate/
There are students at every school in the country who had top scores on [the LSAT] and they’re highly polished applicants — but they bomb,” she said. “Every law firm will tell you that: that they’re not good at lawyering, that they can’t get along with people, that they can’t manage stress.”
Robert Berring, a professor at UC Berkeley’s law school, compared the proposal to an essay published by a pair of law professors after World War II. The essay, which called for several changes to legal education, was highly controversial at the time. “But none of that ever got taken up, and that will probably happen with this too,” he said.
-The Associated Press, January 18, 2012 by Don Thompson
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/jan/18/calif-hopes-for-end-to-court-oversight-of-prisons/
“California’s prisons deteriorated to the point of an almost total federal court takeover,” said Barry Krisberg, a senior fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law who testified as an expert witness in cases involving prison crowding and treatment of juvenile offenders. “Now the spirit has changed … so we may be kind of digging our way out of this.”
-Beyond Chron, January 24, 2012 by Karin Drucker
http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Collateral_Damage_Children_and_Prison_Reform_in_California_9833.html
Barry Krisberg, criminal justice expert and a Director of Research and Policy at UC Berkeley school of law suggests that these programs “will work well in some places [where] you have a critical mass of people that want to innovate: prison less, community more. But there’s just a dozen of them at the best.”
-KALW-FM, Crosscurrents, January 31, 2012 Host Joaquin Palomino
http://www.kalw.org/post/imprisoned-life-three-part-series
“The basic logic of determinate sentencing is, do the crime, do the time,” says Barry Krisberg, the research and policy director of the Earl Warren Institute at UC Berkeley. “There’s no role for rehabilitation under determinate sentencing.”
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha, January 17, 2012 by BSS News
http://www1.bssnews.net/newsDetails.php?cat=0&id=221504&date=2012-01-17
Laurel E. Fletcher and Allard Lowenstein … called for witnesses’ protection alongside maintaining transparency at all levels.
Policy by the Numbers, January 9, 2012 by Paul M. Schwartz & Daniel J. Solove
http://policybythenumbers.blogspot.com/2012/01/google-ngram-and-information-privacy.html
In our recent work, The PII Problem, we drew on the NGram viewer to gain a sense of peaks and valleys in policymakers’ attention to “information privacy” from 1950 to 2000…. From the 1990s on, the continuing use of the attention to “information privacy” reflected society’s growing concern with privacy in the PC and then Internet era.