The Straits Times, November 24, 2011 by Laurel E. Fletcher, Megan Karsh and Mahdev Mohan
http://www.accessjusticeasia.org/more-to-justice-than-a-trial/
Victims deserve a pride of place in any justice process where massive human rights violations are concerned. The court’s reparations scheme has the potential to be its most remarkable contribution—both to Cambodian victims and to the development of international law.
KQED-FM, November 22, 2011 Host Cy Musiker
http://www.kqed.org/a/kqednews/RN201111221730/a
“Certainly relying more on sales tax and less on the income tax would probably help reduce the volatility of state revenues, which is one of the main objectives of this proposal.”
The Wall Street Journal, November 21, 2011 by Stanley Lubman
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2011/11/21/in-china-laws-on-paper-vs-law-in-practice/?KEYWORDS=Berkeley
A white paper issued by the State Council last month pays too much attention to laws on paper, while slighting meaningful discussion of how the legal system actually works—or doesn’t.
UC Berkeley News Center, November 21, 2011 by Sarah Yang
http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/11/21/ira-michael-heyman-former-uc-berkeley-chancellor-dies-at-81/
“Mike was one of the best and most important leaders Berkeley has ever had,” said Christopher Edley, Jr., dean of UC Berkeley’s School of Law. “He stayed a part of this community, which he loved so deeply and served so well, until the end of his life, and he’ll remain a part of it for as long as he’s remembered, and beyond.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, November 20, 2011 by Marisa Lagos
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/20/MNL91M01HD.DTL&type=printable
“But the larger question is, once you get to the jurisdictions that are dubious about realignment, that have not bought into rehabilitation as the main goal of the justice system, are we just going to see people gaming the system?”
-San Francisco Chronicle, November 26, 2011 by Marisa Lagos
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/25/BAI81M2O5V.DTL#ixzz1f1oEg6us
“While it is true that a small number of people commit the vast majority of crimes, we also know that they get tired and age out of crime and that keeping punishing older criminals has no effect,” said Barry Krisberg, a criminologist at UC Berkeley’s law school. “The problem with that argument is that they are saying people don’t age out, and all research says the opposite.”
The New York Times, November 19, 2011 by Ira Mark Ellman and Stephen D. Sugarman
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/sunday-dialogue-judging-the-health-law.html?scp=6&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt
The health care “mandate” is clearly constitutional. Indeed, it’s misleading to call it a mandate at all. Everyone already uses health care services. The new law merely regulates how we buy them.
The New York Times, November 18, 2011 by Jennifer Gollan
http://nyti.ms/uBsMbH
A half-century ago, Berkeley’s protest movement revolved around racial equality, free speech and, later, opposition to the Vietnam War…. “At first,” Mr. Cole said, “the university couldn’t really understand why students were asserting themselves in this way. But these issues were so blatantly American issues, so they appealed to a very large cross section of students and faculty.”
Inside Cal/EPA, November 18, 2011 by Inside Cal/EPA Staff
http://iwpnews.com/sample_issues/insidecalepa_sample.pdf
“The state and federal governments could promote incentive programs, either by developing new programs or by expanding existing ones, to help finance energy storage projects, bring down costs and help manufacturers provide better data to spur further investment by 2020.”
he New York Times, November 16, 2011 by Laurie Abraham
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/magazine/teaching-good-sex.html?pagewanted=all
And for a “brief, fragile period” in the 1970s and early 1980s, writes Luker, a professor of sociology and of law at U.C. Berkeley, “opinion leaders of almost every stripe believed sex education was the best response to the twin problems of teenage pregnancy and H.I.V. AIDS.”
Kathryn Abrams and Faculty Members Condemn UC Response to ‘Occupy’ Protest
Reclaim UC, November 16, 2011 by Berkeley Law Faculty
http://reclaimuc.blogspot.com/2011/11/open-letter-to-uc-berkeley.html
The police conduct at Sproul Plaza, and the humiliating and frightening police activity at Kroeber Plaza, have caused a number of our students to question whether they can safely come and go from the law school, much less exercise their First Amendment rights at our university.