The Huffington Post, February 8, 2011 by John Haffner
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-haffner/lawyers-without-borders-i_b_820548.html
As Andrew Guzman, director of graduate programs at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law candidly comments, “I don’t think that law schools, collectively, have figured out what it is they should be doing. A lot of schools are trying different things with the word ‘international’ in them.”
Washington Internet Daily, February 8, 2011 by Louis Trager
http://www.warren-news.com/internetservices.htm (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)
Chris Hoofnagle, the director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology’s information privacy programs, said a challenge had just been announced for developers to create apps to help users of mobile of devices understand and protect their privacy.
Contra Costa Times, February 6, 2011 by Howard Mintz
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_17313536?nclick_check=1
“The tour of the chamber is still relevant,” said Elisabeth Semel, head of Boalt Hall School of Law’s death penalty clinic. “The question remains whether the state has answered the questions that Judge Fogel had in 2006. The questions he had “… are very much on the table.”
-Arkansas Online, February 4, 2011 by Andy Davis
http://bit.ly/9eghoo (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)
“When you’re talking about an unapproved drug, the presumption is it is an unknown entity that is not safe and effective,” McCracken said.
-ABC News, February 8, 2011 by Ariane De Vogue
http://abcn.ws/eXskd0
“The impact of the drug shortage will be different in every state,” she said. “Some states have supplies of the drug, and it’s unclear if they will be able to use the foreign version. Some have the domestic product but that will most likely expire by the end of March.”
The Daily Californian, February 3, 2011 by Mary Susman
http://www.dailycal.org/article/111772/area_artist_and_attorney_finds_a_home_defending_th
Neumann frequently defends the homeless, often becoming very close with his clients. “These relationships with some folks, they seem to pick me,” Neumann said. “Even though I myself am privileged and have never been homeless, there’s part of me that feels comfortable with the outsider who can’t get it together.”
The New York Times, February 3, 2011 by Al Baker
http://nyti.ms/hnYFN2
As his paper says, one surprise from the city’s experience is that “the city made giant strides toward solving its crime problem without either winning its war on illicit drug use or massive increases in incarceration.”
“So,” it continues, “the great success in this city is a challenge to the two dominant assumptions of crime control policy in modern America.”
-Contra Costa Times, February 2, 2011 by Matt Krupnick
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_17276939
The competitors said after the event that it was not difficult tuning out the 2,000 friends, relatives, professors and students behind them. But Piper admitted it was tough to comprehend he was arguing in front of a real Supreme Court justice.
The appearance by the court’s first Latina justice helped attract many to the event, including law student Ana De Santiago. “She’s been a really inspirational figure for the Latino community and also for women in general,” she said. “It’s a big deal for the students.”
-The Daily Californian, February 3, 2011 by Alisha Azevedo
http://blog.dailycal.org/news/2011/02/03/law-students-face-off-before-supreme-court-justice/
“Leading up to it, the thought of arguing before (Sotomayor) was most intimidating,” Piper said. “She’s known as one of the more active questioners, so I was expecting to be interrupted very early.”
-KALW News, February 3, 2011 by Rina Palta
http://informant.kalwnews.org/2011/02/5521/
Piper, the runner-up, said he found the experience of arguing before a Supreme Court justice “more surreal than stressful.”
The Wall Street Journal, February 2, 2011 by Barbara Martinez and Tom McGinty
http://on.wsj.com/hKOkaC
A trio of economists—Thomas S. Dee of the University of Virginia, Brian A. Jacob of the University of Michigan and Justin McCrary of the University of California at Berkeley—conducted an independent statistical analysis of the data for the Journal and came to a similar conclusion. They estimated that from 3% to 5% of the students statewide who were given passing grades for the five main Regents exams in June 2009 actually failed the tests.
-San Francisco Chronicle, February 2, 2011 by Katie Nelson and Jill Tucker
http://bit.ly/h4zNoP
“At one point, my wife was trying to shuffle people on the bus and was the last one outside when the bus started to move, so I literally thrust my arm out the door to grab her,” Sproul said. “Looking back, I really thought it was a mistake to try and get to the airport that day because the streets were the most dangerous place to be.”
-NBC Bay Area, February 2, 2011 by Khalida Sarwari
http://bit.ly/gj2CET
Sproul and his group decided it was time to leave, but even that proved to be difficult. He recalled experiencing “sheer pandemonium” at the airport. “People were yelling, screaming, crying,” he said.
-The San Francisco Appeal, Bay City News, February 11, 2011 by Saul Sugarman
http://bit.ly/eEpat6
The resignation of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak today was considered a favorable action by several Bay Area professors and residents who have been affected by recent events in the Middle East. “It’s the best option we could have hoped for,” said Robert Sproul.
-Center for American Progress, January 28, 2011 by Peter Swire
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/01/privacy_office.html
Much as is occurring this year, the FTC and Commerce Departments played complementary roles in the mid- to late-1990s in developing privacy policy…. The history of the FTC’s involvement in this period has been well discussed in work by Kenneth Bamberger and Deirdre Mulligan.
-Stanford Center for Internet and Society, February 4, 2011 by Omer Tene
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6609
For those interested in the development of the privacy profession, the role of the CPO (Chief Privacy Officer), and integration of privacy into corporate governance structures, I highly recommend a recent article by Ken Bamberger and Deirdre Mulligan of Berkeley.