Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by CNN Politics, Oct. 12, 2017
Dean of Berkeley Law Erwin Chemerinsky said, “Federal law is supreme over state law, period. States have no sovereignty to interpose to nullify federal law. This is a theory that has been rejected throughout American history.”
Erwin Chemerinsky writes for The Sacramento Bee, Oct. 12, 2017
If gun companies could be held liable the way all other manufacturers can be sued, they would not make such products or they would do far more to ensure the weapons could not be used for mass killings. But the 2005 Act dismissed all pending claims against gun manufacturers in both federal and state courts and preempted all future claims.
Ethan Elkind quoted by Scientific American, E&E News, Oct. 12, 2017
“We have to just assume that these fires are going to be more intense and more frequent,” Elkind said. “We’re going to need more defensible space.”
Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by Law.com, Oct. 10, 2017
“Legal education is better than Richard Susskind realizes.”
Catherine Fisk quoted by Slate, Oct. 9, 2017
As professors Catherine Fisk and Margaux Poueymirou have persuasively argued, though, that if the Supreme Court holds that compulsory fair share fees are unconstitutional because they require non–union members to spend money on political causes with which they disagree, then compelling unions to expend their own scarce resources advocating for the benefit of nonmembers would similarly be unconstitutional “on the court’s own analysis.”
Susan Gluss writes for San Francisco Chronicle, Oct. 9, 2017
The political noise, partisan gabfests and air-wave chatter obscure the fact that we are simply human, an animal species whose time is limited. Out of all the possible combinations of egg and sperm, we are the lucky few born into a cosmos stretching across billions of light-years. We are but a speck in the universe. It’s a humbling thought.
John Yoo interviewed by Tavis Smiley on PBS, Oct. 9, 2017
We should be deploying missile defenses of technology over and around North Korea using drones, space, even sea-based anti-missile defenses, and try to shoot the missiles when they launch. That would give us a better bargaining position even though we can’t be sure that we would get all of them.
Christopher Hoofnagle interviewed by California Magazine, Fall 2017
I’m more concerned with attacks that corrupt the integrity of our data. Imagine attacks where hackers subtly change systems so that they produce inaccurate results. We might not detect the interference, but eventually our systems would fail us and we would lose trust in them.
John Yoo writes for The Hill, Oct. 6, 2017
New technologies cannot solve every problem, and they cannot supply the political will needed to answer the North Korean threat. But they can create more options beyond appeasement of a rogue regime and full scale conventional war that could defend against the unconventional threat of an EMP or other nuclear attack.
Franklin Zimring quoted by The Daily Californian, Oct. 5, 2017
UC Berkeley School of Law professor Franklin Zimring, who is writing a book about mass incarceration, called the study “very plausible.” He added that he also believes that parole violations play a large role in the “revolving door.”