Terry Galligan Supports HP’s Recruitment of Berkeley Law Students

The Recorder, June 18, 2010 by Petra Pasternak
http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/index.jsp (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

Terry Galligan, UC-Berkeley’s assistant dean of career development, said he hasn’t seen a corporate law department recruit on campus since he joined the law school in 2002. Students were very interested in HP’s proposition, he said. “Given all the uncertainty in the large law firm market, it’s seen as a good alternative and perhaps one that might be more stable,” Galligan said.

Cymie Payne Looks at BP Spill in Context of International Law

BBC Radio 5, Up All Night, June 17, 2010 Host Ian Payne
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0070h86

There is one clear legal regime, which is the US legislative Oil Pollution Act. And that does provide for foreign claimants to make claims in US courts and be compensated according to the act. There are some limitations on whether that would be available, but the other possibility is through international law. And there is a treaty that governs oil spill response and preparedness in the Caribbean that all of the major countries—the principals in this case—are parties to; that includes Cuba, Mexico, and the United States and other countries.

Richard Frank Interprets High Court Ruling on Coastal Boundaries

-NPR, All Things Considered, June 17, 2010 by Nina Totenberg
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127911461

Richard Michael Frank, executive director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley, says that in terms of water-boundary law “the Florida law as interpreted here represents kind of the majority view among coastal states. So to the extent that the court has articulated and for the most part reaffirmed longstanding state coastal boundary law principles, they are likely to have relatively broad application across the country.”

-The Daily Journal, June 18, 2010 by Lawrence Hurley
http://www.dailyjournal.com/ (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

Richard M. Frank, executive director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley School of Law, said similar arguments have been made “so far unsuccessfully” in various California cases.

Steven Weissman Thinks Gulf Spill Could Lead to Clean Energy Initiatives

KPFA-FM, Letters to Washington, June 17, 2010 Host Mitch Jesserich
http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/61914

“There has certainly been a strong desire in many people’s hearts in Washington to create a transformation in the way we think about energy and its relationship to the environmental economy. And of course that effort to transform has continually run into resistance from all the regular places. Now the question is whether this particular disaster in the Gulf is going to create an opportunity that could be transformative.”

Ethan Elkind Wants Feds to Keep Clean Energy (PACE) Program

San Jose Mercury News, June 17, 2010 by Ethan N. Elkind
http://www.mercurynews.com/opinion/ci_15320358?nclick_check=1

Fannie and Freddie should continue to underwrite mortgages on properties with PACE assessments. They could insist on required safeguards, such as nonacceleration of the PACE assessment at the time of foreclosure and mandatory incorporation of the Energy Department’s PACE guidelines. But they should not jeopardize the future of this promising program over concerns that can be readily addressed. To do otherwise would be to mortgage our economic and environmental future.

Wayne Brazil Finds UC Bungled Response to November Protest

-Contra Costa Times, June 16, 2010 by Matt Krupnick
http://www.contracostatimes.com/education/ci_15309831?nclick_check=1

Brazil expressed frustration that virtually no students responded to his inquiries as he led the investigation. “We had a very hard time getting input from people on the front line,” he said…. (Students) just literally wouldn’t respond.”

-KTVU.com, Associated Press, June 16, 2010
http://www.ktvu.com/news/23926500/detail.html

“The police department was suffering from the same budget cuts that the protesters were protesting, and that hampered and hindered their response to those protests,” Brazil said.

-Berkeleyside, June 17, 2010 by Frances Dinkelspiel
http://www.berkeleyside.com/2010/06/17/is-demonstrating-part-of-the-berkeley-experience/

“We were told by some students that they came down to the rally in the mid-afternoon or late afternoon because they didn’t want to go through four years of Berkeley without going to a demonstration,” said Brazil. “Most people were demonstrating out of a deep conviction and concern that the university was being privatized … and some were protesting to have it on their resume.”

Elisabeth Semel Condemns U.S. Death Penalty Practices

-Yahoo! News, AFP, June 16, 2010 by Allen Joseph
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5juyKBmpt9crjzOLsMR-mzHxzcd_A

“The firing squad is so anachronistic… the only way to understand it is to understand the history of the death penalty in the US.”

-Discovery News, AFP, June 18, 2010
http://news.discovery.com/history/gardner-firing-squad-execution.html

Semel believes Gardner’s execution is linked to Utah’s Mormon roots where “the idea of blood atonement is very meaningful. The idea of, if you’re committing a murder, the only way that you can genuinely demonstrate remorse and be adequately punished is by showing your own blood,” she said.

-Telegraph.co.uk, June 18, 2010 by Nick Allen
http://bit.ly/9HPn4y

Elisabeth Semel, director of the Death Penalty Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, said: “It’s difficult to understand the issue of how can we still be engaged in this form of barbarism.”

David Lieberman and Lauren Edelman Remember Philip Selznick

UC Berkeley News, June 16, 2010 by Andrew Cohen
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/06/16_selznick.shtml

“The Berkeley community lost one of its post-war academic giants, whose scholarship and leadership helped shape the theory and sociology of organizations and transform the social study of law,” said David Lieberman, professor at UC Berkeley School of Law and a close colleague of Selznick’s.

According to Edelman, Selznick emphasized law as a realm of moral values that necessarily shape the character of private as well as public governance. “His legacy is even greater,” she said, “because with Dean Kadish he created the (JSP) program and undergraduate Legal Studies major, which have been emulated by major universities all over the globe.”