Capital Press, May 27, 2010 by Wes Sanders
http://www.capitalpress.com/print/ws-climate-bill-052110
Rick Frank, director of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at University of California-Berkeley, says political energy will move Congress next year, not the profile of its membership. That means lawmakers will enact some means of regulating emissions if public opinion pushes it. “These issues of climate change are not going away,” he said.
-San Francisco Chronicle, May 25, 2010 by Chris Jay Hoofnagle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/25/ED101DJPE1.DTL
Privacy “messaging” is masking the actions and goals of companies such as Google and Facebook. These for-profit companies have business models that depend upon increasing the collection of personal information, yet they tell us that “privacy is important.” The real question is: How important?
-Bloomberg Businessweek, May 26, 2010 by Brian Womack
http://bit.ly/bQZFJl
“There’s so much buy-in to the platform that the company can act pretty aggressively and users won’t hit the delete button.”
-China Daily, May 28, 2010 by Rob Lever
http://www2.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2010-05/28/content_9902571.htm
“Individuals don’t want to be tracked,” he said. “It might not cause you harm, it might just be creepy.”
PBS The NewsHour, May 25, 2010 by Fred de Sam Lazaro
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/jan-june10/cambodia_05-25.html
“People will have basic needs and need to be attended to, but, if you’re going to have real progress, you also put in the infrastructure for democracy, infrastructure for the rule of law, infrastructure that will support human rights, because, without that, you will always be in an uphill battle.”
San Francisco Chronicle, May 24, 2010 by Bloomberg News
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/05/24/bloomberg1376-L2YCGV1A74E9-1.DTL
“China is denying that they are a piracy haven but that’s contrary to a tremendous amount of empirical research,” Peter Menell, director of the University of California at Berkeley’s Center for Law and Technology, said by phone. “You don’t really have effective enforcement rules. If China was manufacturing software, they would have a bigger incentive to clamp down.”
The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, May 24, 2010 by Stanley Lubman
http://bit.ly/bnD5G6
These reports reflect the Chinese government’s latest moves to intimidate or silence activities of citizens who seek to arouse public concern over actions or inaction by government agencies that are regarded by the government as troublesome, as well as lawyers considered to be too aggressive in representing their clients in public interest litigation.
Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2010 by Carol J. Williams
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-tattoo-speech-20100524,0,2921523.story
“If it’s art, it’s art, and art gets protection,” UC Berkeley law professor and 1st Amendment expert Jesse Choper said of the debate over whether tattoos are protected speech.
The Daily Journal, May 21, 2010 by Catherine Ho
http://www.dailyjournal.com/ (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
“It’s a requirement of California law that you make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities, including bipolar disorder,” said Oppenheimer, who has taught courses in employment discrimination. “Where it’s a threat of violence, it’s difficult. The sensible thing to do is engage in an interactive process and see if there’s some way to accommodate them. On the other hand, it’s also true that the employer has an obligation to protect all employees. The disability doesn’t excuse someone from committing criminal acts.”
KQED Forum, May 20, 2010 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R201005200900
Edley: It’s an idea, it’s a vision, it’s something that I think we should definitely move toward but carefully because we obviously don’t want to sacrifice quality in any way. My principal motivation is access; it’s the social justice component of it…. And I think we really need to explore online technology as a way to do it not just for UC eligible students within California, whom we might not otherwise be able to serve, but ultimately for similarly qualified, similarly prepared students in Kentucky, in Kuala Lumpur.
Kutz: I’m sure Chris Edley would agree with this. It’s not simply about certifying competence. It’s about leading somebody into the kind of education process that really takes place in two dimensions: one is the dimension between the student and the instructor, and involves quite a lot of back and forth between student and instructor; and the second, and I think equally important, is the interaction among the students…. The online courses … do miss that component to a certain degree.
Contra Costa Times, May 20, 2010 by John Driscoll
http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_15123814?nclick_check=1
Zimring said that showing one’s client was insane at the time of a murder could be a means of showing that a trial is likely to be long and complicated, which can be a motivation to press the prosecution to plea bargain.
Los Angeles Times, May 20, 2010 by Eric Biber and Holly Doremus
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-doremus-mms-20100520,0,4734813.story
What’s needed is a wholesale shift in the agency’s culture. Culture change is not as simple as creating a new agency. But it can be accomplished, with determined leadership and sustained outside oversight.