San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 2010 by Wyatt Buchanan
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/06/BATA1BDI6U.DTL&type=printable
David Gamage, an assistant professor of law at UC Berkeley, said job creation is a euphemism for tax cuts for certain industries. He cast doubt on the effectiveness of that strategy. He said it is “difficult to find support for the notion” that targeted tax cuts spur job growth.
The Wall Street Journal, January 5, 2010 by Mark Whitehouse
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126255761275914079.html#printMode (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
“We’ve moved closer to the precipice, and the precipice has moved closer to us,” Alan Auerbach, an economist at the University of California, Berkeley who has focused on U.S. government finances for about 15 years, said in an interview.
The Recorder, January 4, 2010 by Zusha Elinson
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202437343598&pos=ataglance&hbxlogin=1
“I think there is widespread support for bringing a district court judge with patent experience,” said Peter Menell, a professor at Berkeley Law who specializes in intellectual property.
The New York Times, January 4, 2010 by Adam Liptak
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/us/05bar.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
“The A.L.I. is important on a lot of topics,” said Franklin E. Zimring, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. “They were absolutely singular on this topic” — capital punishment — “because they were the only intellectually respectable support for the death penalty system in the United States.”
PBS NewsHour, December 30, 2009 by Spencer Michels
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/july-dec09/google_12-30.html
There really are not checks and balances in the agreement about pricing strategies. And it seems like, the more books that Google scans, the higher the prices can be. The entire thing transformed itself into a commercial enterprise. It’s basically turned this project into a bookstore, rather than a library.
The Daily Californian, December 27, 2009 by Emma Anderson
http://blog.dailycal.org/news/2009/12/27/investigation-still-ongoing-in-attack-on-chancellors-house/#more-1201
“The only evidence was that he was arrested,” Rosenbaum said. “They did not make a case that he was so dangerous that he could not be on campus.”
The National Law Journal, December 21, 2009 by Marcia Coyle
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/index.jsp (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
“This may be a natural consequence, and the new priorities may be right, but this does mean fewer resources for other important law enforcement objectives,” said Weisselberg.
California Planning & Development Report, November 15, 2009 by Paul Shigley
http://www.cp-dr.com/node/2488 (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
“At one level, I’m quite pleased with it. Virtually all the core policies in the Delta Vision plan are incorporated in the legislation.” Frank said. “It’s far from perfect. But it’s a significant improvement over the status quo.”
The Recorder, December 29, 2009 by Petra Pasternak
http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1202437298371
Kay’s career reflects the evolution of attitudes about, and expectations of, women…. Kay herself co-authored the state’s no-fault divorce law, which fellow Berkeley law professor Richard Buxbaum recalls as bellwether legislation. “She caught the temper of the times and led it.”
Kay said it wasn’t feminism so much as the civil rights movement that brought more women to law school. “The first women who came in were motivated by problems of race discrimination, not by sex discrimination,” Kay said.
The New York Times, December 29, 2009 by Deborah Solomon
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/magazine/03fob-q4-t.html?scp=9&sq=Berkeley&st=nyt
“The idea is that the president’s power grows and changes based on circumstances, and that’s what the framers of the Constitution wanted. They wanted it to exist so the president could react to crises immediately.”