The Boston Globe, December 27, 2009 by Susan Milligan
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/12/27/obama_ends_first_year_with_some_progress_and_more_work_ahead/
“I think, given the unexpected, added challenges of the economy and the war, it’s almost miraculous that there’s been substantial progress” on issues Obama laid out at the start of his presidency, Edley said.
San Francisco Chronicle, December 23, 2009 by Andrew S. Ross
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/23/BU0E1B7OVH.DTL
“I tried to get them (the Assembly committee) to focus on noncontroversial reforms like making the rainy-day fund more robust,” said David Gamage, a tax and public finance expert at UC Berkeley who advised tax commission members and testified before the committee. “I tried to suggest the baby not get thrown out with bathwater. But it all got lost.”
The Wall Street Journal, December 22, 2009 by Stanley Lubman
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2009/12/22/stanley-lubman-business-in-china-what-does-playing-by-the-rules-mean/
Chinese society is a ferment of conflicting values, and the concept of business ethics is an oxymoron…. In an era when the Chinese market is increasingly important to many global businesses, some over-eager participants may be tempted to bend the rules for fear of being “left out” or missing a good opportunity. They should resist the temptation.
The National Law Journal, December 21, 2009 by Marcia Coyle
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202437011128 (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
Constitutional principles that apply to police and government in ordinary criminal cases are now interpreted with an eye toward fighting terrorism, he explained. This is evident in terrorism-related hypotheticals in lawyers’ briefs and oral arguments, as well as in court decisions.
The Philadelphia Inquirer, December 20, 2009 by John Yoo
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/currents/79743207.html
When Obama decided to boost troop levels in Afghanistan, he did not go to Congress on bended knee…. If Obama succeeds in bringing the nation through Iraq and Afghanistan, and destroys al-Qaeda, he will have drawn on the same wellsprings of presidential power that sustained Washington, Lincoln, and FDR.
The Washington Post, December 18, 2009 by Robert Barnes and Maria Glod
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/17/AR2009121704299_pf.html
To Berman and Elisabeth Semel, director of the death penalty clinic at the University of California at Berkeley’s law school, it makes sense that the court, divided on many aspects of capital punishment, takes the chance to present a united front when it sees examples of mistakes in death penalty cases that all justices agree on.
MSNBC, December 16, 2009 by Linda Carroll
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34433979/ns/health-skin_and_beauty/
“City women who were the most attractive got a lot of bang for their appearance buck,” says the study’s lead author, Victoria Plaut, a visiting assistant professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law…. “And if you were even slightly below average, you were very clearly worse off.”
East Bay Express, December 16, 2009 by Bernice Yeung
http://www.eastbayexpress.com/ebx/credit-card-issuers-say-ill-see-you-in-court/Content?oid=1532208
The pretrial phone conversation that Willie describes violates federal debt-collection laws prohibiting “undue harassment,” said Elisa Della Piana, another supervising attorney at the clinic. “Anything false and misleading is illegal and violates the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act,” she said.
“Collection agencies are buying credit card debt at a price that’s heavily discounted, and they’re suing the poor, elderly, and people on disability,” said Osha Neumann, a managing attorney at the clinic.
The Huffington Post, December 15, 2009 by Andrew Guzman
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-guzman/the-true-costs-of-climate_b_392510.html?view=screen
Before we decide how much we’re willing to spend to mitigate climate change, we need to know what it will cost if we don’t. The conventional view in policy circles is that climate change will cost the United States somewhere between 0 and 2 percent of GDP by the year 2100. But a more thorough accounting points to a much heavier price.
-The New York Times, December 12, 2009 Editorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/opinion/13sun2.html?scp=1&sq=samuelson+clinic&st=nyt
The Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law sued the Department of Defense, the C.I.A. and other federal agencies under the Freedom of Information Act to learn more about their use of social networking sites. The suit seeks to uncover what guidelines these agencies have about this activity, including information about whether agents are permitted to use fake identities or to engage in subterfuge, such as tricking people into accepting Facebook friend requests.
-The Huffington Post, December 15, 2009 by Leslie Harris
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leslie-harris/feds-on-your-friends-list_b_392542.html
“Although the Federal Government clearly uses social-networking websites to collect information, often for laudable reasons, it has not clarified the scope of its use of social networking websites or disclosed what restrictions and oversight is in place to prevent abuse,” says a law suit filed earlier this month by EFF and the Samuelson Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley.