Times-Standard, December 5, 2009 by Chris Durant
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_13933755
“In large cities it’s rare, but the smaller the town, the more visible cases are,” Zimring said. “And you have to remember … it is an elected position.”
Nature News, December 4, 2009 by Meredith Wadman
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091204/full/news.2009.1117.html (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
“The great danger of the guidelines is that they will give political cover to people who have in the past wanted to get by with much less onerous screening,” he says. “I hope that is no longer true.”
-The Oakland Tribune, December 4, 2009 by Matt Krupnick
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_13928651
In Denmark, the students will rub shoulders with world leaders, including the former president of Ireland, Mary Robinson, who agreed to let the pair speak at an event she will host. Robinson, also a former U.N. human-rights commissioner, is a friend of Alice Miller, a UC Berkeley law lecturer.”The reason we were able to do that is because we’re at Berkeley, quite frankly,” said Laurel Fletcher, a Berkeley law professor…. “We’re able to leverage our academic capital.”
-National Law Journal, December 7, 2009 by Karen Sloan
http://www.law.com/jsp/nlj/PubArticleNLJ.jsp?id=1202436139320&
Law_students_try_to_shift_climate_policy_in_Copenhagen
A pair of 2Ls from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law will make the rounds at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen discussing their research on climate change and human rights…. The Berkeley students, Zoe Loftus-Farren and Caítrín McKiernan, wrote and will deliver a research paper urging policymakers to take into account the human implications of climate change.
-Youth Radio and KQED, “In Other Words” blog, December 14, 2009 by Molly Samuel
http://blogs.kqed.org/inotherwords/2009/12/14/2183/
Zoe Loftus-Farren and Cáitrín McKiernan are presenting a paper they wrote as interns at Berkeley Law’s International Human Rights Clinic…. Loftus-Farren says, “A legal education is applicable to many types of work, and opens doors in terms of how to focus my work.” McKiernan adds, “People of good faith can work for change both in and out of the system. Neither side has a monopoly on the truth or how to preserve hard fought gains.”
The Oakland Tribune, December 3, 2009 by Kelly Rayburn and Cecily Burt
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_13921190
“Unless there’s something we don’t know about,” UC Berkeley Boalt Hall Law School professor Eric Rakowski said, “it sounds like there’s going to be quite a bit of money distributed to help the mayor pay his tax liability.”
National Law Journal, November 30, 2009 by Karen Sloan
http://bit.ly/8RN2Yd
The University of California, Berkeley School of Law and Georgetown University Law Center have announced improved forgiveness programs that will cover all law school loan debt for many of their graduates who go on to work in public interest law for at least 10 years, making their legal education essentially free.
San Francisco Chronicle, November 30, 2009 by Carolyn Lochhead
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/30/MNHS1AQDKV.DTL&type=printable
Auerbach said one reason he signed the letter was his “fear that as timid as the Senate bill might be, it goes much more in the right direction than the House bill does. They could certainly do more, but my fear is they’ll do less. Simply expanding coverage when none of these even attempt to reduce costs would be very unfortunate.”
The Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2009 by Stanley Lubman
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2009/11/29/stanley-lubman-after-obama-visit-legal-experts-dialogue-could-help-expand-citizens-rights-in-china/
The treatment in the American press of President Obama’s trip was overly negative in its emphasis on how the Chinese leadership kept the President at too great a distance from the Chinese people. The coverage overlooked some of the promise embedded in his discussions, particularly on legal cooperation, which the U.S. can use to help expand citizens’ rights without publicly banging the drum of human rights.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, November 25, 2009 by Riya Bhattacharjee
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/issue/2009-11-25/article/34153?headline=UC-Law-Students-Ask-Justice-Department-To-Review-Bush-Torture-Memos
“Lawyers to the government owe their client an honest appraisal of the law, as informed by statutes, court cases and international treaties and norms—not a tortured interpretation that the end justifies the means,” said Stephen Rosenbaum, a Berkeley law lecturer.
The New Lawyer, November 24, 2009 by Sara Randazzo
http://www.dailyjournal.com/newlawyer.cfm?show=NewLawyerStory&eid=906014&evid=1&scid=148280
The biggest drawback from shifting research online is that “context gets lost,” he said, citing things like statutes, annotated codes, and regulations that build from one page to the next in book form. “We feel that if students don’t understand how the books work, they won’t know what they get online,” Levy said.
KQED-FM, November 23, 2009 Host Cy Musiker
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R911231730
“I think that the shooting by a BART police officer of an unarmed man would have gotten a lot of community attention even without a video. But it seems likely that the fact that there was video made the story spread more quickly, allowed people to see it more quickly. It may have helped outrage spread more quickly that otherwise it would have. And we may see more cases like that.”