Nature News, November 4, 2009 by Corie Lok
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091104/full/news.2009.1065.html
“The next thing we will do is to reach out to everyone in the industry with this standard and invite them to join it,” says Stephen Maurer, a lawyer and expert in public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, who helped to formulate the code. “And in the nature of standards wars, if enough people do that, the war will be over.”
The Wall Street Journal, China Real Time Report, November 4, 2009 by Stanley Lubman
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2009/11/04/stanley-lubman-a-letter-to-obama/
In recent years the U.S. government, including your predecessor’s administration, has increased the support that it has given to strengthen labor rights, legal aid, open government, and administrative law, augmenting the support for these and other institution-building efforts by multilateral and U.S. NGOs. The current administration ought to increase that support while restraining highly public calls that urge China to speed up its adherence to Western values.
The Washington Times, November 4, 2009 by Andrea Billups
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/04/women-lead-seismic-shift/
“We’ve come a long way, but not far enough,” said Ann O’Leary, the study’s co-author…. Miss O’Leary called on government and businesses to step up and help workers through updated labor standards and laws that are comprehensive enough to meet the emerging needs of both men and women.
-Contra Costa Times, November 3, 2009 by John Simerman
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13705312?source=rss%27
At issue during oral arguments at Boalt Hall in Berkeley was a provision of Proposition 83 that bans people who must register as sex offenders from living within 2,000 feet of a school or park where children “regularly gather.”
-San Francisco Chronicle, November 4, 2009 by Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/03/BARO1AEJP6.DTL&type=health
The court said defendants who possessed greater amounts of marijuana could still try to persuade a jury that they had only what they needed for medical use. Neither side disputed that in Tuesday’s Supreme Court hearing at the UC Berkeley law school.
-Cal Law, November 4, 2009 by Mike McKee
http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleFriendlyCA.jsp?id=1202435168668
The justices may have been playing to the on-campus audience of students at UC-Berkeley School of Law’s Booth Auditorium, but their questions indicated they’ve given the case lots of thought — and it didn’t look good for DeVito.
-KQED-FM, The California Report, November 12, 2009 by Tara Siler
http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R911120850/a
All seven justices are present, all in black robes but something is amiss. Maybe it’s the fact that they’re sitting on a stage in a college auditorium facing a packed audience of eager law students.
NPR, Morning Edition, November 3, 2009 by Blake Farmer
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120044000&ft=1&f=1006
“People talk about having your feet in the real fire as opposed to simulated training. It certainly can only go so far.” Still, Hecht says simulations are sometimes the best option.
St. Petersburg Times, November 2, 2009 by Jeffrey Fagan and Franklin E. Zimring
http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/myths-of-get-tough-law/1048326
We find no evidence that any of the get-tough laws such as Florida’s law produced significant crime declines among young teenagers in Florida or anywhere else…. As extra prevention, juvenile life without parole is useless.
ABC News, November 2, 2009 by Emily Friedman
http://abcnews.go.com/WN/anthony-sowell-philip-garrido-cases-raise-questions-sex/story?id=8976114
“The system is broken in the sense that we have a lot of people on sex registries and while it gives us a list of people who might be involved in crimes, there are so many people on those lists that they’re overly inclusive,” said Simon.
San Jose Mercury News, November 1, 2009 by Mike Swift
http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_13680481
“Google has done a great job of shining the spotlight on things about the settlement that people would find attractive, but they don’t tell you some of the stuff that would be most worrisome about it.”
Nature Biotechnology, November 2009 by Sarah Webb
http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v27/n11/full/nbt1109-977.html
“You have the tension that this just looks like a really attractive technology to commercialize. Then you have the challenge that we’re not clear on what we can patent or what we can’t patent,” says Ken Taymor, executive director of the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy in California.
The Daily Journal, October 26, 2009 by Fiona Smith
http://dailyjournal.com/ (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
“Strikingly absent from the complaint is recognition we’re in the third year of a drought,” Frank said. There is also no reference to “environmental statutes that courts are required to take into account and reconcile,” he added. “To cite these statutes in a legal and policy vacuum is interesting but far from painting a complete picture,” Frank said.