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.
TIME, October 31, 2009 by Theo Emery
http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1933055,00.html?xid=rss-topstories
“The logic of the agreement, I think, is going to put Google in a very privileged position in the digital book market.”
Congressional Quarterly, October 29, 2009 by Robert C. Scott
http://www.cq.com/mycq.do (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)
I would say that the very legitimacy of the justice system is at stake. And the effectiveness of our law enforcement system is certainly at stake if we cannot make progress on this issue of enormous racial disparity in the system…. The entire contribution to the very high rate of incarceration of the U.S.—highest in the world—is because of the incarceration of people of color.
The Wall Street Journal, October 29, 2009 by Stanley Lubman
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2009/10/29/chinese-law-reform-on-the-prcs-60th-birthday/tab/print/
Ambiguities in policy toward law are clear: The Chinese Communist Party has never accepted judicial independence as an official goal. Its chief priority for the last thirty years has been economic development, which is the most important basis for its legitimacy, and preventing the occurrence of political or social events that threaten that legitimacy.
Los Angeles Times, October 28, 2009 by Bettina Boxall
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-water28-2009oct28,0,3566444.story
“It’s a little bit like the Balkans. There’s a lot of history and distrust going back,” said Richard Frank, executive director of the Center for Law, Energy and the Environment at UC Berkeley Law School. It’s a fight as old as statehood, he added. “There’s not enough water to go around…. There are going to be winners and losers here.”
The Daily Beast, October 28, 2009 by Ben Crair
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-10-23/doctors-in-the-death-chamber/full/
“Though willing to use any legal means to stop their clients’ executions, these lawyers nevertheless have an additional obligation to seek a humane execution for their clients should that become an inevitability,” Alper wrote in his extensive look at the role of physicians in lethal injections.”