Erwin Chemerinsky quoted by The Daily Californian, Sept. 18, 2017 Now Chemerinsky, the most influential name in legal education, is actively applying his expertise to a willing Berkeley Law, inspiring a new era for the law school, its faculty and students.
American Bar Foundation names Berkeley professor Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law
Angela Onwuachi-Willig cited by LegalNews.com, Sept, 18, 2017 The American Bar Foundation has appointed Angela Onwuachi-Willig, the Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, as the 2017-18 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law. Onwuachi-Willig is a renowned scholar of law and inequality whose teaching centers […]
Free speech ‘hero’ Ben Shapiro’s as Alt-right as a Jew can get
David Schraub writes for Haaretz, Sept. 16, 2017 To pretend that Ben Shapiro, Ann Coulter, Milo Yiannopoulos and Steve Bannon represent the ideas wing of the modern conservative movement is a patronizing indulgence that’s hard to imagine anyone actually takes seriously.
Verizon gives away cool freebies, as long as you give away your privacy
Paul Schwartz quoted by Los Angeles Times, Sept.15, 2017 “All sorts of companies — Google, Facebook — are already in the data-collection business,” said Paul Schwartz. “Now we’re seeing older companies — cable companies, cellular companies — placing a greater emphasis on it.”
UF has little choice but to let white nationalist Richard Spencer speak, experts say
Jesse Choper interviewed by Orlando Sentinel, Sept. 15, 2017 Jesse Choper … said universities are allowed “reasonable” restrictions on the “time, place and manner” of speech. What’s reasonable? That depends on the judge, he said. “You can find a federal district judge, or a state judge, for that matter, who will do most anything,” he […]
Why you should be suspicious of that study claiming A.I. can detect a person’s sexual orientation
Sonia Katyal writes for Slate, Sept. 14, 2017 The study was deeply flawed and dystopian, largely due to its choices of whom to study and how to categorize them. In addition to only studying people who were white, it categorized just two choices of sexual identity—gay or straight—assuming a correlation between people’s sexual identity and […]
UC Berkeley reacts to Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily uphold part of travel ban
Kim Thuy Seelinger quoted by The Daily Californian, Sept. 14, 2017 “This ban is part of a multi-faceted effort that ultimately affects us all at some level,” Seelinger said, “because they target someone we teach, someone we study with, someone we love.”
Fees for parents of incarcerated youth could end with proposed CA bill
Erwin Chemerinsky, Jeffrey Selbin, and Susan Gluss quoted by The Daily Californian, Sept. 13, 2017 These fees disproportionately impact families of Black and Latinx children, who represent more than 70 percent of youth in the juvenile justice system, according to Chemerinsky. Selbin said such fees “undermine both rehabilitation and safety,” which he said are the […]
Why we need total free speech on campuses
Erwin Chemerinsky interviewed by WNYC, Sept. 13, 2017 I think it’s so important for campus officials to respond to and condemn hate speech. Just because the First Amendment protects a right to say something, that doesn’t mean it should be said. Campus officials can describe the type of community they want to create and denounce hate speech […]
The free speech-hate speech trade-off
Erwin Chemerinsky interviewed by The New York Times, Sept. 13, 2017 The central principle of the First Amendment — and of academic freedom — is that all ideas and views can be expressed. Sometimes they are ideas and views that we might consider noble, that advance equality. Sometimes they might be ideas that we abhor. […]