CNET News, August 29, 2009 by Tom Krazit
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-10321371-265.html
If the class action settlement is approved, Google stands to gain control of a priceless asset. Jason Schultz, acting director of UC Berkeley’s Samuelson Law, Technology, and Public Policy Clinic, called it “the largest copyright-licensing deal in U.S. history”: the right to display the contents of out-of-print books that are still covered by copyright protection.
San Francisco Chronicle, August 28, 2009 by James Temple
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/28/BA0419E2FH.DTL&type=printable
There are two major problems with the approach, he said. First, while there’s a legal obligation of trust between doctors and patients or lawyers and clients, no such inherent understanding between a blogger and a free online service has been recognized by the courts. Second, even if Port does successfully argue that such a relationship existed, Google can claim that its duty was limited—in the same way that a lawyer can break his confidentiality obligation to prevent a crime.
The Daily Californian, August 26, 2009 by Angelica Dongallo
http://www.dailycal.org/article/106344/uc_berkeley_doctorates_still_prove_valuable
“Are they worried about their prospects? I think everyone is,” said Margo Rodriguez, student affairs officer in the jurisprudence and social policy program at Boalt Hall School of Law.
While most students who obtain doctoral degrees from UC Berkeley end up becoming academics, those who do not end up becoming educators are likely affected by factors other than their ability to land a job at a college or university. “All of them could if they wanted,” said law Professor Malcolm Feeley, saying that some students who go through both the doctoral program and jurisprudence programs at Boalt Hall decide they enjoy practicing law after all or pursue other non-academic professions.
Los Angeles Times, August 26, 2009 by David Lazarus
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-lazarus26-2009aug26,0,6090427,print.column
“I have problems with the way this whole reform thing is going,” said Alan Auerbach…. “I’d like to see a more explicit explanation of ways that medical costs are going to be controlled, and I’d like to see a more comprehensive way of paying for it. But if we don’t do anything at all, we’re clearly going to be worse off. The problems just get bigger if you don’t do anything.”
The Daily Californian, August 26, 2009 by Javier Panzar
http://www.dailycal.org/article/106345/sotomayor_appointment_serves_as_milestone_for_law_
Maria Blanco, executive director of the Earl Warren Institute … said she sees the appointment of Sotomayor as a milestone for women and minorities in the profession. “It is unbelievable,” she said. “I didn’t think I would see it in my lifetime. I thought maybe the next generation of lawyers after me would see it…. It is very exciting and very inspirational.”
NPR, ″all tech considered″ blog, August 25, 2009 by Laura Sydell
http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2009/08/uc_berkeley_law_scholar_tells.html
“A lot of academic authors never really wrote those books for the money in the first place,” says Samuelson. She says what many scholars want is for their ideas to reach a large number of people. If the current settlement is approved, Samuelson says people will have to pay for access to digitized versions of work by scholars who feel it’s more important for people to see their work and share their ideas than it is for them to make a few extra pennies.
-The Wall Street Journal, August 24, 2009 by Jon Hilsenrath
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125099227629751737.html#printMode
Large long-term deficits could cause “serious economic disruptions,” said economist Alan Auerbach of the University of California at Berkeley, who co-wrote a paper with William Gale of the Brookings Institution…. Over the next decade … the U.S. budget deficit will add up to $10 trillion, and possibly more. Credit markets, they added, have begun to signal a risk of U.S. government default, something unheard of a few years ago.
-Marketplace, August 25, 2009 by Tess Vigeland
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/08/25/pm-cbo-q/
If you look down the road to later years up to 2019, both the administration and CBO are projecting higher deficits. And the most important reason for that is that revenues are coming in slower and are going to be projected to come in slower than previously. And that means that the recovery is not going to generate as much revenue as they thought. So for the longer term the news is bad.
The Jerusalem Post, August 23, 2009 by E.B. Solomont
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418671212&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The NYPD, which also added thousands of officers during the ’90s, was watching and becoming more aggressive in making arrests. “You had this kitchen sink full of police changes in the 1990s, and you have a much bigger drop in crime in New York than the general American crime drop,” said Frank Zimring, a University of California, Berkeley, law professor and author of The Great American Crime Decline.
San Francisco Chronicle, August 21, 2009 by Wyatt Buchanan
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/20/BASD19BBUC.DTL&tsp=1
The protections may be the first of their kind in the country, said Jesse Choper, the Earl Warren Professor of Public Law at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall. He said the protection is “not off the wall by any means” and said language can be a source of discrimination that people have limited control over.
Voice of America, August 20, 2009 by Kathryn Baron
http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2009-08-20-voa28.cfm
What are the ingredients of a successful school system? Getting the recipe right is important. In presenting his education agenda, President Barack Obama has said, “The future belongs to the nation that best educates its people.” For now, educators suggest, that distinction lies half a world away from Washington, D.C.—in Singapore.