The Wall Street Journal, June 30, 2009 by Jess Bravin
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124631926843370957.html#printMode
“This is an area where there are sharply divergent intuitions about the role of race in American society, and sharply divergent views about what should be done about it,” says Goodwin Liu, co-director of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at the University of California, Berkeley.
Daily Journal, June 29, 2009 by Jennifer Koons
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“Over his tenure on the court, he evolved from a justice with a pro-business philosophy to a solid vote for the environment on the court in his later years,” said Richard Frank, executive director of the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley’s law school.
Politico.com, June 28, 2009 by Victoria McGrane
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=1DDF0EDD-18FE-70B2-A8460AE0A23ED033
The California situation amounts to a person “holding a gun to his head and saying, ‘If you don’t do something, I’ll shoot myself,'” said Alan Auerbach, an economist and public finance professor at Berkeley. “On the one hand, California needs help; but on the other hand, it certainly wouldn’t be unreasonable for the federal government to insist that California help itself too.”
Los Angeles Times, June 27, 2009 by Maura Dolan
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-jackson-custody27-2009jun27,0,1715625.story
Although UC Berkeley law professor Herma Hill Kay said it was “not a slam dunk” that ex-wife Debbie Rowe would win custody, four other experts in family law said she would have the advantage if there is a custody battle.
San Jose Mercury News, June 27, 2009 by Ty Alper
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12700611?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com
Some Californians believe that inmates should suffer the same painful death that they inflicted on their victims. We cannot deny the grief and rage that accounts for these emotions, but the Constitution requires humane executions. It is time to abandon a drug that has been used to torture both people and animals, and has been rejected by veterinary and animal welfare communities for decades.
Slate.com Explainer, June 26, 2009 by Brian Palmer
http://www.slate.com/id/2221408/
Could he have licensed his dance moves? Only the more complicated sequences. Since 1976, federal law has allowed for the copyrighting of “pantomimes and choreographic works” but not of isolated dance steps. So while Michael Jackson could surely have safeguarded the rights to the “Thriller” video choreography, he likely could not have licensed the moonwalk. (Besides, the moonwalk was probably not an original work.) Jackson does hold a patent on the specialized shoes he used in the leaning sequence of the “Smooth Criminal” video…. The Explainer thanks … Jason Schultz of Berkeley Law School.
Daily Journal, June 25, 2009 by Lawrence Hurley
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“It’s been a miserable year for the environment in the Supreme Court,” said Richard Frank, executive director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment at UC Berkeley School of Law…. Frank predicted that environmental groups will pressure the Obama administration to revisit some of the policy changes made by the EPA in the Bush era, like the ones upheld in the two Clean Water Act cases. Whether or not the new administration succeeds in rolling back any of the Bush policy changes “is uncertain at best,” he said.
Daily Journal, June 24, 2009 by Sara Randazzo
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Top-tier legal institutions, according to the U.S. News & World Report rankings, like No. 3-ranked Stanford Law School and No. 6 UC Berkeley School of Law—whose on-campus interviews are traditionally a feeding frenzy to pair high-achieving students with top firms—said they are seeking small and mid-size firms and those in secondary markets to add to the recruiting mix…. Berkeley also pushed through a hiring freeze to add two career counselors.
San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2009 by Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/23/MNPL18BIJJ.DTL&type=printable
“What the president said is politics. What the brief said is their position on the law,” said Jesse Choper of UC Berkeley. Still, he said, a judge who decided to reject the government’s argument could quote the president’s words. Carter, Choper mused, might say something like, “Of course it discriminates, as President Obama said.”
San Francisco Chronicle, June 23, 2009 by Melissa A. Rodgers
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/22/ED9R18BIOO.DTL
Policymakers in Washington risk falling into the same pitfalls that brought down reform efforts in California. Last week’s release of the surprising cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office was an eerie reminder of the California challenges. In addressing the health care crisis quickly and boldly, national leaders would do well to heed the lessons that California’s health care debate offers.