New Scientist, March 16, 2009 by David Johnson and Franklin Zimring
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20126995.100-capital-punishment-its-all-politics.html
“The biggest obstacle to ending executions in Asia is politics, not culture. Often, the trigger for a decline in capital punishment is a degree of democracy and an easing of authoritarianism.”
KGO-TV ABC 7 March 16, 2009 by Mark Matthews
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/politics&id=6713338
“The amounts involved are not in dispute, the obligation to pay them is not in dispute and they have to be paid,” Professor Jesse Fried said…. “The people at the very top that made the bad decisions are out; these are lower level executives who the company needs on a day to day basis and if we don’t pay these people what we promised them then they will leave, and the U.S. taxpayer will be left with very little.”
The Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2009 by Jesse Bravin
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123699111292226669.html#printMode
Goodwin Liu … says the Slaughter-House opinion impoverished constitutional law. “If Slaughter-House had come out the other way, we would have had 100-some years of jurisprudence on the concept” of Privileges or Immunities, says Mr. Liu, chairman of the liberal American Constitution Society.
AWRA Water Resources Blog, March 12, 2009 by Michael Campana
http://awramedia.org/mainblog/2009/03/12/environmental-law-and-policy-blog-from-ucb-and-ucla-law-schools/
“Legal Planet focuses on significant developments in law and policy for a general audience,” said Dan Farber, director of Berkeley Law’s environmental law program…. “We highlight the latest legal and policy initiatives, and examine the impact they might have on our planet. Do they protect our natural resources, or impair our legacy for future generations? Do they reduce our carbon footprint, or worsen climate change? Are they real steps forward, or merely political posturing?”
The New York Times, March 11, 2009 by Stephanie Clifford
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/business/media/11target.html?_r=1
Paul M. Schwartz, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and an information privacy law expert, said tracking by advertisers was problematic. “People should be allowed to trade most kinds of information for value as long as the terms are fair,” he said. “They’re not fair now.”
-The New York Times, March 11, 2009 by Jonathan D. Glater
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/education/11lsat.html?pagewanted=print
“Proposition 209 and the reduced numbers of minority admits prompted me to think hard about what constitutes merit for purposes of law school admission, and to decide LSAT was much too narrow, as well as having big adverse impact,” Professor Shultz said.
-KCBS 740AM, March 11, 2009 Hosts Patti Reising and Jeff Bell
http://www.kcbs.com/topic/play_window.php?audioType=Episode&audioId=3564877
“The LSAT was designed to predict who would be good as a student in law school and it actually does quite a good job of that. It’s not that it’s not useful; it’s that it’s narrow because a lawyer needs many more talents than simply logic and reasoning which is the focus of the LSAT. And our test development is trying to gauge other kinds of skills like problem solving and practical judgment and stress management and all the range of things that practicing lawyers need to have.”
The Sacramento Bee, March 11, 2009 by Matt Weiser
http://www.sacbee.com/378/v-print/story/1688882.html
“There is, indeed, a salmon crisis in California,” said Holly Doremus, a UC Davis expert on state environmental laws. “We think it’s important to note that this is not new. It’s as if we’ve waited until we’ve had a heart attack to seek medical attention rather than take preventive action.”
“The bottom line is that California wildlife laws are both robust and legally adequate,” said Frank…. “The single largest problem with respect to fisheries is a lack of adequate fiscal and personnel resources at the Department of Fish and Game.”
The BLT: The Blog of LegalTimes, March 9, 2009 by Eric Barendsen
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/03/cali-law-interns-find-career-options-in-dc.html
“They get the opportunity to see their law degree as something that would help them be involved with policymaking, not simply litigation, not simply advocacy,” says professor and founder of the program Howard Shelanski of U.C. Berkeley School of Law.
The Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2009 by Stu Woo and Justin Scheck
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123656023550966719.html#printMode
“No one should assume that just because the Obama administration is tolerant of medical marijuana, that they’ll be as tolerant of recreational marijuana,” said Mr. MacCoun, the Berkeley professor.
-Wired Threat Level Blog, March 6, 2009 by Kim Zetter
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/ca-looks-to-exp.html
“If you actually got it passed,” she said, “it would be a very big deal.”
-CNET News, March 6, 2009 by Elinor Mills
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10190978-83.html
Of consumers who have been notified that their data may have been exposed during a data breach, 20 percent claim they ended their relationship with the company breached but the actual churn rate is less than 7 percent, said Deirdre Mulligan.
-Wired Threat Level Blog, March 9, 2009 by Kim Zetter
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/experts-debate.html
According to Deirdre Mulligan, a professor of information technology law and policy … a Ponemon study found that about 20 percent of respondents claimed to have terminated their relationship with a company after discovering that the company experienced a breach.