The Chronicle of Higher Education, January 15, 2009 by Audrey Williams June
http://chronicle.com/cgi-bin/printable.cgi?article=http://chronicle.com/daily/2009/01/9652n.htm
“In this profession, everything is very front-ended, and that’s a pressure-cooker situation,” says Mary Ann Mason, referring to the dizzying schedules of Ph.D. students and pretenure faculty members…. “This generation of graduate students is completely different. They no longer see how that will work for them,” she says.
SF Weekly, January 14, 2009 by Peter Jamison
http://www.sfweekly.com/content/printVersion/1306440
“The literature is fairly robust on this: A large number of the people don’t switch,” said David Gamage, an expert in consumer issues and assistant law professor…. “Whatever the default option is becomes the default.”
The Sacramento Bee, January 14, 2009 by Jim Sanders
http://www.sacbee.com/capitolandcalifornia/story/1540180.html?mi_rss=Capitol%20and%20California
Law professor Stephen D. Sugarman … said citizens are not legally required to intervene. “Careless rescuers are not good Samaritans, really,” Sugarman said. “We don’t want people interfering with other people and hurting them a lot worse, right?”
The Mercury News, January 14, 2009 by Tammerlin Drummond
http://www.mercurynews.com/oakland-bart-shooting/ci_11447007
“You charge for the top crime it could be,” says Franklin Zimring, a professor at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Law School, who specializes in criminal law. That top crime, he says, would be second-degree murder — which automatically includes the lesser possibilities of voluntary or involuntary manslaughter.
But if that were to be the case, says Charles Weisselberg, a criminal procedure expert at Boalt Law, “he will want to think carefully about how to state that to members of the public.”
The Arizona Republic, January 13, 2009 by JJ Hensley
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/2009/01/13/20090113valleyhomicides0113.html
“The first thing that’s obvious is that it’s real. The second thing that’s obvious is that it isn’t breaking new ground,” Zimring said. “What this appears to be is more fluctuation than the start of a new trend.”
Los Angeles Times, January 12, 2009 by Carol J. Williams
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-closing-gitmo12-2009jan12,0,5144124,full.story
“We need to bring this to closure, and that needs to be done accountably and done swiftly,” said Fletcher, director of the International Human Rights Law Clinic at Berkeley. “Guantanamo has been devastating for the United States’ image in the world and for the rule of law.”
The Boston Globe, January 11, 2009 by Julie Masis
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2009/01/11/is_this_lawman_your_facebook_friend/?page=full
Jennifer Lynch, a lecturer at the law school … said there are ethical issues involved when police pretend to be someone’s friend to get access to their profile. “If police are creating a fake profile and asking to be a friend, they are not going through the court” to obtain a search warrant, she said. “So you’re losing the checks and balances that we value in our criminal justice system.”
KPIX, CBS5, January 9, 200 by Hank Plante
http://cbs5.com/video/?id=44302@kpix.dayport.com
“They have their work cut out for them,” says UC Berkeley Law School’s Anne Joseph O’Connell, who has written extensively on the intelligence community. “I think it definitely is a time for a new direction after this administration’s actions. The county’s reputation has suffered in terms of world opinion.”
International Herald Tribune, January 8, 2009 by Robert Pear and David Stout
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/08/america/09daschle.php
“Public insurance has a better track record than private insurance when it comes to reining in costs while preserving access to care,” Hacker said. “The public plan would set a standard against which private plans must compete.”
NPR News & Notes, January 8, 2009 by Farai Chideya
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99120917
“The big difference between the United States and other developed countries is not that we have different kinds of punishments, but that we use the severe punishments much more. The imprisonment rate in the United States is five or six times the imprisonment rate in other developed countries that we like to compare ourselves to.”