Advocate.com, Dec. 9, 2008 by Kerry Eleveld
http://www.advocate.com/exclusive_detail_ektid68050.asp
“Sources on the transition say that this project is one of the best organized efforts of any of the communities that have projects,” said Eric Stern, a San Francisco-based attorney and political operative.
The New York Times, Dec. 9, 2008 by Adam Nossiter
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/10/us/10siegelman.html?pagewanted=print
“That’s something that’s always struck me as odd about the Siegelman case,” Mr. Sklansky said. “The absence of strong evidence for quid pro quo, plus no evidence of personal enrichment, made the Siegelman case look kind of odd to me.”
“I wouldn’t expect any real softening from the government because there is so much history to the case and so many personal investments in a prosecution,” Zimring said.
Washington Independent, Dec. 8, 2008 by Daphne Eviatar
http://washingtonindependent.com/21313/21313
Carolyn Patty Blum, emeritus professor at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law [and] a consultant to the International Center for Transitional Justice, which specializes in accountability for human-rights abuses, disagrees. “[Our] institutional experience working with truth commissions around the world is that the opposite happens. Once people feel they are already protected, they don’t have any incentive to come forward.”
Philadelphia Inquirer, Dec. 7, 2008 by John Yoo
http://www.aei.org/publications/filter.all%2CpubID.29030/pub_detail.asp
Obama shouldn’t misinterpret his electoral victory as a sweeping mandate—perhaps President Bush’s overarching political mistake—or the introduction of a new political order. The president-elect would be better-served by moving swiftly to cure the recession and then focusing on moderate, bipartisan policies in areas such as education, spending and entitlement reform.
Daily Californian, Dec. 5, 2008 by Alexandra Wilcox
http://www.dailycal.org/article/103823/economy_influences_graduate_school_applications
Edward Tom, dean of admissions at Boalt Hall School of Law, said he predicts the number of applicants will go up 6 to 7 percent.
San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 5, 2008 by Carolyn Jones
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/04/BAVM14H16D.DTL
“We respect the politics of Berkeley, home of the free speech movement, and their right to debate this issue,” Gluss said. “They can pass this measure, but it won’t have any bearing on the university’s policy.”
Daily Californian, Dec. 5, 2008 by Amy Brooks
http://www.dailycal.org/article/103825
“I have no evidence from students or others that the actual content of any course is academically inappropriate under any principled standard one might adopt,” he said in a statement
San Francisco Daily Journal, Dec. 3, 2008 by Fiona Smith
http://www.dailyjournal.com
This suit is markedly different because it invokes potentially powerful but rarely used legal doctrines such as the public trust doctrine and reasonable use, said Richard Frank…. “Various people have been advancing the notion that these legal doctrines have direct relevance to the environmental problems currently facing the delta. This lawsuit brings that theory front and center,” Frank said.
Daily Californian, Dec. 3, 2008 by Stephanie Lee
http://www.dailycal.org/article/103778/top_uc_campus_officials_gather_to_discuss_budget_w
Looking beyond the UC system, Edley said he perceives public education throughout the state as “broken” overall. “The vast majority of students leave without having achieved a certificate, much less a degree,” he said.
Dan Farber, a professor at Boalt Hall School of Law, said that he left last night’s panel discussion impressed—but worried for the future of higher education in California. “It’s remarkable that the campus and UC have managed to maintain their quality while being starved to death,” he said