Eric Stover Calls for Guantanamo Investigation

-San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 17, 2008 by Bob Egelko
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/17/MNMU1440SK.DTL&type=printable

“We cannot sweep this dark chapter in our nation’s history under the rug by simply closing the Guantánamo prison camp,” said Eric Stover, director of UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center. “The new administration must investigate what went wrong and who should be held accountable.”

-Middle East Times, Nov. 18, 2008 by Cesar Chelala
http://www.metimes.com/Opinion/2008/11/17/closing_guantanamo_is_only_first_step/1605/

Eric Stover, a co-author of the “Guantánamo and Its Aftermath” report, stated, “Guantánamo, like Abu Ghraib, has become a stain on the reputation of the U.S.”

David Onek Reveals Findings of Gang Violence Study

San Francisco Chronicle, Nov. 10, 2008 by Demian Bulwa
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/09/BABR13VJGP.DTL&tsp=1

“Today’s shooter is tomorrow’s victim,” said Onek, the study group’s executive director and a member of the San Francisco Police Commission. “A small number of individuals in a small number of places are responsible for a disproportionate share of the violence. If you can make a difference with that group, you can make a significant impact on violence in San Francisco.”

Holly Doremus Criticizes Supreme Court Navy Sonar Ruling

Slate.com, Nov. 14, 2008 by Holly Doremus
http://www.slate.com/id/2204591/

“If the lower court was cavalier about the national-security interest, Roberts was equally so about the environmental interests at stake. He acknowledged the bland possibility of unspecified harm to an unknown number of marine mammals but not the detailed evidence of strandings, ear injuries, the bends, and ‘profound behavioral changes’ that had motivated the lower courts’ conclusions.”

Brad Simon Describes Course on Video Game Law

GC California Magazine, Nov. 14, 2008 interview by Steven Pressman
http://www.law.com/jsp/ca/PubArticleCA.jsp?id=1202426020584

“The class is designed to look at the legal issues from the perspective of a particular industry—more specifically, a lawyer working with content creators to produce a game, then with customers to distribute a game across the range of available and newly emerging platforms, and finally with competitors, dealing with a host of issues. Certainly, IP is critical but a lot of other issues are implicated in the industry, in ways perhaps unique to the industry—areas such as tort law and violence or First Amendment and content regulation, for example.”

Melissa Murray, Mary Ann Mason Discuss Motherhood and Tenure Conflicts

Diverse Issues in Higher Education, Nov. 13, 2008 by Gregory A. Patterson
http://diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_11946.shtml

Mason … co-director of the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security, says higher education could be at the beginning of a sea change sweeping women away from tenuretrack jobs. Women are opting for academe’s second-tier posts, filling in the part-time, adjunct and lecturer ranks, becoming what Mason calls the ‘gypsy scholars’ of the university world.

“The decision to have a child on the tenure track was not a decision at all,” Murray says. “For me the bigger question was, how was I going to make the tenure track work around my decision to have a family.”

María Blanco and Warren Institute Push for Diversity in Obama Administration

New American Media, Nov. 12, 2008 by Annette Fuentes
http://news.newamericamedia.org/news/view_article.html?article_id=931bc18d8c825b753d6d59c5195d561d

“We thought it would be important regardless of which administration came in to have a talent book, in a sense, of people of color that could go into a new administration,” said Maria Blanco…. “Because of the nature of DC, it’s an insiders hiring world, which tends to exclude people of color because they aren’t in those circles.”

Holly Doremus Analyzes Supreme Court Ruling on Navy Sonar

KPCC-FM (NPR), Nov. 12, 2008, Hosted by Patt Morrison
http://www.scpr.org/programs/pattmorrison/listings/2008/11/pattmorrison_20081110.shtml

“The president is the commander-in-chief of the military. If the president says to the military, ‘No you don’t need to perform these exercises,’ that’s his or her prerogative. So it’s not that the military operates without control, it’s that the court in this case can’t exercise this particular type of control. It would have to come through the executive branch or through Congress.”