Angela Onwuachi-Willig quoted by Corporate Counsel, Sept. 30, 2016
“You can keep your hair as it is in one style,” Onwuachi-Willig said, referring to afros, if they are allowed, “or you can straighten your hair and wear it like a white person and style it however you want. To me, that’s very much like saying: ‘We’re going to make you bleach your skin.’ or ‘We’re going to make you have nose job because we think your nose is too broad.”
Jesse Choper interviewed by Bloomberg Law, Sept. 29, 2016
“This judge is sort of a poor judicial version of George Wallace in Alabama. But he’s never awakened this to reality. This is not his first encounter with the federal judiciary. … And my guess is, that they’re going to put him down. But he keeps getting elected in Alabama by the people.”
Katerina Linos and co-author write for The New York Times, Sept. 29, 2016
So the good news is that firmly specified standards, even in a nonbinding agreement, can positively shift states’ behavior. But there’s a cautionary note: Compromises made through weak recommendations on controversial items will, at best, not help your cause. At worst, these compromises may actually undercut your objectives.
Christopher Hoofnagle and Aaron Perzanowki ‘06 paper cited by Quartz, Sept. 28, 2016
When Perzanowski and Hoofnagle’s tested a version of the Media Shop that replaced the “Buy now” button with a “License now” button study participants more accurately understood their rights. Additionally, about half of all shoppers were willing to pay more to acquire a digital copy that explicitly came with traditional ownership rights, such as the right to resell.
Ty Alper cited by San Francisco Chronicle, Sept. 28, 2016
The professors, including Ty Alper … wrote that eliminating the statute of limitations could lead to wrongful convictions or slow the prosecution of sex crimes by removing an incentive for law enforcement and prosecutors to act quickly.
Ian Haney López writes for Moyers & Company, Sept. 27, 2016
Equating dog whistling with personal bigotry minimizes the phenomenon. It’s not an expression of prejudice so much as a coldly calculated decision to seek advantage by manipulating the prejudice in others. Dog whistling is a strategy: it intentionally uses veiled terms to stimulate racial animosity, whipping up popular fears and stoking dangerous and misdirected resentments.
Amanda Tyler interviewed by Northern California Record, Sept. 27, 2016
“A big part of what keeps my interest about this particular area of law is that it touches on a lot of larger concepts having to do with the separation of powers and the emergency constitution. And it also invites a rigorous historical inquiry into the role that habeas corpus has played over time during periods of great constitutional stress.”
Franklin Zimring quoted by The Washington Post, Sept. 26, 2016
“People who are talking about Ferguson effects — why do you find it in homicide and not burglary?” asked Franklin Zimring, a criminologist at the University of California, Berkeley in an interview earlier this year. “That’s just not very good logic, and it’s not consistent.”
Franklin Zimring interviewed by KPCC-FM, Sept. 26, 2016
“You have a lot of statistics, and they’re all wrong. … slightly less than half of police killings were reported in any of the national statistical structures. … We now know numbers, but we don’t know circumstances, and we can’t audit.”
Kevin Quinn and co-authors Epstein and Martin cited by The New York Times, Sept. 25, 2016
The new study … used a common and reliable political science measurement to make predictions about the potential nominees. This measurement is based on the ideologies of the presidents who appointed them to their courts and, when appropriate, of the home-state senators who supported their nominations.