Author: Madeleine Smith | UC Berkeley School of Law | J.D. Candidate 2020 | Posted: February 15th, 2019 | Download PDF The World Series ended over a month ago, but, this weekend, Major League Baseball was back in the headlines. A flurry of critical commentary began when Judd Legum of Popular Information broke the news […]
MLB’s Political Donations
Do No Evil or Do the Right Thing?
Author: Angeli Patel | UC Berkeley School of Law | J.D. Candidate 2020 | Posted: February 15th, 2019 | Download PDF In 2010, Google withdrew from China because of its censorship laws and online hacking. Now, it is working on a search engine for China that will censor websites and search terms that are blacklisted […]
If Diversity Is Not a Pipeline Problem
Author: Esther Yang | UC Berkeley School of Law | J.D. Candidate 2020 | Posted: February 14th, 2019 | Download PDF As the investor community agreed and acknowledged, diversity makes companies more productive and retains talent.[1] A study by McKinsey & Company also showed that it was “increasingly clear that [diversity] makes sense in purely […]
Investors Focused on Climate Change Should Integrate Land Rights into their Renewable Energy Investment Strategies
Author: Trudie Makens | UC Berkeley School of Law | J.D. Candidate 2020 | Posted: February 14th, 2019 | Download PDF As of the end of 2017, $12 trillion or more of the $46.6 trillion under professional management in the United States was invested pursuant to sustainable, responsible and impact investing (“SRI”) strategies.[1] This is […]
San Francisco’s Tax on Tech Companies to Fight the City’s Homelessness
Author: Brittany Adams| UC Berkeley School of Law | J.D. Candidate 2020 | Posted: February 12th, 2019 | Download PDF After the midterm election, Marc Benioff, the co-CEO of Salesforce, celebrated the passage of San Francisco’s Proposition C on Twitter: “Prop C’s victory means the homeless will have a home & the help they truly […]