El Espectador, February 15, 2010 by Diane Carolina
http://www.elespectador.com/impreso/temadeldia/articuloimpreso187952-el-informe-berkeley-sobre-paras

“Those who form public policy in the U.S. have a moral and legal responsibility to help Colombian authorities resolve these horrendous crimes. If the U.S. actively supports confessions, this will help to strengthen the state, to resolve murders in Colombia, and to dismantle the violent drug cartels.”

The New York Times, February 14, 2010 by Jodi Kantor Charlie Savage
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/us/politics/15holder.html

“Eric is not a politician,” said Christopher Edley Jr., dean of the law school at the University of California, Berkeley. “He is a superb lawyer with rich experience working in political environments, but not a politician.”

The Washington Post, February 14, 2010 by Desiree Hunter and Kristin M. Hall
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/13/AR2010021303506_pf.html

“Workplace shootings of that kind are overwhelmingly male,” said Franklin E. Zimring, a law professor at the University of California at Berkeley.

The New York Times, February 13, 2010 by Anna Bernasek
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/business/yourtaxes/14disclose.html

In a 2008 paper, Paul M. Schwartz, a professor at the School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, concluded that tax returns would “increasingly be subject to the same kind of forces, legal and otherwise, as other personal information.”

The New York Times, February 13, 2010 by Daniel Weintraub
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/us/14sfpolitics.html?scp=1&sq=Berkeley&st=cse

Mr. Yoo attributes the demand to the unusual nature of the course, which allows students to exercise their legal creativity. “There is no right answer,” he said.

The New York Times, February 12, 2010 by Miguel Helft
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/technology/internet/13google.html

“You want to have a simple rollback mechanism, so once things are not what you expected them to be, you can get out quickly and not have to play a game of Whack-a-Mole,” said Deirdre Mulligan, a privacy expert and assistant professor at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley.

Sacramento Business Journal, February 12, 2010 by Mark Anderson
http://sacramento.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2010/02/15/story4.html (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

“It is a savvy move on Downey Brand’s part,” said Rick Frank, lecturer in residence at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. “Renewable energy and green technology are growing fields, and the Bay Area is ground zero for those practice areas. It is a very timely move and part of a very thoughtful strategy.”

The Wall Street Journal, February 10, 2010 by Stanley Lubman
http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2010/02/10/stanley-lubman-internet-censorship-in-china-and-human-rights/?KEYWORDS=Berkeley

The Obama Administration should temper the human rights rhetoric it directs at China’s censorship of the Internet and restrain any hopes it might have that the Internet can soon expand the impact of democratic ideas on China’s netizens, even while encouraging as best it can China’s ongoing opening to the outside world.

San Jose Mercury News, February 9, 2010 by P. Solomon Banda
http://www.mercurynews.com/search/ci_14365946?IADID=Search-www.mercurynews.com-www.mercurynews.com

“It makes absolutely no sense,” said Erin Murphy, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley. “Other than the misfortune of having a relative that has gotten in trouble, there’s no distinction in their likelihood of having committed a crime.”

-Real Clear Politics, February 7, 2010 Host Fareed Zakaria
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/printpage/?url=http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2010/02/07/interview_with_john_yoo_on_the_treatment_of_detainees_100213.html

I think, actually, a lot of the confusion in the foreign policy community, in the United States and other countries, is that for the first time we’ve confronted this kind of enemy, and we’re actually trying to develop a regime of legal rules that actually apply to them.

-The New York Times, February 10, 2010 by Adam Liptak
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/us/11law.html

Allowing any sort of contributions to terrorist organizations “simply because the donor intends that they be used for ‘peaceful’ purposes directly conflicts with Congress’s determination that no quarantine can effectively isolate ‘good’ activities from the evil of terrorism.”

-The Oakland Tribune, February 11, 2010 by Elizabeth Pfeffer
http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_14385653

Yoo’s response to accusations that he provided the Bush administration with justifications for using torture has been that he only set the limits of what would be crossing the line. That line, according to Yoo, can be interpreted differently by the president depending on national security.

-San Mateo Daily Journal, February 12, 2010 by Bill Silverfarb
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=124970

“I have no problem debating people who disagree with me. That’s how you determine what is right, ultimately,” Yoo told the Daily Journal.

San Francisco Chronicle, February 5, 2010 by James Temple
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/05/MN7O1BSSRM.DTL&type=printable

“These issues are at the center of whether or not the judge will approve this deal,” said Schultz, who worked on behalf of groups that filed an objection to the settlement.

California Watch, February 5, 2010 by Erica Perez
http://californiawatch.org/watchblog/record-breaking-applications-inundate-uc-berkeley-law-school

Gluss attributed the rise, in part, to the tendency of more people to apply for graduate school during a recession, and in part, to Berkeley’s enhanced loan forgiveness program for students who work for nonprofit public interest groups or government agencies and earn below a certain threshold.

The Washington Post, Short Stack Blog, February 2, 2010 by James B. Rule
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/shortstack/2010/02/worse_than_identity_theft_lega.html

Nobody really wants to live in a world totally stripped of private domains and experiences. Still, entrepreneurial zeal in the merchandizing of privacy-eroding activities only seems to grow with time.

London Times, February 1, 2010 by Giles Whittell
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7010392.ece

“You have to be his inner LBJ, the leader who twists arms past their breaking point and is prepared to make some enemies in order to make some progress,” he said.

-Publishers Weekly, February 1, 2010 by Andrew Richard Albanese
http://www.publishersweekly.com/index.asp?layout=talkbackCommentsFull&talk_back_header_id=6641791&articleid=CA6717077

University of California, Berkley law professor Pamela Samuelson, in a brief filed last week on behalf of over 100 academic authors, many of them legal scholars, argued that the Authors Guild and its members “do not share the interests, professional commitments or values of academic authors.”

-San Jose Mercury News, February 4, 2010 by Mike Swift
http://www.mercurynews.com/business-headlines/ci_14336753

“The future of public access to the cultural heritage of mankind embodied in books is too important to leave in the hands of one company and one registry that will have a de facto monopoly,” Samuelson and the group of academics argued.

-Palo Alto Online, February 5, 2010 by Susan Kostal
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/show_story.php?id=15634

“Until the U.S. Justice Department says this is a clear antitrust problem, I don’t think the judge will find there are antitrust problems,” Samuelson said.

UC Berkeley News, February 1, 2010 by Carol Ness
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/02/01_climate.shtml

“It’s also a problem of the university for usually failing to take seriously the need to build the connections between the research, the policy implications of the research, and the institutional designs needed to actually execute those policies once adopted.”

California Supreme Court Historical Society Newsletter, Fall/Winter 2009 by Claire Cooper
http://www.cschs.org/ (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

The questions asked by the law students reflect “the kinds of things lawyers care about: what kinds of judges are these, what are their values and what is the process that they use to make a decision,” Fernholz says. In responding, the justices were “as candid as they could be consistent with their ethical duties.”

California Magazine, February 2010 by Sandy Tolan
http://alumni.berkeley.edu/news/california-magazine/winter-2009-food-thought/waterworld

“The levee system,” says Frank, “was never designed to protect and accommodate residential development.”

The New York Times, January 31, 2010 by Ross Douthat
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/opinion/01douthat.html?scp=1&sq=luker&st=cse

In “When Sex Goes to School,” her thoughtful history of the sex education debate, the sociologist Kristin Luker concluded that it is “surprisingly difficult to show that sex education programs do in fact increase teenagers’ willingness to protect themselves from pregnancy and/or disease.”

San Jose Mercury News, January 30, 2010 by Karen de Sa
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_14298168?nclick_check=1

“The issue boils down to: Are these people law enforcement officers, or are they treaters and helpers?” Krisberg said. “You can’t be delivering cognitive behavioral therapy with a gun strapped to your waist. The therapeutic relationship is inhibited and destroyed by someone carrying a gun openly.”