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.”
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.
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.”
San Francisco Chronicle, January 24, 2010 Editorial
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/24/EDG61BKAPE.DTL&type=printable
Law School Dean Christopher Edley says he supports debate and discussion…. “While many students and faculty are critical of the Bush administration policies and even of some of John’s actions, they think that academic freedom means that his right to be here and to teach has to be protected, until or unless there’s some sort of a conviction.”
The New York Times, The Bay Area News blog, January 13, 2010 by Anna Bloom
http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/john-yoos-spring-course-at-boalt-hide-and-seek/
Vital principles of academic freedom require that all of us affirm and respect his right to teach and the right of our students to take courses from him without interference, including disruption or intimidation. I have specifically asked my staff and the university police to make reasonable efforts to prevent such disruption or intimidation and, if unsuccessful, to arrest trespassers.
The Boston Globe, December 27, 2009 by Susan Milligan
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/12/27/obama_ends_first_year_with_some_progress_and_more_work_ahead/
“I think, given the unexpected, added challenges of the economy and the war, it’s almost miraculous that there’s been substantial progress” on issues Obama laid out at the start of his presidency, Edley said.
-The Wall Street Journal, October 22, 2009 by Kelly Evans
http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2009/10/22/is-obamas-health-care-push-jeopardizing-education-reform/
Christopher Edley Jr., dean of the University of California-Berkeley’s School of Law, said the President’s transition team—of which he was a member—had a difficult time whittling down its priorities. “We tried to make a list of just two or three things and couldn’t do it,” he said.
-October 22, 2009 Moderator Alan Murray
http://online.wsj.com/video/the-barriers-to-education-reform/7C6D7249-D62B-461A-A10C-7F27D8233D7B.html
“You have to appreciate that overwhelming advice, non-stop for the last year and a half, has been ‘Forget about education; do that later.’ And he keeps putting it up there; he keeps pushing it to the front burner so I think there’s no issue there about the fact that the President understands it, he understands the importance of it with respect to the economy. The question is whether or not he’s going to pick the right strategy to advance the program.”
-October 26, 2009 Moderator Alan Murray
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704754804574491180197671224.html
If this really is a national priority, both with respect to opportunity and with respect to competitiveness, you have to ask yourself whether a 19th century model for financing and governing K-12 is going to work in this century, and I profoundly believe the answer is no.
PBS, The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer, October 20, 2009 by Spencer Michels
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/education/july-dec09/tenure_10-20.html
Christopher Edley, dean, U.C. Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law: While many students and faculty are critical of the Bush administration policies and even of some of John’s actions, they think that academic freedom means that his right to be here and to teach has to be protected, until or unless there’s some sort of a conviction.
Christopher Kutz, president, U.C. Berkeley Academic Senate: You need something more than simply incompetence to revoke a professor’s tenure, especially somebody who’s been hired, promoted, published in the top journals. John is one of the most prolific scholars on the Boalt faculty.
Jesse Choper, law professor: He gave them an approach that was wholly consistent with virtually everything he did as a scholar beforehand.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, October 12, 2009 by Riya Bhattacharjee
http://berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-10-08/article/33909?headline=UC-Berkeley-Prof-Wins-Nobel-Prize-for-Economics-
“I am lucky,” said Williamson, to applause from his colleagues.
“I was quite surprised to hear my former student had won the Nobel Peace Prize, but I was not surprised to hear this,” said UC Berkeley School of Law Dean Christopher Edley. “For years he has been an anchor for regulating behavior and dealing with issues of authority and agency,” Edley said. “We could not be more pleased.”
The Sacramento Bee, October 11, 2009 by John Cogan and Chris Edley Jr.
http://www.sacbee.com/740/story/2248977.html
We believe the commission’s product is sufficiently promising that our lawmakers ought fully evaluate the package as a whole, make needed adjustments, and then bring the matter to a vote.
The Berkeley Daily Planet, October 9, 2009 by Riya Bhattacharjee
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/issue/2009-10-08/article/33908?headline=Berkele
-Berkeley law school Dean Christopher Edley has … [said] … in a public statement that the university would carefully review the Justice Department’s internal ethics investigation findings regarding the authors of the torture memos upon its release.
-Berkeley law school lecturer Stephen Rosenbaum said he was looking forward to Tuesday’s panel. “Recent national studies have chastised law schools for offering curriculum that is short on professional skills and values,” he said. “This initiative appears to be a serious effort by Boalt students to examine ethical and policy issues in a conventional format—presentations by scholars and practitioners.”
-Berkeley Law spokesperson Susan Gluss told the Daily Planet that students were allowed to form whatever group they wanted at Boalt. “It could be to discuss all sorts of controversial issues—political, international, medical—UC Berkeley is the home of the free speech movement and we are a critical part of it,” she said.
-Capitol Weekly, October 1, 2009 by John Howard
http://www.capitolweekly.net/article.php?_c=yb3tpdhr9clsh5&xid=yb3frcf559pqdb&done=.yb3tpdhr9d5sh5
Nine of the commission’s 14 members, liberals and conservatives, endorsed the proposals. Commission member Christopher Edley Jr., the dean of the Boalt Hall Law School, called it a search for the “pragmatic center.”
-KQED Forum, October 1, 2009 Host Michael Krasny
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R910010900
“There is a difficulty, there’s uncertainty that is always going to be associated with any kind of change that’s bold. The only things that you can have total confidence in are the status quo. So, from the start, the issues that the legislature and the public face is, ‘Are we concerned enough with the problems in the current system that we’re willing to swallow a little bit of uncertainty in order to make a change that may have a very positive upside?’”
-Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2009 by George Skelton
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-cap1-2009oct01,0,4401051.column
The commission toyed with recommending an increase in commercial property taxes, said one liberal member, UC Berkeley law school dean Christopher Edley Jr., but that quickly became “a total nonstarter. I mean, forget first base. It didn’t even get out of the batter’s box.”
The Berkeley Daily Planet, September 28, 2009 by Riya Bhattacharjee
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/issue/2009-09-24/article/33826?headline=District-Attorney-Drops-Charges-Against-John-Yoo-Protesters-
Responding to the public outcry on Yoo’s first day of fall classes, law school Dean Christopher Edley sent an e-mail to students and faculty outlining why disagreeing with “substantial portions of Professor Yoo’s analyses”—which he said was how most, though not all, of his colleagues at Berkeley felt—was not enough “to fire or sanction someone.”
Stephen Rosenbaum, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley law school, told the Planet that … it is “clear that law students are eager to discuss the ethical consequences of giving a classroom podium to a professor who has notoriously used his legal skills to justify a public policy that runs counter to all reasonable interpretations of constitutional and international law.”
Times-Standard, September 28, 2009 by Thadeus Greenson
http://www.times-standard.com/localnews/ci_13436569
During a recent commission meeting at the University of California Los Angeles, Commissioner Christopher Edley Jr. said it’s not surprising that the proposals are being met with skepticism by some. “Any effort to be bold will be fraught with uncertainty, and that produces anxiety,” he said.
-Ventura County Star, September 20, 2009 by Timm Herdt
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/sep/20/proposed-state-tax-would-be-paid-by-businesses/
While acknowledging that the BNRT “represents an extraordinary change in California’s tax code,” Commissioners John Cogan and Chris Edley summed up the commission’s prevailing view in a Sept. 9 memo: “We believe the BNRT is sufficiently promising to warrant the commission’s recommendation that the Legislature and the governor proceed with a public process to fully evaluate the BNRT (and) to enact a BNRT into law.”
-Los Angeles Times, September 21, 2009 by Peter Schrag
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-schrag21-2009sep21,0,6384800,print.story
It’s “absolutely” not a tax system he’d design, Edley said, but somehow Sacramento’s inertia had to be broken. Under the commission’s BNRT proposal, all California businesses would pay a tax, probably about 4%, on their net receipts, which would be calculated by subtracting the cost of the goods they’ve purchased from their gross receipts.
-KCRW, Which Way, L.A.?, September 21, 2009 Host Warren Olney
http://www.kcrw.com/news/programs/ww/ww090921trying_to_fix_medica
“I think we’ve done a pretty good job of not changing the basic progressive structure of the income tax. And the package as a whole, looking at all the different elements of it, we think is pretty close to neutral in terms of progressivity.”
-Orange County Register, September 29, 2009 by Brian Joseph
http://totalbuzz.freedomblogging.com/2009/09/29/tax-commission-makes-recommendations-but-will-it-amount-to-anything/22555/
“I can’t recall anybody in particular who supported the BNRT at our public hearing,” Edley said. “But I also remember distinctly feeling each person who spoke for opposing it was not fully familiar with what we were working on.”
-The Sacramento Bee, September 9, 2009 by Kevin Yamamura
http://www.sacbee.com/static/weblogs/capitolalertlatest/025307.html
John Cogan, a Hoover Institution fellow, and Christopher Edley, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law, issued a joint memo to their colleagues supporting the plan….”We are confident that the tax package is the right course for California,” they wrote. “We also recognize that the BNRT (business net receipts tax) represents an extraordinary change in California’s tax code. A tax change of this magnitude should only occur after the proposal has been fully vetted and all of its ramifications have been fully assessed by the Legislature and the governor and the public.”
-Los Angeles Times, September 15, 2009 by Eric Bailey
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-me-taxes15-2009sep15,0,6431594.story
Christopher Edley Jr., dean and professor at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law, acknowledged that the plan could be a difficult sell but said, “I do believe, in balance … it’s good for California’s future.”
-KQED Radio, August 17, 2009 Host Cy Musiker
http://www.kqed.org/epArchive/R908171730
“The fact that he is, in my judgment, wrong, or the fact that he went to Washington and espoused views with which I disagree, and with which I think the vast bulk of academics disagree, is not in itself grounds for dismissing a faculty member at a university. Unpopularity is not sufficient. Criminality of a high order would be.”
-The Associated Press, August 17, 2009 by Terrence Chea
http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_13147497
Christopher Edley Jr., Berkeley’s law school dean, has rejected calls to dismiss Yoo, saying the university doesn’t have the resources to investigate his Justice Department work, which involved classified intelligence.
UC Berkeley News, August 4, 2009 by Carol Ness
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2009/08/04_lawschool.shtml
“I can’t overstate the potential of this work to transform the way law schools conduct selected admissions and, perhaps, the way law firms think about training and evaluating young attorneys,” says Edley.
In addition, while research indicates that standardized tests that focus on academic skills put minority candidates at a substantial disadvantage, Shultz says “there is not a race or ethnicity difference in performance on our tests. That’s why I say fairness demands that you have a system that’s a bit broader than the one currently used to pick applicants,” she adds.
San Francisco Chronicle, Bottom Line, July 31, 2009 by Andrew S. Ross
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/31/BUPL1914AV.DTL
The proposals include: a 6 percent flat tax. Major pushback here. Commissioner Christopher Edley, dean of UC Berkeley School of Law, called it “part of the traditional conservative agenda.”
The New York Times, July 25, 2009 by Peter Baker and Helene Cooper
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/us/politics/25gates.html?_r=1
Christopher Edley Jr., a former adviser to President Bill Clinton on race issues and now law school dean at the University of California, Berkeley, said the episode dispelled the “rosy hopefulness” stemming from Mr. Obama’s election “in case anybody needed more evidence that we’re not beyond race.”