SF Weekly, August 10, 2009 by Peter Jamison
http://www.sfweekly.com/2009-08-12/news/the-torture-memos-and-berkeley-s-law-school-schedule/

In a statement last week in response to questions from SF Weekly, associate dean Goodwin Liu said the change was made to accommodate student demand for the course. “Student objections to taking the course with Professor Yoo played no part in the decision,” he said…. According to Liu, the professor’s fall section is currently oversubscribed, with 34 students on the waitlist.

The Wall Street Journal, June 30, 2009 by Jess Bravin
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124631926843370957.html#printMode

“This is an area where there are sharply divergent intuitions about the role of race in American society, and sharply divergent views about what should be done about it,” says Goodwin Liu, co-director of the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at the University of California, Berkeley.

NPR, All Things Considered, June 23, 2009 by Ari Shapiro
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105439966

“In the public debate, it has been a great challenge for the liberal and progressive side to capture this notion in a bumper sticker,” says Goodwin Liu, editor of the new book Keeping Faith with the Constitution. Liu teaches law at the University of California, Berkeley, and he chairs the board of the American Constitution Society, a progressive legal group.

Politico.com, June 3, 2009 by Jacqueline Klingebiel and Ariel Alexovich
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23243.html

“We could not ask for a better leader than Caroline Fredrickson to take ACS into its next stage of development and growth,” said Goodwin Liu, chairman of the society’s board of directors and associate dean and professor at the University of California, Berkeley Law School.

Los Angeles Times, May 27, 2009 by Maura Dolan
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-gay-marriage27-2009may27,0,1949011,print.story

UC Berkeley constitutional law professor Goodwin Liu said the ruling shows “the court continues to be very deferential to the processes of direct democracy in California.”

Jesse Choper, a professor of constitutional law at UC Berkeley, said the court’s ruling means that voters may take away individual rights “in a limited fashion” and that the scope of the measure will determine whether it is permissible. “The court wasn’t happy about this. Proposition 8 changed their opinion” last year that gave gays and lesbians marriage rights, he said. “The justices stood up and said, ‘OK, people have the right to do so, and it is not a revision because it is limited in scope.’ “

-Legal Pad Blog, May 26, 2009 by Petra Pasternak
http://legalpad.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/05/prop-8-stands-but-what-about-the-18k-marriages.html

“There is absolutely no distinction in the law’s eyes between those gay married couples and heterosexual married couples,” constitutional law scholar Jesse Choper said. “They have exactly the same rights,” he said, at least under California law.

It’s probably a bittersweet outcome for those lucky 36,000 people, says Goodwin Liu, a constitutional and civil rights professor. “The upholding of Prop 8 means they are viewed as an exception rather than the rule, and that’s often an uncomfortable position to be in.”

Those who didn’t marry in that window continue to have the same legal rights and obligations they’ve always had under the domestic partnership laws, said Herma Hill Kay, who teaches family law. Those include rights to property, inheritance, and all “the tangible aspects of married life.”

National Journal, May 19, 2009 by Bara Vaida
http://undertheinfluence.nationaljournal.com/2009/05/aclus-fredrickson-leaves-for-l.php

“Caroline will provide us with the vision and energy to deepen ACS’s influence on legal and policy issues and to strengthen a diverse and dynamic progressive legal network,” Goodwin Liu, chair of the ACS board and associate dean and professor of law … said in a statement.

The Washington Independent, May 18, 2009 by Aaron Wiener
http://washingtonindependent.com/43327/supreme-court-nominee-debate-defined-by-conservatives

“Judicial activism is a result that someone doesn’t like,” he said…. “By any definition of judicial activism, I think it’s fair to say that the conservatives have been the activists over the past ten years or so,” said Liu.

The Miami Herald, May 2, 2009 by David Lightman, Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation/story/1028597.html

“There’s a lot of pressure to name a woman,” noted Goodwin Liu, a former Supreme Court clerk now teaching at the University of California’s Berkeley Law School.

-McClatchy Newspapers, May 1, 2009 by Michael Doyle
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/67357.html

“He’s a very honest judge, who candidly looks at every case, and comes to a conclusion irrespective of the president who appointed him,” said Goodwin Liu, a former Supreme Court clerk who now teaches at the University of California’s Berkeley Law School.

-McClatchy Newspapers, May 1, 2009 by Michael Doyle and Marissa Taylor
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/67374.html

“Justice Souter’s political legacy is that Republicans felt he betrayed the conservative cause,” noted Goodwin Liu, a former Supreme Court clerk, who now teaches at the University of California’s Berkeley Law School.

Berkeleyan, April 16, 2009
http://berkeley.edu/news/berkeleyan/2009/04/16_dta.shtml

“By meticulously parsing argument and counterargumentֽ I want my students to see that the lawֽ though often indeterminateֽ can have integrity that makes it worthy of respect.”

The Wall Street Journal, March 14, 2009 by Jesse Bravin
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123699111292226669.html#printMode

Goodwin Liu … says the Slaughter-House opinion impoverished constitutional law. “If Slaughter-House had come out the other way, we would have had 100-some years of jurisprudence on the concept” of Privileges or Immunities, says Mr. Liu, chairman of the liberal American Constitution Society.

ABA Journal, March 1, 2009 by Leslie A. Gordon
http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/left_turn_permitted/print/

“We had seen a departure by strict constructionists, who promoted expanded government with little accountability, excessive assertions of pres­idential authority, and a perverse doctrine of equal protection,” explains Goodwin Liu, chair of the ACS and an associate dean at the University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall. “We believe there’s room for refashioning the legal culture to meet contemporary challenges. The Constitution is meant to be a simple and spare document that adapts to the many changes the country would confront.”

Los Angeles Times, February 25, 2009 by Noelle Carter
http://www.latimes.com/features/food/la-fo-slowcookers25-2009feb25,0,3451809,print.story

His expertise includes constitutional law and education policy, but in his spare time the associate dean and professor of law at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall likes to experiment with his slow cooker. A favorite discovery? Sweet potatoes. “I like to cook sweet potatoes over low heat—they come out to a lovely mash.”

The New York Times, January 7, 2009 by Eric Lichtblau
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/us/politics/08johnsen.html?pagewanted=print

Goodwin Liu, associate dean and law professor … who worked with Ms. Johnsen on the board of the American Constitution Society, said, “She’s a first-rate scholar who will uphold the law, and that will allow her to give the office the independence it needs to restore its credibility.”

NPR Weekend Edition, January 3, 2009 by Ari Shapiro
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98918143

“This is just a tremendous opportunity for us,” says University of California Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu. He’s the new chairman of the board at ACS. “Whereas I think in the last seven or eight years we had mostly been playing defense, in the sense of trying to prevent as many—in our view—bad things from happening, now we have the opportunity to actually get our ideas and the progressive vision of the Constitution and of law and policy into practice,” Liu says.

Los Angeles Times, Dec. 20, 2008 by Maura Dolan and Jessica Garrison
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/12/20/news/me-gay-marriage20

Goodwin Liu, associate dean and professor of law … said it was “extraordinary for the chief law enforcement officer of the state to decline to enforce a law—even on the grounds that it is unconstitutional…. The chief law enforcement officer of the state is charged with enforcing laws, even laws with which he disagrees,” Liu said. “Whether or not it will carry the day,” he added, “I have no idea.”

Los Angeles Times, Nov. 20, 2008 by Maura Dolan and Jessica Garrison
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-me-prop8-supreme-court20-2008nov20,0,7007814.story

UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu said the court’s refusal to put Proposition 8 on hold pending a ruling did not suggest that the court would eventually uphold the measure. “A stay is an extraordinary measure,” he said.

Los Angeles Times, Nov. 10, 2008 by Goodwin Liu
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-liu10-2008nov10,0,4823332.story

“Each of the 18,000 same-sex couples and their families in California represents a potential catalyst for broader acceptance of gay marriage. The more familiar we become with gay spouses and their children—as our friends, neighbors and co-workers—the more gay marriage will become an unremarkable thread of our social fabric. Proposition 8 may then come to be viewed, in the long run, not as an enduring constitutional principle but as the will of a narrow and ultimately temporary majority.”

Contra Costa Times, Nov. 5, 2008 by John Simerman
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_10909942

It’s “an uphill argument,” said Goodwin Liu, associate dean and professor of law. “The precedents…regarding what’s a revision and what’s an amendment give a pretty generous interpretation to the term ‘amendment,’” he said.