Stephen Rosenbaum interviewed for celebritycourtradio, February 10, 2013

“For a while now, a number of human rights advocacy organizations have been pressing the administration, both in court and outside of court, notably the ACLU and the Center for Constitutional Rights, to release internal memos on the [drone] policy. On the eve of the Brennan hearing, that’s exactly what the administration did—to try and do some damage control before the Congressional hearings

Stephen Rosenbaum interviewed by Celebrity Court Radio, November 11, 2012

“It’s difficult for both Americans to understand the intensity of the issue [religious defamation] and for Muslims in the Arab world, and outside the Arab world, to really understand our government’s role in controlling this kind of [free] speech.”

Stephen Rosenbaum quoted in The Daily Californian, May 7, 2012

The hurdles imposed by the commission … and the amount of time it took them to investigate “explains why it took a lawsuit to get any more meaningful action,” Rosenbaum said in an email.

Eleanor Swift and Stephen Rosenbaum quoted in California Lawyer, May 2012

“The university and the professor were very, very upset about that case,” notes Eleanor Swift, a Berkeley law professor who was one of several unofficial faculty advisors to the Campus Rights Project. “I know the student conduct office hated the CRP,” she adds.

“The CRP has been a thorn in the side of the administration and top-notch in their legal work,” says Stephen A. Rosenbaum, a longtime lecturer at the law school who, like Swift, has worked closely with the group. “They represent the finest in the tradition of student activism, going back to the Free Speech Movement of the sixties,” he adds.

Stephen Rosenbaum quoted in Examiner, April 24, 2012

He says that “the time has come to take on the system as a whole. We let another generation of children with disabilities slip through the cracks.”

The Oakland Tribune, February 25, 2012 by Tammerlin Drummond
http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_20046550

“It hasn’t done it very well,” UC Berkeley [lecturer] Stephen Rosenbaum says. “Every time an incident like this occurs, it raises the question, what should we be doing? There are no easy answers.”

ABODE Magazine, February 2012 by ABODE
http://issuu.com/abodemagazine/docs/abodefeb2012

“The clinic will consist of lectures, they’ll learn some skills, learn how to draft laws, learn how to work with media anytime they do legislation, learn Qatar laws, they will learn about research skills and strategizing. Plus they’ll learn a little bit of background of domestic violence and probably a little bit of Sharia, they’ll have some guest speakers. There will be classroom sessions and practical experience.”

Daily Journal, March 10, 2011 by Laura Ernde
http://bit.ly/8T4Z6t (registration required; go to H:\Law School in the News\In the News 2011\News Clips for article)

Rosenbaum said the current crop of law students began the project as a way to support the protest movement on campus but got mired in a protracted disciplinary process. “Like any good lawyers, they learned to work within that process to advocate for their clients,” he said.

The Daily Californian, February 10, 2011 by Aaida Samad and True Shields
http://www.dailycal.org/article/111890/ruling_relocates_lawsuit_against_professor_to_appe

Stephen Rosenbaum, a lecturer at the UC Berkeley School of Law who was appointed to speak for Wolf during the hearing, contended that DiMartino did not warrant immunity because his role was “educational,” not judicial.

The Daily Californian, November 18, 2010 by Gabby Fastiggi
http://bit.ly/hRDXYp

“While we understand the privacy and employment-related due process protections afforded an employee … an equitable or effective process should inform the complainant of the investigation’s anticipated corrective action beyond a vague ‘taking appropriate personnel action,’” Rosenbaum stated in the complaint.

Le Soleil, October 14, 2010 by Aliou Kande
http://fr.allafrica.com/stories/201010140615.html

“The courts must be models of accessibility, open to all, including children, and they must accommodate persons with disabilities.”

The Daily Californian, September 27, 2010 by Aaida Samad
http://www.dailycal.org/article/110489/november_protesters_hearings_commence

“The protracted nature of these proceedings is one more indication that the student conduct code—both its text and implementation—is in need of repair,” said Stephen Rosenbaum, a lecturer at the law school who has represented student activists in the past, in an e-mail. “Any potential educational or judicial value of the process is obscured by the delay.”

The Oakland Tribune, September 16, 2010 by Doug Oakley
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_16096096

“I am surprised that he has not been terminated or transferred to an administrative position,” Rosenbaum said. “And I’m not satisfied that he remains on campus.” Rosenbaum appealed the district’s finding of inappropriate behavior, only to receive what he called a “terse and dismissive” letter from Superintendent Bill Huyett denying his appeal.

Los Angeles Times, August 15, 2010 by Valerie J. Nelson
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-paul-longmore-20100816,0,1553457.story

Stephen Rosenbaum, a staff attorney for the advocacy group Disability Rights California, said in a statement: “I once heard Paul introduced as the ‘ James Dean’ of disability studies. That captures the combination of intellectual, rebel and down-to-earth man he was.”

The New York Times, Bay Area Blog, May 5, 2010 by Rachel Gross
http://bayarea.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/05/u-c-berkeley-drops-charges-against-some-students/

“I would rather” that the resolution “happened sooner, and we need to continue to be vigilant,” said Steve Rosenbaum, Ms. Miller’s lawyer and a lecturer at Boalt Hall School of Law at Berkeley who has been advising many of the student activists. “But it is definitely good news.”

San Francisco Chronicle, March 29, 2010 by Nanette Asimov
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/03/29/BA3S1CH86K.DTL

“I think it’s a warning to students that their form of protest will not be tolerated and that they must check their constitutional rights at the campus gate,” said Steve Rosenbaum, a law school lecturer advising the students.

Campus Progress, March 3, 2010 by Rebecca Green
http://www.campusprogress.org/fieldreport/5135/above-the-law

“There’s a specialized set of case law regulating what a university can do,” explains Christopher Kutz, chair of the UC–Berkeley academic senate. “It’s not a criminal process.… It’s a different kind of entity.” Kutz says the academic senate has been following the student conduct cases and will be sitting down with the Center for Student Conduct to ensure that university policies comply with both the law and fairness.

Rosenbaum, who is taking on Bowin and other students’ cases pro bono, helped revise the code of student conduct 30 years ago when he was attending Berkeley’s law school…. “These students were guinea pigs,” Rosenbaum says. “It’s going to make them think twice before participating in any kind of lawful protest, and I think that’s part of the message the university was trying to send.”

KPFA-FM, January 18, 2010 by Josh Wolf
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/01/18/18635638.php

“Both of these students were served a notice of interim suspension. They’re identical notices, which were also served on the UC Davis students,” said Rosenbaum. “And it recites about six sections of the UC campus code of student conduct and then almost no facts in support of it.”

The Daily Californian, December 27, 2009 by Emma Anderson
http://blog.dailycal.org/news/2009/12/27/investigation-still-ongoing-in-attack-on-chancellors-house/#more-1201

“The only evidence was that he was arrested,” Rosenbaum said. “They did not make a case that he was so dangerous that he could not be on campus.”

The Berkeley Daily Planet, November 25, 2009 by Riya Bhattacharjee
http://www.berkeleydaily.org/issue/2009-11-25/article/34153?headline=UC-Law-Students-Ask-Justice-Department-To-Review-Bush-Torture-Memos

“Lawyers to the government owe their client an honest appraisal of the law, as informed by statutes, court cases and international treaties and norms—not a tortured interpretation that the end justifies the means,” said Stephen Rosenbaum, a Berkeley law lecturer.