Susan Gluss quoted in The Daily Californian, March 6, 2012

According to Susan Gluss, spokesperson for the law school, the law school plans to hold a number of events later this year that will “showcase the law school’s leadership in legal education,” such as a 100th anniversary gala in November.

The Daily Californian, November 13, 2011 by Afsana Afzal
http://www.dailycal.org/2011/11/13/ucpd-draws-criticism-for-stopping-occupy-cal-protesters-carrying-signs/

“There have been some confrontational incidents in the last couple of hours that demonstrate that the officers expect immediate compliance with their request for ID,” Vanden Heuvel said in the email. “While we do not understand UCPD’s position on this issue, we cannot control or direct UCPD’s behavior and we are concerned for your safety and well being.”

“I don’t know if law students were familiar with UC regulations … but the police response came across as overly aggressive, upsetting our students,” said Susan Gluss, spokesperson for the school.

San Francisco Chronicle, November 13, 2011 by Susan Gluss
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/13/INUO1LT0O5.DTL

Stay focused on financial institutions and Wall Street. What did they do that wrecked millions of American lives? They stole homes. They sold sub-prime loans to unsuspecting homeowners, falsified documents to hasten foreclosures, and  packaged mortgage securities for investors that nearly bankrupted America.

Professionally Speaking, May 5, 2011 by Ian Griffin
http://www.exec-comms.com/blog/2011/05/05/interview-susan-gluss-uc-berkeley-school-of-law/

“We use social media to get the word out about our faculty experts. We have think tanks on the environment, on intellectual property, on criminal justice; and our faculty experts are thought-leaders in their fields, so we get a lot of great response from that.”

The Daily Californian, January 19, 2011 by Alisha Azevedo
http://www.dailycal.org/article/111546/justice_sotomayor_to_judge_competition_at_uc_berke

Sotomayor agreed to judge the competition because of the law school’s prestige, Gluss said. “Our students win or place in national competitions each year, besting their peers in other top-tier law schools,” she said. “The chance to parry with such bright students is a compelling one.”

“She’s a very exacting jurist—she does her homework and knows the facts and ins and outs of the cases. Students will find that she’s incredibly well-prepared and that they will need to bring their A-game to the competition,” Murray said.

SF Weekly, November 10, 2010 by Peter Jamison
http://blogs.sfweekly.com/thesnitch/2010/11/vaughn_walker_berkeley.php

Susan Gluss, a spokeswoman for the law school, said the course will cover complicated and “high-stakes” litigation of the kind that typically occurs when many lawsuits are consolidated into a single case…. “It’s always fantastic to have the unique perspective of a judge,” Gluss said.

The Daily Californian, November 10, 2010 by True Shields
http://www.dailycal.org/article/111148/regents_to_consider_proposed_professional_degree_f

“Exemplary financial aid means that access and freedom of career choice can be maintained despite the higher fees,” said Berkeley Law spokesperson Susan Gluss.

San Francisco Chronicle, October 17, 2010 by Susan Gluss
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/10/17/INCK1FRMSV.DTL

Judicial elections used to be sleepers: rarely advertised and seldom contested. But in the last decade, across the nation many have become multimillion-dollar duels. High-court candidates raised about $207 million for campaign war chests between 2000 and 2009, more than double the money raised in the previous 10 years.

KTVU-TV, August 16, 2010 by Jana Katsuyama
http://www.ktvu.com/video/24653881/index.html

“[Dean Edley] supports protestors who want to raise the issues. What he doesn’t support is disruption of classes or intimidation of students.”

“The Dean has made it very clear that unless an outside body like the Department of Justice has found wrongdoing by Professor Yoo and his colleagues at the Office of Legal Counsel, than he has the right to teach here.”

The Daily Journal, July 1, 2010 by Mike Rosen
http://www.dailyjournal.com/ (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

In the meantime, would-be lawyers “are going to have to do more to find employment,” says Susan Gluss of UC Berkeley’s School of Law. “They may have to be more willing to relocate, do more networking, do more research.”

San Francisco Chronicle, June 6, 2010 by Susan Gluss
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/06/06/EDSC1DLHG7.DTL

Closed primaries permit party voters to choose candidates who stand for their core values without risk of tampering by opponents. It’s a system worth protecting.

The Daily Californian, April 9, 2010 by Kaori Zinke
http://www.dailycal.org/article/108998/boalt_professor_liu_faces_republican_criticism_

According to Boalt Hall spokesperson Susan Gluss, Liu is being held to a different standard than prior nominees. “Professor Liu has probably made the most complete disclosure of any nominee in recent times,” she said in an e-mail. “Liu is highly-respected by leading scholars on both sides of the political aisle for his integrity, independent-thinking, and fairness. This political skirmish doesn’t change that at all.”

Some say that his nomination has become politically charged, including Boalt Hall Law Professor Jesse Choper. “The Republicans have latched on to this as a major matter,” he said. “I certainly don’t think he merits the kind of reaction that’s been produced by those who are opposing him. It’s unfortunate the judicial appointments have become so politicized.”

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.

San Francisco Chronicle, December 5, 2009 by Susan Gluss
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/05/EDJ01AV5BS.DTL

Was it too much to hope that the president would choose to rebuild our country and reject a culture of war?

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.

The Daily Californian, September 9, 2009 by Zach E. Williams
http://www.dailycal.org/article/106532/law_school_to_launch_loan_forgiveness_program

“The law school has been concerned for some time about the impact of the economic downturn on our grads,” said Susan Gluss, Boalt Hall director of media relations, in an e-mail. “In response, the law school has launched a number of initiatives to help alumni—including an enhanced loan repayment assistance program.”

The Daily Californian, May 8, 2009 by Katie Meyer (Corrected May 11)
http://www.dailycal.org/article/105632/professor_john_yoo_could_face_disbarment

“One can argue about the appropriateness of someone teaching in a law school who has expressed those interpretations of the law,” Rosenbaum said.

“The dean is always mindful of the interplay between academic freedom, which is the right to express an opinion no matter how vile or odious, and the need for law professors to abide by the highest ethical and professional standards,” Gluss said.

“I do not believe that the memos are professionally adequate statements about the law, nor did the Justice Department—they repudiated all the memos written by John Yoo,” [Kutz] said.

The Recorder, January 30, 2009 by Petra Pasternak
http://www.law.com (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

“We typically see an uptick in applications during a down economy,” spokeswoman Susan Gluss said.

San Francisco Chronicle, Dec. 5, 2008 by Carolyn Jones
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/04/BAVM14H16D.DTL

“We respect the politics of Berkeley, home of the free speech movement, and their right to debate this issue,” Gluss said. “They can pass this measure, but it won’t have any bearing on the university’s policy.”

The Angie Coiro Show, KKGN Radio, August 1, hosted by Angie Coiro
http://green960.com/cc-common/podcast/single_podcast.html?podcast=greenshow.xml

This is a conversation about freedom, national security, privacy and presidential power, which is very important … [But] there’s great work at the law school that’s being overshadowed. We have a death penalty clinic that’s working to free prisoners that are wrongly imprisoned for life without parole. We have an international human rights clinic that’s about to release a study of abuses at Guantanamo Bay. And our East Bay Community Law Center helps desperate people who are trying to keep their homes and their jobs. I hope that people take a broader look at what the law school is trying to do to solve some of these important social issues of the day.