News
February 09, 2012
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New Report Finds Biometric ID Card Could Cost $40 Billion
Warren Institute releases a first-ever in-depth analysis of the costs of a biometric employment-verification I.D. card
February 07, 2012
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Career Development Office Acts on New Reporting Guidelines
Berkeley Law takes proactive approach in advance of ABA rules requiring stricter standards for reporting alumni employment and salary data.
January 24, 2012
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Samuelson Clinic Helps Create Privacy Complaint Website
Director Jason Schultz ’00 and Senior Fellow Chris Hoofnagle help launch site for consumers to submit grievances to government agencies and journalists.
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I. Michael Heyman Memorial
The Berkeley Law community is invited to join the campus in celebrating the life of former chancellor and law professor I. Michael Heyman at a memorial service on Monday, Feb. 27. The service will begin at 4:30 p.m. inside Chevron Auditorium at the International House on Piedmont Ave., with a reception to follow in the Boalt Hall Reading Room.
Barry Krisberg Receives Major Criminology Award >>
Berkeley Law’s Barry Krisberg has received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Criminology. The director of research and policy at the Warren Institute on Law and Social Policy, Krisberg is a past president of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency and the Western Society of Criminology. He currently chairs the California Attorney General’s Research Advisory Committee, as well as an expert panel investigating the conditions in California’s youth prisons. Krisberg was recently named in a consent decree to help develop remedial plans and monitor many of the mandated reforms within the California Division of Juvenile Justice. (1/30/12)
Vincente Martinez ’97 Assumes Whistleblower Post >>
The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission has hired Vincente Martinez ’97 as the first director of its new Whistleblower Office. The office pays awards to individuals who voluntarily provide original information about Commodity Exchange Act violations. Martinez joins the group from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), where he served as an assistant director in the Division of Enforcement. He also helped establish and run the SEC’s Office of Market Intelligence, which handles collection and analysis of tips, complaints, and referrals from the public, government agencies, and professional organizations. (1/30/12)
Laura Heymann ’97 Receives Teaching Award >>
Laura Heymann ’97 has become the first law professor at The College of William & Mary to win the school’s Thomas Jefferson Teaching Award. Established in 1970, the annual award recognizes a William & Mary faculty member with fewer than 10 years of service who has displayed exemplary personal character, concern as a teacher, and influence on students. Heymann, whose research focuses on copyright and trademark law, teaches Torts to first-year students and intellectual property courses to upper-level students. While a student at Berkeley Law, she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as Book Review Editor on the California Law Review. (1/30/12)
Video: Christina Swarns of the NAACP
Christina Swarns is the director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's Criminal Justice Project. She spoke on "Post-Racial America: The View from Death Row" at a recent Henderson Center Rutch Chance Lecture. Watch here »
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February 28: Strategies for Success at Big Law: First-Hand Experiences of Diverse Lawyers
March 16: The 2012 Caleb Foote Symposium
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Despite Bank of America's $335 million settlement of a racial discrimination in mortgage lending claim against its Countrywide subsidiary, problems persist. A new paper by Berkeley Law's Richard Rothstein says such discriminatory practices are standard and that regulators have sanctioned them for nearly a century.
In a new quarterly column, professor David Gamage argues that restrictions on state tax hikes, or "tax increase limitations," can be easily evaded. He says the term "tax increase" in this context is meaningless, and that California's legislature can thus circumvent rules requiring a two-thirds vote.
Protection of personal data plays a key role in privacy law, especially if “Personally Identifiable Information” (PII) is involved. But professor Paul Schwartz says the current use of PII is misguided, putting our identities at greater risk. He proposes a new approach called “PII 2.0.”
- Criminologist Barry Krisberg says closing California's Department of Juvenile Justice is a bad idea (Healthy Cal)
- Lecturer Nancy Lemon says domestic violence is not a private, family matter; it's a crime against the state (SF Weekly)
- Samuelson Law and Technology clinic helps launch complaint center for online privacy issues (Mercury News)