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Calls to prosecute free speech on campus must be condemned
My colleague on UC Berkeley Law faculty, Steven Davidoff Solomon, wrote an op-ed last month in the Wall Street Journal calling for the Trump administration to criminally investigate the UC Berkeley campus, primarily because of the advertised content of an academic panel. Chancellor Rich Lyons responded with his own op-ed, in which he pleaded, “No need to investigate my campus, Mr. Trump.” Solomon’s alarming words deserved a much stronger rebuke.
Opinion: Vote for Jen Corn, an experienced public education leader, for Berkeley School Board
We have served or are currently serving in elected leadership positions in Berkeley. We have a keen sense of the rare combination of experience, communication skills, emotional intelligence and progressive vision that is necessary to get things done, improve complicated systems, and deliver desired outcomes. Jen Corn has all of these qualities, and we are thrilled to endorse her for the Berkeley School Board.
California Voice: Proposal to keep opinions off UC websites could dangerously restrict speech
The impetus was an open letter the Ethnic Studies Faculty Council wrote last fall, criticizing the UC administration’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel.
Opinion: How a proposal to keep opinions off UC websites could dangerously restrict speech
Something dangerous is happening at the University of California. Echoing similar moves at many private colleges, the powerful regents of our public university system are moving to suppress political speech they dislike. The impetus was an open letter the Ethnic Studies Faculty Council wrote last fall, criticizing the UC administration’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel.
How a proposal to keep opinions off UC websites could dangerously restrict speech Original
Something dangerous is happening at the University of California. Echoing similar moves at many , the powerful regents of our public university system are moving to suppress political speech they dislike. The impetus was an open letter the Ethnic Studies Faculty Council wrote last fall, criticizing the UC administration’s response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in Israel.
How a proposal to keep opinions off UC websites could dangerously restrict speech Original
University of California regents are considering a policy to limit personal views on official platforms, but the overly broad proposal could backfire and suppress controversial speech from faculty members. Something dangerous is happening at the University of California. Echoing similar moves at many , the powerful regents of our public university system are moving to suppress political speech they dislike.
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NEGOTIATING TRAUMA & THE LAW Mallika Kaur: After all your years of working with and training attorneys, would you say capital defense attorneys are born or made? Is there a certain personality-type drawn to this work? Ty Alper: I'm a big proponent of the idea that anyone can be any kind of lawyer they want to be. This is especially true of capital defense, which is always a team effort and requires so many different skills, not all of which any one person can possibly possess.
Public education funding in California is anything but progressive
We Californians can be pretty smug about holding true to our progressive values in the face of attacks from the president. We tout, among other things, our sanctuary cities, our commitment to environmental regulation and the taxation and regulation of legal cannabis – and candidates for statewide office are falling over themselves to declare the resistance they will lead to Trump’s vision for America.
We Shouldn’t Be Celebrating That Sean Hannity’s Name Was Revealed in Open Court
That Michael Cohen’s secret third client turned out to be Sean Hannity is almost too good to be true. I get that. But the lawyer in me is not happy that an attorney blurted out the name of a client in open court, when the client didn’t want his identity revealed and had no reason to think it ever would be. As a rule, lawyers shouldn’t have to reveal who their clients are.
Alper: Drug firms aren't sold on lethal injection
In a few weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear Glossip vs. Gross, which examines the use of the drug midazolam in lethal injection executions. The case is the culmination of an infamously gruesome 2014, a year that saw botched executions in Ohio, Oklahoma and Arizona. The problem stems from states’ increasing difficulty obtaining effective, reliable, FDA-approved drugs to use in lethal injections. The reason is simple: Drug companies don’t want their products used to kill people.
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