For Immediate Release CONTACT: Toby Chaudhuri (IAF), 202-955-5665Susan Gluss (Berkeley Law), 510-642-6936 Health Care Reform Debate Centers on Public Insurance Choice; Report Shows Public Plan Essential to Contain Costs, Improve […]
New Report: Public Insurance Option Needed to Provide Affordable, Quality Health Coverage
New Report to Highlight Need for Public Health Insurance Plan Outlined in Obama’s Proposals
Author Jacob Hacker Finds Public Plan Vital to Controlling Costs, Improving Quality as Health Care Reform Debate Centers on Public Insurance Choice WASHINGTON – House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee […]
UC Berkeley Report Details Shattered Lives of Released Guantánamo Detainees
For Immediate Release Demands Investigation of ‘War on Terror’ Policies CONTACT: Emma Mackinnon 202.302.6920 / emma@fenton.com CA Media: Barbara Grob 415.218.3977 / bgrob@ucberkeley.eduSusan Gluss 510.642.6936 / sgluss@law.berkeley.edu *** Report Available […]
California’s Ballot Proposition 7: Legal and Environmental Impact
For Immediate Release Analysis by Berkeley Law’s Center for Environmental Law & Policy Separates Fact from Fiction Contact: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley School of Law, 510.642.6936 / 510.705.3366 (cell) […]
Environmental Law Professors Criticize Administration’s Proposed Changes to Endangered Species Act
For Immediate Release Professors call proposed regulations illegal and accuse administration of trying to lock in changes before Bush leaves office Contact: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley School of Law, 510.642.6936 […]
Global Financial Market Turmoil
Attention: reporters and producers covering the nation’s economic crisis Media contacts: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley School of Law, 510.642.6936, sgluss@law.berkeley.edu Janet Gilmore, UC Berkeley, 510.642.5685, jangilmore@berkeley.edu What: “Global Financial Market […]
Executive Compensation Workshop: Rethinking Pay for Performance
Attention: Legal and business writers and editors Media contact: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley School of Law, 510.642.6936, sgluss@law.berkeley.edu What: A half-day conference, “Executive Compensation Workshop: Rethinking Pay for Performance,” will […]
Honorable J. Clifford Wallace Receives Prestigious Jensen Public Service Award
For Immediate Release Contact:Susan Gluss, media relations director, 510.642.6936 sgluss@law.berkeley.edu Berkeley, CA—September 19, 2008… The Honorable J. Clifford Wallace ‘55, former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for […]
A Conference on the Supreme Court of California
Attention: reporters covering the courts, legal issues, civil rights and social justice Media contacts: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley School of Law, 510.642.6936, sgluss@law.berkeley.edu Lynn Holton, Judicial Council of California, 415.865.7726, Lynn.Holton@jud.ca.gov […]
Political strategists, experts to discuss America at war
For Immediate Release Contact: Janet Gilmore(510) 642-5685jangilmore@berkeley.edu What: “The American Presidency at War,” a daylong conference co-sponsored by the University of California, Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies and the UC […]
Berkeley Law Launches New Summer LL.M. Program
Contact: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley School of Law, 510.642.6936 / 510.705.3366 (cell) sgluss@law.berkeley.edu Berkeley , CA —August 5, 2008 … UC Berkeley School of Law (Berkeley Law) is launching a […]
Berkeley Law’s Samuelson Clinic Reveals Sallie Mae’s Flawed Security Practices
Contact: Susan Gluss, media relations director, 510.642.6936 sgluss@law.berkeley.edu Students persuade lender to reduce risks of identity theft, but security lapses remain Berkeley , CA—June 5, 2008 …Students at the Samuelson […]
Berkeley Law Experts React to California Supreme Court Ruling on Same-Sex Marriage
Contact: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley School of Law, 510.642.6936 / 510.705.3366 (cell) sgluss@law.berkeley.edu Berkeley, CA—May 15, 2008… A landmark ruling today by the California Supreme Court overturned the state’s ban […]
Beyond Asylum and Jail: Protecting and Treating People Disabled by Mental Illness
Attention: Health, political, and legal writers and editors Media contact: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley School of Law, 510.642.6936, mailto:sgluss@law.berkeley.edu What: The media frenzy that recently surrounded the involuntary psychiatric commitment […]
California’s Ballot Propositions 98 and 99: Legal and Conservation Risks
Contact: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley School of Law, 510.642.6936 / 510.705.3366 (cell) sgluss@law.berkeley.edu for media interviews with Richard Frank New study by Berkeley Law’s Center for Environmental Law & Policy […]
International Outsourcing of the Legal Profession
Attention: legal and business writers and editors Media contact: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley School of Law, 510.642.6936, mailto:sgluss@law.berkeley.edu What: A one-day conference, “International Outsourcing of the Legal Profession,” will examine […]
Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic Experts Analyze Impact of Supreme Court Ruling on Lethal Injection
Contact: Elisabeth Semel, 510.642.0458 (w), 510.701.1212 (c); Ty Alper, 510.643.7849 (w), 510.593.4227 (c); Susan Gluss, 510.642.6936 (w), 510.705.3366 (c); Laura Burstein, 202.457.7118 Nationwide challenges to move forward following ruling on […]
Conference on the law and business of online advertising
Attention: Technology, business and legal writers and editors Media contact: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley, School of Law, 510.642.6936, sgluss@law.berkeley.edu What: A one-day conference, “The Law and Business of Online Advertising,” […]
Educators Call for Major Overhaul of California’s School Finance System
Contact: Susan Gluss, media relations director, 510.642.6936 sgluss@law.berkeley.edu New Report Released by Berkeley Law’s Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity Berkeley , CA —April 2, 2008…A new report calling for […]
Workshop on anti-corruption regulations
Attention: Business and law reporters and editors Media contact: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley School of Law, 510.642.6936, sgluss@law.berkeley.edu What: “FCPA Workshop: Enforcement and Outcomes,” a program on the enforcement of […]
Criminalization of Poverty
Attention: News desks Contact: Susan Gluss, media relations director, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law 510.642.6936, sgluss@law.berkeley.edu What: “Whose Poverty? Whose Crime? Unlocking the Criminalization of Poverty,” a two-day […]
Conference on intellectual property, patent law, and entrepreneurship
Attention: Business, law, and technology writers and editors Media contact: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley, School of Law, 510.642.6936, sgluss@law.berkeley.edu What: “IP and Entrepreneurship,” a two-day symposium on the role of […]
Conference on redrafting human rights law
Attention: News desks Contact: Susan Gluss, media relations director, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law 510.642.6936, sgluss@law.berkeley.edu What: “Drafting the Future of Human Rights,” a conference to launch the […]
A lecture by Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization
Attention: reporters and editors covering business, economics, and world trade Media contact: Susan Gluss, UC Berkeley School of Law, 510.642.6936, sgluss@law.berkeley.eduWhat: A lecture by Pascal Lamy, Director-General, World Trade Organization […]