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 Quality and Drive Value WASHINGTON – A new public health insurance plan that competes directly with private insurers is essential to controlling health care costs […]
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 Chairman Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif. will join health care expert and U.C. Berkeley professor Jacob Hacker and Institute for America’s Future co-director Roger Hickey on […]
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 at https://www.law.berkeley.edu/experiential/clinics/ihrlc/pdf/guantanamo.pdf*** WASHINGTON, DC—Detainees released from U.S. detention in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba and Afghanistan live shattered lives as a result of U.S. policies in the […]
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) sgluss@law.berkeley.edu Berkeley, CA—October 16, 2008… University of California, Berkeley, School of Law’s California Center for Environmental Law & Policy (CCELP) has released an independent analysis […]
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 / 510.705.3366 (cell) sgluss@law.berkeley.edu Berkeley, CA—October 13, 2008… University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Assistant Professor Eric Biber is spear-heading a challenge by law […]
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 Turmoil,” a panel discussion by a group of distinguished University of California, Berkeley, scholars who will analyze the pending financial crisis. Experts in economics, business, […]
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 explore new approaches to executive pay. In light of subprime market (and bank) meltdowns, the ability of bank CEO’s to take home large pay packages […]
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 the Ninth Circuit, has been chosen as the 2008 recipient of the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law’s Judge D. Lowell and Barbara Jensen […]
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 What: This inaugural Conference on the Supreme Court of California will provide a unique forum for judges, government officials, scholars, and practitioners to discuss the […]
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 School of Law. The conference will examine what role the courts, the U.S. Congress, and the public historically have played in checking presidential actions, […]
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 new summer LL.M. (Master of Laws) program in May 2009. International students who already hold a professional law degree will be able to earn an […]
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 Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law recently accused Sallie Mae—the nation’s largest student lender—of placing millions […]
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 on gay marriage. The justice’s four to three decision makes California the second state to allow gay and lesbian marriages. UC Berkeley School of law […]
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 of singer Britney Spears brought to the American consciousness the concept of a 72-hour hold—a legal requirement of the Lanterman-Petris-Short Act (LPS) for “mentally disordered […]
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 examines initiatives’ legal uncertainties; Executive Director Richard Frank predicts rash of lawsuits if Prop 98 passes Berkeley, CA—May 12, 2008… The UC Berkeley School of […]
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 the risks and benefits of this new but rapidly growing field. In the last few years, the number of legal outsourcing firms in India alone […]
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 Kentucky’s execution procedures The United States Supreme Court’s splintered decision in Baze v. Rees will allow lethal injection litigation to resume after a de facto […]
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,” will examine the impact of new business models for Internet advertising and the evolving legal risks in this fast-growing field. Academics, practitioners, corporate leaders, and […]
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 a major overhaul of the state’s K-12 school finance system was released today by the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity […]
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 the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and its impact on business and the global economy. The FCPA forbids bribes or gifts to foreign officials […]
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 symposium being held by the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law’s Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice. Educators, heads of non-profit organizations, journalists […]
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 intellectual property in entrepreneurship, with a focus on patent law. Panelists will discuss when to seek a patent, how to secure financing, and how to […]
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 drafting of a new international human rights document modeled after the United Nation’s influential Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other documents. The event is […]
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 (WTO), on “The Case for Trade: Why the Multilateral Trading System is More Important than Ever for the U.S.” Lamy will address the dire consequences […]