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Dean Klonoff shares insight about former classmate Sonia Sotomayor
In the wake of President Obama’s selection of Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, media reports have explored the judge’s personal and professional history to gain insight into what she might bring to the bench. In that process of assessing Sotomayor, Robert Klonoff, dean of Lewis & Clark Law School, has provided invaluable expertise. A friend and former classmate of Sotomayor, Klonoff has compared the judge to Thurgood Marshall and said that, while classmates at Yale, “she was always willing to speak up and give her point of view.”
Learn more in the following stories:
CNN.com Sotomayor ‘always willing to speak up’ at Yale Law
New York Times Sotomayor, a Trailblazer and a Dreamer
Washington Post For Sotomayor, Humble Beginnings to High Court
The Oregonian Obama’s historic pick for the U.S. Supreme Court
FOX Business News Who Is Sonia Sotomayor?
The Oregonian Classmates remember Sotomayor
FOX News Judicial Philosophy
CBS News Gingrich: Sotomayor is Racist
1190 KBND Reaction to Obama’s Choice for Supreme Court Justice
DailyKos.com Sí, Se Puede!!!
Washington Post N.Y. Federal Judge Likely on Shortlist
Anti-trust expert addresses European Commission ruling against Intel
Law lecturer Geoffrey Manne published commentary at Forbes.com regarding the European Commission’s recent ruling against Intel and the Obama administration’s announcement to pursue more anti-trust cases.
Manne also weighed in on a New York Times story covering the recent European Commission ruling against Intel. Manne’s specialty areas include law and economics, antitrust issues, intellectual property, and corporate and international economic regulation. Manne previously served as a law and economics specialist for Microsoft and currently serves as director of LeCG, a global expert services and consulting firm.
Expert on torture comments on released interrogation memos in LA Times
John Parry, law professor:
In a recent LA Times article about interrogation memos written in 2002 and recently released by the Obama Administration, Parry, offered his views on the legal justifications outlined in the memos. Parry has written extensively about torture, including Understanding Torture: Law, Culture, and State Violence which is soon to be published by University of Michigan Press.
Law professor addresses argument of naming victims in environmental abuses
Meg Garvin, law professor:
According to a recent article in The National Law Journal, the national Crime Victims Rights Act is being used more and more frequently in environmental court cases. The growing trend has some legal experts questioning the validity of this legal maneuver, arguing that it is not the established intent of the Crime Victims Rights Act. Garvin, executive director of the National Crime Victim Law Institute, countered that the environment is not the only thing compromised in environmental violations. “Individual victims are suffering greatly from environmental crimes,” Garvin said. “We have to find a way to make them whole. Having that happen in the criminal justice system makes sense because that process is already under way.”
The National Law Journal Is Crime Victims Rights Law Being Misused in Environmental Cases?
Professor defends academic value of Chavez’s controversial gift to Obama
Bruce Podobnik, associate professor of sociology, shared his thoughts with FOXNews.com about the book Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez handed to President Obama at the Summit of the Americas earlier this month. Titled “Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent,” the book was published by Eduardo Galeano in 1971 and remains controversial for its critical depiction of the United State’s role in the colonization of Latin America. Podobnik included the book in his course “Latin America in Cultural Perspective” last fall, but notes that the text presents a one-sided analysis, which he offset with Walter Rostow’s “The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto.” According to Podobnik, the importance of such a comparative analysis is that “the students get exposed to a polarized discussion that continues to go on today.”
FOXNews.com (New York, NY) Book Chavez Gave to Obama Is Used as Core Text on Many College Campuses
Economics professor quoted in U.S. News
Professor of Economics Eban Goodstein is quoted in a recent in U.S. News & World Reports about a trend in educating youth about conservation. Goodstein, co-director of National Teach-In on Global Warming Solutions, led 804 institutions and 250,000 people in a “day of engagement” on February 5. The teach-in was designed to bring college students together to discuss global warming and policy solutions and included student participation with members of Congress through videoconferences. On the generation this teach-in targeted, Goodstein said, “Students have a truly heroic task that they have no choice but to fulfill in their lifetimes. [The task is] saving the planet as we know it, so that their children can also inherit a beautiful and rich planet.”
US News (Washington, D.C.) The Future of Climate Change: How to Teach Children to Conserve
Law alum advocates on behalf of low-income community
As Director of the Washington Attorney General’s Public Counsel Division, Lewis & Clark Law School alum Simon ffitch believes that heat and light are essential services for people, whether or not they are behind on their bills. ffitch’s dedication to working on behalf of people from low-income communities, including a recent appeal to a request by a local utility company to raise customers’ taxes, earned him some media attention. “We think it’s important, especially during this economy, that there’s not one extra penny taken from people’s budgets,” ffitch said.
ffitch is not alone in his commitment to public service as a professional career. More than one out of every three graduates of Lewis & Clark Law School chooses to work in the area of public interest law.
The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.) Simon ffitch acts as ratepayers’ representative
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