Topic: Law
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, alum earn top honor for collaborative research
Political science professor Todd Lochner and Rhett Tatum ‘06, along with fellow researcher and political scientist Dorie Apollonio, were recognized by the editorial board of Regulation & Governance for their joint article, Wheat from Chaff: Third Party Monitoring and FEC Enforcement Actions.
Regulation & Governance, a journal devoted to the study of regulation and governance by political scientists, lawyers, historians, anthropologists, and economists, named Wheat from Chaff the best article published in the 2007-2008 volumes of the journal.
In their article, Lochner, Apollonio, and Tatum test the widely held expectation that regulators can more effectively target serious violations when they have a broader array of sanctioning options in their enforcement arsenal. To test this theoretical expectation, Lochner, Apollonio, and Tatum analyze enforcement actions at the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) during the period when the FEC received an expansion in its sanctioning options. What they find runs counter to expectations: the FEC was not better able to focus on the most serious violations after receiving a broader array of sanctions. Lochner, Apollonio, and Tatum suggest that simply expanding sanctioning options, without also expanding monitoring resources, is not sufficient to enable regulators to prioritize their enforcement efforts toward the most serious problems.
Todd Lochner teaches undergraduate courses in constitutional law, civil liberties, and political science. He also teaches a joint undergraduate-law school course on election law at Lewis & Clark Law School, where he is a research fellow. Rhett Tatum is currently a student at the Georgetown University Law Center where he is studying election law.
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
Law School Dean Klonoff quoted in The New York Times
Lewis & Clark Law School Dean Robert Klonoff is quoted in a recent story in the New York Times regarding Google’s efforts to reach all copyright holders through a series of notices being placed in print publications world wide. The outreach effort is a result of a class-action suit by copyright holders regarding Google’s plan to offer all of literature online. Klonoff, the author of a recent law review article titled “Making Class Actions Work: The Untapped Potential of the Internet,” is an expert in class action litigation. He is the senior author of the first and only casebook on class actions and he serves as an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute class action project, “Principles of the Law of Aggregate Litigation.”
The New York Times A Google Search of a Distinctly Retro Kind
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