“These aren’t some easy-to-vilify Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. They’re Ma and Pa who run a successful, or a not-so-successful, restaurant.”

JOSEPH BANKMAN, Ralph M. Parsons Professor of Law and Business, in Forbes. The April 23 story, “The Evader Next Door,” addresses tax evasion by small business owners in cash economies.

“Title IX opened so many more opportunities for women athletes, but it also made positions coaching women’s teams much more attractive to men. . . . Often women are facing barriers to getting those jobs that weren’t there when they were competing with other women and running those programs.”

DEBORAH L. RHODE, Ernest W. McFarland Professor of Law, in the July 4 Associated Press story, “Female Coaches Leaving Collegiate Ranks.” The article addresses Title IX in relation to a recent discrimination suit filed by a female volleyball coach at California State University, Fresno.

“About 10 percent of all the energy used in America goes to farming food, processing food, transporting food, from the seed to the plate. . . . If you can just buy that same vegetable from somebody that lives on the outskirts of your community, the energy savings are stunning.”

DENIS HAYES ’85 (BA ’69, MBA ’74) in a May 15 MarketWatch.com article, “Turn down the heat: 10 ways you can reduce your carbon emissions to help cool the planet,” in which Hayes offers insight on simple, at-home methods of reducing emissions.

“There’s a divide between what we say we want from immigration and what the economy is telling us we need.”

 DAN SICILIANO ’99, lecturer in law and executive director of the Stanford Program in Law, Economics & Business, in The New York Times. The March 31 article, “Where Millions Entered U.S., a Debate on Letting in More,” quotes Siciliano’s testimony at a congressional hearing on immigration held on Ellis Island.

“Because of the relationship. . .you have to worry that they won’t listen carefully enough to the risk. [Patients may think] ‘After all, if my doctor is doing this, it must be good for me.’ That can be difficult to overcome with words in a consent form.” 

HENRY T. “HANK” GREELY (BA ’74), Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law, quoted in an August 6 Washington Post story illuminating the risks of experimental gene therapy drugs.

“If this is the birth of a new constitutional era, all I can say is what an ugly baby.”

PAMELA S. KARLAN, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, as quoted in the July 1 San Francisco Chronicle article, “Rulings Seal High Court’s Shift to Right.” Karlan’s comment was made at a Supreme Court panel discussion.

“We are concentrating our energies on the second and third years, where we know we are failing the students. . . . It seems to us a mistake to fix the one part that’s not really broken. The first year does a great job teaching students the core skill of thinking like a lawyer.”

LARRY KRAMER, Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean, in a September 10 National Law Journal story, “Several Schools Adjust Their Curriculums,” examining curriculum changes at law schools.

“Whenever there’s a sort of spotty civil innovation, it takes civil society some time to catch up.”

NATHANIEL PERSILY ’98, as quoted in The New York Times. The April 13 article, “Equality Elusive Under New Jersey Civil Union Law,” addresses discrimination and health care plan difficulties faced by civil union partners. 

“I saw a parade. . .and I got in front of it.”

J. MICHAEL ARRINGTON ’95 quoted in the June 22 Wired Magazine article, “TechCrunch Blogger Michael Arrington Can Generate Buzz. . .and Cash.” The article profiles Arrington and the history behind his startup company, TechCrunch.

“Although the world supposedly realizes that Al Qaeda’s willingness and ability to strike at a time, day, and city of its choosing require a sustained and coordinated global response, the fact remains that we have not devoted the kinds of resources to the needs of law enforcement if this threat is to be reduced in any meaningful way.”

RONALD K. NOBLE ’82 in his July 3 opinion piece, “A New Anti-Terror Strategy,” in International Herald Tribune.

“In reality you cannot separate the two territories completely. . . . Eventually, the two parties will have to find a mechanism to keep funds flowing to Gaza, and that will require international support.” 

DIANA BUTTU, JSM ’00, comments on the state of political divide in Gaza in the June 18 Los Angeles Times article, “As divide deepens, Gaza’s fate uncertain; U.S., Israel back new regime in West Bank. Funding likely to follow.”

“The conclusion of Jose Padilla’s criminal trial in a federal court yesterday shows that waging the ‘war on terror’ does not require giving up our constitutional values or substituting military rule for the rule of law. The jury’s guilty verdict should be appealed, but the verdict on the Constitution is in: We should keep it.”

JENNY S. MARTINEZ, associate professor of law and Justin M. Roach, Jr. Faculty Scholar, in an August 17 Washington Post op-ed, “The Real Verdict on Jose Padilla,” on the implications of the Jose Padilla trial and verdict.

“The government is being very aggressive in its use of the state-secrets doctrine. You could be left with a situation where the executive branch acts unilaterally because everything it is doing remains secret.”

DEREK SHAFFER ‘00, lecturer in law and executive director of the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, commenting in the August 13 San Jose Mercury News story, “San Francisco Judges to Hear Wiretap Arguments”

“Much of the world is skeptical because the Bush administration has such a poor track record on this topic. . . . But on the face of it, this initiative does not undermine Kyoto. If the initiative leads to more serious efforts by the U.S. and by key developing countries, it will in fact breathe life into the whole enterprise aimed at protecting the planet, including Kyoto.”

DAVID VICTOR, professor of law, in the June 4 New York Times article, “Bush Climate Plan: Amid Nays, Some Maybes.” In the story, Victor provides contrast to skepticism surrounding Bush’s recently proposed climate plan.

“What we actually have is a pretty bold conservative agenda, but it’s clothed in the gentle language of traditional modesty and restraint.” 

Stanley Morrison Professor of Law and former dean KATHLEEN M. SULLIVAN commenting on the recent Supreme Court term on NPR on July 3. Professor Pamela S. Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, and Thomas C. Goldstein, lecturer in law, were featured on the same segment.