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Technology Law Source
NY Times Article on Berkeley Regulation
On January 14, 2007, the New York Times published Barnaby Feder's article regarding Berkeley California's new nano hazardous material handling regulation. The article succinctly summarizes the regulation: "[T]he new regulation…
Technology Law Source
Nanotechnology Law Report: The Week In Review
Ed. note: every Friday (more or less) Nanotechnology Law Report's David Fischer will look back at the week’s news and analysis of nano related issues. If you have something you’d like to…
Technology Law Source
UPDATE: Berkeley City Council to Consider Nanotechnology Regulation
On December 5, 2006 the Berkeley, California City Council began considering two municipal code amendments directly addressing manufactured nanoparticles. As reported here earlier, the ordinance will amend two portions of…
Listeria Blog
Listeriosis’s path to miscarriage traced to placental infection
By Liese Greensfelder, Media Relations University of California -- Berkeley 29 June 2006 BERKELEY -- For years, doctors have puzzled over why pregnant women are 20 times more likely than…
Labor Law Prof Blog
BJELL Preview
Here's a preview of the forthcoming issue of Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law(vol. 27, # 1, 2006). The print edition will be available in about a month. Thanks…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Faculty Move – Gillian Lester
Gillian Lester will bemoving this summer to Berkeley to teach at the School of Law at Boalt Hall (press release here). Professor Lester currently is a Professor at UCLA. She…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently-Published Scholarship: BJELL
Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor LawVolume 26, Number 2, 2005Forum: At 70, Should the National Labor Relations Act Be Retired?Ellen Dannin, NLRA Values, Labor Values, American Values, p.…
LawSites
Boalt misfires admissions e-mail
The director of admissions at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall accidently sent an e-mail to thousands of applicants implying that they had been accepted to the prestigious law school, the San…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Immigration and Education Position — UC Berkeley
IMMIGRATION AND EDUCATIONOpen Rank (Tenure-track or tenure level)The Graduate School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for a faculty position (tenure-track or tenure level) in immigration and education…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Symposium on New Ways of Organizing
The Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law (BJELL) and the Berkeley La Raza Law Journal (BLRLJ) announce their upcoming symposium: Making Movements: Communities of Color and New Ways of…