Projects and Cases
The Samuelson Clinic engages in client advocacy, policy-based research and academic scholarship in many areas of technology-related law. Faculty and students working with the Clinic have represented clients in legal matters before the Federal Communications Commission, the Federal Elections Commission, the Sixth, Ninth and 11th Circuit Courts of Appeals, the California Supreme Court, the U.S. Supreme Court, the California Assembly and Senate, and in technical standard-setting matters before the Internet Engineering Task Force and the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards.
Samuelson Clinic students and faculty have written and contributed to reports on behalf of clients, on matters of voter privacy, digital rights management technology, the relation of intellectual property laws to the manufacture and import of HIV anti-retroviral medications, the privacy issues in electronic benefit systems used to deliver financial aid to the poor, and the effect of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act on speech, competition and innovation. In addition, the Samuelson Clinic has collaboratively developed an online resource center, Chilling Effects, to assist the public in dealing with a variety of legal issues arising on the internet, including copyright, trademark, and patent infringement. For further information on these projects and copies of some of the reports and briefs produced by the Clinic, please explore this section.
| Title | Year | Type |
| Plaintiff's Reply in Support of Cross Motion For Summary Judgement and Opposition to Defendants' Motion For Summary Judgement | 2012 | Brief |
| Declaration of Jennifer Lynch in Support of Plaintiff's Cross Motion for Summary Judgement and Opposition to Defendants' Motion for Summary Judgement | 2012 | Declaration |
| Notice of Cross Motion For Summary Judgement; Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of Cross Motion For Summary Judgement | 2012 | Brief |
| Samuelson Clinic Students File Amicus Brief on Behalf of the National Alliance for Media Art and Culture in the Viacom-YouTube Appeal in the Second Circuit | 2011 | Brief |
| Samuelson Clinic Submitted Comments to the California Public Utilities Commission on Privacy and the "Smart Grid" on behalf of the Center for Democracy & Technology | 2010 | Clinical Project, Comments |
| SLTPPC Authors Introduction and Fair Use Whitepaper for the Copyright Reform Act | 2010 | Clinical Project |
| Report 1: Updating Fair use for Innovators and Creators in the Digital Age: Two Targeted Reforms | 2010 | Clinical Project |
| Introduction to the Copyright Reform Act | 2010 | Clinical Project |
| Clinic Comments on Private Sector Use of the Social Security Number | 2009 | Clinical Project |
| Clinic Comments on Private Sector Use of the Social Security Number | 2007 | Comments |
| Clinic's Electronic Voting Research Helped To Advance Election Integrity | 2007 | Report |
| Samuelson Clinic Students Assisted the Constitution Project in Preparing Guidelines for Video Surveillance | 2006 | Report |
| Samuelson Clinic Students Assisted the Constitution Project in Preparing Guidelines for Video Surveillance | 2006 | Report |
| Samuelson Clinic Director and Student Testified Before the Copyright Office | 2006 | Clinical Project, Testimony |
| Samuelson Clinic Submitted Comment to U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of Edward Felten and J. Alex Halderman | 2005 | Clinical Project, Comments |
| Samuelson Clinic Submitted Comment to U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of Edward Felten and J. Alex Halderman | 2005 | Comments |
| Samuelson Clinic Non-Resident Fellow Co-Authors Report on Cease-and-Desist Letters Submitted to Chilling Effects | 2005 | Clinical Project, Report |
| Samuelson Clinic Released Paper on Legal, Technical, and Software Interface Design Issues Related to Spyware | 2005 | Research Paper, Presentation |
| Samuelson Clinic Released Paper on Legal, Technical, and Software Interface Design Issues Related to Spyware | 2005 | Research Paper, Presentation |
| Clinic Submitted Comments to U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of Internet Archive regarding Orphan Works | 2005 | Clinical Project, Comments |
| Radio Frequency Identification and Privacy with Information Goods | 2004 | Research Paper, Presentation |
| Radio Frequency Identification and Privacy with Information Goods | 2004 | Research Paper, Presentation |
| Ubiquitous Computing: RFID and Information Goods | 2003 | Research Paper |
| Ubiquitous Computing: RFID and Information Goods | 2003 | Research Project |
| Memorandum Addressing the Need for a Treatment Agenda | 2002 | Report |
| Copyright, the Archivist, and the Public Interest | 2002 | Clinical Project, Project |
| Cyberslapp Suits | 2002 | Testimony |
| Oasis Rights Language Technical Committee | 2002 | Clinical Project, Research Paper |
| Open Resource for Open Source | 2002 | Clinical Project, Project |
| Oasis Rights Language Technical Committee | 2002 | Clinical Project, Research Paper |
| Standards Project | 2001 | Research Paper |
| Location Information Privacy Project ["Geopriv"] | 2001 | Comments |
