Robert Barr is Executive Director of BCLT and the former Vice President for Intellectual Property and Worldwide Patent Counsel for Cisco Systems in San Jose, California, where he was responsible for all patent prosecution, licensing and litigation. Robert has degrees in Electrical Engineering and Political Science from MIT and a JD from Boston University School of Law. He is a frequent speaker on patent reform and has testified twice at the Federal Trade Commission hearings on Competition and Intellectual Property Law and Policy in the Knowledge-Based Economy. He was named by the Daily Journal as one of the top 25 Intellectual Property Lawyers in California in 2003, and as one of the top 10 in-house intellectual property lawyers in 2004.

Kenneth A. Bamberger

Kenneth A. Bamberger is Professor of Law at UC Berkeley, where he teaches Administrative Law, The First Amendment, and Technology and Governance.  His research focuses on issues of technology and corporate regulation.  In particular, Bamberger's work explores the regulation of data protection and information privacy, the use of technology by administrative agencies, and the reliance on technology in corporate compliance.  With Professor Deirdre Mulligan of the UC Berkeley School of Information and BCLT, he is principal investigator on a major project comparing corporate privacy protection in the US, Canada and Europe.

Peter S. Menell, S.B (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); M.A., Ph.D (economics) (Stanford), J.D (Harvard) is Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), as well as co-founder and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He has organized more than two dozen intellectual property education programs for the Federal Judicial Center since 1998.

Robert P. Merges is the Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati Professor of Law at Boalt, as well as Co-Founder and a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. He has written numerous articles on the economics of intellectual property, especially as they affect patent law and the biotechnology industries.

Deirdre K. Mulligan is an Assistant Professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information. She was previously the Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and a Clinical Professor of Law at Berkeley Law. Before coming to UC Berkeley, she was staff counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington.

Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman ‘74 Distinguished Professor of Law and a Professor of Information Management at the University of California at Berkeley. She is also a Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She has written and spoken extensively on the challenges  that digital technologies pose for existing legal regimes, particularly intellectual property law, and more recently has become interested in legal regulation of digital networked environments.

Paul Schwartz is a leading international expert on information privacy and information law. His scholarship focuses on how the law has sought to regulate and otherwise shape information technology—as well as the impact of information technology on law and democracy.

Suzanne Scotchmer is Professor of Economics, Law and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her main academic interest at the moment is the economics, policy and law of innovation, including intellectual property. She also maintains an interest in economic theory and game theory, in which she has also published widely.

Molly Shaffer Van Houweling joined the Boalt faculty in fall 2005 from the University of Michigan Law School, where she had been an assistant professor since 2002. Van Houweling's teaching and research interests include intellectual property, law and technology, property, and constitutional law. She was a visiting professor at Boalt in 2004-05.

Jeremy Bock, J.D. (Berkeley), S.B./M.Eng. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), is a Research Fellow at BCLT.  Prior to joining BCLT, he worked as in-house counsel at a semiconductor company, litigated patent cases in various federal district courts and before the U.S. International Trade Commission, and clerked for Judge Alan D. Lourie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. 

Chris Jay Hoofnagle, J.D (University of Georgia) is the Director of Information Privacy Programs and Senior Fellow for BCLT and the Samuelson Clinic. He is an expert in information privacy law. Hoofnagle's research focuses on identity theft, security breaches, and consumer perceptions and attitudes towards privacy laws.  He co-chairs the annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference. Prior to joining Berkeley Law, Hoofnagle was a non-residential fellow withStanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society. Prior to that, Hoofnagle focused on regulation of telemarketing, financial services privacy, and credit reporting at the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC. He is admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia.

Kathryn Hashimoto is the Copyright Research Fellow at BCLT. She graduated from the University of San Francisco School of Law in 2010. While in law school, she interned at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and with EFF Legal Director Cindy Cohn co-authored “The Case for Book Privacy Parity: Google Books and the Shift from Offline to Online Reading” (2010) for the Harvard Law & Policy Review Online.

Patrick Goold is the 2012-13 BCLT Microsoft Fellow. He is in the final stages of completing his PhD in Law from the International Max Planck Research School for Competition and Innovation, Germany. His research interests include competition law, IP law, public international law and legal theory. He completed his undergraduate studies at Newcastle University and an L.L.M. program at Cornell University.