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BCLT Executive Director
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Deirdre K. Mulligan is the Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and a Clinical Professor of Law at Boalt. Before coming to Boalt, she was staff counsel at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington. |
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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. |
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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. Schwartz joined the faculty in 2006 after teaching at Brooklyn Law School, the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, and visiting at schools, including Boston College Law School. |
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Howard Shelanski is a Professor of Law at Boalt whose principal area of expertise is telecommunications law and policy and antitrust. He is a former Chief Economist at the Federal Communications Commission.
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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. |
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Aaron Burstein, J.D (Boalt Hall) is the TRUST and ACCURATE Research Fellow for BCLT and the Samuelson Clinic. His current research includes
examining how law and technology interact in several distinct areas,
including electronic voting and information and computer network
security. Burstein was an attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice
Antitrust Division in 2004-2006. |
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Stuart Graham, PhD. (California, Berkeley); J.D. (SUNY, Buffalo); MBA (SUNY, Buffalo) is focusing his research on intellectual property strategies for business and patent policy, particularly in the area of patent reform. He is on leave at BCLT from the Georgia Institute of Technology (College of Management) where he is an Assistant Professor in the Strategic Management group. He has published several research articles on the post-grant patent opposition system, and company patent strategies in the software and biotechnology industries. |
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Chris Hoofnagle, J.D (University of Georgia) is the Senior Attorney & Senior Research Fellow for BCLT and the Samuelson Clinic. His focus is on consumer privacy law. Prior to joining BCLT, he was senior counsel to the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and director of the organization's West Coast office. At EPIC, he concentrated on financial services privacy, telemarketing regulation, and consumer profiling. He was also a non-residential fellow with Stanford's Center for Internet and Society for the 2005 academic year. He has testified before Congress and the California Senate and Assembly numerous times, published law review articles on privacy and free speech, and commentated in over 1,000 news stories on privacy. He is admitted to practice in California and the District of Columbia. |
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Zorina Khan is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bowdoin College and a BCLT Visiting Scholar. Professor Khan obtained her B.Sc. degree (First Class Honors) in Economics, Sociology and Statistics from the University of Surrey, England; and an M.A. in Economics from McMaster University, Canada. She attended the University of California at Los Angeles as a Fulbright Scholar, and obtained her Ph.D. from the UCLA Department of Economics in 1991. Her research is largely in the area of the "new institutional economic history," and examines issues in legal history, property rights, and technology in the nineteenth-century U.S. |
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Aaron Perzanowski, J.D. (UC Berkeley School of Law) is the Microsoft Research Fellow at BCLT. His current research focuses on copyright, digital rights management, and interoperability. Perzanowski has taught courses in cyberlaw and intellectual property at the UC Berkeley School of Law and School of Information. Prior to joining BCLT, Perzanowski was an associate in the litigation group at Fenwick & West LLP, where he focused on copyright and trademark litigation. |
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Ted M. Sichelman has joined BCLT as a Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation Research Fellow. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, in 1999. After law school, Sichelman clerked for Judge A. Wallace Tashima on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Following his clerkship, he founded and ran Unified Dispatch, Inc. (UDI), which provides communications software to the ground transportation industry. Sichelman then practiced as a litigation associate at Irell & Manella in Los Angeles and Heller Ehrman in San Francisco. Sichelman’s research interests focus on the effects of the patent system on start-up and early-stage companies. |
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Tara Wheatland is the Copyright Research Fellow for the Copyright Principles Project led by Proefssor Pamela Samuelson. Wheatland graduated from the UC Berkeley School of Law in 2006. As a law student, she drafted guidelines and model legislation for public video surveillance systems with the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy clinic and was a Senior Annual Review Editor for the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. After graduating from law school, Wheatland clerked for Judge David Stewart of the Alaska Court of Appeals in Anchorage, Alaska. Wheatland's current research focuses on statutory damages for copyright infringement. |
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The Law & Technology Program Booklet outlines the curriculum at Boalt Hall, the Law & Tech Certificate, BCLT and affiliated organizations, student organizations, and the Law & Tech Faculty. (1 mb)
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BCLT's Annual Bulletin overviews our events and developments; core teaching faculty; current and upcoming classes; student activities; and affiliated programs, scholars, and sponsors. They are now available online dating back to 2001.