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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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Amy Kapczynski is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkele. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School (2003). She spent several years in the U.K. as a Marshall Scholar, receiving an M.A. in Literature from Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London (1998), and an M.Phil in the Sociology and Politics of Modern Society from Cambridge University (1997). She received her A.B. summa cum laude in Politics and Women's Studies from Princeton University (1996). |
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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 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. |
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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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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. |
| 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 with Stanford 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. |
| Jennifer King is a social technologist who draws upon her training in the social sciences and human-computer interaction to investigate the issues that arise when technology and society collide. Prior to her research career, Ms. King worked in security and product management for several Internet companies, including Yahoo!, where she was an online community expert. |
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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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