Top Stories

• Professor Franklin Zimring Takes Aim at Florida’s Attorney General (11/6/2009)
  
• Health Care Study: Public Option Would Generate Savings, Benefits  (11/4/2009)
  
• ABA Hails Marjorie Shultz ’76 As One of America’s 50 ‘Legal Rebels’ (10/22/2009)
  
• Berkeley Law Center Plays Key Role in Producing Shriver Report (10/19/2009)
  
• Professor Emeritus and Renowned Scholar Stephen Barnett Dies at 73 (10/16/2009)
  
• UC Berkeley’s Oliver Williamson Shares Nobel Prize in Economics (10/12/2009)
  
• Aarti Kohli Warns That Immigration Enforcement Efforts Are Misguided (10/9/2009)
  

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Press Releases and Media Advisories

• Media Advisory: Conference takes on national health reform's impact in California 11/5/2009
• Media Advisory: HIV & Neglected Diseases Patent Pool Conference 11/4/2009
• Press Release: New health care study: public option would generate more benefits, savings than projected 10/30/2009
• Media Advisory: Global flow of personal information raises consumer privacy risks 10/26/2009
• Media Advisory: Supreme Court of California to Hold Special Session at Berkeley Law 10/20/2009

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In Brief

Paul M. Schwartz Joins Blue-Ribbon Privacy Panel

Professor Paul M. Schwartz has been named to a panel of 12 experts who will work to develop new approaches to protecting the privacy and security of personal data used in health research, and to reduce the challenges imposed upon that research by current laws. Indiana University’s Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research, which assembled the panel, will coordinate the two-year project. A faculty director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Schwartz and his fellow panelists will address the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Privacy Rule, which has been criticized for not adequately protecting privacy and for placing unfair burdens that impede medical research. Panelists will meet several times over the next 18 months, with a goal of submitting recommendations by May 2011.   

 

BCLT to Host Patent Cross Licensing Conference

On October 15, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology will host a conference entitled “Patent Cross Licensing: Academic and Practical Perspectives” at the Bancroft Hotel. In addition to featured speaker Marshall Phelps, author of “Burning the Ships: Intellectual Property and the Transformation of Microsoft,” licensing executives from IBM, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, Intel, and Juniper and other experts will discuss negotiation strategies, calculation of balancing payments, portfolio development, business objectives, and key issues that arise in drafting a cross-license and various ways to resolve them. Those attending the conference will receive 5.25 MCLE credits.   

 

‘Being Black at Boalt Hall’ Available in Library

At the 2008 African American Alumni Reunion, members of Law Students of African Descent conducted an oral history project and interviewed alumni about their experiences at Berkeley Law. The law school has produced a bound edition of transcripts from those interviews, entitled Being Black at Boalt Hall, which includes six interviews and an autobiographical essay covering a period from Judge Thelton Henderson’s arrival in 1959 to Judge Avril Ussery Sisk’s graduation in 1987. While “fragmentary, selective and personal,” according to the introduction, the entries also “provide a unique window on life at Boalt Hall during one of its most turbulent periods.” A copy has been placed on Course Reserve, and may be checked out from the library’s Patron Services Desk.

 

Berkeley Law Foundation to Hold 2009 Auction

The Berkeley Law Foundation's (BLF) annual auction will be held November 13 at 7 p.m. at the David Brower Center in downtown Berkeley. BLF funds public interest legal work through year-long grants for new attorneys around the country and summer grants for current Berkeley Law students. The auction helps fund the Phoenix Fellowship, which provides funding for Berkeley Law students of color to engage in public interest work. Tickets cost $20 before November 1 (one drink included) and can be purchased here or in the Donor Lobby of Boalt Hall from October 26-31 and November 9-13. Questions or auction donations can be sent to BLF co-presidents Katherine Piggott-Tooke and Kathryn Fernandez at katherineandkathryn@gmail.com.

 

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