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Class times for Fall, 2006 have not been released yet.280A sec. 1 - Law and Technology Writing Workshop (Fall 2006)
Instructor: Robert Barr (view instructor's profile)
Instructor: Peter S. Menell (view instructor's teaching evaluations | profile)
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Units: 2
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Prerequisites: Concurrent enrollment in Introduction to Intellectual Property and membership in Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
Enrollment: Limited to 24 second-year students; preference will be given to students who worked on the Berkeley Technology Law Journal in their first year and to students who took Introduction to Intellectual Property during their first year. (This preference will not apply to transfer students.) In order to ensure that the Annual Review of Law & Technology does not miss important developments in the field, students enrolling in the seminar are expected to commit to the completion of their assigned projects and should enroll in the course only if they are willing to make this commitment. Students wishing to enroll in the course must fill out an application form, available in the Registrar's Office.
This seminar provides a structured setting for second-year students to prepare a case comment or comparable contribution for the Annual Review of Law & Technology, which will be published in Berkeley Technology Law Journal. Students will study the structure of case comments, legal research and writing, and analytical approaches to intellectual property/law and technology, and will acquire basic editing and cite-checking skills. Cases and other topics will be selected from a broad range of subjects including all aspects of intellectual property, life sciences (e.g., biomedical ethics, health care law), telecommunications regulation, commercial law, corporate law, venture capital, antitrust law, international law, cyberlaw (e.g., privacy in the electronic age, cryptography, jurisdiction, defamation, regulation of the Internet), and First Amendment law. Professor Menell and 3L law and technology fellows will supervise the various projects. Other law faculty will also advise on pieces within their areas of expertise.
Students will prepare a background briefing paper, an outline of the final paper, a first draft, and a final draft. They will also be required to comment on the work of their classmates and cite-check one other case comment. By the end of the semester, students should have a polished 20-page paper that will be submitted to BTLJ for publication. If a piece meets BTLJ's standards for publication, the student-author will refine the paper for publication in the spring semester. Although the decision whether the paper merits publication in BTLJ rests with the editorial board of the journal, it is expected that students who conscientiously pursue their writing projects during the fall seminar and work with journal editors in the early part of the spring semester will satisfy the journal's publication standards. The work product of the seminar will not satisfy the writing requirement, although it may well provide a basis for developing such a paper during a later semester.
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Course Category: Technology and Intellectual Property
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