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Larisa Mann
Year: Advanced to Candidacy (ABD) - JSP
Biography:Along with pursuing my scholarly and policy interests at JSP, I am a dj and a journalist.
I'm interested in the social implications of intellectual property rules, copyright in particular, and in the legal implications of people's actual creative practices as explored through ethnographic and other qualitative research, as well as analyzing media accounts of copyright in popular press. I'm generally interested in grounding property rights debates in empirical research, especially examining the connection between enclosure movements and struggles over political/economic power.
In my work for the Samuelson Clinic for Law, Technology and Public Policy, I focused on issues of privacy in public places and the embedding of values/policy in technology design. My other strand of research is on the implications of networked life (daily life permeated by technology and the internet) for our concepts of rights.
I'm a columnist for the progressive youth news site WireTap, and a resident DJ at Surya Dub, voted "Best Club Night in San Francisco 2007" by readers of the East Bay Express, and I won "Best Dance DJ" in the SF Bay Guardian's Readers Poll of 2008.
in Fall 2009 I will be in Kingston, Jamaica, pursuing my dissertation research: "Listening to Law, Getting Law to LIsten: Copyright and Creativity in Jamaica"
M.Sc (Economic History), with distinction, London School of Economics 2001
B.A. Oberlin College, 1995
Intellectual Property, communication and culture
Law and Technology
Legal Ethnography
Simpson Fellowship for Int'l &Comparative Studies
Selznick Fellowship - Fall04 - Spr08
Boalt Summer Public Interest Fellowship - Summer07
Boalt.org Public Interest fellowship in technology & law - Sum07
Institute for European Studies fellowship (Berlin, Germany): "Copyright law and music transmission from Jamaica to Germany" - Sum06
FLAS fellowship - German Language Study in Berkeley - Sum05
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology's Certificate in Law & Technology
Employment Experiences:Research Assist, Prof. Mulligan, Director, Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic (2005-8)
Legal Aid, SET Foundation, Jamaica (Music Tech law advice in Prison rehab project)
Columnist, Wiretap Online
Graduate Student Instructor (GSI), Survey of US Constitutional History, Fall 07, Fall05
GSI, Property & Liberty, Spr07, Spr06
GSI, Feminist Jurisprudence, Fall 06
