Clinical Projects

Clinical Projects

Clinical students undertake a wide variety of projects for our clients, including authoring memos, authoring and presenting testimony before government agencies, and offering legal services in matters requiring knowledge of technology or intellectual property. Below is a sampling of some of the projects our students have worked on since our inception.

Project Title	Year	Subject Area
Clinic Comments on Private Sector Use of the Social Security Number	2007
Clinic's Electronic Voting Research Helped To Advance Election Integrity	2007
Samuelson Clinic Director and Student Testified Before the Copyright Office	2006
Samuelson Clinic Students Assisted the Constitution Project in Preparing Guidelines for Video Surveillance	2006
Samuelson Clinic Released Paper on Legal, Technical, and Software Interface Design Issues Related to Spyware	2005
Samuelson Clinic Submitted Comment to U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of Edward Felten and J. Alex Halderman	2005
Samuelson Clinic Non-Resident Fellow Co-Authors Report on Cease-and-Desist Letters Submitted to Chilling Effects	2005
Clinic Submitted Comments to U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of Internet Archive regarding Orphan Works	2005
Radio Frequency Identification and Privacy with Information Goods	2004
Memorandum Addressing the Need for a Treatment Agenda	2002
Oasis Rights Language Technical Committee	2002-2003
Open Resource for Open Source	2002-2003
Copyright, the Archivist, and the Public Interest	2002-2003
Cyberslapp Suits	2002-2003
Ubiquitous Computing: RFID and Information Goods	2003-2004
Standards Project	2001-2002
Location Information Privacy Project [“Geopriv”]	2001

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Samuelson Clinic Featured in Press for Efforts to Fix Sallie Mae's Flawed Security Practices

Clinical Projects

The Samuelson Clinic was recently featured in the Contra Costa Times for its investigation into Sallie Mae’s poor security practices. Clinic student intern Kathleen Lu and Clinic Fellow Jennifer Lynch were both quoted in the article, available online here.

Samuelson Clinic Reveals Sallie Mae’s Flawed Security Practices

Students at the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law recently accused Sallie Mae—the nation’s largest student lender—of placing millions of its customers at risk of identity theft through improper and potentially illegal authentication practices. Although Sallie Mae revised its authentication practices this spring after receiving a cease-and-desist letter from the Clinic, law students say the new practice remains flawed and leaves student borrowers vulnerable to identity theft. read more »

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