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UC Berkeley, School of Law
421 Boalt Hall; Berkeley, CA 94720
law.berkeley.edu/bclt
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Dear Berkeley Law Students,
We have quite an eventful week coming up featuring some high profile speakers.
Here’s what you’ll find in this week’s newsletter:
On behalf of the BCLT community, we would like to congratulate Professor Molly S. Van Houweling for breaking the UCI women's cycling record. Read the full Cycling News article here »
Upcoming Events:
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BTLJ Lunch talk with Jake Heller, CEO of Casetext – MON 9/14
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Julie Brill, FTC – TUE 9/15
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BHBLS (Boalt Healthcare and Biotech Law Society) General Meeting – WED 9/16
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Jones Day, featuring Jeff Rabkin – THUR 9/17
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European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli and Berkeley Law Professor Paul Schwartz – FRI 9/18
Future Events:
Law & Tech Opportunities:
If you have any questions about this week's content or items for inclusion in future newsletters, please email bclt@law.berkeley.edu »
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BTLJ Lunch talk with Jake Heller, CEO of Casetext
Monday, September 14 ~ 12:45 PM - 1:45 PM
Boalt Hall, Room 100
BTLJ invites you to join us for a lunchtime discussion with the CEO and founder of Casetext, Jake Heller. Selected as one of Forbes’ 30 under 30 in 2014, Jake Heller is a 2010 graduate of Stanford Law School, where he served as President of the Stanford Law Review. After clerking in the First Circuit and working at Ropes & Gray in Boston, Jake started Casetext in 2013. Casetext is a free legal research and writing platform that is using crowdsourcing to tap the knowledge of the legal community.
During this off-the-record lunch talk, Jake will share why he left legal practice to start Casetext, what it is like to be an entrepreneur in an industry hesitant to change, and how Casetext is making the law free and understandable.
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Lunch will be served for those staying through the entire presentation.
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Julie Brill, FTC
The Federal Trade Commission and the Future of Privacy and Data Security Regulation
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 ~ 12:55pm to 1:55pm
Boalt Hall, Room 105
Julie Brill, a member of the Federal Trade Commission since 2010, has been named the FTC's most important voice on Internet privacy and data security and a key player internationally. She will speak about the Internet of Things, big data and discrimination, privacy enforcement in a borderless economy, and the recent appeals court decision affirming the FTC's authority to regulate data security.
Lunch is served for students staying through the entire presentation.
Sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), the Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ), the Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association (BIPLA) and the Consumer Advocacy and Protection Society (CAPS).
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Boalt Healthcare and Biotech Law Society (BHBLS) General Meeting
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 ~ 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Boalt Hall, Room 10
The Boalt Healthcare and Biotech Law Society (BHBLS) is a group of students at Berkeley Law who are interested in examining the intersection between law, policy, and science. We host frequent lunch talks on current topics in the field of health and biotech law. We also host career panels with various practitioners to help students network and explore professional opportunities in the life science and healthcare fields.
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Jones Day
The Regulation of Disruptive Technology:
Counseling Clients on Cybersecurity Litigation and Other Risks
Thursday, September 17, 2015 ~ 12:55pm to 1:55pm
Boalt Hall, Room 105
Jeff Rabkin, partner at Jones Day, has a career path that includes advising California Attorney General Kamala Harris on cybersecurity, privacy and other technology issues and prosecuting white collar crime and international criminal organizations as an Assistant US Attorney. He will talk about counseling clients developing innovative technologies and services as they face the risks of cybersecurity litigation and growing government regulation.
Lunch is served for students staying throgh the entire presentation.
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
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European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli and Berkeley Law Professor Paul Schwartz
Friday, September 18, 2015 ~ 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Boalt Hall, Room 170
Giovanni Buttarelli is serving a five-year term as European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), where he is tasked with ensuring that European institutions and bodies respect the right to privacy and data
protection when they process personal data. The EDPS also advises European member states' data protection authorities and the European Parliament and Commission, making Buttarelli a key commentator and leader on European Privacy Law. A member of the Italian judiciary, Buttarelli has held several positions in government and teaches Privacy at Lumsa University.
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Next Week:
BCLT/BCLBE General Counsel Speaker Series: Alexa King, FireEye: Building Today's Silicon Valley
Monday, September 21, 2015 ~ 12:45pm to 1:45pm
Boalt Hall, Room 170
A conversation with Alexa King (‘94), Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, FireEye
FireEye was named the top cybersecurity firm to watch in 2015 by Cybersecurity Ventures and described as the “Navy SEALs of Cybersecurity.” Alexa serves as FireEye’s top attorney and will discuss her role in leading one of Silicon Valley’s hottest companies in one of its hottest industries. She’ll also touch on her career as an in-house attorney and general counsel and the challenges she’s faced in helping to build today’s Silicon Valley.
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Law & Tech Opportunities:
Tech Research Funding Opportunity from the School of Information
The newly-created Center for Technology, Society & Policy at the School of Information is accepting proposals from students for research projects and fellowships concerning "engineering ethics; technology and well-being; infrastructure, standards and governance; and digital citizenship.” CTSP is seeking to "fund thoughtful and creative but concrete ideas to advance the state of knowledge, solve problems, and promote understanding” in the aforementioned areas. CTSP is also seeking mentors for researchers. The request for proposals and other information is here ».
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Job Opportunity: Hiring Research Assistants for Professor Catherine Crump
Professor Catherine Crump is seeking research assistants to work on a variety of projects related to government surveillance. One project focuses on the role of federal money in accelerating municipal law enforcement agencies’ adoption of surveillance technology, and the impact that path to acquisition is having on democratic control of police departments. Another focuses on the use of predictive algorithms in law enforcement investigations and in decision making regarding who is entitled to probation or parole. A third focuses on the impact of surveillance technology on the First Amendment right of association. Research tasks include legal research into relevant First and Fourth Amendment case law, researching relevant bodies of scholarly literature, factual research into municipal policies and procedures, and use of state and federal public records laws.
If you are interested, please send your cover letter and resume to Clinical Program Associate Administrator, Olivia Layug at olayug@law.berkeley.edu by Tuesday, September 15.
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