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Dear Berkeley Law Students,
Here’s what you’ll find in this week’s newsletter:
Upcoming Events:
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Flynn Coleman: Human Rights Work in the 21st Century - Innovation, Technology, and Social Impact- MON 11/16
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Sidley Austin LLP - TUE 11/17
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Responsible Use of Open Data in Government and the Private Sector - THU 11/19
Future Events:
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BCLT/PLS 1L Job Tech Fair - TUE 12/1
Law & Tech Opportunities:
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Big Ideas Competition
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Research Assistant for BCLT Executive Director, Jim Dempsey
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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Flynn Coleman: Human Rights Work in the 21st Century - Innovation, Technology, and Social Impact
Monday, November 16, 2015
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Boalt Hall, Room 10
Boalt.org, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, and Boat Hall Committee for Human Rights present Flynn Coleman. Coleman is a Boalt alumna. She also holds a BSFS from Georgetown University and an LLM from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Coleman has experience as an international human rights attorney, mindfulness and creativity teacher, TEDx speaker, Huffington Post writer, social entrepreneur and innovator, and a founder and CEO. Flynn will share her experiences and insight into navigating a dynamic human rights career, with a specific emphasis on technology and impactful lawyering in the 21st century.
Learn more: flynncoleman.community
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Sidley Austin LLP
"Getting Particular under Section 101"
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
12:55 PM - 1:55 PM
Boalt Hall, Room 105
Counsel Holly Hogan from Sidley Austin LLP will discuss the Supreme Court’s Alice decision on patent eligibility under Section 101, decisions following Alice that have invalided patents under Section 101, and a developing interplay in the law between Section 101 and Section 112. To ensure that all students can follow her analysis, she will cover the basics of patentability as well.
Lunch is served for students staying through the entire presentation.
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
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Sports Entertainment Law Society (SELS) Present: Woodie Dixon, PAC-12
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
6:00-7:30pm
Boalt Hall, Warren Room
Woodie Dixon is the PAC-12 General Counsel and Senior Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs. Dixon will discuss his career, issues facing the PAC-12, and his various legal responsibilities. Topics could include NCAA Conference Networks, the realignment of NCAA Conferences, NCAA compliance, PAC-12 licensing, and much more. The reception will be followed by a casual Q&A.
Food and drinks will be served.
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BIPLA/CAPS Tech Policy Happy Hour with Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commision Ashkan Soltani
 
Thursday, November 19, 2015
5:15 PM - 8:00 PM
Lost & Found, 2040 Telegraph Ave, Oakland
Please join us for an chance to sip drinks and talk with Ashkan Soltani about his work at the FTC! Ashkan is well known for hosting vibrant tech policy happy hour events around the country, each time summoning the top lawyers, technologists, academics, journalists, and policy people in the field. This is an incredible opportunity to join in on a typically invite-only event, and to meet the heavy hitters in the field. We'll have him to ourselves until 6:00pm so please arrive early! At 6:00 PM his TPHH crew will start arriving.
Ashkan Soltani is a researcher focused on privacy, security, and behavioral economics, currently serving as the Chief Technologist for the Federal Trade Commission. His work draws attention to privacy problems online, demystifies technology for the non-technically inclined, and provides data-driven insights to help inform policy.
This event is co-sponsored by the Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association (BIPLA) and the Consumer Advocacy and Protection Society (CAPS).
BIPLA and CAPS are supported by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT).
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Responsible Use of Open Data in Government and the Private Sector
November 19 - 20, 2015
4:30 PM
New York University, NY
The Conference on Responsible Use of Open Data: Government and the Private Sector, to be held at New York University on November 19-20, 2015 is co-organized by BCLT and NYU’s Information Law Institute and Department of Media, Culture and Communication. The event continues and expands the issues addressed by the April 2015 BCLT event Open Data: Addressing Privacy, Security, and Civil Rights Challenges Symposium. We are delighted that Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki, the City of New York Chief Analytics Officer and in charge of the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics has agreed to open the conference in the afternoon of November 19th.
This event is inspired by two central themes. The first is a set of normative challenges associated with the open data movement, including e.g. privacy and other civil liberties, equitable access to data, and what counts as public interest. In 2014, Microsoft funded six academic research projects focusing on these challenges toward an idea of “responsible open data.” In the morning of November 20, the conference will highlight four of these projects. Early reports of this work were presented earlier this year in Berkeley, when the BCLT hosted the Open Data: Addressing Privacy, Security, and Civil Rights Challenges Symposium on the privacy, security, and civil rights challenges involved in the open data movement.
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BCLT/PLS 1L Job Tech Fair
Tuesday, December 1, 2015
6:00 PM- 6:45 PM - Recruiting Panel, Boalt Hall, Warren Room Boalt Hall (2nd floor)
6:45 PM - 8:30 PM - 1L Job Tech Fair, Boalt Hall, Goldberg Room (2nd floor)
The Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) and the Patent Law Society (PLS) are hosting a 1L Job Tech Fair featuring BCLT sponsor law firms that are hiring 1L summer associates. Prior to the Tech Fair, recruiters will be participating in a panel and discussing what they look for in 1L summer associates. After the talk, students will have an opportunity to meet the recruiters, in addition to other BCLT sponsor law firms recruiters who are hiring 1Ls, and be able to hand out resumes. This is a great chance to get off to an early start with your job search!
The following recruiters will be participating in the panel:
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Meave Cox, Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
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Sara Eng, Paul Hastings LLP
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Clare Fifield, Fish & Richardson P.C.
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Sarah Fellows, Latham & Watkins LLP
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Lee Anne Masetti-Martin, Morrison & Foerster LLP
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LAW AND TECH OPPORTUNITIES
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Research Assistant for BCLT Executive Director, Jim Dempsey
Deadline to apply is December 1, 2015
The BCLT Executive Director, Jim Dempsey, is looking for a research assistant for the Spring semester to monitor developments and conduct assigned research on cybersecurity issues. If interested, please send your resume and a short writing sample to bclt@law.berkeley.edu and indicate an interest in the BCLT cybersecurity opportunity. This opportunity is for J.D. candidates only from the Berkeley Law School.
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