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Google’s Goal: Digitize Every Book Ever Printed (12/30/2009)
National Writers Union Puts Out Guide to Version 2 of the Google Books Settlement (12/28/2009)
Top 10 ed-tech stories of 2009: No. 7 (12/24/2009)
Two Second-Year Students Tout Human Rights in Copenhagen (12/22/2009)
Business in China: What Does “Playing by the Rules” Mean? (12/22/2009)
Platitudes Won’t Guarantee World Peace (12/20/2009)
Berkeley Law Foundation Auction Funds Two Minority Fellowships (12/16/2009)
The True Costs of Climate Change (12/15/2009)
Feds on Your Friends List (12/15/2009)
Samuelson Clinic Sues Agencies to Reveal Social Networking Policies (12/14/2009)
Twitter Tapping (12/12/2009)
DIY Book Scanners Turn Your Books Into Bytes (12/11/2009)
Ethan Elkind Outlines California’s Options to Tap Renewable Energy (12/09/2009)
The Clean Energy Potential in Our Backyard (12/09/2009)
The Conversation Continues: Key Voices 2009 (12/07/2009)
The Obama Speech I Wanted to Hear (12/05/2009)
After Obama Visit, Legal Experts Dialogue Could Help Expand Citizens’ Rights in China (11/29/2009)
No clear benefit to holding 9/11 trial in New York (11/25/2009)
Obama Taps Jared Blumenfeld ’92 for High-Profile EPA Position (11/24/2009)
An Additional Comment on Campus Protests and Academic Freedom (11/20/2009)
Lawmakers, Inching Toward A Privacy Bill, Question ‘Data-Mining Reapers’ (11/19/2009)
House Panel Moves Closer to Privacy Bill (11/19/2009)
Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Competition (11/19/2009)
Lawmakers probe deeper into privacy (11/19/2009)
Samuelson Says She Has Same Pricing, Privacy Concerns About Google Settlement (11/18/2009)
Why do lawmakers question law in 9/11 trial? (11/18/2009)
Berkeley’s Samuelson Still Not Satisfied with Google Books Settlement, Will Urge Judge Not to Approve (11/17/2009)
Google Rewrites Controversial Books Deal Amid Antitrust Concerns (11/17/2009)
FTC Releases Agenda for First Privacy Roundtable and Announces Date of Second Roundtable (11/17/2009)
Chongqing Criminal Trials Underscore Dangers of Corporatist State (11/17/2009)
New Google Book Settlement Aims Only to Placate Governments (11/17/2009)
Samuelson Clinic Outlines Smart Grid Concerns in FCC Comment (11/17/2009)
Raymond L. Ocampo Jr. Receives ABA Spirit of Excellence Award for Advancing Diversity in the Legal Profession (11/17/2009)
Antitrust concerns linger in Google Books deal (11/16/2009)
The KSM Trial Will Be an Intelligence Bonanza for al Qaeda (11/15/2009)
House Comm Subcommittee Schedules Universal Service, Online Privacy Hearings (11/12/2009)
Social Networking Offers Bounty of Evidence, But Raises Problems for Both Parties in Case (11/11/2009)
Justices Poke Fun at Patents for the Abstract (11/10/2009)
Chris Bebenek ’11 Wins Berkeley Law Research and Writing Award (11/10/2009)
Chris Bebenek ’11 Wins Berkeley Law Research and Writing Award (11/10/2009)
Business Method Patents: Technological Change, Not Judicial Activism (11/09/2009)
NBR Transcripts (11/09/2009)
Fresh Look at Drug Courts Could Also Ease Prison Crisis (11/09/2009)
Google Settlement Due in Court November 13; Open Book Alliance Issues “Requirements” (11/06/2009)
Professor Franklin Zimring Takes Aim at Florida’s Attorney General (11/06/2009)
Professor Franklin Zimring Takes Aim at Florida’s Attorney General (11/06/2009)
Privacy Concern in Google Voice Call Recording (11/05/2009)
Health Care Study: Public Option Would Generate Savings, Benefits (11/04/2009)
Health Care Study: Public Option Would Generate Savings, Benefits (11/04/2009)
A Letter to Obama (11/04/2009)
New online law journal created by University of Miami law professor (11/02/2009)
Google’s desire to scan old books has critics casting it as Goliath (11/02/2009)
The Google Book Settlement: Real Magic or a Trick (11/01/2009)
Myths of Get-Tough Law (11/01/2009)
The Global Antitrust Battle Over Google’s Library (10/31/2009)
Chinese Law Reform on the PRC’s 60th Birthday (10/29/2009)
In re Bilski – Let us get back to work (10/28/2009)
EPO style oppositions would bring substantial benefits to the US, report claims (10/26/2009)
Judge Urged To Not Restrict Comments on Google Settlement (10/26/2009)
Online Data Present A Privacy Minefield (10/26/2009)
FTC, drugstores sue Solvay over delay in generic AndroGel (10/23/2009)
ABA Hails Marjorie Shultz ’76 As One of America’s 50 ‘Legal Rebels’ (10/22/2009)
Nokia sues Apple for patent infringement (10/22/2009)
Why So Few Doctoral-Student Parents? (10/21/2009)
Research Roundup (10/20/2009)
Berkeley Law Center Plays Key Role in Producing Shriver Report (10/19/2009)
Professor Emeritus and Renowned Scholar Stephen Barnett Dies at 73 (10/16/2009)
Balancing Innovation and Access: Patent Challenges Tip the Scales (10/16/2009)
CA Computer Scientists Charge U.S. EAC Misused Security Findings from Landmark E-Voting Study (10/15/2009)
Google Books Is Not a Library (10/13/2009)
UC Berkeley’s Oliver Williamson Shares Nobel Prize in Economics (10/12/2009)
2 Commission Members Tout Plan’s Promise (10/11/2009)
Aarti Kohli Warns That Immigration Enforcement Efforts Are Misguided (10/09/2009)
Google to Revise a Book Pact by Nov. 9 (10/07/2009)
A broken promise of “smart” immigration enforcement (10/07/2009)
Professors Eric Talley, Jonathan Simon ’87 Awarded Faculty Chairs (10/07/2009)
Sotomayor’s First Term (10/05/2009)
Advice for Those With and Without OCIP Offers (10/04/2009)
Editorial: The Google Wars (10/01/2009)
Ad Tracking Widely Opposed, Study Says (09/30/2009)
New Report Shows Most Americans Dislike Tailored Online Ads (09/30/2009)
GBS and Students: Jason Schultz of UC Berkeley Examines Privacy (09/30/2009)
Two-Thirds of Americans Object to Online Tracking (09/29/2009)
Claim Construction: A Structured Framework (09/29/2009)
Berkeley Empirical Legal Studies to Launch New Graduate Fellowship (09/29/2009)
Google Book Settlement 1.0 Is History (09/24/2009)
Jesse Ferrantella ’11 Wins National Writing Competition (09/23/2009)
Samuelson’s Jason Schultz Helps Launch Cyberlaw Cases Blog (09/21/2009)
Patent Auctions Offer Protections to Inventors (09/20/2009)
Past As Prologue? (09/17/2009)
Google Books Settlement: Taking the Long View (09/16/2009)
Warren Institute Report Exposes Racial Profiling in Texas (09/16/2009)
How the “Snow-Woman Effect” Slows Women’s Progress (09/16/2009)
Obama Taps Jeff Bleich ’89 to Be Top Envoy to Australia (09/15/2009)
History shows targeting the CIA is perilous move (09/13/2009)
Career Development Office Hires New Attorney Counselors (09/10/2009)
Jennifer Urban and Jason Schultz to Co-Direct Samuelson Clinic (09/10/2009)
The Koret Interactive Learning Center Brings the World to Boalt Hall and Boalt Hall to the World (09/10/2009)
Academics, ProQuest, Networks Object to Google Settlement (09/10/2009)
Feeling lucky? Enough to trust Google with UC’s library holdings? (09/10/2009)
The Case For Goliath (09/09/2009)
Fix health care. But fix the deficits, too. (09/09/2009)
Google’s Book Search (09/08/2009)
Law Teaching Seminar (09/08/2009)
EFF, ACLU says Google Books will chill reading, speech (09/08/2009)
Will Privacy Concerns Kill Google Books Settlement? (09/08/2009)
National Coalition of Authors Urge Rejection of Google Book (09/08/2009)
EU Officials Offer Tepid Praise for Google Books (09/08/2009)
Another Positive Step for Berkeley Law’s Loan Forgiveness Plan (09/04/2009)
Healthcare Lawyers Student Mentorship Program (09/04/2009)
Another Positive Step for Berkeley Law’s Loan Forgiveness Plan (09/04/2009)
Management skills required (09/04/2009)
New Blog Alert: Cyberlaw Cases (09/04/2009)
Google Book Privacy Policy: Good Start, Much More Needed (09/04/2009)
New Report Hails Berkeley’s Public School Diversity Plan (09/02/2009)
Professional Skills Program to Become Larger Part of Curriculum (09/02/2009)
New Report Hails Berkeley’s Public School Diversity Plan (09/02/2009)
Professional Skills Program to Become Larger Part of Curriculum (09/02/2009)
Google’s Book Scanning Has Authors On Edge (09/02/2009)
Tech Influence Spending Unaffected By Recession (09/02/2009)
Assessment Denied: the National Research Council’s Sins of Omission (08/31/2009)
Walk this way – urge sustainable development (08/30/2009)
More questions than answers on Google Books (08/29/2009)
CLEE Targets Increase in Climate-Friendly Development (08/28/2009)
Fashion blogger’s Google suit seen as weak (08/28/2009)
Privacy Missing From Google Books Settlement (08/28/2009)
The Single Best Question Asked at the Google Books Settlement Conference (08/28/2009)
Edward Chen ’79 Nominated to U.S. District Court in San Francisco (08/26/2009)
UC Berkeley Law Scholar Tells Google, ‘I Don’t Want The Money’ (08/25/2009)
RIAA Copyright Crime vs Child Abduction (08/23/2009)
OCIP – Ready for Monday? — Day of Interview Details (08/21/2009)
The Torture Memos, Professor Yoo, and Academic Freedom (08/20/2009)
OCIP Phase 2 Bidding and Phase 1 Open Sign Ups (08/20/2009)
Is Google book deal a threat to privacy? (08/20/2009)
Edley Interview Addresses Demands for Yoo’s Ouster (08/19/2009)
‘Legal Planet’ Successfully Orbiting the Blogosphere (08/19/2009)
OCIP Phase 1 Schedules Available — How to Cancel — Open Sign-ups (08/19/2009)
Sites pulling sneaky Flash cookie-snoop (08/19/2009)
Is $22,500 Per Song Unconstitutional? (08/19/2009)
Google book project far from settled (08/19/2009)
‘Legal Planet’ Successfully Orbiting the Blogosphere (08/19/2009)
LifeLock tries to fend off legal battles (08/17/2009)
Many Sites Using Flash Cookies to Silently Track Users (08/17/2009)
Flash Cookies Track Even Privacy-conscious Surfers, Study Finds (08/17/2009)
How were Social Security numbers given away? (08/15/2009)
More Seek Privacy from Google Book Search Settlement (08/14/2009)
National Writers Union Opposes Google Book Settlement (08/13/2009)
Cheryl Hicks ’83, Lowell Carruth ’62 Elected to California State Bar Board of Governors (08/12/2009)
Flash Cookies Used to Track User Behavior (08/12/2009)
Another Quarter of Triple-Digit Growth for E-Books (08/12/2009)
Adobe Flash cookies pose privacy questions (08/11/2009)
More Pushback Against the Google Book Search Settlement (08/11/2009)
David Kappos ’90 Confirmed as New Director of U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (08/10/2009)
You Deleted Your Cookies? Think Again (08/10/2009)
The Audacity of the Google Book Search Settlement (08/10/2009)
Myths or Facts in Feminist Scholarship? (08/10/2009)
San Francisco Bestows High Honor on Author Doug Dorst ’95 (08/06/2009)
Shooter’s online rants were like trees in forest (08/06/2009)
First Summer LL.M. Session Draws Rave Reviews (08/06/2009)
OCIP Bidding/Action Items/Reminders (08/06/2009)
More on Fall Recruiting (07/30/2009)
BT: Creepy Or Perception (07/30/2009)
Ads Follow Web Users, and Get More Personal (07/30/2009)
Deficit: What caused it, why it matters (07/30/2009)
Stephen Sugarman Unveils New Tactic to Improve Industry Accountability (07/29/2009)
James Boyle On: Strategies For The Digital Age: Beyond Mocking the Clueless (07/29/2009)
Organizations Urge Google To Ensure Privacy Protection in Book Search (07/28/2009)
ACLU, EFF Urge Google Books to do Better Job Keeping Users’ Reading Private (07/27/2009)
Budgets by the People, for the People (07/27/2009)
Chilled Innovation v. Balanced Evolution: Reflecting on Indirect Copyright Liability in the Digital Age (07/24/2009)
Google Book Search Privacy Under Fire (07/24/2009)
Ex-FTC economist Baker joins FCC (07/23/2009)
Don’t Let Google Close the Book on Reader Privacy! (07/23/2009)
Who should bear the burden of UC budget cuts? (07/22/2009)
Dean Christopher Edley Tapped to Serve on a University-wide Effort to Secure UC’s Future (07/21/2009)
A Decade Later, Amazon Finds Itself on Other Side of ‘1-Click’ Patent Battle (07/17/2009)
UC system: layoffs, not pay cuts (07/16/2009)
Why We Endorsed Warrantless Wiretaps (07/16/2009)
Cynthia Giles ’78 Tackles Busy Agenda in High-Ranking EPA Post (07/15/2009)
San Jose Family Finds Credit Card Info Online (07/15/2009)
Google Alert: Search Engine Links to Stolen Credit Cards from Russian Site (07/15/2009)
Balancing privacy with better medical data (07/14/2009)
Inequitable punishment (07/14/2009)
Paul Mishkin, Longtime Berkeley Law Professor and Courts Expert, Dies at 82 (07/13/2009)
“Family Values” and the Law: A Guest Post (07/09/2009)
OCIP Resources (07/08/2009)
Here comes the next fiscal crisis (07/08/2009)
Briefs: Live Nation, Joel Tenenbaum, Spotify (07/08/2009)
Ann O’Leary ’05 to Play Key Role in Maria Shriver’s Women’s Project (07/07/2009)
No more quotas: Supreme Court dealt a final blow to racially motivated hiring (07/07/2009)
Ann O’Leary ’05 to Play Key Role in Maria Shriver’s Women’s Project (07/07/2009)
Social Security Numbers Are Easy to Guess (07/06/2009)
Social Security Numbers Deduced From Public Data (07/06/2009)
Mayor Hickenlooper wants database to help track kids’ trends (07/05/2009)
Google Book Search Settlement Inquiry Announced (07/05/2009)
Evening and Weekend Hours and Some OCIP Info (07/03/2009)
Pamela Samuelson Takes Aim at Google Book Settlement (07/02/2009)
Pamela Samuelson Takes Aim at Google Book Settlement (07/02/2009)
DOJ Officially Opens Investigation Into Google Book Search (07/02/2009)
Building a new UC – in cyberspace (07/01/2009)
California’s lethal-injection plan is proven to be inhumane (06/27/2009)
Longtime Berkeley Law Professor Named Yale Law School Dean (06/26/2009)
Michael Jackson, RIP, FAQ (06/26/2009)
10 lessons for national health care reform (06/23/2009)
Jennifer Jeffers ’10 Wins Harmon Prize (06/22/2009)
Will File-Sharing Case Spawn a Copyright Reform Movement? (06/22/2009)
What’s next for Jammie Thomas-Rasset? (06/21/2009)
Magazine Names Robert Barr Top Leader in Intellectual Property (06/18/2009)
Record Labels’ $1.9 Million Win in Thomas Retrial Constitutional? (06/18/2009)
American to lead U.N. agency’s patent division (06/18/2009)
Google urged to beef up Gmail security (06/16/2009)
New Robert Barr Scholarship Honors BCLT’s Executive Director (06/13/2009)
Privacy vs. Profit on the Internet (06/12/2009)
Mommy blogger family photo swiped, used for Czech grocery store ad (06/11/2009)
How Facebook and Twitter Are Changing Data Privacy Rules (06/11/2009)
Reports: DOJ turns up the heat on Google’s book deal (06/10/2009)
Leading Legal Scholar Questions Radical Measures to ”Streamline” Music Licensing on the Internet (06/09/2009)
Desiree Ramirez ’09 Receives Francine Diaz Memorial Award (06/08/2009)
Judge Tosses Warrantless Wiretap Cases (06/04/2009)
CDO: Summer Info (06/02/2009)
Sotomayor’s remark does not make her a racist (06/02/2009)
Google Is Top Tracker of Surfers in Study (06/02/2009)
Theodore B. Olson ’65 Joins Former Rival to Fight Proposition 8 (05/28/2009)
Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor’s Speech at Berkeley Law in 2001 (05/26/2009)
Centro Legal de La Raza Honors María Blanco, Former Students (05/22/2009)
Berkeley Law Launches Inaugural Summer LL.M. Program (05/21/2009)
FTC Chairman Appoints Willard Tom as General Counsel and Announces Four Other Senior Appointments (05/21/2009)
2009 Graduation (05/20/2009)
FTC Returns to Berkeley to Examine Intellectual Property Markets (05/18/2009)
Can Californians afford to keep the death penalty? (05/17/2009)
Consumers Left in the Dark on Net Privacy (05/15/2009)
Google’s book scanning faces scrutiny (05/11/2009)
Summer & OCIP Prep (05/08/2009)
Boalt’s Response To The Economic Crisis (05/08/2009)
Google in dispute over book project (05/01/2009)
Urging Global Access for Medical Breakthroughs (04/30/2009)
Manufacturing Outrage (04/30/2009)
Judge delays Google books hearing (04/29/2009)
Lindsay Harris ’09 Wins Sax Prize for Excellence in Clinical Advocacy (04/29/2009)
Is Tenure a Trap for Women? (04/22/2009)
Google Books Rival Objects to Settlement (04/20/2009)
Scholarships, Symposium to Honor Professor Philip Frickey (04/20/2009)
Can pro baseball save itself? (04/17/2009)
Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement (04/17/2009)
Opposition to Google Books Settlement Jells (04/17/2009)
Berkeley Law Students Negotiate Climate Change in Denmark (04/16/2009)
Don’t hamstring the Endangered Species Act (04/15/2009)
Profs protest massive P2P damage awards (04/12/2009)
Asa Solway ’09 to Pioneer Fellowship Program in Sierra Leone (04/09/2009)
To noted lawyer, it’s an open and shout case (04/08/2009)
My Word: John Yoo’s academic freedom is being guarded by UC Berkeley (04/04/2009)
Google’s Plan for Out-of-Print Books Is Challenged (04/03/2009)
Role Models and Mentors (03/25/2009)
International Human Rights Law Clinic Students Brief Policymakers on Guantánamo (03/23/2009)
Cuomo Wins Ruling to Name Merrill Bonus Recipients (03/18/2009)
Will democracy bring the demise of the hangman? (03/16/2009)
Advertisers Get a Trove of Clues in Smartphones (03/11/2009)
Cali Law Interns Find Career Options in D.C. (03/09/2009)
Do Breach Notification Laws Work? (03/09/2009)
Defense Attorney John Burris ’73 and the BART Shooting Case (03/06/2009)
Lawmaker: Consumers need details in data breach warnings (03/06/2009)
California Looks to Expand Data Breach Notification Law (03/06/2009)
Clinic Demands That Mother of Murder Victim Be Allowed to Speak at Sentencing of Drug Lord (03/03/2009)
Dressed for Success! (03/01/2009)
Reliving the Dream (03/01/2009)
It Takes a Community (03/01/2009)
Amend telecommunications surveillance laws (03/01/2009)
One Tough Case (03/01/2009)
Dressed for Success! (03/01/2009)
Amend telecommunications surveillance laws (03/01/2009)
Reliving the Dream (03/01/2009)
It Takes a Community (03/01/2009)
One Tough Case (03/01/2009)
A plan to make imports safe (02/25/2009)
Top UC Law Schools Launch Collaborative Field Placement Program in Washington, D.C. (02/25/2009)
FCC to Telecoms: Explain Privacy Protection or Pay Up (02/25/2009)
Men and Mothering (02/24/2009)
Give scholars access to the national DNA database (02/24/2009)
Spotlight: Berkeley CHEFS Promotes Hybrid Health Reform (02/24/2009)
Spotlight: Berkeley CHEFS Promotes Hybrid Health Reform (02/24/2009)
Spotlight: EBCLC Partnership Assists Low-Income Families of Sick Children (02/23/2009)
Spotlight: Face-to-Face With Mentally Ill Clients (02/23/2009)
Google Tracker can show where you are (02/22/2009)
Some thoughts on female leadership in male-dominated fields (02/20/2009)
Too Much Information? Critics Decry Sites That Mine Public Data (02/20/2009)
FTC Announces Third in Series of Hearings on Evolving Intellectual Property Marketplace (02/18/2009)
Resolve the Indian Trust litigation (02/17/2009)
Spending restraint and rainy day fiscal relief (02/17/2009)
Clean up taxes the EZ way (02/17/2009)
Google Tracker Appeals to Facebook Crowd, Spurs Privacy Worries (02/16/2009)
EFF Raises Privacy Concerns with Google Latitude (02/16/2009)
New guidelines for tracking consumers online (02/13/2009)
Student Trip to Jordan Launches Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project (02/12/2009)
FTC: No Privacy Laws For BT (02/12/2009)
Privacy Advocates: FTC’s BT Guidelines Not Sufficient (02/12/2009)
Privacy groups slam new rules (02/12/2009)
Student Trip to Jordan Launches Iraqi Refugee Assistance Project (02/12/2009)
Summer Fellowships (02/10/2009)
Head Start takes a back seat (02/10/2009)
Campaigning for patent reform (02/10/2009)
Creative Commons Panel at Harvard Cyber Law (02/09/2009)
Public Greets Massive Data Breach With Collective Yawn (02/09/2009)
Death Threats Follow Web Map of Donors (02/08/2009)
Prop 8 Donor Web Site Shows Disclosure Law Is 2-Edged Sword (02/07/2009)
New Energy Emphasis, New Name for Berkeley Law Research Center (02/05/2009)
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act won’t close wage gap between men and women (02/04/2009)
A road map to healthcare reform (02/03/2009)
Obama Made a Rash Decision on Gitmo (01/29/2009)
A Busy Year in Books for Berkeley Law Faculty (01/29/2009)
A Bad Reputation (01/27/2009)
Data Privacy Day’s messages for Obama, consumers (01/27/2009)
Jennifer King Takes Snapshot of San Francisco’s Surveillance Program (01/27/2009)
How Obama can fix an illegal war (01/23/2009)
Berkeley Website Offers Policy Ideas to Obama Administration (01/23/2009)
Students Help North African Win Three-Year Asylum Battle (01/22/2009)
Other Public Interest Career Fairs (01/21/2009)
2 Off Campus Public Interest Conferences (01/21/2009)
The Bible (01/20/2009)
“Reality Check” Employer Visits (01/20/2009)
Getting over the Rev. Rick (01/19/2009)
Death Penalty Clinic Helps Keep Alabama Man Off Death Row (01/16/2009)
Future of Privacy Forum Issues Recommendations for the New Presidential Administration (01/13/2009)
PI/PS Day 2009 (01/13/2009)
Mock Interview Program (01/08/2009)
Spring OCIP (01/08/2009)
Restore the Senate’s Treaty Power (01/04/2009)

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