2024 David E. Nelson Memorial Lecture & Spring Tech Careers Fair

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 | 4:30 PM
University Club, California Memorial Stadium

Register to secure your seat at the lecture: https://bclt.wufoo.com/forms/2024-david-e-nelson-memorial-lecture/

Join BCLT for the 2024 David E. Nelson Memorial Lecture. This not-to-be-missed annual event will once again be held at the spectacular University Club, atop the California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. Introductions will be made by Edlene Miguel from the IP Law Society and Women in Tech Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law. CLE will be offered.

How can we best fulfill the Constitution’s mandate to promote the “progress of science and the useful arts”? In this public lecture, Professor Colleen Chien will argue for a shift in our understanding of “progress” to emphasize the importance of a diversity of innovators to the enterprise of innovation. She’ll talk about the “innovator-inventor gap,” the much lower rate at which women and underrepresented innovators become inventors, and steps lawmakers, policymakers, and companies can take to ensure that the best ideas, from all innovators, are considered and developed. The lecture will also highlight the work of the Diversity Pilots Initiative (diversitypilots.org), a partnership among leading academics and companies to foster inclusion in innovation through empirical research methods, including randomized control trials.

The lecture will be given by Professor Colleen Chien (UC Berkeley School of Law) on her paper titled “Redefining Progress: The Case for Diversity in Innovation and Inventing.” Respondents for the lecture are Dean Erwin Chemerinsky (UC Berkeley School of Law) and Director Kathi Vidal (US Patent & Trade Office).

Reception to follow.

2024 BCLT Spring Tech Law Careers Fair

We continue our tradition of following our signature Nelson Memorial Lecture with a career fair to connect BCLT sponsors and Berkeley Law students.

BCLT is pleased to invite all Berkeley Law 1L students to this year’s Spring Tech Law Careers Fair from 6:30-8:30 P.M. at the Field Club, in the California Memorial Stadium. The purpose of this event is to introduce BCLT sponsor firms and Berkeley Law students for current and future hiring. This career fair is geared toward the 1Ls who would like more information on these firms and their approach to associate hiring, training, and development.

Register to attend the career fair: https://bclt.wufoo.com/forms/2024-bclt-spring-tech-career-fair/

The Nelson Lecture reception will help kick off conversations and the content of the lecture will provide great ice-breakers to connect with our sponsors.

For more information on the careers fair, contact Abril Delgado (abrildelgado@berkeley.edu).