Established in 1995, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) is a multidisciplinary research center at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. The first of its kind, BCLT has garnered worldwide distinction for its research and instructional program exploring the most pressing technology law and policy issues.
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BCLT IN THE NEWS
Sonia Katyal quoted in Vox on racist corporate brand names (7/9/20)
Catherine Fisk quoted in Vox on police union reforms (6/24/20)
Catherine Fisk quoted in Huffington Post on reforming police unions (06/20/20)
Catherine Fisk quoted by Bloomberg News on worker safety (06/11/20)
Catherine Crump op-ed in the LA Times on prison privacy in the COVID-19 era (6/22/20)
Sonia Katyal Op-Ed in New York Times (6/19/20)
Rebecca Wexler’s work cited in Wired (6/19/20)
Erik Stallman quoted on Bloomberg on SCOTUS copyright case (4/27/20)
Andera Roth in SF Chronicle on video trials (4/7/2020)
Orin Kerr on NBC News, on coronavirus response (3/20/20)
Pam Samuelson testifies before Senate subcommittee (3/10/20)
BCLT Signature EVENTS
Legal Frontiers in Digital Media: 2020 Webinar Series
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Tough Issues and Hot Topics in CCPA Compliance
Thursday, June 18, 2020
11:00 A.M. (PT)
Registration open
Annual Privacy Law Forum
Four Seasons Hotel
East Palo Alto, CA
NOTE: the program will be very similar to the one originally planned. Registration remains open.
20th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute: Silicon Valley
Latest Research by BCLT Faculty and Fellows
Ken Bamberger (with Serge Egelman et al.)
Can You Pay For Privacy? Consumer Expectations and the Behavior of Free and Paid Apps
35 Berkeley Tech. L. J. (forthcoming 2020)
Catherine Crump
Tracking the Trackers: An Examination of Electronic Monitoring of Youth in Practice
53 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 795 (2019)
Catherine Fisk
Hollywood Writers and the Gig Economy
2017 U. Chi. Legal F. 177 (2018)
Chris Jay Hoofnagle (with Aniket Kesari and Aaron Perzanowski)
The Tethered Economy
87 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 783 (2019)
Sonia Katyal
Brands Behaving Badly
109 Trademark Rep. 819 (2019)
Orin Kerr
Decryption Originalism: The Lessons of Burr
134 Harvard L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020)
Peter Menell (with David Nimmer and Shyamkrishna Balganesh)
Google v. Oracle Amicus Merits Stage Brief: Vindicating IP’s Channeling Principle and Restoring Jurisdictional Balance to Software Copyright Protection (2020)
Rob Merges
The Hamiltonian Origins of the U.S. Patent System, and Why They Matter Today
104 Iowa L. Rev. 2559 (2019)
Deirdre Mulligan (with Daniel Kluttz)
Automated Decision Support Technologies and the Legal Profession
34 Berkeley Tech. L. J. 853 (2019)
Tejas Narechania
The Secret Life of a Text Message
Columbia Law Review Forum (forthcoming, 2020)
Andrea Roth
Beyond Cross-Examination
97 Texas Law Review Online 193 (2019)
Pamela Samuelson (with Mark Gergen)
The Disgorgement Remedy of Design Patent Law
108 Calif. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020)
Paul Schwartz
Global Data Privacy: The EU Way
94 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 771 (2019)
Erik Stallman (with Jennifer Urban)
Brief on Behalf of Amicus Curiae Open Source Hardware Association in Curver Luxembourg, SARL v. Home Expressions Inc., No. 18-2214 (Fed. Cir.) (2019)
Jennifer Urban (with Joe Karaganis and Brianna L. Schofield)
Takedown in Two Worlds: An Empirical Analysis
64 J. Copyright Soc’y USA 483 (2018)
Molly Van Houweling
Equitable Estoppel and Information Costs in Contemporary Copyright
23 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 553 (2019)
Rebecca Wexler
Privacy Asymmetries: Access to Data in Criminal Investigations
68 U.C.L.A. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2021)
Christina Koningisor
Transparency Deserts
114 Northwestern L. Rev. 1461 (2020)