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.
FACULTY INSIGHTS
BCLT faculty directors describe their research, which delves into some of the central concerns of the digital age.
PARTNER SPOTLIGHT
Litigation Powerhouse: Cooley LLP (2016)
The American Lawyer’s
A-List (8/1/16)
Earns Top Ratings for Patent Work
BCLT IN THE NEWS
Intelligence Squared: Catherine Crump debates government surveillance and role of tech companies (6/6/17)
KQED quotes Deirdre Mulligan on voice imitation software (5/17/17)
Regulatory Review cites, at length, Peter Menell on 3D printing (3/22/17)
Guardian quotes Paul Schwartz and Chris Hoofnagle on airplane electronic devices ban (3/21/17)
IP Law Program at Berkeley Law Ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report Again (3/13/17)
SF Chronicle quotes Sonia Katyal on tech workers and politics (3/9/17)
BCLT Signature Events
Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference
August 10 & 11, 2017
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
New York, NY
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Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture:
Professor Christine L. Borgman
Open Data, Trust, and Stewardship: Universities at the Privacy Frontier
November 16, 2017
3:30 PM
The Faculty Club
Berkeley, CA
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The Role of the Courts in Patent Law and Policy
Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute: Silicon Valley
December 14-15, 2017
Computer History Museum
Mountain View, CA
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Annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum: Silicon Valley
March 23, 2018
Four Seasons
East Palo Alto, CA
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Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium
The Administrative Law of Intellectual Property
April 12-13, 2018
International House
UC Berkeley
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Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference
May 30-31, 2018
George Washington University
Washington, D.C.
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Latest Research by BCLT Faculty and Fellows
Catherine Crump
Surveillance Policy Making by Procurement, Washington Law Review (2016)
Chris Hoofnagle
Federal Trade Commission Privacy Law and Policy, Cambridge University Press (2015)
Sonia Katyal
Infrastructural Entitlements and the Civil Right to Technology, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2716368 (2016)
Peter S. Menell
Rise of the API Copyright Dead?: An Updated Epitaph for Copyright Protection of Network and Functional Features of Computer Software, UC Berkeley School of Law (2017)
Robert Merges & Justin Hughes
Copyright and Distributive Justice, 92 Notre Dame Law Review (2016)
Deirdre Mulligan & Kenneth Bamberger
Privacy on the Ground: Driving Corporate Behavior in the United States and Europe, The MIT Press (2015)
Tejas Narechania
Patent Conflicts, 103 Georgetown Law Journal 1483 (2015)
Pamela Samuelson
Strategies for Discerning the Boundaries of Copyright and Patent Protections, 92 Notre Dame Law Review 1493 (2017)
Paul Schwartz
Reconciling Personal Information in the United States and European Union, 102 California Law Review (2014)
Jennifer Urban, Brianna L. Schofield & Joe Karaganis
Notice and Takedown in Everyday Practice, UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2755628 (2016)
Molly Van Houweling
Exhaustion and Personal Property Servitudes, Research Handbook on Intellectual Property Exhaustion and Parallel Imports (2016)