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.
BENEFACTOR SPOTLIGHT
Top Life Sciences Patent Firm (2016)
The American Lawyer’s A-List (8/1/16)
BCLT IN THE NEWS
Chris Hoofnagle quoted in IEEE Spectrum on online tracking (8/23/16)
Deirdre Mulligan and Kenneth Bamberger op-ed: Is your data really safer in Europe (6/6/16)
IP Law Program at Berkeley Law Ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report Again (3/18/16)
BCLT Signature Events
The 9th Annual Privacy Lecture //
Google Spain and the Right to be Forgotten:
Bureaucracy, Civility, Democracy
Yale Law School Dean (and former UC Berkeley law professor) Robert Post, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars, will present the 9th Annual Privacy Lecture, with comments by Leslie Kendrick, U Va Law School, and Eugene Volokh, UCLA Law School.
The 5th Annual US-China IP Conference //Intellectual Property and Economic Transformation
知识产权与经济转型
The 5th US-China IP Conference will bring together senior policymakers, judges, academics and international practitioners from China and the United States to discuss five important topics: (1) Recent Developments in Trade Secrets Law; (2) Privacy Protection under the Information Age; (3) Recent Developments in the Entertainment Law; (4) Patent Commercialization; and (5) Brand Protection.
Four Seasons Hotel
The 10th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC)
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
Adapting Copyright Law for the Mashup Generation, 164 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 441 (2016)
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
Reconceptualizing Copyright’s Merger Doctrine, 63 Journal of the Copyright Society (2016)
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)