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.
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BCLT IN THE NEWS
Andrea Roth receives 2019 Distinguished Teaching Award
BCLT Signature Events
BCLT Privacy Lecture
Snowden and Data Localization
by Prof. Abraham Newman
November 7, 2019
Berkeley
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Annual Conference on Patent Law and Policy
with Georgetown Law
November 15, 2019
Washington, DC
19th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute: Silicon Valley
December 12 & 13, 2019
Four Seasons Hotel
East Palo Alto, CA
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24th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium
“The Roles of Technology Expertise in Law and Policy”
Berkeley
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Annual Privacy Law Forum
Palo Alto
Annual Conference on Legal Frontiers in Digital Media
Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference
with George Washington Law School
June 4-5, 2020
Washington, D.C.
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20th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute: Silicon Valley
Latest Research by BCLT Faculty and Fellows
Kenneth Bamberger (with Orly Lobel)
Platform Market Power
32 Berkeley Technology Law Journal (forthcoming 2018)
Catherine Crump
Surveillance Policy Making by Procurement
Washington Law Review (2016)
Chris Hoofnagle
What We Buy When We “Buy Now”
165 University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2017)
Private Accountability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, 66 UCLA L. Rev. 54 (2019)
Rise of the API Copyright Dead?: An Updated Epitaph for Copyright Protection of Network and Functional Features of Computer Software
Harvard Journal of Law & Technology Special Issue: Software Interface Copyright (2018)
What Kind of Rights Are Intellectual Property Rights?
Oxford Handbook of IP Law (Forthcoming 2018)
Rescripting Search to Respect the Right to Truth, 2 Geo. L. Tech. Rev. 557 (2018) (with Daniel S. Griffin)
Tejas Narechania
Patent Conflicts
103 Georgetown Law Journal 1483 (2015)
Pamela Samuelson
Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs
31 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1215 (2017)
Paul Schwartz
Global Data Privacy: The EU Way, 94 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2019)
Jennifer Urban, (with Brianna L. Schofield & Joe Karaganis)
Notice and Takedown in Everyday Practice
UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2755628 (2016)
Molly Van Houweling
Disciplining the Dead Hand of Copyright: Durational Limits on Remote Control Property
Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 53 (2017)