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
Tops Index of Deal Firms in Life Sciences (1/19/17)
Technology Group of the Year (1/13/2017)
IP Partners recognized by the industry as Thought Leaders (6/15/2017)
Chambers USA Recognizes Orrick Teams (5/30/17)
Earns Top Ratings for Patent Work (6/7/2017)
BCLT IN THE NEWS
Washington Post quotes Jim Dempsey on government demands for cell phone data (7/18/17)
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)
IP Law Program at Berkeley Law Ranked #1 by U.S. News & World Report Again (3/13/17)
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
Kenneth Bamberger (with Orly Lobel)
Platform Market Power, 32 Berkeley Technology Law Journal (forthcoming 2017)
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)
Sonia Katyal
The Numerus Clausus of Sex, University of Chicago Law Review (2017)
Peter S. Menell
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 (forthcoming 2017-18)
Robert Merges
What Kind of Rights Are Intellectual Property Rights? Oxford Handbook of IP Law (Forthcoming 2017)
Deirdre Mulligan
Privacy is an Essentially Contested Concept: a Multi-dimensional Analytic for Mapping Privacy, Philosophical Transactions Royal Society Publishing (2016)
Tejas Narechania
Patent Conflicts, 103 Georgetown Law Journal 1483 (2015)
Pamela Samuelson
Functionality and Expression in Computer Programs, 31 Berkeley Technology Law Journal (forthcoming, 2017)
Paul Schwartz (with Daniel Solove)
Privacy Law Fundamentals, (IAAP 2017)
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)