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
BCLT Signature Events
Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference
August 9 & 10, 2018
Berkeley, CA
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Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture
November 8, 2018
Bancroft Hotel
2680 Bancroft Way
Berkeley, CA
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Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute: Silicon Valley
December 6-7, 2018
Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley
East Palo Alto, CA
Details TBA (2017 APLI info)
Annual BCLT Privacy Law Forum: Silicon Valley
March 22, 2019
Four Seasons Hotel Silicon Valley
East Palo Alto, CA
Details TBA (2018 PLF info)
Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium
April 2019
International House
UC Berkeley
Details TBA (2018 Symposium info)
Annual Conference on Legal Frontiers in Digital Media
Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference
May/June 2019
Berkeley, CA
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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 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)
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 (2018)
Robert Merges
What Kind of Rights Are Intellectual Property Rights? Oxford Handbook of IP Law (Forthcoming 2018)
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 1215 (2017)
Paul Schwartz (with Karl-Nikolaus Peifer)
Transatlantic Data Privacy Law
106 Georgetown Law Journal 115 (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)