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.
BCLT Signature Events
20th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute: Silicon Valley
December 12 & 13, 2019
Four Seasons Hotel
East Palo Alto, CA
Registration and Agenda
24th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium
The Roles of Technology Expertise in Law and Policy
International House
UC Berkeley
Annual Privacy Law Forum
Four Seasons Hotel
East Palo Alto, CA
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
Ken Bamberger (with Deirdre Mulligan)
Saving Governance-by-Design
106 California Law Review 697 (2018)
Catherine Crump
Tracking the Trackers: An Examination of Electronic Monitoring of Youth in Practice
53 UC Davis Law Review (2019)
Catherine Fisk
Hollywood Writers and the Gig Economy
2017 U. Chi. Legal F. 177 (2018)
Chris Jay Hoofnagle (with Aniket Kesari and Aaron Perzanowski)
The Tethered Economy
87 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. (2019)
Sonia Katyal
Brands Behaving Badly
Trademark Reporter (2019)
Andrea Roth
Beyond Cross-Examination
97 Texas Law Review Online 193 (2019)
Orin Kerr
Compelled Decryption and the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination
97 Texas Law Review 767 (2019)
Peter Menell
Patent Showdown at the N.D. C[orr]al
18 Chicago-Kent. J. Intell. Prop. 450 (2019)
Rob Merges
The Hamiltonian Origins of the U.S. Patent System, and Why They Matter Today
104 Iowa L. Rev. 2559 (2019)
Deirdre Mulligan (with Daniel Kluttz)
Automated Decision Support Technologies and the Legal Profession
Berkeley Tech. L.J. (forthcoming 2020)
Tejas Narechania
State Immunity and the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
18 Chi-Kent J. Intell. Prop. 537 (2019)
Paul Schwartz
Global Data Privacy: The EU Way
94 N.Y.U. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2019)
Pamela Samuelson (with Mark Gergen)
The Disgorgement Remedy of Design Patent Law
108 Calif. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2020)
Jennifer Urban (with Joe Karaganis and Brianna L. Schofield)
Takedown in Two Worlds: An Empirical Analysis
64 J. Copyright Soc’y USA 483 (2018)
Molly Van Houweling
Equitable Estoppel and Information Costs in Contemporary Copyright
23 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 553 (2019)
Rebecca Wexler
Life, Liberty and Trade Secrets: Intellectual Property in the Criminal Justice System
70 Stan. L. Rev. 1343 (2018)