BCLT Events

December 12 & 13, 2019
Four Seasons Hotel
East Palo Alto, CA

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Co-organized by BCLT and Stanford Law School, the APLI presents a roster of judges, academics, litigators, patent prosecutors, and senior IP counsel from major corporations offering a results-oriented, in-depth look at the latest developments in patent law and practice.

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24th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium

The Roles of Technology Expertise in Law and Policy 

February 27-28, 2020
International House
UC Berkeley

This symposium will explore how expertise about technology and its impacts is generated, introduced, and used in making legal and policy decisions. As more legislation, litigation, and regulation involves technological matters (especially those involving digital technologies), we want to consider how expertise about the design and implications of technology informs decision-making: what has worked well, what has not worked, and how technological expertise can be better used. We aim to examine and assess reliance on expertise about technology across all three branches of government and at the federal, state and local levels. Among the questions we want to ask: What should be considered an issue of technological expertise and what should be considered a question of law or politics? Should Congress recreate an Office of Technology Assessment? What lessons can be learned from the ways federal agencies obtain and use technological expertise? In technologically complex cases, should judges appoint experts, technical advisers, or special masters or rely on attorneys and litigants’ experts?

Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Judicial Institute, the Internet Policy Research Initiative at MIT, and the Institute for Technology Law & Policy at Georgetown Law

Made possible with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.

BCLT Privacy Law Forum

The Right to Repair Under Siege?

April 2 & 3, 2020 
UC Berkeley School of Law 

Do consumers have the right to repair their own cars or their own computers or take them to a repairperson they choose? Often, the makers of software-enabled products limit how and where they can be repaired. This conference will consider the complex, overlapping set of policy questions at the center of the repair debate – issues implicating competition, intellectual property, environmental  protection, product security and safety, and consumer rights.

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Annual Conference on Legal Frontiers in Digital Media