2nd Annual Berkeley-Tsinghua Conference on Transnational IP Litigation
BCLT Privacy Lecture
Prof. Abraham Newman
Snowden’s Long Shadow: Recasting Domestic and Global Privacy Debates
November 7, 2019
3:30-5:30 PM
UC Berkeley School of Law
Berkeley, CA
As national security and commercial data sharing issues have become intertwined, the politics of international privacy have been recast. In his BCLT Privacy Lecture, Prof. Newman will explore how privacy is no longer simply a legal tool to safeguard dignity but increasingly a highly politicized policy field used to protect citizens, firms and governments from foreign surveillance.
Abraham Newman is a professor in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and Government Department at Georgetown University, Director of the Mortara Center for International Studies, and former chair of the European Union Studies Association. His latest book is Of Privacy and Power: the Transatlantic Struggle over Freedom and Security (with Henry Farrell, Princeton University Press 2019).
Commenting on Prof. Newman’s lecture will be:
- Prof. Laura Donohue, Georgetown University Law Center
- Prof. Margot Kaminski, Univ. of Colorado Law School
- Prof. Peter Swire, Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business
Annual Conference on The Role of the Courts in Patent Law and Policy
with Georgetown Law
November 15, 2019
Washington, DC
Program on Pharma IP, including Patent Linkage
with Tsinghua Law School
December 2019
Dongsheng Science Park
Beijing
Conference on Adapting to the Trade War
December 2019
Dongsheng Science Park
Beijing
20th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute: Silicon Valley
December 12 & 13, 2019
Four Seasons Hotel
East Palo Alto
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.
Semiconductor Patent Litigation
with the Semiconductor Industry Association
Early 2020
SF Bay Area
24th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium
February 27-28, 2020
Berkeley
“The Roles of Technology Expertise in Law and Policy”
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 and the Internet Policy Research Initiative at MIT.
Made possible with support from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
BCLT Privacy Law Forum
Palo Alto
Bridging academia and practice, this full-day conference brings together in-house counsel from leading tech companies, practicing lawyers, regulators, privacy advocates, and academics. Faculty from the UC Berkeley School of Law will share their latest research and analysis, and leading privacy experts from law firms, companies, and government agencies will offer fresh insight and practical advice on meeting urgent privacy challenges.
Annual Conference on Legal Frontiers in Digital Media
In partnership with the Media Law Resource Center, BCLT co-hosts this annual conference, exploring emerging legal issues surrounding digital content in today’s multi-platform world.
Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference
Organized jointly by BCLT and the George Washington University Law School, PLSC assembles a wide array of privacy law scholars and practitioners from around the world to discuss current issues and foster greater connections between academia and practice.
Washington, DC
20th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute: Silicon Valley
December 10 & 11, 2020
Four Seasons Hotel
East Palo Alto
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.