Friday, October 16, 2025
10:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M. (PT)
For topical questions to our speakers, please find their contact information within the respective panels’ Speaker Bios and Contact Info slide decks.
Fall 2026 BTLJ Symposium Speaker Bio and Contact Info
| Time (PT) | Panel |
Speakers & Moderators |
| 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. |
Panel 1: The Last Private Place 1.00 General CLE Credit Neural data, digital addiction, and the fight to protect the last frontier of privacy: the mind itself |
Speakers Matthew Lawrence, Emory University Law School Tracy Shapirom, Wilson Sonsini Francis Shen, Minnesota Law School Moderator Vincent Joralemon, Life Sciences & Competition Center, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
Panel 2: Your Face, Your Voice, Your Self 1.00 General CLE Credit Deepfakes, biometrics, and who controls identity when identity becomes data. |
Speakers Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, SAG-AFTRA Mary Anne Franks, GW Law Jennifer Rothman, Penn Carey Law School Moderator Sonia Katyal, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law |
| 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. |
Panel 3: The Black Box on Trial 1.00 General CLE Credit Algorithmic decisions, due process, and the right to contest a verdict you can’t see inside. |
Speakers Sean Quinn, Cooley Rebecca Wexler, Columbia Law School Inioluwa Deborah Raji, UC Berkeley Moderator Colleen Chien, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law |
| 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. |
Panel 4: Person, Product, Tool, or Speaker? 1.00 General CLE Credit AI’s unsettled legal status, and what happens when old categories meet new kinds of actors. |
Speakers Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, UC Berkeley Law Catherine M. Sharkey, NYU Law Janel Thamkul, Institute for Law & AI (LawAI), formerly Anthropic Moderator Pamela Samuelson, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law |