BCLT Student Events

Nov 13,
2025

Location: International House, UC Berkeley
Firms Attending: See event website (linked above)

Nov 14,
2025

Location: Faculty Club, UC Berkeley
Bringing together leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers from the US, China, UK, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, and other Asian countries to explore how intellectual property law should address AI’s transformative impact in furthering its purpose of promoting human creativity, covering key topics such as inventorship, nonobviousness, disclosure, authorship, and copyright infringement.

Nov 19,
2025

Location: Booth Auditorium, UC Berkeley Law Building
Speaker: Lior Jacob Strahilevitz, Sidley Austin Professor of Law
This lecture explores how the law inconsistently treats blanket opt-outs across privacy, arbitration, and AI training contexts. We’ll examine when blanket opt-outs work, why they fail elsewhere, and where legal reforms or private-sector solutions may offer a path forward.

Jan 13,
2026

Location: Room 100, UC Berkeley Law Building
Speakers: TBA

Jan 20,
2026

Location: Back Patio, Freehouse Berkeley
Firms Attending: TBA

Feb 5,
2026

Location: International House, UC Berkeley
Firms Attending: TBA

Nov 4,
2025

Location: Back Patio, Freehouse Berkeley
Firms Attending: See below.

Nov 3,
2025

Location: Room 12, Law School Building
 Info session for the specialty IP and tech classes available. These classes include the Deep Tech Innovation Lab (with Haas and the Engineering school), IP Strategy and Due Diligence, Samuelson Clinic, Global Rights Innovation Lab Clinic, and the
Legal Technology Writing Workshop (LTWW).

Oct 29,
2025

Location: Room 100, UC Berkeley Law Building
Speakers:James Park – Davis Polk, Leeron Kalay – Fish & Richardson, Andrew Merickel – Knobbe, and Gaby LaHatte – Weil

Oct 30,
2025

Location: Room 100, UC Berkeley Law Building
Speakers: Saurabh Prabhakar – Debevoise, Laura Harris – Kirkland, Mike LaFond – Quinn Emanuel, and Eric Wiener – Morrison Foerster

Oct 21,
2025

Location: Back Patio, Freehouse Berkeley
Firms Attending: See below.

Oct 14,
2025

Location: Room 100, UC Berkeley Law Building
Speakers: Mike Perretta (Cooley), Morgan Sawchuk (Fenwick), Anik Guha (Orrick), and Stan Lewandowski (Pillsbury)

Oct 7,
2025

Location: Back Patio, Freehouse Berkeley
Firms Attending: See below.

Sept 30,
2025

Location: Room 100, UC Berkeley Law Building
Speakers: Ivana Dukanovic – Latham, Olivia Poppens-Shultz – Kilpatrick, and Daniel Mello – Morrison Foerster

Sept 23,
2025

Location: Goldberg/Warren, Rooms 295 and 297
Firms Attending: See below.

Sept 16,
2025

Location: Front Patio, Freehouse Berkeley
Firms Attending: See below.

Sept 9,
2025

Location: Room 100, UC Berkeley Law Building
Panelists: Cecilia Choy – McDermott Will & Schulte, Jennifer Bennett – Jones Day, Wilson Sonsini, and Sidley

Sept 2,
2025

Location: Back Patio, Freehouse Berkeley
Firms Attending: See below.

Aug 28,
2025

Location: Keker, Van Nest & Peters Office, San Francisco
A workshop to empower incoming 1L law students for career and networking events throughout the first year of law school.

Aug 26,
2025

Location: Room 100, UC Berkeley Law Building
Panelists: Matt Avery – Baker Botts, Bijal Vakil – Skadden, David Okano – White & Case, Jon Ng – Goodwin, Lindsey Shinn – Morgan Lewis

Aug 19,
2025

Location: 105 Law Building, UC Berkeley Law Building

For new J.D. and LL.M. candidates, this lunch session provides insight into all of the many components of the law & technology program at Berkeley Law.

May 15,
2025

Location: Booth Auditorium, UC Berkeley Law Building
Faculty Speaker: Chris Hoofnagle, BCLT Faculty Co-Director
End-of-year ceremony to celebrate our graduating Class of 2025 J.D. and LL.M. students who have successfully earned their Law & Technology Certificates.