2025 Events

Jan 23, 2025

Location: Online/Zoom
Key Speakers: Colleen Chien, BCLT; Catherine Crump, BCLT; Andrea Roth, BCLT; Rebecca Wexler, BCLT; Chesa Boudin, Criminal Law & Justice Center

Feb 4, 2025

B-CLE Webcast
Session 3: Stocked Based Compensation (SBC) Managing Unforeseen Foreign Tax Issues
Location: B-CLE
Key Speakers: Himali Patel, Baker McKenzie; Gene Tien, Baker McKenzie Consulting LLC

Tech companies face significant cross-border tax issues due to stock based compensation. Employee mobility and significant use of international operations have escalated the urgency of addressing these tax issues sooner rather than later. Typical corporate events, including IPOs, M&A, and share buybacks, threaten tech companies with significant, unnecessary taxes without proper planning. This program addresses hot topics in SBC compensation.

Feb 5, 2025

B-CLE Webcast
Location: B-CLE
Key Speakers: Chris Mammen, Womble Bond Dickinson

What is the future of content creators in the age of AI? Will IP laws offer any protection, or will IP laws aid in the replacement of human content creators with their AI counterparts? Using a global perspective, this interesting program analyzes the future of AI content creation and AI-assisted content creation. Join us as we explore Dr. Chris Mammen’s research during his recent sabbatical.

Feb 27-28,
2025

Location: Residence Inn, Berkeley
Opening Keynote Speaker: Deirdre Mulligan, UC Berkeley School of Information & Center for Law & Technology
Afternoon Keynote Speaker: Tino Cuéllar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

This symposium will begin with a half-day tutorial on Feb. 27 for those not yet acquainted with major initiatives such as the California legislature’s SB 1047. On Feb. 28, speakers will present a range of perspectives on these initiatives and others, considering various types of governance tools that regulators may deploy, and offering assessments of which are more and less likely to be effective in promoting artificial intelligence systems for the public good and ensuring safe and trustworthy development of such systems.

March 6,
2025

Location: UC Berkeley Faculty Club, Seaborg Room
Speaker: Nico Van Eijk, Prof. of Media and Telecommunications Law and Director of the Institute for Information Law (IViR), Faculty of Law, University of Amsterdam

Maintaining a proper balance between the interests of national security and the protection of fundamental rights is essential. An improved system of checks and balances requires a more normative approach where greater operational flexibility is counterbalanced by real-time and binding oversight. Drawing upon years of oversight of two of the most capable continental intelligence agencies, Nico van Eijk explains the effort to find such an improved system.

April 11,
2025

Location: B-CLE
Key Speakers: Miles Cooley, Liner Freedman Taitelman + Cooley

Bringing together leading executives, management professionals, attorneys, athletes, talent, and students to discuss leading topics in sports, entertainment, law, and business.

April 16,
2025

Location: Zoom
Key Speakers: Associate Professor Zach Pardos, School of Education, UC Berkeley; Assistant Teaching Professor Gireeja Ranade, EECS, UC Berkeley

Berkeley AI and Society Event (4/16) featuring UC Berkeley Associate Professor Zach Pardos (School of Education) and UC Berkeley Assistant Teaching Professor Gireeja Ranade (EECS) in conversation on the topic of AI and Education. For more information see: https://ai-and-society.github.io/

April 17,
2025

Location: 100 Law Building
Key Speaker: Al Malecha, Haynes and Boone
Al Malecha will present her new report, “From Algorithms to Embryos: How AI is Changing Assisted Reproduction.” The report shows how the introduction of AI in assisted reproductive technology is posing ethical and moral challenges to the field.

May 8,
2025

Location: Mission Bay Conference Center – San Francisco
This annual conference explores emerging legal issues surrounding digital content in today’s multi-platform world. Since 2008, this event has led the global conversation about matters at the intersection of digital media, freedom of speech, and law. 

Sept 10,
2025

Location: Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina, USA
Hosted by IAM
Supported by BCLT

Network with the industry’s movers and shakers and gain exclusive access to the minds shaping the future of IP. As the transaction market evolves with strategic moves in pharma, automotive, semiconductors and wireless communication, uncover the latest innovative strategies for buying and selling patents through our expert-led discussions.

This is your chance to stay ahead of the curve and place yourself in an environment where deals are done, contracts are signed, and real business takes place.

Sept 11,
2025

Location: Booth Auditorium
Presented & Collaborated with JAMS, Jus Mundi, and Silicon Valley Mediation and Arbitration Center

Join us for a bold, in-person program that dives into the future of mediation and arbitration in the age of Artificial Intelligence. Through a live mediation simulation and a mock arbitration hearing, top practitioners, technologists, and scholars will explore the boundaries of what AI can—and cannot—do in the world of conflict resolution.

You’ll witness human and AI mediators go head-to-head, debate algorithmic arbitrator selection, and engage directly in shaping the conversation.

Sept 19,
2025

Presented by Berkeley Center for Private Law Theory

This colloquium seeks to bring together scholars who study copyright with scholars who focus on private-law theory from a human-centered perspective. Our hope is that this will facilitate an interesting dialogue and helpful cross-fertilization.

Sept 29,
2025

Location: Online – B-CLE
Hosted by Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ) & Coalition Minorities in Technology Law (CMTL)

Join us for Regulating the Machine: Centering Racial Justice in AI Policy-Making, a thought-provoking event exploring the intersection of AI, racial justice, and regulatory and legal frameworks that seek to address some of the most pressing issues of our time. We’ll explore the convergence of the worsening climate crisis and the “AI boom”; unpack concerns about how AI use will impact workers; and discuss the consequence of racial bias in AI tools across sectors, from the criminal legal system to healthcare.

Nov 13,
2025

Location: Hotel Kabuki, San Francisco, USA
Hosted by IAM
Supported by BCLT

Discover how integrating a cutting-edge trade secrets strategy into your IP framework can empower you with the competitive edge needed to thrive in today’s fast paced markets. Bringing together leading trade secret experts this event offers practical take-home insights on trade secret maturity, crisis management, and safeguarding your assets in the age of AI. Don’t miss your moment to be at the forefront of IP protection.

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 17,
2025

Location: Zoom
Presented by BCLT Life Sciences Law & Policy Center
Key Speaker(s): Ismail L. Ali, MAPS; Vincent Joralemon, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law; Graham Pechenik, Calyx Law; Shahin Shams, Porta Sophia; Tamar Todd, UC Berkeley Law

Psychedelics have long been legally inaccessible. That might change soon. Join us as we explore the complex legal and regulatory pathway for psychedelic drug rescheduling. As promising clinical trial data for substances like psilocybin and MDMA emerges, a critical question remains: how should these compounds move from Schedule I of the Controlled Substances Act to become accessible medical treatments?

Nov 19,
2025

Location: Booth Auditorium (changed from Room 110), 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.

Nov 20,
2025

Location: UC Washington Center, D.C.
With unmatched access to thought leaders and practical guidance tailored to U.S. stakeholders, this event is your essential guide to the fast-evolving world of the Unified Patent Court. This daylong, high-impact institute offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from UPC judges, former USPTO and Federal Circuit leadership, seasoned litigators, global in-house counsel, and UPC experts.

Dec 4-5,
2025

Location: Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Two days of in-depth discussions on patent law with panels of leading experts.