BCLT provides administrative and financial support to the below student groups. These groups concentrate on specific legal skills or areas of the law, including public interest, allowing students to supplement their law school education with invaluable law & technology-focused activities.
AI at Berkeley Law (AI@BL)
Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative Law (BERC Law)
Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law (BJESL)
Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ)
Blockchain & Law @ Berkeley
Coalition of Minorities in Technology Law (CMTL)
Health and Life Sciences Law Society at Berkeley Law (HaLS)
IP Law Society
Legal Innovation and Entrepreneurship (LINE) at Berkeley
Privacy Law at Berkeley (PrivLAB))
Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELS)
Women in Tech Law (WiTL)
BERC Law
BERC Law is the law school branch of the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative a student-led organization which aims to connect and educate the UC Berkeley energy and resources community. The group acts as a bridge between the University’s many schools, programs, and labs, and forges connections with the larger cleantech and energy cluster growing in the Bay Area and beyond.
BERC Law helps to inform law students about current legal practice and advances in the fields of energy, climate and clean technologies through curriculum development, an expanding alumni and professional network, the promotion of events and discussions centered on green issues, and creation of a Career Guide for Energy, Climate and CleanTech Law.
The group also connects members to industry professionals and graduate students in other UC Berkeley departments to facilitate interdisciplinary collaboration, research and project development.
Email: bercatberkeleylaw@gmail.com
Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law
The Berkeley Journal of Entertainment and Sports Law (BJESL) is a student-run organization dedicated to promulgating scholarship on legal issues that contemporaneously impact various entertainment industries, both domestically and internationally. As an interactive and electronic law review, BJESL presents a unique platform for rich discourse on legal topics such as copyright, trademark, art, sports, film and television, communications and broadcast media, First Amendment, right to privacy, music, antitrust and unfair competition, contracts, and more!
Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ)
The Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ) is a student-run publication of the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley. BTLJ began as the High Technology Law Journal, publishing its first issue in Spring 1986. The Journal covers emerging issues of law in the areas of intellectual property and biotechnology; BTLJ strives to keep judges, policymakers, practitioners and the academic community abreast of the dynamic field of technology law. BTLJ has consistently been ranked as the top journal for intellectual property law, and has been repeatedly cited by courts, including every regional Circuit Court of Appeal, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
The Journal’s membership of approximately 165 students publishes three issues of scholarly work each year, as well as the Annual Review of Law and Technology. The Annual Review is a distinctive issue of the Journal published in collaboration with the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology and is dedicated to student-written casenotes discussing the most important recent developments in intellectual property, antitrust, First Amendment, telecommunications, biotechnology and business law. In addition, the Journal co-sponsors an annual symposium on a salient area of technology law.
In addition to the Journal’s primary mission of publishing quality articles on the relationship between technology and the law, BTLJ has organized conferences in conjunction with the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology on a variety of topics. For each conference, BTLJ publishes a symposium issue, in which leading academics have published cutting edge scholarship on the issues raised at the conference. In recent years, BTLJ has also pioneered two groundbreaking scholastic innovations: first, BTLJ developed the BTLJ Scholars Program, the first journal-funded scholarship, which will fund the tuition of underrepresented students who plan to practice in technology law. Second, BTLJ developed the Technology Law Review Syndicate, a first-of-its-kind collaborative agreement between the top technology law reviews to publish commentary on current events in technology.
Twitter: @BerkeleyTechLJ
Coalition of Minorities in Technology Law
The Coalition of Minorities in Technology Law (CMTL) is a student organization established within UC Berkeley School of Law with the purpose of providing community, mentorship, career resources, and advocacy on behalf of students who are interested in technology law and who come from backgrounds historically underrepresented in the technology, legal, and technology law fields.
Email: cmtl@berkeley.edu
Health and Life Sciences Law Society at Berkeley Law (HaLS)
HaLS is a student organization dedicated to anything and everything in law related to healthcare, life sciences, and technology. They welcome all students with an interest in health law and life sciences law, and our goal is to provide a platform and community to learn more about the field, connect with each other, and meet various professionals.
IP Law Society (IPLS)
The Berkeley Law IP Law Society is organized to serve as a focus group for students interested in practicing patent law; to provide a forum for students to have in-depth discussions regarding patent law; to engage patent law practitioners to share their experiences with students; and to provide opportunities for students to interact, network, and exchange ideas.
Twitter: @BerkeleyPLS.
Email: patent@law.berkeley.edu
Legal Innovation and Entrepreneurship (LINE) at Berkeley
LINE at Berkeley is a student initiative to serve the intersection of law, tech & entrepreneurship. Visit their LinkedIn page here.
Privacy Law at Berkeley (PrivLAB)
The Privacy Law at Berkeley (PrivLAB) serves as a forum for students, faculty and other members interested in the various facets of Information Privacy Law. The Association organizes meetings, events, talks, and seminars by experts working in the area of information privacy law. We aim to develop a strong network of people working towards the mission of overcoming challenges posed by the digital world and complexities arising from the same.
Twitter: @berkeleyprivacy
Sports and Entertainment Law Society
The mission of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELS) is to educate the Berkeley Law community about legal opportunities and issues in the entertainment and sports industries. SELS also strives to facilitate opportunities for students to network not only with each other, but also with legal professionals in these industries. SELS regularly sponsors many events during the academic year, including both guest lectures and social events. SELS thereby provides a resource for students to connect with alumni and other industry-leading professionals and seek employment opportunities in the sports and entertainment industries.
Email: sels@law.berkeley.edu
Women in Tech Law
Women in Tech Law (WiTL) is a student-led organization that strives to recruit, support, and empower women who are interested in pursuing technology law through providing outreach, mentorship, and educational resources. WiTL aspires to use outreach as a medium to not only encourage women to enter the field, but to also expand the presence of women in the field by providing awareness to the opportunities and potential that tech law can hold for women from both STEM and non-STEM backgrounds. WiTL seeks to use mentorship and other platforms to increase members’ accessibility into tech law, in an attempt to break the glass ceiling of the technology industry. Ultimately, WiTL strives to empower women interested to excel and improve in the realm of law and technology.
Email: womenintechlaw@law.berkeley.edu
Twitter: @womenintechlaw
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/womenintechlaw/