September 19, 2025
About the Colloquium
Advances in data science and artificial intelligence present remarkable opportunities for the world’s existing knowledge and creativity to benefit the public. But these advances are also creating new harms and could threaten to compete with human creators in ways we have not experienced before. This mix of potential benefits and harms presents an opportunity to reconsider the very normative foundations of copyright law and whether the law as it exists is well formulated to reinforce those foundations.
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.
Organizing Committee
Molly Van Houweling
Harold C. Hohbach Distinguished Professor of Patent Law and Intellectual Property
Berkeley Law
Pamela Samuelson
Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law
Berkeley Law
Hanoch Dagan
Elizabeth J. Boalt Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding Director, Berkeley Center for Private Law Theory
Berkeley Law
Program
TBD
Agenda
TBD
Participants
Oren Bracha (Texas)
Maggie Chon (Seattle)
Hanoch Dagan (Berkeley)
Mark Gergen (Berkeley)
Jane Ginsburg (Columbia)
James Grimmelmann (Cornell)
Roy Kreitner (Tel Aviv)
Rob Merges (Berkeley)
Abhishek Nagaraj (Berkeley)
Pamela Samuelson (Berkeley)
Jessica Silbey (Boston)
Erik Stallman (Berkeley)
Jennifer Urban (Berkeley)
Molly Van Houweling (Berkeley)