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Dear Berkeley Law Students,
Here’s what you’ll find in this week’s newsletter:
Upcoming Events:
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Public Interest/Public Sector Fair- TUE 11/10
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Keker & Van Nest LLP- THU 11/12
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November 2015 The 8th Annual Privacy Lecture- THU 11/12
Future Events:
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Sidley Austin, LLP- TUE 11/17
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November 2015 The 8th Annual Privacy Lecture- THU 11/12
Law & Tech Opportunities:
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Big Ideas Competition
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Research Assistant for BCLT Executive Director, Jim Dempsey
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Spring 2016 Judicial Externships
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Summer School on Intellectual Property
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Phil Cowan/BMI Memorial Scholarship Writing Competition
If you have any questions about this week's content or items for inclusion in future newsletters, please email bclt@law.berkeley.edu
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Sports Entertainment Law Society (SELS): Maggy Carlyle
Monday November 9, 2015
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Boalt, Hall, Room 10
Maggy Carlyle is the Associate Counsel for the San Jose Sharks and has agreed to come discuss her career, legal responsibilities, and typical legal issues facing the Sharks. Maggy has had an interesting entry into the sports law world through various teams without ever having joined a law firm. Presentation topics could include Sharks licensing, compliance with NHL league rules, succeeding in the sports law industry as a woman, and much more.
The talk will be followed by casual Q&A.
Lunch will be served.
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Career Development Office: Public Interest/Public Sector (PI/PS) Internship and Career Fair
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Boalt Hall Donor Lobby, 2nd Floor
The PI/PS Internship and Career Fair is a unique opportunity for Berkeley Law students to meet public interest and public sector attorneys, find out what they do, and learn about summer work, academic year placements, pro bono projects, and other career opportunities at their organizations. The event is “table-talk” style, allowing students to connect with a wide variety of organizations in an informal setting. Public interest and public sector attorneys are eager to meet Berkeley Law students, and this year more than 85 organizations are expected to attend the fair. Please be sure to visit the BCLT table in the Steinhart Courtyard!
For more information, please contact Melanie Rowen, mrowen@law.berkeley.edu.
Lunch will be served.
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Keker & Van Nest LLP
IP, Technology, and Employees Behaving Badly
Thursday, November 12, 2015
12:55 PM - 1:55 PM
Boalt Hall, Room 105
In the high-tech sector, employees frequently change jobs and take their employer’s IP with them. Employers, in turn, seek every competitive advantage—whether by restraining their employees or gaining insight into their competitors. In this presentation, partner Jennifer A. Huber ‘06, from Keker & Van Nest LLP will address civil and criminal issues that increasingly arise in a tech-connected world, including non-competes, trade secrets, and computer hacking and scraping.
Lunch is served for students staying through the entire presentation.
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
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November 2015 The 8th Annual Privacy Lecture
Thursday, November 12, 2015
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Boalt Hall, Booth Auditorium (1st Floor)
In the policy and scholarly debate over privacy, the protection of personal information is often set against the benefits society is expected to gain from large scale analytics applied to individual data. An implicit assumption underlays the contrast between privacy and 'big data': economic research is assumed to univocally predict that the increasing collection and analysis of personal data will be an economic win-win for data holders and data subjects alike - some sort of unalloyed public good. This lecture will work from within traditional economic frameworks to scrutinize this notion. In so doing, it will highlight how results from economic research on data sharing and data protection paint a much more nuanced picture, and how neoclassical economic models do not necessarily predict that more data sharing, and less privacy protection, lead to increases in individual or aggregate welfare.
KEY SPEAKER:
Prof. Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon University
COMMENTATORS:
Joseph Farrell, UC Berkeley
Haksoo Ko, Seoul National University, School of Law, Korea
Jan Whittington, University of Washington
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Sidley Austin LLP
Tuesday, November 17, 2015
12:55 PM - 1:55 PM
Boalt Hall, Room 105
The BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series features local practitioners, bringing real world experience and practical legal knowledge to Berkeley Law students.
Lunch is served for students staying through the entire presentation.
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal.
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Responsible Use of Open Data in Government and the Private Sector
November 19 - 20, 2015
4:30 PM
New York University, NY
The onference, Responsible Use of Open Data: Government and the Private Sector, to be held at New York University on November 19-20, 2015, is co-organized by BCLT and NYU’s Information Law Institute and Department of Media, Culture and Communication. The event continues and expands the issues addressed by the April 2015 BCLT event Open Data: Addressing Privacy, Security, and Civil Rights Challenges Symposium. We are delighted that Dr. Amen Ra Mashariki, the City of New York Chief Analytics Officer and in charge of the Mayor’s Office of Data Analytics has agreed to open the conference in the afternoon of November 19th.
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LAW AND TECH OPPORTUNITIES
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Big Ideas Competition: Information Technology for Society Category
Deadline to submit is November 12th, 2015, 12:00 PM PST
There are only 2 weeks left until the 2015-16 Big Ideas pre-proposal deadline on November 12th, 2015 at 12pm PST! W
Big Ideas is an annual innovation competition aimed at providing funding, support and encouragement to interdisciplinary teams of graduate and undergraduate students who have creative solutions to pressing social challenges. In Internet Technology (IT) for Society category, Big Ideas teams are asked to describe an innovation project that would demonstrate the capacity of IT to address a major societal issue.
Student teams interested in applying to the Big Ideas Contest are required to submit a 3-page pre-proposal by November 12th. Over the course of the year, teams can win up to $15,000 in funding while gaining access to valuable resources such as mentorship, judging feedback, networking and team building opportunities.
Full information on the contest and additional categories can be found on the Big Ideas website.
For last minute feedback, we highly encourage students to arrange a Skype or in-person advising appointment with our team, or sign up for a final read-through of the proposal at our Editing Blitz on Tuesday, November 10th, from 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PST.
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Research Assistant for BCLT Executive Director, Jim Dempsey
Deadline to apply is December 1, 2015
The BCLT Executive Director, Jim Dempsey, is looking for a research assistant for the Spring semester to monitor developments and conduct assigned research on cybersecurity issues. If interested, please send your resume and a short writing sample to bclt@law.berkeley.edu and indicate an interest in the BCLT cybersecurity opportunity. This opportunity is for J.D. candidates only from the Berkeley Law School.
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Phil Cowan/BMI Memorial Scholarship Writing Competition
Submission due December 12, 2015
The paper should be an original work addressing any legal issue of current interest in entertainment, art or sports law and should be 12 to 15 pages in length (including Bluebook form footnotes), double-spaced. The winning paper will be published in the EASL Digest. There is no exclusivity requirement.
Papers are due on December 12, 2014. The winning author will receive an award of $2500. Papers can be submitted through Andrew H. Seiden, Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP at: aseiden@curtis.com.
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Spring 2016 Judicial Externships
If you are thinking about a spring judicial externship it is not too late. Several federal and state Judges have reached out to Berkeley Law interested in taking on spring students for academic credit. If you are interested in exploring this option, please contact Sue Schechter, Field Placement Director, at fieldplacementprogram@law.berkeley.edu, as soon as possible, to learn more about the program and the possiblities.
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Summer School on Intellectual Property
Bonn, July 25 - August 5, 2016
The University of Bonn invites JD and LLM students to a Summer School on Intellectual Property in Bonn. The program is conducted in English. For more information, visit the website of the Summer School on Intellectual Property, www.ipsummerschool.uni-bonn.de, or contact Kim Dubenkropp, dubenkropp@uni-bonn.de. Also, BCLT Assistant Director, Claire Trias, Boalt Hall, room 421 (North Addition), has a flyer with more details: ctrias@law.berkeley.edu.
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