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Dear Students and Faculty,
Welcome back! We hope you had a fun and relaxing summer break. This week we resume our Law & Tech Speaker series with a speaker panel on judicial clerkships on Thursday, August 24.
Be sure to come to come out to BCLT's 1L Orientation for information on the law and technology program at Berkeley Law.
See below for more information on these and other events, opportunities and more.
If you have any questions about this week's content or items for inclusion in future newsletters, please email bclt@law.berkeley.edu. All items for inclusion must be submitted by 12:00 P.M. Friday of the week prior to publication.
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BCLT: 1L Orientation
Tuesday, August 22, 2017
12:45 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.
Boalt Hall, Room 105
How to get the most out of your time at Boalt: For both J.D. and LL.M. candidates, this session provides insight into all of the many components of the law & technology program at Berkeley Law. New students can learn about our rich curriculum and our twice-weekly lunches and how to get involved in any of our 11 affiliated student groups. Hear from the BCLT faculty and staff, the Samuelson Clinic, and the J.D. Career Development Office.
This event is open to current Berkeley Law students and Berkeley Law affiliates.
Lunch is served for students staying for the entire presentation.
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BCLT Law & Tech Speaker Series: Your Tech Law Career Path: The Value of a Judicial Clerkship
Thursday, August 24, 2017
12:45 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.
Boalt Hall, Room 100
After graduation (or a few years into practice), many Boalt grads clerk for one year for a judge. The Career Development Office (CDO) provides excellent support for students pursuing clerkships. What is the value of clerkship, especially for those interested in tech-related issues? What do law clerks do and what do they learn? How can a clerkship contribute to your development as a lawyer? Recent Boalt grads now with awesome jobs in tech-related fields will talk about how their clerkship experience has made them better lawyers. Eric Stern, who manages Berkeley Law's Judicial Clerkship Program, will moderate.
The panel will include:
Lunch is served to students staying for the entire presentation.
Sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ) and Career Development Office (CDO).
This event is open to current Berkeley Law students, Berkeley Law affiliates and BCLT law firm sponsors only.
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LAW AND TECH OPPORTUNITIES
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2L Summer 2018 Internship Program - U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Chief Counsel
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking expressions of interest from current second-year law students for paid summer intern positions in its Office of Chief Counsel during the summer of 2018. At this time, FDA’s Office of Chief Counsel is seeking expressions of interest (consisting of a cover letter, resume, and transcript) for these positions. Although it is not necessary to submit an expression of interest in order to be considered for these internships, interested students may send a cover letter, resume, and transcript by September 22, 2017, to OCOCCAttorneyAPP@fda.hhs.gov (and designate SUMMER INTERN 2018 on the subject line).
The positions will be formally announced on USAjobs.gov in early October. Candidates
must apply through USAjobs.gov. Students who submit expressions of interest to the e-mail
address listed above will receive an e-mail notifying them when the positions are announced on
USAjobs.gov. Please be aware that the timeframe for submitting applications through
USAjobs.gov is short, and we will not be able to accept any additional applications once the
posting closes on USAjobs.gov.
Interested students should email a cover letter, resume, and transcript by September 22, 2017, to OCOCCAttorneyAPP@fda.hhs.gov (and designate SUMMER INTERN 2018 on the subject line). All interested applicants will need to formerly apply through the posting on USAjobs.gov, which will be available in early October.
If you have questions, please contact Associate Chief Counsel, Tiffany M. Nichols, Esq., tiffany.nichols@fda.hhs.gov.
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Yale Law Journal Student Essay Contest
The Yale Law Journal is excited to announce its first Student Essay Competition. The Competition is open to law students and recent law graduates nationwide. Up to three winners will be awarded a $300 cash prize. Winning submissions will be published in the Yale Law Journal Forum, YLJ’s online component. All Forum pieces are fully searchable and available on LexisNexis and Westlaw, as well as on our website.
Competition Topic: Emerging Issues in Law and Technology
The goal of this competition is for the next generation of legal scholars and practitioners to reflect on emerging legal problems and challenges. Submissions must thus focus on novel issues in law and technology, broadly conceived. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: artificial intelligence, bioethics, biotechnology, copyright, cybersecurity, digital speech, food and drug law, health law, Internet law, patent law, privacy, and surveillance. We welcome topics in other related areas as well, and hope to receive both clinical and academic submissions.
Eligibility and Submission Details
The competition is open to all current law students (Classes of 2018, 2019, and 2020) from any ABA-accredited American law school as well as recent graduates (Classes of 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017). Each individual may submit only one (previously unpublished) Essay, and Essays may not be submitted to other law reviews during the judging period.
The deadline for submissions is October 1, 2017. Submissions must be no longer than 5,000 words, including footnotes. Essays must be submitted via the YLJ online submissions portal. A selection committee from Volume 127 of the Yale Law Journal will consider all submissions anonymously. Winners will be announced by November 10, 2017.
For more details on submissions, see here.
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The Future of Digital Consumer Protection
The Future of Digital Consumer Protection
Instructor: Prof. Chris Hoofnagle
Mondays, 2-5 pm
Info 290 Section 001
http://classes.berkeley.edu/content/2017-fall-info-290-001-lec-001
Digital technologies have brought consumers many benefits, including new products and services, yet at the same time, these technologies offer affordances that alter the balance of power among companies and consumers. Technology makes it easier to deny consumers access to the courts; to restrict well-established customs and rights, such as fair use and the reselling of goods; to manipulate digital fora that provide reviews of products and services; to retaliate against and/or monitor or even extort consumers who criticize them; to engage in differential pricing; to “brick” or turn off devices remotely, to cause systemic insecurity by failing to patch products; and to impose transaction costs in order to shape consumer behavior.
Fundamentally, the move to digital turns many products into services. While the law has long comprehensively regulated products under the Uniform Commercial Code and products liability regimes, artifacts and services with embedded software present new challenges. European governments are moving aggressively to establish comprehensive regulations for digital goods. But no such agenda is on the horizon in the United States.
This course will employ a problem-based learning method (PBL). Students in the course will work in small groups to generate hypotheses, learning issues, and learning objectives in digital consumer protection. Through this process we will develop a high level conception of consumer protection and its goals. We will then explore its fit in the digital realm.
Students will develop short presentations on these learning objectives to create group learning and discussion. For the culmination of the course, students will work together to generate a research agenda for the future of digital consumer protection.
Law students are free to enroll using CalCentral and class number 40454.
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