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BCLT EventNews
Week of September 5, 2017
Dear Students and Faculty,
This week we continue our BCLT Law & Tech Speaker Series with speakers from Palantir Technologies on Tuesday, 9/5 and from Fish & Richardson P.C., on Thursday, 9/7.
Law and Tech Certificate Applications are now being accepted. It's easy to apply and most students qualify. More information about the program can be found here.
Click here for full details on all BCLT events and announcements this week.
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Palantir Technologies
“Becoming a Technical Lawyer (or, Sorry, You Are Going to Have to Learn Some Math After All)”
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
12:45 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.
Boalt Hall, Room 100
In order to function effectively in today’s world, lawyers need to understand computer code in addition to
the criminal and the civil codes. Technical code governs everything from what data exists to prove or disprove a theory, to when and how surveillance can be conducted. Technical architectures control the range of policy options available to courts and legislatures, and they raise novel legal questions that defy traditional solutions. John Grant, Director of Privacy and Civil Liberties Engineering at Palantir Technologies (J.D., Georgetown '07), draws from his experience as a non-technical lawyer joining a highly technical startup to offer insights into what you need to know, why you need to know it, and how to build an effective relationship with the engineers who will be critical to your success.
Lunch is served for students staying for the entire presentation.
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT) and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ).
This event is open to current Berkeley Law students, Berkeley Law affiliates and BCLT law firm sponsors only.
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Boalt Hall Space Law Society (BHSLS) Presents: Contracts in Space- A Conversation with Komal Sadwhani of NASA
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
12:45 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.
Boalt Hall, Room 240
Join the Space Law Society and Women in Tech Law for a conversation with Komal Sadhwani, an attorney at NASA's Ames Research Center. Komal will discuss her work in contractual space law, including tech transfer; contracts for human exploration, commercial crews, and small satellites; enabling technology for space applications; and working as a woman of color in this field.
This event is co-sponsored by BCLT. Lunch will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
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BCLT Law & Tech Speaker Series: Fish & Richardson
"Stregnth in Numbers: Imrproving the Patent System Together"
Thursday, September 7, 2017
12:45 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.
Boalt Hall, Room 100
Innovators large and small complain of the costs and other burdens imposed by patent assertion entities (AKA “patent trolls”). Former head of intellectual property at Uber, former head of patent licensing at Google and current Fish & Richardson partner Eric Schulman founded the LOT (License on Transfer) Network (www.lotnet.com), an open organization to reduce the patent assertion entity problem for its members. The LOT Network has grown since its launch less than 3 years ago from 6 companies to 164 companies and now has more than 771,000 patent assets in the program. In this talk, Eric will explain how the LOT Network operates as a non-profit community of companies committed to improving the patent landscape together and will also provide a survey of other related patent collaboration organizations.
Lunch is served for students staying for the entire presentation.
Sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ), and Patent Law Society (PLS).
This event is open to current Berkeley Law students, Berkeley Law affiliates and BCLT law firm sponsors only.
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Sports and Entertainment Law Society First General Meeting
Monday, September 11, 2017
12:45 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.
Boalt Hall, Room 170
The Sports and Entertainment Law Society (SELS) is hosting its first general meeting for new interested members onMonday, September 11th at 12:45 p.m. in room 170. Come join us to learn more about our organization, leadership team, membership roles, and upcoming events. Lunch will be served.
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BCLT/BIPLA: Beyond Snowden: Mass Surveillance in the Shadow of Trump
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
5:30 P.M. - 6:30 P.M.
Boalt Hall, Room 105
Timothy Edgar left his job at the ACLU and joined the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where he worked as a privacy officer inside America’s massive surveillance state. His new book, Beyond Snowden, explains how leaks of top secret documents led to reforms that made the National Security Agency more transparent, more accountable, more protective of privacy—and, contrary to conventional wisdom, more effective. While the reforms implemented by the Obama administration were a good first step, the United States still leads the world in mass surveillance. Edgar, now a Senior Fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute, will explain how the the US can lead the world in surveillance reform.
Pizza and sodas will be served on a first-come, first-served basis for those staying the entire
presentation.
Co-sponsored by Berkeley Center for Law & Tech (BCLT) and Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association (BIPLA).
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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Research Assistant Position
Professor Mark Cohen, who will be joining Berkeley Law this fall as director of the new BCLT Asia IP Project, is seeking a research assistant, to start in October and work through the Spring semester. Chinese reading and writing ability required; knowledge of Chinese law and in particular Chinese IP law preferred. 5 to 15 hours per week (flexible based on school schedule). Duties to include working on Prof. Cohen's Chinese IP blog, monitoring and analyzing US and Chinese IP law developments, assisting in developing BCLT programs on IP law in Asia, and some Chinese language correspondence and/or social media.
Chinese reading and writing ability required.
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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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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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