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Week of October 2, 2017
Dear Students and Faculty,
This week our Law & Tech Speaker Series features speakers from Uber on Tuesday, 10/3, and from Lucasfilm on Thursday, 10/5.
Thursday, November 2 - BCLT/BTLJ Fall Law Firm Mixer. Join BCLT/BTLJ for our 2017 Fall Law Firm Mixer. This event is intended to give J.D. students at Berkeley a chance to meet top law firms to learn more about the different intellectual property and technology law practices. PLEASE RSVP BY MONDAY, OCTOBER 23. RSVP: http://bit.ly/2017BCLTBTLJFallMixer. See below for more information.
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.
Events this week:
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BCLT: Wrestling with the Flim-Flammers: Anti-Fraud Regulation in America, Edward Balleisen | 10/2 | 12:45 P.M. | Rm 130
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: In-House Tech Jobs: Lessons Learned/Things I Wish I'd Known, Sabrina Ross, Uber | 9/21 | 12:45 P.M. | Rm 100
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series: Rhonda Hjort, Lucasfilm | 9/21 | 12:45 P.M. | Rm 100
Other Announcements:
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William and Mary Law School Essay Contest: Legal Issues Likely to Arise from AI and the Internet of Things
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ACLU Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Attorney/Technologist
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Research Assistant: Prof. Mark Cohen
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Yale Law Journal Essay Contest
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Cal Bar Section Membership
Click here for full details on all BCLT events and announcements this week.
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BCLT: Wrestling with the Flim-Flammers: Anti-Fraud Regulation in America
Monday, October 2, 2017
12:45 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.
Boalt Hall, Room 130
Drawing on his new book, FRAUD: AN AMERICAN HISTORY FROM BARNUM TO MADOFF, Duke historian and vice provost Edward Balleisen will focus on three themes: the value of considering the long-term evolution of public policy; the advantages and limitations of predicating consumer and investor protection on self-regulatory schemes; and the causes of the dramatic increase in business fraud in the US since the mid-1970s. Prof. Balleisen has written widely on the historical intersections among law, business, and policy in the United States, as well as the evolution of American regulatory institutions and contemporary debates on regulatory governance.
Pizza and sodas will be provided on a first-come, first-served basis.
Sponsored by Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ), Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association (BIPLA) and Consumer Advocacy & Protection Society (CAPS).
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BCLT/BTLJ/WiTL Law & Tech Speaker Series: Uber
"In-House Tech Jobs: Lessons Learned/Things I wish I'd Known"
Tuesday, October 3, 2017
12:45 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.
Boalt Hall, Room 100
Join us for a fascinating conversation with Sabrina Ross ‘09, Privacy Counsel at Uber, as she discusses her journey to in-house practice, sharing advice and insight on how to successfully pursue an in-house career. Sabrina will also discuss her experience as a female attorney practicing in-house for a tech company.
Sponsored by Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ), and Women in Tech Law (WiTL).
This event is open to current Berkeley Law students, Berkeley Law affiliates and BCLT law firm sponsors only.
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BCLT/BTLJ/SELS Law & Tech Speaker Series: Lucasfilm
Thursday, September 28, 2017
12:45 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.
Boalt Hall, Room 100
Join Rhonda Hjort, Deputy Chief Counsel of Lucasfilm, the production company behind the Star Wars and Indiana Jones franchises for an exciting lunch talk. Ms. Hjort will share her path to an in-house career and explain the ins and outs of working at one of the most prestigious production companies in the world.
Lunch is served for students staying for the entire presentation.
Sponsored by Berkeley Center for Law & Technology (BCLT), Berkeley Technology Law Journal (BTLJ), Sports Entertainment Law Society (SELS) and Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy (BCBLE).
This event is open to current Berkeley Law students, Berkeley Law affiliates and BCLT law firm sponsors only.
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BCLT/BTLJ Fall Mixer
Thursday, November 2, 2017
6:30 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
Goldberg Room (2nd Floor of Boalt Hall)
Join BCLT/BTLJ for our 2017 Fall Law Firm Mixer. This event is intended to give J.D. students at Berkeley a chance to meet top law firms to learn more about the different intellectual property and technology law practices.
(The Fall Mixer is preceded by the CDO Practice Area Program: "What’s Out There: Finding the Right Legal Specialty for You” that will be held in the Warren Room 5:00-6:30pm.)
Drinks and light refreshments will be served.
This event is primarily for Berkeley Law J.D. students. A special event is being planned for LL.M. students in collaboration with the ADP office. More information on that will be circulated in a few weeks.
Pursuant to NALP Guideline Part V:D.2. Prospective employers and first year law students should not exchange resumes, interview or make offers to first year students before December 1.
PLEASE RSVP BY MONDAY, OCTOBER 23. RSVP: http://bit.ly/2017BCLTBTLJFallMixer
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LAW AND TECH OPPORTUNITIES
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William & Mary Law School Essay Contest: Innovative Legal Issues Likely to Arise from Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things
William & Mary Law School invites you to participate in an essay contest relating to legal issues stemming from AI and the Internet of Things. Details are below.
1. Title of the competition: Innovative Legal Issues Likely to Arise from Artificial Intelligence and the Internet of Things
2. Deadline for submissions: Friday 1 December 2017 for students enrolled in law schools in the US and Canada
3. Who is eligible to apply: law students in good standing enrolled on a degree course (JD or LLM equivalent) during the 2017-2018 academic year
4. The prizes: First place: US $2,500, Second place: US $1,500, Third place: US $1,000
5. Link to William and Mary Law School competition page: click HERE
6. Contact details: the submission as well as any questions should be directed to essaycompetition@lists.wm.edu
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ACLU Technology & Civil Liberties Policy Attorney/Technologist
Location: San Francisco, CA
Deadline: Oct. 8, 2017
The opportunity
The ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC) seeks an experienced and innovative Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Attorney or Technologist who thrives in a collaborative organization and can skillfully handle diverse approaches to a broad privacy, free speech, and technology docket. This position joins our Technology and Civil Liberties team, nationally recognized for its use of cutting-edge legal, policy, and technology strategies, in the San Francisco office and reports to the Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director for the ACLU of California.
The approach
You bring enthusiasm and passion to your work on issues at the intersection of technology and civil liberties. You are a creative thinker who can identify new opportunities to advance the goals of the Technology and Civil Liberties Project. You bring a big picture perspective to all of your work and have experience working on a multi-strategy team. You are a relationship-builder and willing collaborator with demonstrated success developing and maintaining key relationships with community groups and leaders. You excel at time-management and are able to keep a disciplined focus on making progress on your priorities while balancing emerging opportunities. You are thorough while also efficient and always produce top-notch work product that is tailored to Project goals. You have a growth-mindset and always seek to learn and improve the quality of your practice.
The position
Your job is to defend and promote civil rights and civil liberties in the digital age. You are responsible for implementing multi-disciplinary, proactive projects and responding to immediate threats in the areas of government surveillance, consumer privacy, and free speech on the internet. Working closely with the team, you are responsible for integrating a range of legal and policy strategies into your work that may include, but not limited to, legal, policy, and technical research, legislative and agency lawyering, legal analysis and civic engagement, coalition development, public education, and strategic communications.
More information can be found here.
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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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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.
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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