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We hope that you all enjoyed a restful weekend!
As a part of our BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Speaker Series, this week we welcome Partner Whitty Somvichian and Special Counsel Kyle Wong from Cooley LLP on Tuesday, October 23rd as well as Karen Johnson-McKewan, Partner at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Chris Berry, a Senior Staff Attorney at the Animal Legal Defense Fund on Thursday, October 25th. The Fall Mixer is next week (10/30). Don't forget to RSVP here by Wednesday, 10/24.
This Week:
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Clinical Program Information Session | 10/22 | 12:45 P.M. | Room 105
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Series: Cooley LLP | 10/23 | 12:55 P.M. | Room 100
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Environmental Justice & Energy Panel | 10/24 | 12:50 P.M. | Room 134
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BCLT & Pro Bono Program: Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and the Animal Legal Defense Fund | 10/25 | 12:55 P.M. | Room 100
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Conference Summit: Bridging the Gap between Hollywood and Silicon Valley | 10/25 | Rosewood Sand Hill, Menlo Park
Upcoming Events:
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BCLT/BTLJ Fall Law Mixer | 10/30 | 7:00 P.M. | Goldberg Room (2nd Floor) - Join BCLT/BTLJ for our 2018 Fall Law Firm Mixer. This event is intended to give J.D. students at Berkeley a chance to meet top law firms and learn more about the different intellectual property and technology law practices. RSVP here. See below for more information.
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A European Perspective on Patents, Genetics, and Access to Healthcare | 10/31 | 12:45 P.M. | Room 145
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China SOE Report with Daniel H. Rosen | 11/5 | 11:00 A.M. | Bechtel Conference Center
Other Opportunities:
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Georgetown Law Technology Review Student Writing Competition 2018-2019
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Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic Program
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Future of Privacy Forum Paid Remote Work
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ACLU of Northern California - Technology & Civil Liberties Fellowship
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Summer Intern Program - Civil Liberties at the NSA
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UCDC Law Program Externships in Washington D.C.
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Cal Bar Section Membership
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Please note: Per NALP guidelines, 1Ls cannot apply for summer positions until December 1st.
Law & Tech Certificate Applications - Due April 1. It's easy to apply and most students qualify. Apply online and view more information.
Click here for full details on all BCLT events and announcements this week.
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Clinical Program Information Session
Monday, October 22, 2018
12:45 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.
Room 105
The Clinical Program Faculty and Students -- Death Penalty Clinic, East Bay Community Law Center, Environmental Law Clinic, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Policy Advocacy Clinic, and the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic -- invite all Berkeley Law students to their information session on Monday, October 22 from 12:45-2:00 pm in 105 Boalt.
We will start with lunch at 12:45 followed by a short presentation on the clinical program and the application process for Spring 2019. Afterwards, each Clinic will have faculty and current students present to answer your questions about opportunities available.
Applications will soon be available at the clinical program website: www.law.berkeley.edu/clinicapplication.htm. The deadline to apply is Noon on Monday, October 29, 2018.
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BCLT/BTLJ Law & Tech Series: Cooley LLP
When Old Laws Meet New Technology: Cases From the Front Lines
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
12:55 P.M. - 1:55 P.M.
Room 100
Many privacy cases today involve old laws being applied to new technology that lawmakers could never have contemplated at the time of enactment. Partner Whitty Somvichian ’97 and Special Counsel Kyle Wong from Cooley will discuss examples of this intersection from their current practice.
Lunch is served for students staying for the entire presentation.
Sponsored by Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, and Berkeley Information Privacy Law Association.
This event is open to current Berkeley Law students, Berkeley Law affiliates and BCLT law firm sponsors only.
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Environmental Justice and Energy Panel
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
12:50 P.M. - 2:00 P.M.
Room 134
Interested in climate change, energy, civil rights, or environmental law? Join BERC Law and SEEJ for a lunch panel discussion about the intersection of energy policy and environmental justice. We will be joined by practitioners from Sustainable Economies Law Center, Communities for a Better Environment, and Berkeley Law's own Environmental Law Clinic to discuss issues that cut across traditional practice areas, such as the tensions between providing clean and affordable energy, who bears the benefits and the costs, and how larger scale projects - even those with positive large-scale impacts - affect local communities. All are welcome and lunch is provided.
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BCLT & Pro Bono: Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and the Animal Legal Defense Fund
Pro Bono Partners Change 9th Circuit Law in Freedom of Information Act Cases
Thursday, October 25, 2018
12:55 P.M. - 1:55 P.M.
Room 100
Pro bono work allows law firms and legal services organizations to make a collective impact in favor of the public interest. Karen Johnson-McKewan, Partner, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Chris Berry, Senior Staff Attorney Animal Legal Defense Fund, will engage in a discussion about how law firms and legal services organizations partner in pro bono matters. They will also tell the story of pro bono through a particular matter in which Ms. Johnson-McKewan led the representation of ALDF in an appeal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging a ruling upholding a decision by the Food and Drug Administration to withhold information ALDF requested under the Freedom of Information Act regarding hen population densities at several “factory” egg production farms in Texas. This matter presented public health, animal rights, environmental, and First Amendment issues. Orrick and the ALDF not only won a reversal of that decision in the Ninth Circuit, they changed the law in the Ninth Circuit in FOIA cases. They then went on to conduct the first FOIA trial on the subject this past Spring and eagerly await the court’s decision.
Sponsored by Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Animal Law Society and Pro Bono Program in honor of National Pro Bono Week.
Vegan lunch will be provided. Please note: Lunch is served for students staying for the entire presentation.
This event is open to current Berkeley Law students, Berkeley Law affiliates and BCLT law firm sponsors only.
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Confluence Summit: Bridging the Gap between Hollywood and Silicon Valley
Thursday, October 25, 2018
Rosewood Sand Hill - Menlo Park, CA
Berkeley Law students volunteering to help at this conference will be able to attend for free and to sit in on sessions and network with speakers. For more information about volunteering, contact emily@winstonbaker.com.The Confluence Summit is designed to connect content creators, filmmakers, technology developers, strategy executives, investors, and dealmakers at the intersection of entertainment and technology.
Confirmed speakers include Adele Lim, Screenwriter, Crazy Rich Asians; Steve Sullivan, General Manager, Mixed Reality Capture Studios, Microsoft; Ted Schilowitz, Futurist, Paramount Pictures; Jesse Sisgold, President and COO, Skydance Media; Stacey Sher, award-winning Producer and Co-President, Activision Blizzard Studios; Eric Briggs, CFO, Macro Ventures; and Holly Liu, Founder, Kabam and Visiting Partner, Y Combinator – among other notable guests.
Student & Faculty Discount: To receive the $295 student and faculty discount code, please email a copy of your school ID to emily@winstonbaker.com.
For more information on the programming please visit: www.confluencesummit.com.
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BCLT/BTLJ Fall Law Firm Mixer
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
7:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.
Goldberg Room (2nd Floor)
(The Fall Mixer is preceded by the CDO Practice Area Specialties Fair that will be held in the Warren Room, 5:30 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.)
Join BCLT/BTLJ for our 2018 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 register to attend by Wednesday, October 24th. RSVP here.
Drinks and hors d'oeuvre will be served.
This event is primarily for Berkeley Law J.D. students, aimed at 1Ls in preparation for 1L summer job hiring. We have a special event planned for L.L.M. students in collaboration with the Advanced Degree Programs (ADP) Office. More information will be circulated soon.
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.
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A European Perspective on Patents, Genetics & Access to Healthcare
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
12:45 P.M. - 1:45 P.M.
Room 145
Please join the Healthcare and Biotech Law Society for a presentation from one of Europe's leading experts on the intersection of IP law and healthcare. Geertrui Van Overwalle is a professor of intellectual property law at the University of Leuven (Belgium) and School of Law - Sciences Po (Paris, France). Her talk will focus on the Court of Justice of the European Union's recent decision regarding CRISPR and how the EU will regulate genetically modified food moving forward. Lunch will be provided.
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China SOE Report with Daniel H. Rosen
Monday, November 5, 2018
11:00 A.M. - 2:00 P.M.
Bechtel Conference Center
500 Washington Street
San Francisco
Join Asia Society Northern California for its latest report launch with Daniel H. Rosen of Rhodium Group. Focused on state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China, this report provides a full contextual understanding of SOEs today and the state of the corporate governance reform agenda that must be implemented in order to unlock China’s potential.
Full details and early bird tickets can be found here.
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LAW AND TECH OPPORTUNITIES
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Georgetown Law Technology Review Student Writing Competition 2018-2019
Law students are invited to submit papers addressing a legal or public policy question relating to artificial intelligence, machine learning, the use of data analytics and/or algorithmic decision-making. Example topics include: questions of data ownership, questions relating to transparency or testability, questions relating to intellectual property, privacy, consumer protection, competition, issues of bias and discrimination, or product liability; or subject-matter- specific legal issues arising from various applications of a technology. Preference will be given to papers that are relevant to current legal and public policy debates or present an original perspective.
PRIZE
Up to three winners will be selected, with a First Prize of $4,000, a Second Prize of $2,500, and a Third Prize of $1,000.
Winning papers may be selected for publication in The Georgetown Law Technology Review.
Additional information about rules and deadlines may be found here.
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Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic Program
The application for the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and other clinics is now live on the Berkeley Law Clinical Program webpage. The application window will close on October 29. Anyone with questions about the Samuelson Clinic should feel free to reach out to the Clinic's Associate Director, Erik Stallman via email at estallman@clinical.law.berkeley.edu.
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Future of Privacy Forum Paid Remote Work
The Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) is immediately hiring 2-3 law students as contractors to help with a variety of projects, including:
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reviewing ed tech company privacy policies when they apply for the Student Privacy Pledge and interacting with companies to bring those policies into compliance;
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conducting 50 state legal surveys;
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conducting legal or policy research as needed; and
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providing substantive notes or transcripts for FPF working group meetings.
Student contractors would work 10-20 hours a week, with an hourly rate of $20/hour, through December 31, 2018 (with the possibility of continuing into Spring 2019). Students must be detail-oriented, excellent at interpersonal communications via email, outstanding legal and online research abilities, and have a demonstrated ability to work independently and meet deadlines. Privacy law experience, whether through a course or through prior work, is a plus. Applicants should submit a resume, short cover letter, and transcript to Amelia Vance at avance@fpf.org by October 28th, but are encouraged to apply as soon as possible.
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ACLU of Northern California - Technology and Civil Liberties Fellowship
The ACLU of Northern California is now accepting applications for its Fall 2019 Technology and Civil Liberties Fellowship.This is a full-time, one-year position. Details about the fellowship and the application process are available here.
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UCDC Law Program Externships in Washington, D.C.
The UCDC Law Program is a full-time externship program in Washington, DC providing experiential learning through a full-time field placement with a government agency, nonprofit or advocacy organization, including those engaged in law and technology issues. Law students who participate are eligible to receive 13 units: 10 units for the field placement and 3 units for the companion course, “Law and Lawyering in the Nation’s Capital.”
Full details: https://www.ucdc.edu/academic/law
Specific Externships:
Federal Communications Commission, Competition Policy Division in the Wireline Bureau
Competition Policy Division of the FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau. Our primary mission is to foster competition in the provision of communications services through market-opening rulemaking and other proceedings that affect wireline telecommunications service providers and consumers. The division is responsible for implementation of non-pricing aspects of the local competition requirements of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, including interconnection, network element unbundling and privacy. The division also administers U.S. numbering policy (including local number portability), and reviews applications from wireline carriers for mergers and other transfers of control, and discontinuance of service.
The Future of Privacy Forum
The Future of Privacy Forum is a non-profit organization that serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies. FPF brings together industry, academics, consumer advocates, and other thought leaders to explore the challenges posed by technological innovation and develop privacy protections, ethical norms and workable business practices. FPF helps fill the void in the “space not occupied by law” which exists due to the speed of technology development. As “data optimists,” we believe that the power of data for good is a net benefit to society, and that it can be well-managed to control risks and offer the best protections and empowerment to consumers and individuals. www.fpf.org
FPF seeks legal interns to support Policy Counsel responsible for developing and evaluating data practices in the consumer and commercial sector by shaping corporate practices, engaging with regulators and government agencies, and providing thought leadership in a variety of settings. Issue portfolios will include privacy concerns related to current commercial and consumer technologies such as – but not limited to – Big Data and the Internet of Things, connected cars, student data, ad tracking, mobile location data use, smart cities, deidentification standards, algorithms, and biometrics and AI. Positions located in the Washington D.C. office.
Federal Communications Commission, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau (PSHSB)
Through the PSHSB internship program, law students gain hands-on experience in communications and administrative law matters pertaining to public safety, homeland security, national security, emergency management and preparedness, and disaster management. Students help PSHSB develop, recommend, and administer the FCC’s policies and rules to advance the security and reliability of the nation’s communications infrastructure as well as its public safety and emergency response capabilities and emerging technology.
Federal Communications Commission, Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division (legal)
(https://www.fcc.gov/general/internships-public-safety-and-homeland-security-bureau)
The Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division (CCR) provides legal, engineering, and other technical advice and expertise to the Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau and the Federal Communications Commission regarding public safety and homeland security issues, particularly with respect to ensuring that communications networks are reliable, resilient, and secure. CCR develops and recommends Commission and PSHSB policies on network and other infrastructure reliability, including 911 reliability, and other public safety issues as assigned. CCR also administers the Commission’s information collection requirements with respect to communications reliability (such as network outage reports, disaster information reporting, and 911 reliability certifications) and performs analyses and studies on public safety, homeland security, national security, disaster management and related issues.
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Internship Period(s): Fall/Spring semester and Summer
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General Duties: Unpaid Legal Intern
Fall, Spring, and Summer interns will assist with analysis of a broad variety of legal and policy issues relating to potential and existing programs and regulations of the agency. They will perform legal assignments which address Division/Bureau issues and that may involve technical or complex information. Additionally, the intern will assist in the preparation of legal memoranda and other Commission documents. The intern also may attend and participate in meetings with Commission personnel and outside parties. The intern will assist staff attorneys and Division leadership in an often fast-paced environment on a variety of issues. They may interact with industry counsel and other third parties on several issues.
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Selection Criteria:
Seeking second and third year law students with strong analytical, research, writing, and communications skills that demonstrated a strong interest in communications law, public interest, or federal government. Students must be enrolled in an accredited law school at least half-time to apply. Students may apply during their first year of law school, but they must have completed their first academic year of law school before the internship starts. Must be a U.S. Citizen.
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Send Application to: Brenda Villanueva, Cybersecurity and Communications Reliability Division, Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau at Brenda.Villanueva@fcc.gov. A completed application packet should include: cover letter, resume, law school transcript, and a brief writing sample. Applicants should clearly indicate the period(s) for which they are applying, and the amount of time (days/hours) they would be available to work each week.
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Applications Deadline: Rolling basis.
For all Spring 2019 externships, start applying now. Apply here: UCDC Law Application
Learn more about UCDC Law
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Please note: Per NALP guidelines, 1Ls cannot apply for summer positions until December 1st.
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