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Data Science and Information Technology
Innovation in the IT field continues to create new and important legal issues. BCLT’s faculty co-directors have established themselves as leading thinkers in today’s most pressing IT and data science legal issues, including blockchain, FinTech, AI, social media, video games, and computer crimes.
With the opportunity to select from 19 ITfocused classes, students can explore how IT and data science impacts regulatory policy, criminal investigations, and business transactions.
“The relationships between law and technology, code and governance, and technologists and lawyers become more varied and complex every year. BCLT faculty research and convenings help lawyers, technologists, and policymakers understand and navigate this expanding territory.”
- Deirdre Mulligan Professor at Berkeley Law and the UC School of Information, and BCLT Faculty Director
CURRICULUM FACULTY CO-DIRECTORS
Advanced IT Contracts: Drafting and Negotiating Advanced Samuelson Clinic & Seminar Blockchain Innovation for the Unbanked Billions Computer Crime Law Computer Law Computer Programming for Lawyers Copyright, Competition, and Technology Copyright Law Current Topics in National Security Law Cybersecurity Law and Policy FinTech Innovation and Financial Inclusion FinTech: Tools for Analyzing New Financial Products Information Privacy Law Law and Technology Writing Workshop National Security Law: A Practitioner’s Perspective Regulated Digital Industries: Telecommunications Law & Policy for a Modern Era Samuelson Clinic & Seminar Social Media Law Technology for Lawyers Video Game Law
Chris Jay Hoofnagle
Teaching professor in the School of Law, with a dual appointment in the School of Information
Sonia Katyal
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research
Orin S. Kerr
William G. Simon Professor of Law
Deirdre K. Mulligan
Professor in the School of Information and the School of Law
Andrea Roth
Professor of Law
Pamela Samuelson
Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information
Tejas N. Narechania
Robert and Nanci Corson Assistant Professor of Law
Erik Stallman
Associate Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor
Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
Harold C. Hohbach Distinguished Professor of Patent Law and IP and Associate Dean for J.D. Curriculum and Teaching
EVENTS
BCLT-BTLJ Spring Symposium: Transatlantic Dialogue April 6-7, 2023 Agenda in progress
Annual Legal Frontiers in Digital Media Thursday & Friday, May 19-20, 2022 Topics discussed included Transparency and the First Amendment, the EU’s Rewrite of the Platform Content-Regulation Rulebook, Who Moderates the Moderators?, the Incoming Tide of State Privacy Compliance, a Briefing on the Emerging EU Law of Data and Social Media and the War in Ukraine.
Scraping Takeaways from Van Buren v. United States June 15, 2021 As a follow-up to our May 2021 virtual digital conference, we brought you hot takes on Van Buren v. United States. We explored the implications of the ruling for websites’ efforts to prohibit scraping, data journalism, and other issues. Featuring Orin Kerr, William G. Simon Professor of Law, UC Berkeley in conversation with Marc Zwillinger, Founder & Managing Member, ZwillGen. 25th Annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium—Lex Informatica: The Formulation of Information Policy Rules Through Technology April 15-16, 2021 Joel Reidenberg’s prescient article, Lex Informatica: The Formulation of Information Policy Rules Through Technology, published in the Texas Law Review in 1998, urged policymakers to understand, consciously recognize, and encourage the evolution of extra-legal influences to achieve optimal public policy outcomes. This symposium honored the legacy of Reidenberg’s deep insights about Lex Informatica as policy levers and explored respects in which Lex Informatica is working in the public interest and ways in which technology regulations could be improved.
Symposium: 25th Anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996—Looking Ahead to the Next Telecommunications Act March 12, 2021 To mark the 25th anniversary of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, this symposium explored possible facets of the next major telecommunications reform effort (whenever it may be), including technological convergence and regulatory power; race and diversity in communications law; institutional design and the Federal Communications Commission; and federalism and state power.
