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CURRICULUM
Advanced IT Contracts: Drafting and Negotiating Blockchain, Crypto Economics, and the Future Directions of Technology, Business, and Law Computer Crime Law Computer Law Computer Programming for Lawyers Copyright, Competition, and Technology Current Topics in National Security Law Cybercrime Cybersecurity in Context Cybersecurity Law and Policy Encryption Workarounds FinTech: Tools for Analyzing New Financial Products Network Neutrality Seminar Privacy Law for Technologist Regulated Digital Industries: Telecommunications Law & Policy for a Modern Era Social Media Law Surveillance Law and Technology Technology for Lawyers Video Game Law
FACULTY CO-DIRECTORS
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
Deirdre K. Mulligan
Professor in the School of Information and the School of Law
Andrea Roth
Professor of Law
Pamela Samuelson
EVENTS
Tejas N. Narechania
Robert and Nanci Corson Assistant Professor of Law 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, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley in conversation with Marc Zwillinger, Founder & Managing Member, ZwillGen.
Erik Stallman
Associate Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor 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.
Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
Harold C. Hohbach Distinguished Professor of Patent Law and IP and Associate Dean for J.D. Curriculum and Teaching 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.
Annual Legal Frontiers in Digital Media Conference May 18-20, 2021
BCLT and the Media Law Resource Center present this series of conferences that explores emerging legal issues surrounding digital content in today’s multi-platform world.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEW MEDIA
Technology has revolutionized the creation, distribution, and consumption of digital content. The laws around music, TV and film, sports, social media, and video games are evolving at an incredible rate. And Berkeley Law has claimed a leadership role in both research and education within these areas. Our faculty are turning out leading research on media-related IP protection, Internet Service Provider liability, network neutrality, and social media regulation. Our students can choose from a dozen innovative courses focused on social media, music law, video game law, Hollywood contracts, and sports law contracts. And with access to our practitioner-lecturers, students are exposed to the latest development within this rapidlychanging area of law.
“At a time of great and tumultuous change in the media and entertainment world, lawyers are at the heart of rethinking how to restructure the entertainment business to support the creators of content so the audience gets the stories they want and the business is sustainable. Berkeley Law creates innovative thinkers, so its graduates are and can be leaders in the conversations which create these new structures.”
— Linda Lichter, Lecturer and Founding Member and Partner,
Lichter Grossman Nichols Adler Feldman & Clark
CURRICULUM
Advertising, Branding, and the First Amendment Art and Cultural Property Law Copyright, Competition, and Technology Entertainment Law in the TV Industry IP in the Music Industry Media Law and the First Amendment Negotiating Hollywood Contracts Representing Professional Athletes Social Justice Issues in Entertainment and Media Law Social Media Law Topics in Sports Law Video Game Law
FACULTY CO-DIRECTORS
Peter S. Menell
Koret Professor of Law
Pamela Samuelson
Richard M. Sherman Distinguished Professor of Law and Information
Catherine Fisk
Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law
Sonia Katyal
Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research
EVENTS
Annual Sports and Entertainment Law Conference November 5-6, 2020 Berkeley Law’s Annual Sports and Entertainment Conference has become one of the Bay Area’s most recognized student-run sports and entertainment events of the year. Industry elites come together to explore, unpack, and debate the many developments within two dynamic fields. 2020 Speakers included: Jeffrey Harleston (Universal Music Group), Leigh Steinberg (Steinberg Sports and Entertainment), Dr. Damion Thomas (Smithsonian NMAAHC), Hannah Gordon (San Francisco 49ers), D’Lonra Ellis (Oakland Athletics).
LECTURER SPOTLIGHT: LINDA LICHTER
Linda Lichter is a lecturer at Berkeley Law, where she received her J.D. Linda has been teaching a class on negotiating contracts for talent in the entertainment business at the Law School since 2016.
Linda is one of the first woman lawyers to be named partner in an entertainment law firm and one of the first lawyers to work in the independent film world. Linda perennially appears on Hollywood Reporter’s “100 Most Powerful Women in Hollywood” and has been named one of Variety’s top 500 most powerful people in the media business.
LIFE SCIENCES & HEALTH TECHNOLOGY
The Bay Area life sciences ecosystem has proven to be a world leader in life sciences innovation. Berkeley Law and BCLT are uniquely positioned to provide the legal scholarship and training needed both to support the life sciences industry and to address its impact on society.
Berkeley Law already offers innovative classes including Biotechnology Law, Bioethics, and Topics in Pharmaceutical Policy. Now, with generous funding from Genentech, Gilead, Vern Norviel, Wilson Sonsini, and Weil Gotshal,
BCLT is expanding its existing focus on life sciences with a new Director of Life Sciences, new classes, additional professors, and additional practitioner-lecturers.
— Vern Norviel, Co-founder Life Sciences Project
