TECHNOLOGY, DISRUPTION, AND SOCIAL IMPACT

Rapid innovation—whether it be in high-tech or biotech— creates legal issues unimagined just a few years ago. BCLT faculty co-directors are leading the examination of these emerging legal issues and have established themselves as the nation’s leading experts on the impact of technology on both society and individuals. They are researching a diverse range of topics, including government use of surveillance, regulation of internet platforms, forensic science in criminal prosecutions, technology regulations impacting the First Amendment, and the intersection of law and medicine.

Students have access to over a dozen courses that explore technology’s impact on us all. Students also have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with these societalimpact issues by participating in innovative clinics like the Samuelson Law, Technology, & Public Policy Clinic.

“As technology has transformed more areas of life, technology law and policy has spun out in many directions beyond the copyright and speech issues that first preoccupied the field some two decades ago. Research by faculty and students now involves issues as disparate as the use of geolocation tracking bracelets on kids in the juvenile justice system to the provision of broadband during the pandemic. Part of the appeal of the field is the dazzling array of work that falls within it, and its constant evolution.”

— Catherine Crump, Clinical Professor, BCLT Faculty Director, and Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic

CURRICULUM FACULTY CO-DIRECTORS

Advanced IP: Theories of Innovation Policy and Culture Antitrust and Innovation Bioethics: From Nuremberg to Modern Times Climate Change and the Law Computer Crime Law Criminal Procedure Investigations Current Topics in National Security Law Cybersecurity Law and Policy Disruptive Technologies and Regulation Environmental Justice: Race, Class and the Environment Fire Science, Law, and Policy Forensic Evidence in Criminal Trials Hate Speech, Disinformation, and Online Harassment: Regulation of and by Internet Platforms Law and Technology Scholarship Seminar Medical-Legal Partnerships: A Collaborative Approach to Social Justice Race, Police Violence, and the Fourth Amendment Regulated Digital Industries: Telecommunications Law & Policy for a Modern Era Science and Regulatory Policy Secrecy: The Use and Abuse of Information Control in the Courts Social Justice Issues in Entertainment and Media Law Space Law Surveillance Law and Technology Technological Disruption and Social Justice for LL.M.s Technology Disruption Seminar Technology Expertise in Law and Policy When Technology Meets a Criminal Case

Kenneth A. Bamberger

Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Law at Berkeley Law

Catherine Crump

Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic and Clinical Professor of Law

Catherine Fisk

Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law

Sonia Katyal

Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research

Peter S. Menell

Koret Professor of Law

Deirdre K. Mulligan

Professor in the School of Information and the School of Law

Osagie K. Obasogie

Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Law at Berkeley Law with a joint appointment in the School of Public Health.

Andrea Roth

Professor of Law

Jennifer M. Urban

Clinical Professor of Law and the Director of Policy Initiatives for the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic

Rebecca Wexler

Assistant Professor of Law

EVENTS

BCLT Symposium on Race and Health: The Intersection of Race, Healthcare, and Technology Law November 10, 2021 Among topics to be discussed, “Race & Access to Health Care Innovation” and “The Impact of Technological Trends on Racial Minorities in America.”

Cyber-hate: Defining and Combating Antisemitism and Hate Online February 4 and March 4, 2021 This symposium explored the phenomenon of cyberhate. What are the key issues and manifestations? What are the appropriate responses to online hate? What are the frameworks available—legal, social, technological—and possible constraints to responding? How do we evaluate the success of various solutions? Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Institute’s Program on Jewish Law, Thought, and Identity and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology 25th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Symposium: Technology Law as a Vehicle for Anti-Racism November 12-13, 2020 This online symposium, organized by Berkeley Technology Law Journal and BCLT, examined the intersection of technology, law, and race. Speakers discussed current issues dealing with technology and race, including how technologies can be designed and implemented to serve rather than undermine the interests of racial justice and how technology law, policy, and scholarship can advance anti-racism.