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.

Berkeley Law is one of the top public law schools in the United States, as well as being situated in one of the top life science research universities in the world, and all the while in a geography that draws more life science funding than anywhere else in the world. It is the center of it all.

— Vern Norviel, Co-founder Life Sciences Project

CURRICULUM

Bioethics: From Nuremberg to Modern Times Biotechnology Law Food Justice Food Law & Policy Law and Technology Writing Workshop Law, Public Health, and Police Use of Force Marijuana Law and Policy Medical-Legal Partnerships: A Collaborative Approach to Social Justice Mental Health and the Law Public Health Law Topics in Pharmaceutical Policy: The Case of Biotherapeutics Wine Law

EVENTS

Advanced Life Sciences Regulatory Institute Summer 2022 Life sciences companies face a complex, evolving regulatory environment. With programming exclusively dedicated to life sciences issues, this advanced series provides attorneys with the cutting-edge information they need to know.

Advanced Life Sciences IP Institute Winter 2021-2022 Focusing exclusively on IP issues facing life sciences companies, this advanced series provides attorneys in the life science space with programming dedicated to IP issues arising in their space.

Advanced Life Sciences Series These virtual programs offer life sciences attorneys access to the most current topics and to leading thinkers.

• Fall Life Sciences Seminar Fall 2021 • Spring Life Sciences Seminar Spring 2022

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.”

NEW FACULTY SPOTLIGHT: OSAGIE K. OBASOGIE

Professor Osagie K. Obasogie is the newest BCLT Faculty Director and Berkeley Law Faculty member. He is the Haas Distinguished Chair and only faculty member jointly appointed at both Berkeley Law and the School of Public Health. As a sociologist of law and medicine, Obasogie’s research combines doctrinal scholarship with empirical methods and novel theoretical approaches to understand the ways race is central to how the institutions of law and medicine operate.

His current work examines the role of science, medicine, and medical professionals in hindering the ability to hold police officers accountable when they use excessive force; analyzes the legacy of the American eugenics movement and its contemporary impact on law, science, medicine, and technology; studies how legal doctrine produces police violence; and exposes the often overlooked limitations of DNA databases when they are used in criminal investigations.