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MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR Robin Feldman
by uclawsf
This was a banner year for C4i, which has been at the center of legal and policy developments in Intellectual Property Law, innovation, and competition.
C4i's flagship program, Startup Legal Garage, provides students with hands-on legal experience and startups with free legal advice It was an award-winning year for the program, which received two awards one from Bloomberg's Law School Innovation Program and the other from the American Legal Technology Awards Our alumna from our 2020-2021 program won an NIH contest for her work on "One Drug for All Cancers"
With policymakers focused on pharmaceutical pricing, AI, and industry concentration, I have been privileged to provide testimony or technical advice to congressional committees, federal agencies and other government officials roughly 50 times in the last year. Of particular note, I have given high-level technical advice to the state of California for its project to produce low-cost insulin and other generic drugs. Press commentary has been hopping as well, and I gave about 150 press interviews over the year.
The work of C4i's Law and Medicine Initiative received its own awards, as it investigates issues relevant to policymakers and the courts "Atomistic Antitrust" , a law review article that envisions better ways of addressing anticompetitive consolidation of markets, received two awards for outstanding writing in antitrust "Lochner Revenant" argued for a narrow interpretation of the dormant Commerce Clause's "extraterritoriality principle," followed by a Supreme Court decision that largely upheld our interpretation Also timely, "Patents as Property for the Takings" appeared in print one month before organizations began challenging the Inflation Reduction Act’s Medicare negotiations To continue its work, C4i has been awarded a record $2.1 million in grant funding in 2023.
In all things, C4i strives to advance better understanding of the law and increased access to the information needed by courts, commentators, and policymakers. I look forward to your joining in the mission!
