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7th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Fall Race & Technology Symposium: Being Human in the Age of AI

Sponsor: BCLT
Join us for Being Human in the Age of AI, a symposium exploring how artificial intelligence is reshaping the law’s most basic assumptions about the human person — from the privacy of the mind to the boundaries of legal responsibility. Across four panels, we trace an arc from the innermost self outward: how neurotechnology and algorithmic design test the limits of cognitive liberty; how deepfakes and biometric systems unsettle the law of identity; how automated decision-making challenges due process and the right to be heard; and how courts and legislatures are struggling to define what AI fundamentally is. Attendees will hear from leading scholars, technologists, and practitioners grappling with these questions in real time, as courts issue rulings, states pass conflicting statutes, and AI companies themselves debate the moral status of the systems they build.

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29th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Spring Symposium: Origins, Evolution, and Possible Futures of the 1976 Copyright Act

Sponsor: BCLT
To mark the 50th anniversary of the Copyright Act of 1976, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School are sponsoring this joint bi-coastal symposium. The Berkeley event, on April 16-17, 2026, examined the origins of the 1976 Act, its key reforms and features, as well the challenges that the regime has encountered as a result of technological change. The Columbia event, on October 23-24, 2026, will focus on how the 1976 Act and subsequent reforms have interacted with public and private institutions, from the Copyright Office and the courts to collecting societies and voluntary and open source licensing organizations. Both events will explore how copyright law might be reformed to address challenges posed by new technologies, notably artificial intelligence. Symposium speakers will include Shira Perlmutter, the 14th Register of Copyrights, judges from the Second and Ninth Circuits, and leading copyright scholars. Symposium essays will be published in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal and the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts.

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Berkeley Law Webcasts: AI Sessions

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

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Berkeley Law Webcasts: IP Sessions

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

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Berkeley Law Webcasts: Privacy & Cybersecurity Sessions

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

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Berkeley Law Webcasts: Privacy Law Sessions

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

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Berkeley Law Webcasts: Trade Secret Law Sessions

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

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Berkeley Law Webcasts: Transactions & Licensing Sessions

Sponsor: UC Berkeley Center for Law & Technology

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19th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture

Format: On-Demand

Minutes: 80

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13 Aug

Patent Trial Strategy When IPRs Aren't an Option

Format: On-Demand

Minutes: 35

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13 Aug

Protecting Quantum Innovation: IP Strategy in the Commercialization Era

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Minutes: 40

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25th Annual Berkeley-Stanford Advanced Patent Law Institute: (B-CLE Panel) AI, Technology, and the Practice of Law Navigating the Digital Transformation

Event Information | Agenda For more information about APLI and to register, see the link here. This program qualifies for California's Technology CLE requirement. AI is transforming the way legal services are provided. Clients, once skeptical of AI in legal practice, are now demanding it for cost savings and rapid responses. While the benefits can be significant, the downsides can also be significant. It is time to move beyond the discussion of the cat lawyer and improper citations to better focus on the future of AI tools. Join our group of legal-industry experts to better understand what the future holds, and in many cases, what the future does not hold. Speakers: Olga V. Mack, Product Law Hub Dorna Moini, Gavel David Wang, Cooley Moderator: Colleen Chien, Berkeley Law, BCLT

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72
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5/1/2027
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6th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Fall Race & Tech Symposium – (Panel 3) From Surveillance to Sentencing: Regulating AI in the Criminal Legal System

Occured Monday, September 29, 20256th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Fall Race & Tech Symposium: Regulating the Machine: Centering Racial Justice in AI Policy-MakingPanel 3: From Surveillance to Sentencing: Regulating AI in the Criminal Legal System Program Information | Agenda | Resources Panel Description: Amidst pushes for criminal justice and surveillance reform, the burgeoning use of AI in the criminal legal system, from investigations to policing, raises a host of ethical, legal, and regulatory challenges. This panel will explore the intersection of AI and criminal justice, delving into emerging technologies’ impact on civil liberties, racial bias, and the need for transparent, accountable oversight. Speakers Juliana DeVries, Law Office of Julianna DeVries, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, UC Berkeley Law Rayid Ghani, Heinz College of Information Systems and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University Ngozi Okidegbe, Boston University School of Law Nicole Ozer, UC Law San Francisco Moderator Andrea Roth, BCLT, UC Berkeley Law Symposium Description: Join us for Regulating the Machine: Centering Racial Justice in AI Policy-Making, a thought-provoking event exploring the intersection of AI, racial justice, and regulatory and legal frameworks that seek to address some of the most pressing issues of our time. We’ll explore the convergence of the worsening climate crisis and the “AI boom”; unpack concerns about how AI use will impact workers; and discuss the consequence of racial bias in AI tools across sectors, from the criminal legal system to healthcare. Through engaging panel discussions, we’ll discuss best practices for developing AI-related guardrails, asking what is still needed to protect the marginalized communities disproportionately affected by climate disaster, safeguard workers’ rights, and ensure the just and reliable provision of healthcare. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from preeminent experts in various fields and plug into meaningful conversations about how emerging technologies shape our lives—from our personal health outcomes to the places where we, and our families, live, work, play, and learn. Co-organized By

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60
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4/1/2027
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18th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Blanket Opt-Outs

18th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Blanket Opt-OutsWednesday, November 19 | 3:30 PMPresented by Privacy Law at Berkeley (PrivLAB)Booth Auditorium, Room 175, UC Berkeley Law Event Information | Agenda | Resources Suppose that a consumer has the legal right to opt out of receiving certain communications, being tracked across the Internet by advertisers, or having their personal data transferred from one company to another. Should consumers be able to opt out once—and have that choice honored across all companies—or must they repeat the process endlessly, playing “opt-out Whac-a-Mole”? This lecture explores how the law inconsistently treats blanket opt-outs across privacy, arbitration, and AI training contexts. We’ll examine when blanket opt-outs work, why they fail elsewhere, and where legal reforms or private-sector solutions may offer a path forward. SpeakerLior Jacob Strahilevitz, Sidley Austin Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School CommentatorsPaul Schwartz, Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law and BCLT Co-DirectorLindsey Tonsager, Partner, Covington & BurlingJennifer Urban, Professor, UC Berkeley School of Law, BCLT Co-Director, and Chair of the California Privacy Protection Agency

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90
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7/1/2027
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6th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Fall Race & Tech Symposium – (Panel 1) “Where We Live, Work, Play, and Learn”: Generative AI and Environmental Policy

Occured Monday, September 29, 20256th Annual BTLJ-BCLT Fall Race & Tech Symposium: Regulating the Machine: Centering Racial Justice in AI Policy-MakingPanel 1: “Where We Live, Work, Play, and Learn”: Generative AI and Environmental Policy Program Information | Agenda | Resources Panel Description: The climate crisis, environmental disasters, and the “slow violence” of harms like long-term pollution have disproportionately affected low-income communities of color. Amidst the worsening climate crisis, this panel explores the environmental consequences of the generative AI boom, from rapid increases in energy consumption to the strain that data centers place on municipal water systems. We will discuss best practices for developing AI-related environmental guardrails and how policy solutions can effectively center the needs of marginalized populations. Speakers Adam Husik, K&L Gates Alyssa Moir, K&L Gates Roberto Verdecchia, University of Florence Moderator Dan Farber, CLEE, UC Berkeley Law Symposium Description: Join us for Regulating the Machine: Centering Racial Justice in AI Policy-Making, a thought-provoking event exploring the intersection of AI, racial justice, and regulatory and legal frameworks that seek to address some of the most pressing issues of our time. We’ll explore the convergence of the worsening climate crisis and the “AI boom”; unpack concerns about how AI use will impact workers; and discuss the consequence of racial bias in AI tools across sectors, from the criminal legal system to healthcare. Through engaging panel discussions, we’ll discuss best practices for developing AI-related guardrails, asking what is still needed to protect the marginalized communities disproportionately affected by climate disaster, safeguard workers’ rights, and ensure the just and reliable provision of healthcare. Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from preeminent experts in various fields and plug into meaningful conversations about how emerging technologies shape our lives—from our personal health outcomes to the places where we, and our families, live, work, play, and learn. Co-organized By

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60
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4/1/2027
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17th Annual BCLT Privacy Lecture: Data Privacy on Trial - A Comparative Analysis of Enforcement, Damages, Sanctions, and Standing in EU and U.S. Law

Program occured October 31 , 2024 Event Information | Agenda The European Data Privacy Regime under the GDPR stresses that a law is only as good as its enforcement. Thus, EU data protection law includes a refined, complex set of instruments to incentivize data processors and to deter them from deviating from the law. This lecture analyzes the reach of civil actions by the data subject and administrative actions through independent data protection agencies, of private damages and public sanctions, and of collective prosecutions. It takes a comparative approach and looks as well at the information privacy law in the United States concerning the constitutional law of standing and privacy harms. Speaker: Dr. Indra Spiecker, University of Cologne Commentators: Sari Mazzurco, Dedman School of Law, Southern Methodist University Margot E. Kaminski, University of Colorado Law School Paul Shwartz, BCLT, Berkeley Law

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86
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4/1/2027
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Talk I: Copyright Challenge – A Comparative Law View on Authorship

Program occured on January 23, 2024 Event Information | Agenda | Resources Presented by Asia IP & Competition Law Center In Nov. 2023, the five-year-old Beijing Internet Court (“BIC”) issued a landmark judgment (Li v. Liu) on the copyright eligibility of an image generated with Stable Diffusion AI, finding the human user that provided elaborate prompts to the machine to be the “author”. This judgment has triggered a flurry of vigorous debates in China, and meanwhile attracted significant international attention. Some commented that this $70 ruling may have far-reaching implications on the evolution of AIGC in China, unleashing a trillion-dollar industry. Some contrasted this judgment with the various rejection decisions issued lately by the US Copyright Office (“USCO”), which found that the human users in the loop do not have sufficient authorial control, despite the hundreds of prompt inputs. The apparent disparity in outcomes however, may have largely shadowed the similarity of a human-centered approach adopted by both institutions facing a common conundrum. With the emergence of powerful Gen-AI tools and their varied synergies with human beings, we now start to witness real-world examples of “authorless works” as coined by Prof. Ginsburg and Luke Budiardjo. While these “works” may not fulfill the conventional authorship requirement, some of them may have remarkable commercial or even arguably artistic values (depending how we interpret “art”). How to properly address this common challenge faced by all jurisdictions, may require us to go beyond the doctrinal level and revisit the justifying principles of copyright law / author’s law, in light of the legal and economic context in the particular jurisdiction. In this inaugural Talk, we invited Profs Guobin Cui and Qian Wang, two renowned copyright law scholars in China, to give us a nuanced account of this case, against the backdrop of how the rapidly evolving copyright law deals with various technological challenges in China. As a comparison, BCLT’s own faculty director Prof. Robert Merges, Co-Director of BAIC, will provide his insight through the lens of US copyright law, as well as the underlying principles of intellectual property. Discussants: Prof. Guobin Cui (???), Tsinghua University School of LawProf. Robert Merges, BCLTProf. Qian Wang (??), Eastern University of Political Science and Law Moderator: Dr. Yuan Hao (??), BCLT

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120
Minutes
12/1/2027
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