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By David Bernstein, J.D. Candidate, 2026 On March 15, 2022, President Biden signed the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act of 2022 (CIRCIA) into law. Bipartisan lawmakers championed the legislation in response to the growing number of cyber intrusions against critical infrastructure. In particular, the May 2021 ransomware attack ...

SPEAKERS Yunfei Qiang; Paul Wood; David Fang; Heather Whitney Podcast Transcript: [Yunfei Qiang] 00:13 Hello and a warm welcome to all our listeners tuning in to the Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast! I’m your host, Yunfei Qiang. In this episode, we’re venturing into the dynamic and contentious realm of generative ...

COMPLETE VOLUME 38, ISSUE 2 Complete Issue FRONT MATTER Front Matter ARTICLES HIPAA v. Dobbs by Wendy A. Bach & Nicolas Terry Unenjoined Infringement and Compulsory Licensing by Jorge L. Contreras & Jessica Maupin Addressing Personal Data Collection as Unfair Methods of Competition by Maurice E. Stucke Defragging Feminist Cyberlaw ...

SPEAKERS Eric Ahern; Juliette Draper; Meg O’Neill Podcast Transcript: [Eric Ahern] 00:08 You’re listening to the Berkeley Technology Law Journal Podcast. I’m Eric Ahern. [Juliette Draper] 00:13 I’m Juliette Draper. [Meg O’Neill] 00:14 And I’m Meg O’Neill. [Juliette Draper] 00:16 Today, we will be covering the verdict announced in the ...

The Articles within this issue are derived from presentations delivered at the Berkeley-NYU Symposium entitled The Impact of the Patent System on Markets for Technology, held at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business on February 23–24, 2023. The TIIP Program at the Classical Liberal Institute (NYU School ...

This article is part of the 2023 BCLT-BTLJ Symposium. Stacy-Ann Elvy I. INTRODUCTION In 1972, Californians approved Proposition 11, a legislatively proposed amendment to the California constitution to establish an inalienable right to privacy. Accompanying this right was an enforceable right of action. The ballot arguments in favor of ...

Our 4th annual BCLT-BTLJ symposium took place on Friday, October 27, 2023. We are proud to present the following pieces to accompany the Symposium: Artificial Intelligence and the Right to Privacy by Chris Conley Realizing a Right to Privacy and Cybersecurity through California’s Commercial Law by Stacy-Ann Elvy Not Just ...

This article is part of the 2023 BCLT-BTLJ Symposium. By Jacob Snow I. Introduction Privacy law under Article I, Section 1 of the California Constitution is based on a foundational distinction between “informational” and “autonomy” privacy. Invasions that implicate autonomy are limited, primarily focusing on protecting people’s bodily autonomy ...

This article is part of the 2023 BCLT-BTLJ Symposium. By Al Malecha, JD 2024 Many of us in the legal field have had an overwhelmingly negative first impression of AI, which is often brought up in the context of copyright infringement, fictitious case law, or shirked liability. Outside of the ...

This article is part of the 2023 BCLT-BTLJ Symposium. By Chris Conley “Artificial intelligence” (AI) is everywhere these days, from Waymo’s ongoing pilots of self-driving cars to OpenAI’s publicly-available ChatGPT chatbot. The currently dominant form, machine learning (ML), relies on models derived from vast sets of data, potentially including personal ...