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Monday - April 1, 2024 1-2 PM 141 Law Building & Online (Zoom) Agility over Stability | Book Overview General CLE Credit Available Join Professor Angela Zhang (USC School of Law), Professor Rob Merges (BCLT), and Dr. Yuan Hao (BCLT) for a discussion on her book titled High Wire: How China Regulates Big Tech and Governs […]
Please join us for a special Berkeley Boosts presentation with Veta Richardson, President and CEO of the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC). Veta will be presenting the ACC’s recently released 2023 Chief Legal Officers Survey. The survey provides insights directly from CLOs on the trends, challenges, and opportunities facing corporate legal departments.
Guest Speaker: Scott J. Shapiro Southmayd Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, Yale University Thursday, April 4, 2024 3:00 P.M. (PT) Bancroft Hotel(opens in a new tab), 2680 Bancroft Way, Berkeley Registration(opens in a new tab) Agenda Join BCLT for the 1st Annual Cyber Security Lecture with guest speaker, Scott Shapiro, who will give a […]
April 5, 2024 10:00 AM – 6:30 PM | Doors open at 9:30 AM Bancroft Hotel, Berkeley, CA Registration | Agenda On behalf of the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, we would like to cordially invite you to the 9th annual Berkeley Law Sports and Entertainment Conference. The conference, which will be held […]
Coffee Break with Irene Liu is a Berkeley Boosts webinar series from Berkeley Law Executive Education featuring interviews with influential leaders on impactful events in their careers, lives, and organizations. Conversations will explore lessons learned and what listeners can take away from the guests’ experiences. In this episode, Irene speaks with Ben Glatstein, Assistant General […]
Forget how a bill becomes a law– how does an idea become a bill? Legislative drafting may feel mysterious or intimidating, but it’s an important technical process in which lawyers with subject-matter expertise can play an important role. Please join us for a conversation about legislative drafting with Gus Patel-Tupper, a supervising attorney in the […]
This event is a yearly Berkeley Law event where the International Law Journal invites practioners and experts from accross the country and sometimes globally to speak on pannels regarding cutting edge issues in international law. This year our topic is environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and the law. We will have panels regarding various topics […]
How do litigators and policymakers confront and work within bureaucratic systems to effect change? Please join us for a talk of how to navigate bureaucracy, focusing on FOIA laws and public records requests, with Rachel Wallace, Interim Deputy Director of the Policy Advocacy Clinic at Berkeley Law. Ms. Wallace’s experience includes working on complex policy […]
AI is changing the way civil litigation is practiced. What are the implications for the evaluation and presentation of evidence? Is the use of AI generated evidence consistent with the Rules of Evidence? This program will consider these questions by providing some technical background on AI and discussing some of the potential legal issues. Professors and Law […]
Coffee Break with Irene Liu is a Berkeley Boosts webinar series from Berkeley Law Executive Education featuring interviews with influential leaders on impactful events in their careers, lives, and organizations. Conversations will explore lessons learned and what listeners can take away from the guests’ experiences. In this episode, Irene speaks with Sarah Guo, Founder of […]
We all know it when we see it: legal writing that meanders, obfuscates, and/or fails to deliver a coherent argument. And we recognize effective legal writing as well: it is organized, clear, concise, and well-supported. But assessing the quality of persuasive legal writing is only the first step to developing the skill in junior attorneys […]
Designed for junior, mid, and senior level corporate, government, and civil society practitioners. Participants from prior iterations of this course include professionals from disciplines including law, regulatory/compliance, management consulting, investor relations, public affairs/policy, and media/communications, among others.
This track has been adapted from our Sustainable Capitalism in Practice course to be maximally relevant for corporate board directors and C-suite executives. Like its counterpart, it provides clear, actionable frameworks for integrating ESG strategies and stakeholder theory considerations into business and investment practices, but in a more condensed format.
Experts will discuss the impact of innovations in technology on capital markets, with a focus on rules proposed by the SEC regarding the use of predictive data analytics by broker-dealers and investment advisors. Panelists will describe the proposal and the range of responsive comments, including recent recommendations from the SEC Investor Advisory Committee’s Disclosure Subcommittee, […]
Talk III: How Fair is Fair Use in the “AI Age”? April 30, 2024 @ 5:00-6:30 p.m. PT General MCLE Credit Available Register | Agenda | Resources Conventionally, the fair use doctrine has been serving as a safety valve in balancing the copyright protection of expressive creativity and necessary access for cumulative creativity. Despite the modern US Copyright Act’s […]