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2001 Annual Student Symposium - "Law and Technology"

University of California Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law

Friday, March 9

7:00 p.m.
Dean's Welcome

7:15 p.m.
Panel: Is Technology Changing Individual-State-Societal Relations?

Dean Mark Grady, George Mason University School of Law
Mr. Declan McCullagh, Chief Washington Correspondent for Wired Magazine/Wired.com
Prof. John McGinnis, Cardozo School of Law
Prof. Robert Merges, Boalt Hall School of Law
Moderator: Mr. Peter Thiel, Chairman and Founder of Paypal.com

Saturday, March 10

9:00 a.m.
Panel: Does the Law Need to—and Can It—Protect Privacy?

Prof. Jeff Rosen, George Washington University School of Law/Columnist for The New Republic
Mr. Marc Rotenberg, Electronic Privacy Information Center
Prof. Eugene Volokh, UCLA School of Law
Mr. Kent Walker, Senior Vice President & General Counsel of Liberate Technologies
Moderator: Prof. Howard Shelanski, Boalt Hall School of Law

11:00 a.m.
Debate: Is Technology Posing Any Truly New Legal Challenges, Or Is It Presenting Problems That are Simply Variations On Old Themes?

2:00 p.m.
Panel: Proprietary Rights in Intellectual Property: Time-Tested Incentives or Overdone Protections?

Prof. Mark Lemley, Boalt Hall School of Law
Hon. Alex Kozinski, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Prof. Lillian BeVier, University of Virginia School of Law
Mr. Jay Monahas, Associate General Counsel for ebay
Moderator: Hon. Vaughn Walker, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California

4:00 p.m.
Panel: Should Our Increased Genetic Knowledge Change How We Treat Persons Under the Law?

Hon. Michael O’Neill, U.S. Sentencing Commission and George Mason School of Law
Prof. E. Donald Elliott, Yale University School of Law
Moderator: Prof. Eric Rakowski, Boalt Hall School of Law

7:00 p.m.
Banquet