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UC HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW
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ust like wearing sweaters in the summer or experiencing your first Bay to Breakers, the Hastings Science &
Technology Law Journal is a
story that could be told only in
San Francisco. It’s a story of brilliant students, enthusiastic faculty
advisors, committed alumni, and
an innovative intellectual project
coming together at UC Hastings
College of the Law to create a new,
unique voice on science, technology, and the law.
itor-in-Chief Charles Belle, a Hastings third-year student,
“so we partnered with the Law and Bioscience Project,
headed by intellectual property professor Robin Feldman.”
The project is an intellectual exchange
for bioscience companies, law firms,
and academia, where students get true
hands-on experience working side by
side with attorneys on the forefront
of bioscience to consider how the law
should handle emerging issues in the
field. The project’s director, Professor
Feldman, says, “The Law and Bioscience Project exposes students to cutting-edge issues in law and science,
which results in more original and
elegant discussions in the students’
published pieces.”
Photo by Jim Block
When Hastings announced the
launch of its new intellectual
Realizing such great potential in an
property concentration last year,
academic journal, an anonymous dostudents were buzzing about the
nor gave a significant founding gift,
possibility of creating a journal
permitting the journal to gain its legs
dedicated to the intersection of
in its seminal years. “The Science &
science, technology, and the law
Technology Law Journal is humbled by
to supplement the concentration.
the great generosity of our benefactor.
Founded by some of Hastings’s
The gift was a source of encouragesharpest science-minded students,
Professor Robin Feldman, director of the Hastings Law
and Bioscience Project and a faculty advisor of the ment, letting us focus on what matters
along with exceptional faculty
most to any scholarly publication—
Hastings Science & Technology Law Journal
members like Professors Robin
exceptional content,” says Belle.
Feldman, David Faigman, and
Radhika Rao, the Hastings Science & Technology Law JourAnd focus on content, they did. In just its first year, the
nal serves both the legal and scientific communities while
journal pumped out a spring and summer issue that covenriching the academic debate on science, technology,
ered topics ranging from technology transfers in the interbioethics, health, public policy, and the law.
national regime to the return of patentable subject matter.
Articles were written by heavy hitters in the technology and
“We wanted a more insightful dialogue on cutting-edge
intellectual property fields, such as “Reach-Through Rights
issues facing the law and bioscience community,” says EdTHE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO ATTORNEY 31
and the Patentability, Enforcement, and Licensing of Patents on Drug Discovery Tools,” by Alfred Server, Jane Love,
and Nader Mousavi, all partners at WilmerHale. Feldman
says, “The journal’s focus on high-quality contributions is an important component of the planned
introduction of a peer-reviewed section.”
Always looking ahead, Belle says this year’s journal issues will feature subject matter in genetics
and injunctive relief in closely related technology
industries. “Genetics especially is a hot-button
topic, so it should make for an interesting debate among
academics. We are really excited to be tackling critical matters such as this.”
Entering its second year, the journal is already a
leading platform in the academic discourse on
science, technology, and the law. And you can be sure we
haven’t heard the last of this San Francisco story.
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Photo by Sam Sellers, UC Davis School of Law
Belle continues, “The best part about working on the
Science & Technology Law Journal is that it fosters a com-
munity of shared interests. Many members have a science
background, and the spectrum of their academic pursuits
includes bioethics, patents, clean technology, technology
policy, and health law—all advanced subjects.
Even better, journal members have worked in a
diverse array of fields—from patent prosecution
to public health to privacy—which cultivates a
unique dialogue and collaborative effort.”
King Hall is undergoing a $30 million expansion and renovation project to become a larger, state-of-the-art facility that will accommodate the latest technology
U
C Davis School of Law is growing—in
more ways than one. From its physical
building and academic programs to its
fundraising and reputation, King Hall is
raising its stature.
The most obvious sign of this growth is the King Hall
Expansion and Renovation project, a $30 million effort to
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expand and update the law school’s Martin Luther King,
Jr., Hall, which has essentially been unchanged since it
opened to students in 1966. Construction of a new east
wing for the building, which will provide the law school
with an additional 18,000 assignable square feet, is well
underway, with the new addition scheduled for occupation in May 2010. When the expansion is completed,
the previously existing building will be renovated to en-
hance accessibility, accommodate new technologies, and
improve aesthetics.
has more Asian American faculty than any other American
law school.
When the project is complete, the UC Davis School of
Law will enjoy an aesthetically striking and functionally state-of-the-art facility that will accommodate the
latest technology and teaching techniques and provide
tremendous flexibility for the school as it continues to
develop well into the future. Among the building’s new
features will be an expanded Mabie Law Library, numerous new classrooms and meeting places, and the new Paul
and Lydia Kalmanovitz Appellate Courtroom, named in
honor of the Kalmanovitz Charitable Foundation’s gift
of $1 million. The facility will host
real-world and mock court proceedings, instruction, and lectures and is
expected to bring sessions of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, California Supreme Court, and
California Court of Appeal to the UC
Davis campus.
The 2009 Law Review Symposium, an examination of the
career and jurisprudence of Supreme Court Justice John
Paul Stevens, was a resounding success. The event brought
legal experts from across the country—many of whom had
clerked for Justice Stevens—from academia, journalism,
and the practicing bar to King Hall for a series of stimulating panel discussions about the contributions of a jurist
who has served on the country’s highest court for more
than thirty years. The symposium was taped by the CSPAN network and broadcast to a national audience.
Photo by Sam Sellers, UC Davis School of Law
UC Davis law students have continued to
draw attention for their success in moot
court and mock trial competitions, most recently when the UC Davis team, representing the United States, claimed the world
championship for the United States in the
International Negotiations Competition
held in Chicago in June. Virtually every
UC Davis School of Law is growing in
student participates in one or more of the
other ways, too. Spring 2009 at King
school’s trial and appellate advocacy proHall saw the launch of the California
grams, clinics, or externships. The externInternational Law Center, which will
ship program allows students to earn acabuild on a tradition of international
demic credit for work in environmental law,
law scholarship at UC Davis by foshuman rights, criminal defense and prosDean Kevin R. Johnson
tering work by faculty, students, and
ecution, labor law, tax law, and juvenile law,
alumni in international, comparative,
and with state and federal judges. Because
and transnational law through guest speakers and special
of the law school’s proximity to California’s capital city of
events, curricular innovation, career development, and
Sacramento, students interested in the political process are
partnerships with other international law organizations.
able to work with legislators, legislative committees, the
Recent months have also seen UC Davis School of Law
governor’s office, or lobbyists. In addition, in-house leadding new faculty, including Miguel Méndez, one of the
gal clinics provide specialized work in civil rights, family
foremost scholars of his generation in the field of evidence
law and domestic violence, prisoners’ rights, and immigralaw and formerly a chaired professor at Stanford, and
tion law.
John P. Hunt, a specialist in the regulation of financial
markets and institutions.
As UC Davis School of Law has continued to grow in stature and achievement, its fundraising efforts have also enThe law school’s reputation is on the rise, as well. UC Dajoyed increasing success. Despite an extremely challenging
vis placed thirty-fifth in U.S. News & World Report’s most
fiscal environment, the law school recorded its second-best
recent ranking of 184 American Bar Association–approved
fundraising year ever in fiscal 2008–09, with its largest tolaw schools, and also placed twenty-fifth in the magazine’s
tal number of donors and largest number of gifts in its his“peer assessment ranking” and twentieth in racial divertory. As UC Davis School of Law prepares for 2009–10,
sity of the student body. UC Davis School of Law’s facit’s clear that the King Hall community is united behind
ulty was rated as tenth most diverse in the country by
new Dean Kevin R. Johnson in a desire to take UC Davis
Princeton Review in an article that also noted that UC Davis
to even greater heights.
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Santa Clara University opened its new, $95 million Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library last spring, and law
students are among the thousands who use it daily. The 194,000-square-foot building features a café, thirty-five group-study rooms, 250,000 books in open
stacks (with capacity for 1.1 million volumes), an automated retrieval system housing more than 600,000 additional volumes, and an interior that is filled
with natural light.
Photo by FJ Gaylor Photography, Courtesy of SCU
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peaking of the coming year, Julia Yaffee, senior assistant dean at Santa Clara Law, says,
“We had a strong admissions season. Despite
the economic downturn and the decline in law
school applications nationwide, Santa Clara
Law saw a 16 percent increase in our applications over
last year.”
Founded in 1911 on the site of Santa Clara University, the
oldest university in the West, Santa Clara Law is gearing
up to celebrate a big birthday. “We are currently planning our 2011 centennial celebration,” says Yaffee. “We
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have been sifting through archival materials and interviewing older alumni to gather the stories that make this law
school great.”
Santa Clara Law’s International Moot Court Team defeated
a team from Yale to win the 2009 Pace University School
of Law’s International Criminal Court (ICC) Moot Competition, held in early spring at Pace University in White
Plains, New York. The team—Ann Marie Ursini, J.D. ’09,
Brandon Douglass, J.D. ’10, and Adam Birnbaum, J.D.
’09—was coached by Associate Professor of Law Beth Van
Schaack and earned praise for what one judge called its
“devastating” arguments. Douglass was named best oralist in the final round of the competition. The Santa Clara
Law team earned a spot in the international competition
at the ICC in the Hague in mid-February. The team came
within a hair’s breadth—four points out of an ultimate
total of 400—of making it into the final round, and
placed fourth.
Santa Clara Law has study abroad programs in more locations than any law school in the United States. This
summer there were 190 students (including 69 students from Santa Clara Law and 121 students from 56
other law schools) enrolled in thirteen different summer
abroad programs.
This year, Santa Clara Law is launching a new J.D./MSIS
joint degree with the Leavey School of Business at Santa
Clara University that is one of only a handful of such joint
programs in the country. The J.D./MSIS degree lets students earn both a J.D. and master’s of science in information systems in less time than it would take to earn both
degrees separately. Joint degree students will gain deeper
technical insights about computer systems, which can be
especially valuable in a computer law practice, when dealing with complex e-discovery matters (an increasingly essential part of litigation practice), or in the burgeoning
fields of information security and privacy.
In January, law professor Cynthia Mertens took a group
of law students to El Salvador, and the students wrote poignant essays about the experience. Mertens is arranging an
alumni trip for next January.
Seventy-two law students contributed fifty hours or more
of pro bono service during the academic 2008–2009 year,
representing a total of twelve thousand hours of service in
the community.
This year, the Center for Social Justice and Public Service at Santa Clara Law raised more than $110,000, part
of which helped fund summer public interest and social
justice law summer positions. More than twenty-five students received funds and worked for legal services providers such as the Alliance for Affordable Energy, American
Civil Liberties Union, Bay Area Legal Aid, Center on Juvenile Criminal Justice, Children’s Law Center of L.A.,
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, Consumers
Union, International Institutes, North County Family Violence Prevention Center, Northern California Innocence
Project, Pro Bono Project of Silicon Valley, Watsonville
Law Center, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.
The work of the Northern California Innocence Project
at Santa Clara Law was highlighted in a new film, Witch
Hunt, produced by Sean Penn and shown in select theaters
and on national television.
In February, Santa Clara Law alumnus Leon Panetta J.D.
’63 was confirmed as CIA director. “He has a long and distinguished career of service to this country,” says Dean Donald L. Polden, “and the entire Santa Clara Law community
is proud of him and his commitment to government service
and leadership in public service.” An eight-term representative to congress and the former chief of staff to President
Bill Clinton, Leon Panetta earned his bachelor’s degree
from Santa Clara University in 1960 and his J.D. in 1963
from Santa Clara Law, where he served as an editor of the
Law Review. A former member of Santa Clara Law’s Board
of Visitors, Panetta celebrated the forty-fifth anniversary
of his graduation at his class reunion last September and
received the Santa Clara Law Diversity Award at a celebration in October.
A selection of other outstanding Santa Clara Law alumni
are highlighted in a special section of our Web site at
law.scu.edu/lawyerswholead.
Santa Clara Law is dedicated to educating lawyers who
lead with a commitment to excellence, ethics, and social
justice. Santa Clara Law is located in the world-class business center of Silicon Valley, and the school is distinguished
nationally for its top-ranked program in intellectual property. One of the nation’s most diverse law schools, Santa
Clara Law offers its 975 students an academically rigorous
program, including certificates in intellectual property law,
international law, and public interest and social justice law,
as well as graduate degrees in international law and intellectual property law, and two combined degrees—J.D./
MBA, and J.D./MSIS. More than 10,000 Santa Clara Law
alumni serve in leading positions across the legal field, including general counsel of top high-tech companies, partners in national and international firms, judges, and social
justice advocates.
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UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO
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he University of San Francisco (USF)
School of Law has a nearly hundredyear tradition of educating skilled and
ethical lawyers committed to the common good. This tradition is enhanced
by innovative programs that prepare students for the
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changing roles of lawyers in today’s world and the increasing globalization of law practice. USF’s mission to
educate minds and hearts to change the world is more
important than ever in the face of today’s economic
climate. The law school is maximizing academic and
cocurricular opportunities in order to equip students
with the training and experience needed to succeed as
legal professionals, while spearheading programs that
respond to the economic climate and assist the most
vulnerable in our communities.
The USF School of Law offers an array of clinical opportunities in which students gain practical legal skills
while providing a much-needed service to individuals
who otherwise could not afford the representation of
a lawyer. Several of USF’s law clinics have experienced
a dramatic rise in activity with the decline of the economy. The Investor Justice Clinic, which was recently
profiled on NBC Nightly News, provides free legal assistance to individuals victimized by illegal investment
schemes. In the only clinic of its kind west of Chicago,
students represent investors in actions
involving allegations of wrongdoing
by securities firms or brokers. The
Predatory Lending Clinic assists homeowners who are facing foreclosure after
falling victim to illegal lending
schemes. Law students partner with
law firms and legal aid providers to assist low-income homeowners and tenants through foreclosure or postforeclosure proceedings.
USF law students also augment classroom learning by participating in the
school’s innovative international programs, exploring topics such as human rights, transnational labor regulations, intellectual property law,
climate change, international legal responsibility for
massive human rights abuses, and global copyright and
trademark law. Through the Frank C. Newman International Human Rights Clinic, students research and
prepare presentations for the United Nations Human
Rights Council and the Commission on the Status of
Women. Many of the students personally present their
case to the council at its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, or to the Commission on the Status of Women
in New York City. Students also work on briefs detailing
international law standards to U.S. courts and represent
individual clients before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. USF’s program in Phnom Penh,
Cambodia, examines the history of the Khmer Rouge
and explores theories of criminal liability. This summer, students witnessed the historic war crimes tribunal
now underway in that country. Students also studied in
Dublin and Prague and interned in Bangalore, home
to India’s high-tech industry; Bilbao, Spain; Hanoi,
Vietnam; and other cities. Closer to home, a handful
of students traveled to the American South to work on
death penalty cases in the offices of capital defense attorneys as part of the law school’s unique Keta Taylor
Colby Death Penalty Project.
This fall, the USF School of Law welcomes four new
senior faculty who are accomplished legal scholars and
award-winning teachers. The new faculty are Herbst Professor of Law Julie
Nice, formerly of University of Denver
Sturm College of Law; renowned immigration scholar Professor Bill Hing
of UC Davis; Weigand Professor of Law
Daniel Lathrope, a nationally recognized
tax law scholar who joins USF from UC
Hastings College of the Law; and Professor Tristin Green, who is visiting from
Seton Hall University School of Law.
In other faculty news, Associate Professor Richard Leo received the prestigious
2009 Herbert Jacob Book Prize from the
Law and Society Association at the organization’s annual meeting in May. Leo’s book, Police
Interrogation and American Justice (Harvard University
Press, 2008) was the cowinner of the prize, which recognizes the most outstanding scholarship in law and
society published each year.
A dynamic calendar of symposia and speakers is on tap
for this fall and beyond. On September 17, the USF
School of Law is hosting a legal employment symposium titled “How to Navigate the Changing Legal Landscape from the Ground Up” featuring a full
lineup of prominent experts on legal employment. In
addition, the law school will convene a conference on
antitrust enforcement in the pharmaceutical industry
on September 25, and USF’s McCarthy Institute for
Intellectual Property and Technology Law will host a
symposium on November 4.
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UC BERKELEY SCHOOL OF LAW
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hese are invigorating times at UC Berkeley
School of Law. The school has expanded
its faculty by 25 percent and launched six
more multidisciplinary research centers in
the last few years. This dramatic growth
enriches course offerings and widens options for custom-tailored degrees and individual student attention.
In complementary initiatives, Berkeley Law has bolstered its financial aid and career services, added new
academic programs, and broken ground on a state-ofthe-art facility.
In response to growing demand, the law school is hiring
two new counselor positions for its career center this
year. With increased staffing resources, the center can
devote more personal attention to students and graduates. The career center has also broadened its government and public-interest advising resources, strengthened ties with alumni practicing in those areas, and
ramped up outreach to small and medium-sized law
firms. Despite a down market, the law school is committed to assuring employment of its graduating students
and helping alumni with any difficult transitions they
may face.
To ensure access to education for any qualifying student—and freedom of career choice—the law school
completed major expansions of its need-based scholar-
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ships and Loan Repayment Assistance Program. The
loan program is already one of the most comprehensive
in the country and is now even more generous. It covers
unlimited amounts of law school debt (eliminating the
previous $100,000 cap) for graduates earning $65,000
per year or less in public interest or public service
positions. And, for the first time, it extends coverage to
some undergraduate loans.
The school’s new need-based aid program nearly doubles
the size of grants for students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Grants for California residents have jumped
from an annual maximum of $8,300 to about $16,000,
and grants to nonresidents to $22,000 (because of their
higher tuition). Berkeley Law has also awarded a record
number of summer fellowships, funded new emergency
loans, and created volunteer research fellowship positions that could qualify for law firm deferral programs.
A new academic field program that launched this year,
UCDC Law, gives students a firsthand look at the legal
underpinnings—and politics—of how laws are made in
Washington, D.C. This uniquely collaborative program
among the UC law schools places second- and thirdyear students in congressional offices on Capitol Hill,
the U.S. Department of Justice, and regulatory agencies. It’s a perfect fit for students who want to apply
their legal skills to influence public policy and offers
invaluable access to professional government networks.
The school’s research centers marshal their excellence—
Artist rendering of Boalt Hall expansion, UC Berkeley School of Law
and that of cross-campus partners—to drive curricular
innovations and tackle the most important public- and
private-sector challenges. The centers bridge the worlds
of teaching and action, while expanding our capacity
for engaged scholarship. Along with the school’s law
clinics and journals, these think tanks offer students
invaluable legal training and intellectual incubation.
In partnership with academics, practitioners, and policy makers, the centers address complex legal issues in
such diverse fields as business, international affairs, social justice, technology, race and diversity, health care,
criminal justice, energy, and the environment.
Recently, top Berkeley law students had an opportunity
that few attorneys experience in a lifetime: they argued
before U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer during final arguments of the school’s prestigious moot
court competition. Justice Breyer presided over a distinguished panel of U.S. judges; his participation more
than tripled student involvement this year and set a
high competitive bar.
For foreign-educated lawyers, Berkeley Law now offers
a new summer LL.M. program; the first of twin terms
started this year. Students may attend two consecutive
ten-week sessions—for six months of condensed course
work—rather than a full academic year. The accelerated program is designed for busy executives who find
it easier to take summers off for advanced legal study.
Physically, the school is expanding beyond its Boalt
Hall complex by constructing a new building at its
home site. The facility will meet a longstanding need
for more instructional, study, and library space. Renovations include upgraded classrooms with state-of-theart technology, a vibrant new student center, seminar
rooms, and artful landscaping.
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niversity of the Pacific, McGeorge
School of Law remains intent on
developing innovative programs intended to enable today’s and tomorrow’s law students better to serve future clients and the public.
The State Bar of California recently honored the Sacramento law school’s Education Pipeline Initiative, a
grassroots effort to attract more minority grade school
students to the legal profession. Pacific McGeorge students work annually with more than two hundred K–12
students in a law-themed enrichment program that seeks
to inspire careers in the law. Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf
Parker accepted the 2009 State Bar
Education Pipeline Award at a June
luncheon hosted by the State Bar
Council on Access and Fairness in
San Francisco.
The law school is also reaching out
internationally to address the growing legal needs of Latin American
countries and the Latino community in the United States. This summer, the Pacific McGeorge Global
Center for Business and Development launched a bilingual academic
program thought to be one of the
first of its kind in the nation.
cross-cultural experience, with practice in issues of trade,
immigration, and the like, that will give the students, as
future attorneys, an advantage in an era of increasing globalization.”
After an intensive crash course in Spanish that included a
graded comparative law exam, law students accompanied
Professor Raquel Aldana to Guatemala where each served
a ten-week legal internship with a Guatemalan nongovernmental organization or state agency and attended a
comparative law course at Rafael Landívar University.
In future years, Pacific McGeorge plans to expand the
experiential learning portion of the Inter-American
Program to other Latin American countries, as well as
Northern California agencies and organizations that operate in bilingual, bicultural settings.
Continuing a renewed emphasis on experiential learning, Pacific McGeorge
introduces a new, two-year Global
Lawyering Skills program this fall designed to sharpen legal writing skills. It
combines first-year legal process with
second-year appellate and international
advocacy while expanding instruction
to include pleading drafts and discovery, transnational contracts, and other
relevant instruction.
“All Pacific McGeorge students will
benefit from this integrated program.
The law school has committed additional full-time faculty resources for
this effort,” says Professor Mary-Beth
Moylan. “We have one of the largest
field placement programs of any American law school, and this program will
make our students even more effective
in their internships.”
“Up to now, study-abroad programs
offered by American law schools all
too often teach, in English, courses
that could just as well have been offered in the United States,” Professor Frank Gevurtz, director of the
law school’s Global Center, says.
“This program is the future of international legal education in that it
gives students the sort of bilingual,
Professor Frank Gervurtz
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Photos by Kent Taylor Photography
William F. Patry delivering the inaugural Intellectual Property Law Center lecture at Golden Gate University School of Law
GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY
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olden Gate University School of
Law has established the Intellectual Property Law Center (IPLC) to
advance research, scholarship, and
professional development in this
rapidly evolving area of legal practice. The center is codirected by School of Law professors and veteran IP practitioners Marc Greenberg
and William Gallagher and includes a distinguished
advisory board composed of partners at national law
firms, in-house counsel at major entertainment companies, an attorney with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, a federal judge, and others. The center
complements and enhances the law school’s dynamic
intellectual property law program, which offers more
than two dozen IP law courses, an IP Law Certificate
of Specialization for J.D. students, and an LL.M. in
intellectual property law for those seeking further expertise in the field.
The Intellectual Property Law Center’s major programs include:
u Annual Conference on Recent Developments
in Intellectual Property Law
This daylong MCLE program features presentations and panels by noted attorneys and scholars.
The most recent conference was cohosted by the IP
Law Center and Townsend and Townsend and Crew
and featured speakers from major law firms, as well
as Electronic Arts and CafePress, discussing trends in
patent, trademark law, and fair use; branding on the
Internet; videogaming, and more. The Eighth Annual Conference will be held October 16, 2009, and
will include presentations by Hon. James Ware, U.S.
District Court; U.S. Trademark Commissioner Lynne
Beresford; and practitioners Anne Hiaring, Benjamin
Duranske, Robert Morrill, Anthony Berman, and
Justin Beck.
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Distinguished Intellectual Property Law Speaker Series, 2009
u Distinguished Intellectual Property Law
Speaker Series
The 2009 inaugural lecture was delivered by William F.
Patry, Google’s senior copyright counsel.
u IP Practitioner Lectures
Informal noontime discussions for local IP attorneys
on developments in IP law and practice.
The IP Law Center is attracting practitioners, members of the judiciary, and legal scholars in a variety of
other ways. For example, in April the center and California Lawyers for the Arts cohosted a panel on the
controversial proposed Google books settlement that
has been approved by the court (The Authors Guild,
Inc., et al. v. Google Inc.), and in May the center hosted
a visiting delegation of foreign judges and prosecutors
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from more than twelve nations in connection with the
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Golden Gate was
one of only four U.S. law schools selected to host
the delegation.
“With our location in the heart of San Francisco’s legal
and financial district, our proximity to Silicon Valley,
and our close ties to California’s entertainment centers,
the center is ideally situated to serve the IP legal community and advance the field,” says professor and center
codirector Marc Greenberg, a widely published, veteran
Bay Area attorney with more than twenty years’ experience in IP, entertainment law, business litigation, and
transactional work. “We invite Bay Area attorneys and
others with IP interest and expertise to contact us for
more information about our offerings at 415-442-6611
or mgreenberg@ggu.edu.”