This concurrent
session will bring the faculty of the Samuelson-Glushko Law and Technology
family of clinics together at an AALS conference to discuss their shared
mission and collaboration to advance social justice goals in this increasingly
important field. Scholar and advocate Pamela Samuelson, Richard M. Sherman
Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management at Berkeley Law, and
her husband Robert Glushko, internet entrepreneur and Adjunct Professor of
Cognitive Science, have developed and funded these pioneering law school
clinics to advance the public interest in technology law and policy,
particularly with regard to intellectual property since 2001. The panel will
reflect on their joint policy advocacy efforts undertaken over the last two
decades. They will consider their founding mission and what the future holds
for this newest community of clinics. The session will convey transferable
lessons about the benefits and rewards of being part of a focused clinical community
working together for a shared social justice goal. The session will begin with
a brief overview of law and technology clinics and a history of the clinical
family’s evolution. The panelists will then introduce representative case
studies of cross-clinic collaboration (including advocacy at both the Copyright
Office and at the USPTO) including faculty observations on the pedagogical
payoffs in this kind of work. The session will end with questions and thoughts
from the audience.