Pam Samuelson
Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Pamela Samuelson is recognized as a pioneer in digital copyright law, intellectual property, cyberlaw and information policy. Since 1996, she has held a joint appointment with Boalt Hall and UC Berkeley's School of Information. In addition, Samuelson is director of the internationally-renowned Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She serves on the board of directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (since 2000) and on the board of directors of the Open Source Application Foundation (since 2002).
Samuelson began her career as a legal academic at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. While there, she was a visiting professor at Columbia Law School, Cornell Law School and Emory Law School. She also practiced with Willkie Farr & Gallagher's New York office.
Samuelson has written and published extensively in the areas of copyright, software protection and cyberlaw. Her publications include Enriching Discourse on Public Domains
in the Duke Law Journal (forthcoming 2006); Questioning Copyright in Standards
in the Boston College Law Review (forthcoming 2007). Other recent publications include: The Generativity of Sony v. Universal: The Intellectual Legacy of Justice Stevens
in the Fordham Law Review (forthcoming 2006); and The Generative Legacy of Sony v. Universal
in the Fordham Law Review (forthcoming 2006).
Other recent publications include Brief Amicus Curiae of Sixty Intellectual Property and Technology Law Professors and US-ASM Public Policy Committee, to the U.S. Supreme Court in MGM v. Grokster
in the Berkeley Technical Law Journal (2005); Intellectual Property Arbitrage: How Foreign Rules Can Affect Domestic Protections
in the Chicago Law Review (2004); and Should Economics Play a Role in Copyright Law and Policy?
in the University of Ottawa Law & Technical Journal (2004). She is also coauthor of Software and Internet Law, 2nd ed. (with Lemley, Merges and Menell, 2003).
Since 1990, Samuelson has been a contributing editor of Communications of the ACM, a journal is respected for its coverage of existing and emerging technologies. From 1997 through 2002, Samuelson was a fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. From 2001 to 2006, she held a UC Berkeley Chancellor's Professorship for distinguished research, teaching and service for her contributions to both Boalt Hall and the School of Information. In 2002, she was named an honorary professor at the University of Amsterdam. Samuelson is the first Boalt faculty member to hold the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professorship which was given to her in 2006. She is also a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery.
Appearances
- State of the Net Conference 2007 January 31, 2007
Biography last updated December 2006