Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman '74 Distinguished Professor of Law and Information Management at the
University of California, BerkeleyThe University of California, Berkeley , is a teaching and research university established in 1868 and located in Berkeley, California, USA...
with a joint appointment in the
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and Boalt Hall, the School of Law. She was appointed Visiting Professor of Law at
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for the Fall 2007 term. She is also Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.
Her principal area of study is
intellectual propertyIntellectual property is a term referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized—and the corresponding fields of law...
law. She has written and spoken about the challenges that new information technologies are posing for public policy and traditional legal regimes and is an advisor for the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic, which she established in 2000 with her husband, Bob Glushko. She is a Fellow of the
Association for Computing MachineryThe Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
(ACM), a Contributing Editor of Communications of the ACM, a past Fellow of the
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur FoundationThe John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is one of the largest private foundations in the United States. Based in Chicago but supporting non-profit organizations that work in 60 countries, MacArthur has awarded more than US$4 billion since its inception in 1978...
, an Honorary Professor of the University of Amsterdam and received the
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for Social Impact in 2005. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the
Electronic Frontier FoundationThe Electronic Frontier Foundation is an international non-profit digital rights advocacy and legal organization based in the United States...
and of the
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, as well as a member of the Advisory Board for the
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.
A 1971 graduate of the
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and a 1976 graduate of
Yale Law SchoolYale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars, visiting researchers and a number of legal research centers...
, Samuelson practiced law as a litigation associate with the New York law firm
Willkie Farr & GallagherFounded in 1888, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is an international law firm with eight offices in six countries . The firm has cultivated a strong corporate practice focused on investment funds, bankruptcy and intellectual property...
before becoming an academic. From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the
University of Pittsburgh School of LawThe University of Pittsburgh School of Law was founded in 1895, and became a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools in 1900...
, from which she visited at Columbia, Cornell, and Emory Law Schools. She has been a member of the Berkeley faculty since 1996.
Works
- "A Case Study on Computer Programs", Global dimensions of intellectual property rights in science and technology, Part 3, Editors Mitchel B. Wallerstein, Mary Ellen Mogee, Roberta A. Schoen, National Academies Press, 1993, ISBN 9780309048330
- "Towards More Sensible Anti-circumvention Regulations", Financial cryptography: 4th international conference, FC 2000, Editor Yair Frankel, Springer, 2001, ISBN 9783540427001
- "'The New Economy', and Information Technology Policy", American economic policy in the 1990s, Editors Jeffrey A. Frankel, Peter R. Orszag, MIT Press, 2002, ISBN 9780262561518
- Peter S. Menell, Mark A. Lemley, Robert P. Merges, Pamela Samuelson, Software and Internet law, Editor Mark A. Lemley, Aspen Publishers, 2003, ISBN 9780735536548
- "Should economics play a role in copyright law and policy?", Developments in the economics of copyright: research and analysis, Editors Lisa Takeyama, Wendy J. Gordon, Ruth Towse, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2005, ISBN 9781843769309
- "Challenges in Mapping the Public domain", The future of the public domain: identifying the commons in information law, Editors Lucie M. C. R. Guibault, P. B. Hugenholtz, Kluwer Law International, 2006, ISBN 9789041124357
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