Pamela Samuelson
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University of California, Berkeley
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with a joint appointment in the UC Berkeley School of Information
UC Berkeley School of Information
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and Boalt Hall, the School of Law. She was appointed Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School
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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 property
Intellectual property
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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 Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
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(ACM), a Contributing Editor of Communications of the ACM, a past Fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
MacArthur Foundation
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, an Honorary Professor of the University of Amsterdam and received the Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Award
Anita Borg Institute Women of Vision Awards
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for Social Impact in 2005. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
Electronic Frontier Foundation
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and of the Open Source Applications Foundation
Open Source Applications Foundation
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, as well as a member of the Advisory Board for the Electronic Privacy Information Center
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Electronic Privacy Information Center is a public interest research group in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values in the information age...
.
A 1971 graduate of the University of Hawaii
University of Hawaii
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and a 1976 graduate of Yale Law School
Yale Law School
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, Samuelson practiced law as a litigation associate with the New York law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Willkie Farr & Gallagher
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before becoming an academic. From 1981 through June 1996 she was a member of the faculty at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
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, 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
External links
- "Pamela Samuelson", Huffington Post
- "Legally Speaking: The Dead Souls of the Google Booksearch Settlement", O'Reilly Radar
- Prof. Samuelson's Web Page at the School of Information
- Prof. Samuelson's Web Page at the Boalt Hall School of Law
- Open Source Development and Distribution of Digital Information Webcast