Center for Law and Technology Events & Speakers
Upcoming Events
Previous Events
In the past, we have brought together leading stakeholders in the copyright industry, government officials, and prominent academics to consider outstanding issues in the creation of an administrative tribunal to hear copyright claims – one of a series of events that resulted in the creation of the Copyright Claims Board.
We also hosted a series of roundtables on China and Intellectual Property, which gathered leading practitioners, government officials, and academics.
We currently host an annual roundtable on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), which considers specific PTAB practice issues, recent developments and trends, and policy considerations.
These roundtables bring together some of the top US patent experts and practitioners, including the former Director of the USPTO, Court of Appeals and District Court judges, administrative patent judges, senate staffers, in-house attorneys, and law firm partners.
- Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC)
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GW Law was one of the founding institutions of the Privacy Law Scholars Conference (PLSC), the leading academic conference on privacy law. Founded by Professors Daniel Solove (GW Law) and Christopher Hoofnagle (Berkeley Law), the event rotated between GW Law and Berkeley Law for about 15 years, until the founders turned the event over to an elected committee and an open host selection process.
- 1st Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (June 2008)
- 3rd Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (June 2010)
- 5th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (June 2012)
- 7th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (June 2014)
- 9th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (June 2016)
- 11th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (June 2018)
- 13th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (June 2020)
- 14th Annual Privacy Law Scholars Conference (June 2021)
Endowed Speakers
Meyer Lecture
The annual Meyer lecture series is a forum for prominent practitioners and academics to speak to a specialist audience on current trends in copyright law and related issues. The Law Office of Michael R. Klipper, The Copyright Society of the USA and its Washington DC Chapter, and the George Washington University Law School are proud to sponsor this series in cooperation with the U.S. Copyright Office.
The A. Sidney Katz Lecture
The A. Sidney Katz Lecture is held twice a year at GW Law and made possible through the generous support of the A. Sidney Katz Intellectual Property Lecture Fund.
Previous Speakers
Previous speakers at GW have included:
- Intellectual Property Law
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- Honorable Robert W. (Trey) Schroeder III (U.S. District Court Judge, E.D. Tex.)
- Honorable Christopher J. Burke (U.S. Magistrate Judge, D. Del.)
- Honorable Bryan Moore (Administrative Law Judge, USITC)
- Honorable Jacqueline Bonilla (Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge, USPTO)
- Honorable Kal Deshpande (Vice Chief Administrative Patent Judge, USPTO)
- Charles Haake (Alliance for Automotive Innovation)
- Corey Salsberg (Novartis)
- Laura Sheridan (Head of Patent Policy, Google)
- Privacy and Technology Law
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- Sherry Turkle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
- Anita Allen (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)
- Lina Khan (FTC Chair)
- Rebecca Slaughter (FTC Commissioner)
- Terrell McSweeney (FTC Commissioner)
- Christine Wilson (FTC Commissioner)
- Helen Dixon (Data Protection Commissioner, Ireland)
- David O’Sullivan (EU Ambassador to the US)
- Elizabeth Denham (UK Information Protection Commissioner)
- Jennifer Urban (Chair of the California Privacy Protection Agency)
- Stefan Brink (Data Protection Commissioner, Germany)
- Cameron Kerry (The Brookings Institute)
- Willem Debeuckelaere (Data Protection Authority, Belgium)
- Danielle Citron (University of Virginia School of Law)
- Ifeoma Ajunwa (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law)
- Kashmir Hill (The New York Times)