Hear from Judge Chen (Engineering '90), appointed by President Obama in 2013 to his current role in the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, with nationwide jurisdiction in areas including international trade, government contracts, patents, trademarks, and more.
Lunch will be provided to registered attendees. RSVP here.
A special symposium celebrated Professor Gómez's retirement and honored her groundbreaking career and tremendous impact on Critical Race Studies, UCLA School of Law, and legal and academic communities at large.
Symposium Agenda
View video of the symposium here.
3 p.m. — Welcome
Remarks from
- Michael Waterstone, Dean of UCLA School of Law
- Cheryl I. Harris, Vice Dean for Community, Equality and Justice; Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
- Uriel Saldivar Esteban, J.D. Candidate '25 & Community Service Chair, UCLA Latinx Law Students Association
3:30 p.m. — Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race
Panelists will discuss Professor Gómez's groundbreaking 2007 text, which has been established as an essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States.
- Moderator: Jerry Kang, Distinguished Professor of Law; Founding Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (2015-20), UCLA School of Law
- Genevieve Carpio, Associate Professor, César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
- Nicholas Espíritu (Law '04), Deputy Director, Legal, National Immigration Law Center
- Casandra Salgado (Ph.D. Sociology '19), Assistant Professor, Sociology, Arizona State University
4:30 p.m. — Break
4:45 p.m. — Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism
Panelists will discuss Professor Gómez's most recent book exploring the impact of Latinos’ new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race.
- Moderator: Aslı Ü. Bâli, Professor of Law, Yale Law School
- Walter Allen, Distinguished Professor of Education, Sociology, and African American Studies; Allan Murray Cartter Chair in Higher Education, UCLA School of Education & Information Studies
- Sherene H. Razack, Chair and Distinguished Professor, Gender Studies; Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women's Studies, UCLA
- Saúl Sarabia (Law '96), Founder and Director, Solidarity Consulting
5:45 p.m. — Keynote by Laura E. Gómez, Rachel F. Moran Endowed Chair in Law
Introduction by Devon W. Carbado, The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law (Read by Executive Director of the Critical Race Studies Program Jasleen Kohli, with additional remarks.)
6:30 p.m. — Reception and Dinner in Shapiro Courtyard
Remarks from
- LaToya Baldwin Clark, Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA School of Law
- Jasleen Kohli, Executive Director, Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA School of Law
CO-SPONSORS
Convening the foremost copyright scholars, practitioners, and industry leaders on emerging and pressing issues within copyright law — this year’s symposium focuses on AUTHORSHIP. Panelists will address authorship and AI, community authors and cultural property, and more.
Keynote by Andrew Foglia, Deputy Director of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office.
Co-hosted with the McCarthy Institute, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.
Symposium Agenda
Subject to change. Panel descriptions follow.
8:45 a.m. — Welcome by Mark P. McKenna, Vice Dean and Professor, UCLA School of Law, with Michael Waterstone, Dean of UCLA School of Law and David Franklyn, Executive Director of the McCarthy Institute
9 a.m. — Keynote by Andrew Foglia, Deputy Director of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office, with introduction by Douglas Sylvester, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University
10 a.m. — Panel: Corporate Authorship
11:15 a.m. — Break
11:30 a.m. — Panel: Authorship after Warhol
12:45 p.m. — Lunch
1:45 p.m. — Panel: Community Authors and Cultural Property
3:00 p.m. — Break
3:15 p.m. — Panel: AI and Authorship
Reception to follow
KEYNOTE REMARKS
- Andrew Foglia, Deputy Director of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office
- Moderator: Douglas Sylvester, Dean Emeritus, Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.00 Hours of MCLE Credit.
PANELS
CORPORATE AUTHORSHIP, featuring
- Moderator: David Nimmer, Of Counsel - Irell & Manella LLP
- Paige Adamczyk, CHA Law Ethics - Attorney
- Betty An (Law '13), NBCUniversal - VP, Intellectual Property
- Jonathan Anschell, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Mattel, Inc.; UCLA lecturer in law
- James Dowd, Partner - WilmerHale LLP
- John Paul Oleksiuk, Partner, Copyright and Trademark Litigator - Cooley
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.25 Hours of MCLE Credit.
AUTHORSHIP AFTER WARHOL, featuring
- Moderator: Eugene Volokh, UCLA Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law
- Elana Nightingale Dawson, Partner - Copyright, Litigation and Trial, and Technology - Latham & Watkins
- Bobby Ghajar, Intellectual Property Litigation Partner - Cooley
- Christopher Jon Sprigman, New York University Murray, and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law
- Haochen Sun, Faculty of Law - University of Hong Kong
- Timothy Yoo, Partner - Bird Marella
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.25 Hours of MCLE Credit.
COMMUNITY AUTHORS AND CULTURAL PROPERTY
- Moderator: Trevor Reed, ASU Sandra Day O'Connor Professor of Law
- Aman Gebru, University of Houston Law - Assistant Professor
- J. Osei-Tutu, FIU College of Law - Associate Dean, Professor of Law
- Aaron Jones, Tulalip Tribe of Washington
- Mitch Stoltz, Electronic Frontier Foundation - IP Litigation Director
- Yuanxiao Xu, Counsel - Creative Commons
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.25 Hours of MCLE Credit.
AI and AUTHORSHIP, featuring
- Moderator: Gary Marchant, ASU Regents and Foundation Professor of Law
- Nathaniel Bach, Partner - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
- Ian Ballon, Intellectual property and internet litigator - Greenberg Traurig, LLP
- Danielle W. Bulger, Associate - ArentFox Schiff LLP
- Angela Dunning, Partner - Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Krishna Sood, Microsoft - Assistant General Counsel and IP group senior leader
UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.25 Hours of MCLE Credit.
READING MATERIALS
- Richard Prince, Instagram, and Authorship in a Digital World
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20-842 - AMO Development, LLC et al v. Alcon Vision LLC, et al
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Pooh-Poohing Copyright Law’s “Inalienable” Termination Rights
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OpenAI Seeks to Dismiss Parts of The New York Times’s Lawsuit
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Voice actors and generative AI: Legal challenges and emerging protections
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GOLD SPONSORS
The Transnational Program on Criminal Justice, The Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, and International Comparative Law Program will be hosting an event on the Artificial Intelligence and Judicial Process: Towards a Full Transformation of Pretrial and Trial Phases with Jordi Nieva Fenoll on Monday, January 29 at Law School 1337, from 12:15 PM – 1:30 PM.
Moderator:
Professor Maximo Langer, David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law
Registration: https://forms.gle/qDN1fXcn4efe6JnR8
Convening the foremost copyright scholars, practitioners, and industry leaders on emerging and pressing issues within copyright law — this year's symposium focuses on AUTHORSHIP and will address authorship and AI, community authors and cultural property, and more. Co-hosted with The McCarthy Institute at Arizona State University.
Where: UCLA Carnesale Commons - Palisades Room
James Park is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. He is a leading expert on securities regulation and corporate law. He studies public companies and their regulation, particularly with respect to the problem of securities fraud. He is the author of a history of securities fraud and its regulation, The Valuation Treadmill: How Securities Fraud Threatens the Integrity of Public Companies (Cambridge University Press 2022).
Time: 12:15 - 1:15 PM
Location: Room 1337
Register Here: https://forms.gle/NGctXRdKwKVh4S9Z9
The Institute for Technology, Law & Policy hosts one-hour, bi-weekly Tech Talks each semester. The series features experts in the tech and law space and includes lunch for pre-registered attendees.
Privacy, content moderation, and governance in Extended Reality (XR)
Register: https://forms.gle/NGctXRdKwKVh4S9Z9
From gaming to training, remote collaboration, creative curation and more, predictions about XR point to its eventual ubiquity. What implications do these innovations present for interoperability and inclusion, and how can involved industries address digital rights challenges, while empowering users?
Featuring
Associate Dean Jeff Burke (UCLA Theater, Film and Television's Center for Research in Engineering, Media and Performance)
Brittan Heller, Lecturer in Law, Stanford University
Distinguished Professor Eugene Volokh (UCLA Law)
ITLP Research Fellow Melodi Dincer (moderating)
Immersive technology has enormous potential but also carries great risk at a time when effective moderation of XR at scale isn't possible. UCLA ITLP Executive Director Michael Karanicolas presents a roadmap of emerging content-regulation issues faced by companies and governments, as well as the proliferation of "lawful but awful" content.
Register Here: https://forms.gle/NGctXRdKwKVh4S9Z9
The Institute for Technology, Law & Policy hosts one-hour, bi-weekly Tech Talks each semester. The series features experts in the tech and law space, and includes lunch for pre-registered attendees.