Preliminary Round: Recorded Video Submission. students must register for the 3 credit section of the seminar if they wish to write a paper fulfilling the Upperclass Legal Writing Requirement for JD students. Learn the legal, political and technological frameworks around government use of face recognition. They present on a wide range of topics, from investment, trade, sovereign debt, and finance, to immigration, global value chains, labor, and development. The course will cover topics including the differences between key cryptocurrencies; the varying regulation of cryptocurrencies and ICO tokens as “commodities” vs. “securities;” the mechanics of an ICO; and money laundering and bank secrecy laws. After an initial introduction to the principles of appellate advocacy and an overview of patent, trademark law and copyright law we will conduct four in-depth case studies (four classroom hours each), of recent Supreme Court and en banc Federal Circuit cases in the areas of patent, trademark and copyright law. Two credits will be awarded for the two-hour weekly seminar and four credits for 20 hours/week of fieldwork. Trial Practice Tailor response strategies to different types of data breaches from a lost laptop or an insider threat to the exfiltration of sensitive data by organized crime. LL.M Seminar (cross-listed) | 2 credit hours. This project-based practicum course will expose students to the varied uses of computer technologies in the practice of law, with an emphasis on technologies that enhance access to justice and make legal services more affordable for individuals of limited means. Please include whether you want to take the course for 2 or 3 credits. Entrepreneurship: The Lifecycle of a Business. LAW 528 v01 Communications and Technology Law Clinic (IPR). Especially the implications of the German bifurcation principle will be explored. These laws are Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 which prohibits the importation of articles into the United States which infringe U.S. patents, trademarks, or copyrights, and Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 which allows retaliation against foreign countries which impose unjustifiable or unreasonable restrictions against U.S. commerce. Lawyers play varied roles. It will highlight the social attributes of sports and will critically explore their implications for various legal questions. To create our systems, we use a software platform that does not require a coding background. Students will work with seasoned practitioners and apply in real-world settings the advocacy tools discussed in the seminar. Admissions & Aid Expand Navigation J.D. LAW 1395 v00 Technology Colloquium: Edge Technologies. The course will introduce the subject, focusing on the types of breaches organizations may experience and some basic technical issues. LAW 1337 v00 Empirical Analysis for Lawyers and Policymakers Seminar. The class will meet for two hours once per week. This seminar is intended to serve as a complement to Cybersecurity Law, and students are welcome to take both courses. Apr. The Intellectual Property and Information Policy (iPIP) Clinic is Georgetown’s newest clinic. Topics will include: the entrepreneurial mindset, capital formation, resource management, forecasts and projections, leadership and team building, the entrepreneur-attorney relationship, leveraging intellectual capital and related growth strategies. Mutually Excluded Courses: Students may not receive credit for this course and International Intellectual Property and Development and the graduate course, International Protection of Intellectual Property Through the WTO. Students will use their primary email from the Admissions office to log in until they have been in touch with OJA about using a Georgetown netid. LAW 219 v00 Emerging Growth Companies and Venture Capital Financings. Finally, recent expansions of intellectual property protection have spurred attention to the constitutional and public interest implications of laws granting ownership rights in information. Understand the legal and regulatory framework that governs data breach response in the United States and other jurisdictions. The Office of Journal Administration (OJA) oversees the annual Write On Competition. For registration-specific supplemental materials, please see the Federal Legislation Clinic (IPR) PDF. Emphasis is placed upon the growing role of economic analysis and other modern trends in judicial interpretation, with an emphasis on understanding the means by which courts determine whether unilateral and collaborative business conduct is pro-competitive or anticompetitive, regardless of the particular statutory provision at issue. Course (cross-listed) | 1 credit hour. Along the way, students learn systems logic, teamwork, and visual literacy skills. Is all music theft? Entertainment Law Seminar We then probe the role of patent licensing to transfer technology in and out of a company or university and in relations with others in the marketplace. LAW 708 v00 International Trade, Intellectual Property Rights, & Public Health. LAW 295 v00 Information Technology Transactions: Strategy, Negotiations and Drafting. Regulatory frameworks that were created decades ago are being challenged by the rise of Internet and mobile-driven financial services providers. Both case law and other readings will be included, as well as redacted licensing, recording and other personal services agreements. They will also work collaboratively in teams to complete a time-consuming and complex challenge. Qualcomm vs. Apple, Microsoft vs. Google/Motorola, Eli Lilly vs. Ratiopharm, Stada et al.). Computer Crime Seminar The project work does not need to be completed during business hours. The paper requirements of the 2 credit section will not fulfill the Upperclass Legal Writing Requirement for JD students. Prerequisite: Antitrust Law (or the equivalent Antitrust Economics and Law). Moreover, despite the increased importance of the Internet to doing business in the modern world, trade policymakers struggle to understand the individual policy issues of the Internet and Internet-enabled commerce. Constitutional Law: Theories of Free Speech The Internet and mobile devices have revolutionized the creation and consumption of news. ); universal service (e.g., Should we bring broadband to every home, and at whose cost? Feb. 7 – Larry Helfer – Duke Law School A sports lawyer knows the law, legal strategy, and ethics. The course will include a practice exercise designed to introduce students, working in practice teams, to the process of structuring and executing venture capital transactions. The seminar takes a deep dive into current ethical, constitutional and policy issues relating to technology through bi-weekly sessions taught by members of Georgetown’s technology law faculty. Please see the Communications and Technology Law Clinic (IPR) website for more detailed information about the program. Does law have a role to play in combatting so-called “fake news”? section: Two LL.M. Topics covered include: the mindset and goals of the social impact entrepreneur; choice of entity and business structure for social impact work; nonprofit vs. for profit governance issues; public, private social sector partnerships. LAW 656 v00 Entrepreneurship and the Law: Evaluating Client Business Plans and Growth Strategies. This practicum will explore the impact of technology on the criminal justice system, and will teach students how to design, build and understand technologies that affect criminal justice processes and policy. The class will proceed in 4 parts. All students must have prior computer programming experience. Mutually Excluded Courses: Students may not receive credit for both this course and Structuring Private Equity Transactions. Please address any questions about admissions the Office of Graduate Admissions. In addition, this course aims to expose you to new and emerging technologies and complex intellectual property licensing constructs, and give you the ability to analyze and negotiate different types of deals from both a legal and business perspective. Recommended: Prior or concurrent enrollment in an international trade law course. However, short articles and commentaries will also be used for background and supplementary information. Paper required. Some journals also request a separate personal statement and/or resume. In addition to the final paper, students will be graded on class participation, individual presentations and group exercises, an example of the last being a hypothetical case study of exports, with students taking up the role of legal advisors based in either the importing country or the exporting country. The projects that the students will likely work on will generally fall into two fields relating to two tranches of research and advocacy: Immigrant Surveillance. Topics will be drawn from a variety of areas, including criminal law, education, health, development, and labor. Administrative Law, Legislation, and Governance, International and Comparative Legal Studies, International Law /​ Finance and Investment, International Law /​ Intellectual Property Law, JD/​MPH (Health Care Financing, Organization and Delivery), Legal Profession/​Professional Responsibility, Real Estate, Land Use and Urban Development, Securities &​ Financial Regulation (Online Only), Two-​Year LL.M. The Law Center offers basic courses covering the core disciplines of intellectual property law. At this stage, faculty must identify their client organizations and specific student projects. Any student who is offered a seat in this course will be directly enrolled and will have one week only in which to drop. Private causes of action by consumers and competitors, state attorneys general, and the Federal Trade Commission all form part of the law of advertising. This course is intended to help students understand the policy issues that underlie the regulation of communications industries, become familiar with the fundamental approaches to communications regulation and judicial review of that regulation, and evaluate the successes and failures of recent reforms. Grades will be based on class participation (25%) and a final paper/oral presentation (75%). This class seeks to broaden the concept of sports law to anything related to the business, law, and regulation of sport. International Protection of Intellectual Property through the WTO These will include the cases on Sections 337 and 301, which have limited the United States’ ability to unilaterally affect intellectual property law. This seminar is intended to help students become better consumers of empirical work in the law and social sciences. Professors must submit a Faculty Application to secure a slot for one student project from their course or academic offering. LAW 1707 v00 The Color of Surveillance Seminar: Law and History, In 2020, the hallmark of surveillance is its ubiquity. cases, statutes, regulations, contracts, etc.) LAW 1409 v00 Cyber Threats and Technological Insecurity: Emerging Legal, Policy, and Operational Challenges. Note: This course is mandatory pass/fail and will not count toward the 7 credit pass/fail limit for J.D. This perspective should help prepare students for the real-life challenges – and rewards – of engaging in entrepreneurship and business building. in National Security Law at Georgetown. Mutually Excluded Courses: Students may not receive credit for this course and Technology Law and Policy Colloquium: Information Platforms. This course responds to the compelling need for lawyers to help companies navigate the rules for managing and governing digital information assets in the 21st century. Conducting targeted outreach to federal and state legislators to urge them to investigate, conduct oversight, and take policy action on this subject. Biotechnology ventures, and some computer-related ventures as well, may need to understand the laws governing any potential environmental hazards that their operation may create. Antitrust Law/Antitrust Economics and Law Patent Licensing Seminar, Antitrust Law/Antitrust Economics and Law This course will examine the security requirements for voting systems (particularly those used for civil elections in the United States), how various technology designs and implementations meet or fail to meet these requirements, and how such systems can be improved. Communications Law. This is a 5 credit course. The differences between litigation in Germany and before the UPC will be analyzed and the strategic consequences will be discussed. On Fridays the course will meet from 10:00 am - 2:00 pm and on Saturdays and Sundays it will meet from 10:00 am - 2:30 pm. This seminar will meet for one week only, on the following days: Monday, January 7, 2019, through Friday, January 11, 2019, 9:00 a.m. - 11:35 a.m. For each case, we will study the underlying substantive law and precedent, and how the advocates used that law to make their case, both in writing and at oral argument. Autonomous vehicles are roiling industries as diverse as retail, food delivery, trucking, and personal transportation. The course will place special emphasis on the evolving right to privacy in an increasingly cyber- and technology-oriented world, the expansion of government surveillance during the Obama and Trump administrations, and the implications of new law enforcement technologies on civil liberty protections. Classroom time in the latter part of the semester will be devoted to student presentations and feedback. This course will examine and provide a basic introduction to the rules and principles relating to both U.S. and international customs law. In addition to the technical requirements for trademark eligibility, registration, and infringement, we will consider the constitutional and economic underpinnings of trademark protection and evaluate current trends toward the "propertization" of trademark law. Practice legislative drafting and bill amendment. Processing and shipping time will not be added to your deadline, so you might want to start now with the electronic materials. Upperclass Legal Writing Requirement. Who is a journalist when access to publication technology has been democratized? Qualifying faculty will notify the Invitational’s organizers of the student project they have chosen to represent them, and submit a link to the final project and supporting documentation. It will examine the background, content and implications of the Doha Declaration on the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health and of the subsequent TRIPS amendment implementing compulsory licensing for exports. The course looks at recent controversies involving domestic surveillance, identification systems, social network sites, DNA databases, locational privacy, and drones. During the course of the semester, we expect that you will: Prerequisite: Prior or concurrent enrollment in Copyright Law. Nor is a technical background necessary to work in many other areas of technology law and policy. Some case studies will be preceded by overviews of subject areas critical to such policy. LAW 1644 v00 Investigating Crime in the Darknet. Note: This course will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. in Spring 2019 on the following dates: 4/2, 4/4, 4/9, 4/11, 4/16, 4/18, and 4/23. The competition is open to all departments within a university, though projects must focus on a civil legal tech or data science solution developed to improve access to the civil justice system. We will begin with a historical unit that traces the manner in which copyright and other laws affected the development of the music industry (and vice versa) in the 20th century. LAW 1617 v00 Entrepreneurship: The Lifecycle of a Business. Communications Law: Law, Policy, and Politics in the Internet Age Trademark and Unfair Competition Law. The analysis will concentrate on the legal regime in the United States, with occasional comparisons to equivalent arrangements in Europe, Canada, and Israel. In this class, students will gain proficiency in various programming-related skills. Current issues in First Amendment jurisprudence, communications law, international trade, privacy, and the online marketplace will be discussed. Economic Inequality and International Law, Feb. 28 – Jennifer Gordon – Fordham Law School Students will take a take-home final exam in March 2018, which will be graded. Other students must demonstrate comparable prior experience, but this experience need not be formal training or professional experience. Refugees and Decent Work: Lessons Learned from Recent Refugee Jobs Compacts, Mar. Many of the high profile patent cases conducted in Germany concerned European Patents held by US companies (e.g. LAW 1616 v00 Legal and Policy Aspects of Countering Terrorist Recruiting and Online Propaganda in the Digital Age Seminar. Students who are interested in representing and advising entrepreneurs and start-up companies or in becoming entrepreneurs themselves will benefit from this class. The class will address the need for companies and individual creators to strategically manage their intellectual property assets. LAW 820 v01 International Protection of Intellectual Property Through the WTO. International Investment Law and Arbitration: A Conceptual Framework, Feb. 2 – Amy Cohen – Ohio State, Moritz College of Law 2 credits will be awarded for the 2-hour weekly seminar and 3 credits for approximately 15 hours of project work per week, for a minimum of 11 weeks. Teams will then participate in evaluation conferences with the judge. This course will focus on how technology is transforming both retail and investment/advisory banking. Students do not need any technical background to participate in the Clinic. We will devote particular attention to understanding how the legal framework and historical threat models for elections relate to specific technical requirements, how technical failures can affect election outcomes, and the limitations of various remedies when such failures occur. After that time, a student may only drop the course with the permission of the professor and the Assistant Dean of Experiential Education. We expect that many professors will run their own mini-Iron Tech Competition to select which student team they sponsor for the Invitational. The current cybercrime threat landscape, with a necessary focus on technological architecture and recent permutations. LAW 293 v01 Intellectual Property Litigation: Pretrial Skills. Initially the course will provide an introduction to the principles of European patent law. Trademark Prosecution Menu. The course is based on the premise that computer programming has become a vital skill for non-technical professionals generally and for future lawyers and policymakers specifically. This course will engage in an in-depth exploration of legal issues that arise in the music industry and the complex ways in which the law has shaped the evolution of the industry and the industry has shaped the development of the law. AI systems can select the job applicants that firms call in for interviews, and then use facial recognition technology to analyze video-recordings of the interviews to determine which applicants were enthusiastic, bored, or dishonest. Comparative Antitrust Law Seminar We will examine how the same technology--from internet platforms, to algorithms, to drones, to self-driving cars, to smart cities, to sharing platforms --is regulated in various jurisdictions across the world. students. Recommended: Prior or concurrent enrollment in International Law I. Recommended: Corporate Taxation (formerly Taxation II). Lauren Renaud (L’19), was the winner of the Georgetown Law Technology Review’s writing competition. Students will have 21 days from the moment of purchase to return materials, and may choose any 21 days in the period. WEDNESDAY SEP. 2nd: Virtual conversation "Free Our Vote - Voting Rights Issues & Tech Solutions," at 11 AM. This fieldwork practicum course will focus on the aforementioned and related issues. If surveillance is a tool used to threaten vulnerable people, should we understand privacy as a shield that lets them survive and thrive? Topics covered include the common law, constitutional, and statutory foundations of U.S. information privacy law; information privacy compliance, enforcement, and regulatory practice; international approaches to information privacy law; philosophical bases for privacy protection; and “privacy by design.”. The course will trace the development and meanings of privacy in American law from the famous 1890 Harvard Law Review article "The Right to Privacy" by Samuel Warren and Louis Brandeis to the modern problems of privacy in the information age. The legal challenges cover the gamut, placing pressure on prior interpretations of statutes, the Constitution, international law, and the Federal Rules. This 2 or 3 credit seminar will provide an overview of the underlying and competing laws and policies arising from the assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) that continually make front page news. Novel business practices reflect changing technologies, market conditions, and strategies. Some examples of legal design challenges that teams may take on: How might we reduce the rate of default in landlord-tenant court? Law of Cyberspace Most inventors seek to obtain proprietary rights in multiple jurisdictions, so the course includes considerable coverage of comparative and international patent law. International Trade Law and Regulation The class is organized around archetypal models of commercial IT transfer; with each such model, students will study the interplay among statutory, regulatory and case law frameworks (as well as industry standard practices) that are relevant to shaping and structuring particular tech deals. INTERESTED IN OUR NEW TECH DEGREES? That body of law—the law of introducing competition into historically monopolistic industries—is the subject of this course. Please note that laptop computers are not permitted in class. For the 2019-20 academic year, the course will examine big data, surveillance law, algorithmic analysis, and the Internet of Things; social media; and automation and artificial intelligence. In a project-based practicum course, students participate in a weekly seminar and work on a project under the supervision of their professors. Authoritarian Power as Private Property, Mar. In addition, I want you to become comfortable reading complex contracts, specifically franchise agreements, and to be able to analyze and negotiate a franchise dispute. Can and should the First Amendment (or other law) protect the press from being squeezed by technology platforms? My primary goal for the course is to give you real world transactional experience that you can use on day one out of law school. Prerequisite: At least one course in Patent Law or Copyright Law, or instructors’ approval. A traditional technological background is neither required nor recommended as a prerequisite to enroll in this course. This course, which satisfies the professional responsibility requirement, explores what these trends mean for the regulation of lawyers and law as a profession. It runs on Fridays in the spring semester and is open to the public from 12:00pm to 1:20pm in the Hotung Faculty Dining Room. Interested students should contact Professor Ohm at (ohm@law.georgetown.edu) by Monday, September 21, 2020. Domestic and international extremist groups have become more adept at using online platforms and other tools to “crowd source” their recruiting in a decentralized attempt to attract and inspire disaffected individuals by exploiting grievances and offering a sense of purpose, belonging, adventure, and obligation. Traditionally, the public has relied on the government to tackle society's major social issues. Students will participate in a two hour/week seminar and carry out 15 hours/week of fieldwork at the law firm Foley & Lardner.

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