California Law Review presents

    Prosser’s Privacy at 50

A Symposium on Privacy in the 21st Century

Friday, January 29, 2010
9:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Booth Auditorium

UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)

Berkeley, CA

 

General Information:

This symposium gathered together leading privacy law scholars and practitioners from around the world to reflect on the fiftieth anniversary of Dean William Prosser’s landmark article, Privacy, 48 Calif. L. Rev. 383 (1960), and to discuss the state of privacy law today.


The panelists included:


Anita Allen, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Fred Cate, Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Danielle Citron, University of Maryland School of Law

Viktor Mayer-Schönberger, National University of Singapore

Karl-Nikolaus Peifer, University of Cologne

Neil Richards, Washington University School of Law
Paul Schwartz, UC Berkeley School of Law
Daniel Solove, George Washington University Law School

Stephen Sugarman, UC Berkeley School of Law
Lior Strahilevitz, University of Chicago Law School
Christopher Wolf, Hogan & Hartson

Schedule:

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Morning Sessions

9:00–9:30
Breakfast & Check-in: Goldberg Room

10:15–11:30 Panel I
Fred Cate, The Death of Notice and Choice
Lior Strahilevitz, Reunifying Privacy Law
Response: Mike Hintze (Associate General Counsel, Microsoft)

11:45–1:00 Panel II
Anita Allen, Sexual Identity, Sexual Orientation, and the Invasion of Privacy Torts
Nikolaus Peifer & Paul Schwartz,
Prosser's Privacy and the German Personality Right: Are Four Torts Better Than One?

Response: Nicole Wong (VP & Deputy General Counsel, Google)

Lunch

1:00–2:00
Goldberg Room


Afternoon Sessions

2:00–2:15
Remarks: Chris Wolf (Partner, Hogan & Hartson)

2:15–3:30 Panel III
Danielle Citron, Mainstreaming Privacy Torts
Daniel Solove & Neil Richards,
Prosser's Privacy Law: A Mixed Legacy

Response: Audrey Plonk (Global Security & Internet Policy Specialist, Intel)

3:45–4:00
Break


4:00–5:00 Panel IV
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger,
Beyond Privacy, Beyond Rights – A Convergent Theory of Information Law
Response: Randy Edwards (Partner, O'Melveny & Myers)

5:00–6:15
Reception: Goldberg Room

Questions? E-mail Editor-in-Chief Jonas Lerman.

Sponsorships:

The California Law Review is grateful for the generous support of GoogleThe Future of Privacy ForumBerkeley Center for Law & Technology, Data Privacy Day 2010, Microsoft, O'Melveny & MyersThe Privacy Projects, and Intel

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