Events

2024-25 Events

CILS Presents UC Davis and Jindal Global Law School Online Symposium: Navigating the Promise and Perils of Innovation: Law and Technology at a Crossroads

Friday, January 19, 2024 | 7:45 a.m. - 10 a.m. PT | 9:15 p.m. – 11:30 p.m. India | ProgramRecording

Speakers
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Avirup Bose, Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for International Trade and Economics Laws, Jindal Global Law School

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Krishna Deo Singh Chauhan, Associate Professor, Jindal Global Law School

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Stacy-Ann Elvy, Professor of Law and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar, UC Davis School of Law

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Indranath Gupta, Professor and Dean of Research & Controller of Examinations, Jindal Global Law School 

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Suvrajyoti Gupta, Associate Professor and Assistant Director, Centre for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Jindal Global Law School

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Peter Lee, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law; Director, Center for Innovation, Law, and Society 

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Albert Lin, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law 

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Elizabeth Joh, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law 

CILS Presents Professor Lydia de la Torre, UC Davis Law and Vinhcent Le, The Greenlining Institute

Monday, February 5, 2024 | 12 - 1 PM | King Hall, Room 1301 | Livestream

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Professor Lydia de la Torre, Adjunct Associate Faculty, School of Law

Professor Lydia de la Torre is a dual-qualified attorney (US/EU) and teaches privacy, data protection, and A.I. courses at UC Davis Law and U.C. Law San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings). 

Prof. de la Torre is the founding partner of the teaching law firm Golden Data Law (GDL). GDL serves clients in the not-for-profit sector, and its mission is to mentor a diverse and inclusive group of law students and recent grads so that they can grow into solid ethical professionals. Prior to her appointment, Prof. de la Torre served as an of-counsel to Squire Patton Boggs and had in-house counsel roles at several multinational organizations. 

Prof. de la Torre was appointed to the CPPA Board by the California Senate President pro Tempore Toni G. Atkins in March 2021 and served on the Advisory Board of Californians for Consumer Privacy (CPPA) during the Prop 24 ballot campaign. The CPPA is a California state government agency created by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA) as the first dedicated privacy regulator in the United States.

She is an international expert in data protection issues and the European Union's approach to regulating data and A.I. in particular. Her background brings unique experience-based knowledge to the CPPA Board.

Vinhcent Le
Vinhcent Le, Senior Legal Counsel of Tech Equity, The Greenlining Institute

As Senior Legal Counsel of Tech Equity, Vinhcent Le (he/him/his) leads Greenlining’s work to close the digital divide, protect consumer privacy, ensure algorithms are fair and that technology builds economic opportunity for communities of color. In this role, Vinhcent helps develop and implement policies to increase broadband affordability and digital inclusion as well as bring transparency and accountability to automated decision systems. Vinhcent also serves on several regulatory boards including the California Privacy Protection Agency. Vinhcent received his J.D. from the University of California, Irvine School of Law and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, San Diego. Prior to Greenlining, Vinhcent advocated for clients as a law clerk at the Public Defender’s Office, the Office of Medicare Hearing and Appeals and the Small Business Administration.

CILS Presents Professor Carl Shapiro, UC Berkeley: Evolution of the Merger Guidelines: Is This Fox Too Clever by Half?

Monday, March 18, 2024 | 12 - 1 PM | King Hall, Room 1301 | Livestream

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Carl Shapiro is a Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business and the Department of Economics at the University of California at Berkeley. He also is the Transamerica Professor of Business Strategy Emeritus at the Haas School of Business. Shapiro has published extensively in the areas of industrial organization, competition policy, patents, the economics of innovation, and competitive strategy. Shapiro had the honor of serving as a Member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during 2011-12. He was the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice during 2009-2011, a position he also held during 1995-96. Shapiro also has testified as an expert witness on behalf of the government in a number of high-profile antitrust cases. His publications and curriculum vitae can be found at https://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/.

His talk will focus on the 2023 Merger Guidelines, which make some notable improvements over the 2010 Horizontal Merger Guidelines. They give greater emphasis to the idea that predicting the competitive effects of a proposed merger is inherently difficult and that to block a merger the government need only show that the merger may substantially lessen competition, not that it will do so. They also give greater emphasis to dynamic competition and innovation, especially regarding acquisitions of potential entrants, and they add useful material on multi-sided platforms. However, the treatment of market definition in the 2023 Merger Guidelines is likely to weaken horizontal merger enforcement by demoting the role of the hypothetical monopolist test, which is used to define markets for the purpose of measuring market shares, and by removing extensive material from prior guidelines which explained why market shares measured in narrower markets tend to be more informative than market shares measured in broader markets. The 2023 Merger Guidelines lower the market concentration thresholds that trigger a presumption by the antitrust enforcement agencies that a merger may substantially lessen competition, but the enforcement data suggest that change will have little effect in practice. The 2023 Merger Guidelines also are likely to lead to less effective deterrence of harmful mergers because they are not well targeted at the mergers most likely to substantially lessen competition.