CLIP Roundtables

The Information Law and Policy Roundtable series convenes monthly during the academic year. CLIP brings together New York area academics, lawyers and industry experts to discuss current events in the IP/IT field in a casual setting. This series is open to students by invitation only.
 

Upcoming Roundtables

Check back soon for details about upcoming roundtables.

Past Roundtables

  • 11/17/2020
    Legislative Solutions for Employee Privacy During Remote Work
    Featured Guest:
    New York State Assembly Member Linda B. Rosenthal

    10/13/2020
    Technology and Law to Combat Deepfakes
    Featured Guests:
    Ilke Demir, Intel; Lijun Yi, Binghamton University

    9/15/2020
    The Demise of the Privacy Shield and the Future of EU-U.S. Data Transfers
    Featured Guest:
    Omer Tene, Vice President and Chief Knowledge Officer, International Association of Privacy Professionals

  • 12/6/2018
    Facial Recognition Technology in Schools
    Featured Guest:
    Stefanie Coyle, Education Counsel, New York Civil Liberties Union

    11/8/2018
    AI and IP: The Challenges of Ownership and Accountability in Art and Invention
    Featured Guest:
    Dr. Shlomit Yanisky-Ravid, Professor of Law, The Shalom Comparative Legal Research Center, Ono Academic College, Israel; Fordham Law School, Visiting International Professor; Yale Information Society Project Fellow

    3/14/18
    Biometrics Litigation and Liability
    Featured Guest:
    David Stampley, Partner, KamberLaw

    2/14/18
    Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
    Featured Guests:
    Peter Borovykh, Blockchain Solution Architect at Blockchain Driven and Head of Algorithmic Trading at AxionV, and
    Ron Papanek, Managing Director at Symbiont

  • 12/4/17
    Artificial Intelligence and Intellectual Property Enforcement
    Featured Guest:
    Vidyuth Srinivasan, Co-Founder and CEO, Entrupy

    11/7/17
    EU Model Contracts and the Privacy Shield - Back at Court
    Featured Guest:
    Alfredo Della Monica, Vice President and Senior Counsel, International Data Protection and Cyber Security, General Counsel's Organization, American Express

    10/26/17
    Securities Regulation of Cryptocurrencies
    Featured Guest:
    Valerie Szczepanik, Head of the Distributed Ledger Technology Working Group, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

    9/12/17
    Smart Homes, Perilous Assistants?
    Featured Guest:
    Mark Marin, Head of Legal, Wink

  • 5/18/16
    The Culture of Code Sharing: Customary Practices and the Law
    Featured Guest:
    James Puellmann, Sr. Infrastructure Architect, The New York Times

    4/20/16
    Round 2: What's Next in the Apple-FBI Standoff?
    Featured Guest:
    Esha Bhandari, Staff Attorney, Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, American Civil Liberties Union

    3/30/16
    Health and Biometric Data in the Workplace
    Featured Guest:
    Kathleen Harris, Vice President, Benefits, Time Warner Inc.  

    2/24/16
    Sexting in Schools
    Featured Guests:
    Dr. Timothy T. Eagen, Superintendent of Schools, Kings Park Central School District, and
    Jennifer Forsberg, Director of Technology, Bronxville School District 

    1/15/16
    Daily Fantasy Sports: In or Out of Bounds?
    Featured Guest: Daniel C. Feldman, Co-Founder of Mondogoal (leading DFS site in Europe) and the former pitching coach of the Soviet National baseball team

     

     

  • 11/18/15
    The VPPA's Applicability to Modern Content Delivery Technologies
    Featured Guest: Jason P. Conti, Senior Vice President & Deputy General Counsel, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.

    10/14/15
    Algorithms and the DMCA Post-Lenz
    Featured Guest:  Bill Rosenblatt, President, GiantSteps Media Technology Strategies

    9/16/15
    Unsinkable Cybersecurity?  Regulatory Compliance & Doing Business
    Featured Guest:  Brian Chase, General Counsel, Foursquare

    5/19/15
    Securing Data the NY Way
    Featured Guest:  Kathleen McGee, Bureau Chief, Internet Bureau, Office of the Attorney General of the State of New York

    4/29/15
    Open Data - Serving the Public?
    Featured Guest: Mariko Hirose, Staff Attorney, New York Civil Liberties Union

    3/25/15
    Drones: Taking Off
    Featured Guest: Adil Ahmed, Advisor to the Board of Directors, DroneCast, Inc.

    2/18/15
    Is Wearable Tech Discovery's New Frontier?
    Featured Guest: Rob Sanchez, Chief Strategy Officer, Manufacture New York

    1/14/15
    Cyber Warfare? Activism, Hack-tivism, & State Sponsored Attacks
    Featured Guest: Thomas Brown, Senior Managing Director, FTI Consulting; Former Assistant U.S. Attorney, SDNY

  • 12/10/14
    The Latest From Geneva: WIPO's Work on IP and Competition
    Featured Guest: Nuno Pires de Carvalho, Director, Intellectual Property and Competition Policy Division, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

    11/17/14
    A World Order for Data Protection: Debriefing the Privacy Commissioners' Conference
    Featured Guest: Orrie Dinstein, Global Privacy Leader, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.

    10/8/14
    Unforgettable? Exploring the "Right to be Forgotten" Online
    Featured Guest: Jon Gordon, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, IAC's Search and Applications division

    9/10/14
    My Server Lies Over the Ocean...My Data Lies Over the Sea
    Featured Guest:  Hon. Loretta A. Preska, Chief United States District Judge, United States District Court, Southern District of New York

    4/16/14
    Big Data, New Problems?
    Featured Guest: Claudia Perlich, Chief Scientist, Dstillery

    3/26/14
    Drawing the Line Between Student Privacy & Commercial Data
    Featured Guests: Janine Greenwood, Chief Legal Officer and Vice President, National Student Clearinghouse; Roberta Hyland, Assistant Vice President, Research Operations, National Student Clearinghouse

    2/19/14
    Google Glass—New Visions for the Law?
    Featured Guest: Jonathan Ezor, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Innovation in Business, Law and Technology, Touro Law School

    1/27/14
    The FCC’s Role In Net Neutrality In Light of Verizon
    Featured Guest: Olivier Sylvain , Associate Professor of Law, Fordham Law School

  • 12/10/13
    The Future of Books—Google Books
    Featured Guest: Jacqueline F. Bausch, Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, The New York Public Library

    11/12/13
    Yelp! Yikes! The Online Authenticity of the Corporate Image?
    Featured Guest: William E. Min, Senior Vice President, ERM & Chief Privacy Officer, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

    10/9/13
    A Compass in Turbulent World: Debriefing the Privacy Commissioners' Conference
    Featured Guest: Orrie Dinstein, Chief Privacy Leader and Senior IT & IP Counsel, GE Capital

    9/17/13
    Looking Through the PRISM: Government Snooping, Metadata Threats, and Journalists
    Featured Guest: James C. Goodale, author of the current book "Fighting for the Press," formerly Vice Chair and General Counsel of The New York Times, Producer and Host of the TV program "Digital Age," and former partner, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

    5/1/13
    Bitcoin and the Future of Currency
    Featured Guest: Professor Ron Lazebnik, Fordham Law School

    3/27/13
    Secondhand Bytes - Reselling Digital Content
    Featured Guest: Ray Beckerman, former counsel to ReDigi

    2/26/13
    Hacking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
    Featured Guest: Tor Ekeland, Tor Ekeland P.C.

    1/30/13
    Guns, Sex & Money - Thinking About What Neighbors Should Know
    Featured Guest: John Cook, Editor-in-chief, Gawker

  • 12/5/12
    Petraeus - A Case for ECPA Reform

    11/15/12
    Unmasking Trolls
    Featured Guest: Jack Stuef, Freelance Journalist & Contributor at BuzzFeed

    10/17/12
    Is it Craig's List?
    Featured Guest: James A. Keyte, Partner, Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP

    9/11/12
    Phone Wars

    5/16/12
    What is CISPA?
    Featured Guest: Zachary Katznelson, Senior Staff Attorney, Nat'l Security Project, ACLU

    4/25/12
    Your Password or Your Job
    Featured Guest: Bill Greenblatt, CEO, Sterling Info Systems

    3/21/12
    Drones Come Home to Roost

    2/15/12
    Student Life Online - The Clementi Case, Bullying & the Aftermath
    Featured Guest: Dana Carotenuto, Policy Director & Counsel, Office of State Senator Klein

    1/17/12
    Does Facial Recognition Need a Legal Dermatologist?

  • 12/7/11
    The SOPA-Public Disconnect
    Featured Guest: Joe Karaganis, The American Assembly, Columbia University

    11/9/11
    Privacy in the Global Age - Debriefing the Privacy Commissioners' Conference
    Featured Guests: Orrie Dinstein, GE Capital & Joel R. Reidenberg, Fordham Law

    10/12/11
    Competition and the Power of Google
    Featured Guest: Scott Sher, Partner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati

    9/14/11
    MP3tunes and Copyrights in the Cloud
    Featured Guest: Stanley Pierre-Louis, VP & Assoc. General Counsel of IP & Content Protection, Viacom

    5/12/11
    The Media as Internet Regulator

    4/14/11
    A New Internet Copyright Strategy - Righthaven or Wrong-Haven?
    Featured Guest: Eriq Gardner, Contributing Editor at The Hollywood Reporterand

    3/10/11
    Do Not Track - Can it Work?

    2/17/11
    An Internet Kill Switch - National Security or Public Repression?

    1/20/11
    Companies Caught in the WikiWarfare Cross-Hairs

  • 12/9/10
    To Classify or Not to Classify? - Is the Internet a "Telecommunications Service"?
    Featured Guest: Susan Crawford, Professor of Law,Cardozo & former Special Assistant to the President for Science Technology & Innovation Policy

    11/18/10
    Privacy Generations - Debriefing the Privacy Commissioners' Conference
    Featured Guests: Orrie Dinstein, GE Capital & Lisa Sotto, Hunton & Williams

    10/21/10
    Kicking Pirates & Counterfeiters off the Net

    9/16/10
    Viral Exposure, Internet Mobs & Societal Challenges

    5/12/10
    Facebook's Open Graph - Building and Overexposing Social Networks

    4/15/10
    Boycotts and Filters and Hacks! Oh, my! - China and the Internet

    3/11/10
    Going Green - WIPO and Climate Change
    Featured Guest: Nuno Carvahlo, World Intellectual Property Organization

    2/3/10
    Travel Security Checkpoints & Digital Strip Searches

    1/14/10
    Going Viral - Use & Abuse of Fashion Photos

  • 12/16/09
    Inside Baseball - Will the US get a 3 Strike Rule for Internet Pirates?

    11/18/09
    Tweeting Judges and Googling Juries
    Featured Guest: Hon. Loretta A. Preska, Chief Judge, Southern District of New York

    10/21/09
    Behavioral Advertising or Privacy Misbehavior
    Featured Guest: Joseph Turow, Professor, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania

    9/22/09
    Cyberattack as a Tool of U.S. Policy
    Featured Guest: Herb Lin, Chief Scientist, Computer Science & Telecommunications Board, National Academies