Technology & Regulation Symposium
Technology: Transforming the Regulatory Endeavor
Hosted by the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal
Co-sponsored by the School of Information; the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment; and the Goldman School of Public Policy
This 15th annual BCLT/BTLJ Symposium will address the ways that technological developments are transforming the task of regulation.
The two morning panels will provide a discussion of the broad issues affecting this transformation. The first panel will consider the increasing attempts to use of technology to enhance regulatory capacity, both by using it to improve government capacity for decisionmaking and monitoring, and by employing “code” as a regulatory tool in addition to formal law. It will address both the powerful potential of this development, as well as some of the concerns it raises. The second panel will consider the challenges posed for legislation and regulatory promulgation by the rapid technological change.
The keynote address by New York University technology scholar Helen Nissenbaum will consider the question of the “handoff” — when it is appropriate, or not, to make the move from conventional forms of regulation to technologically-based forms. This will set the stage for the three afternoon panels, which will address that question in three different substantive contexts: environmental regulation, privacy regulation, and the governance of intellectual property.