The public interest group Public Knowledge this week named School of Information professor Pamela Samuelson as a recipient of its 2010 IP3 Award. The IP3 Award is given to individuals who have advanced the public interest in one of the three areas of “IP” — Intellectual Property, Information Policy and Internet Protocol.
Pamela Samuelson, who holds a joint appointment in the School of Information and the UC Berkeley School of Law, is being recognized for her work in information policy. The awards announcement lauds Samuelson as a pioneer in all aspects of cyberlaw, having been one of the first to see the connections and contradictions between an emerging digital environment and the law. Her scholarship, expertise, and advocacy for reform range across crucial issues, including privacy, copyright, freedom of expression, intellectual property, and consumer protection. The legal clinics she and her husband, Robert Glushko, have endowed across the country provide students practical experience in information and technology law in the public interest.
Samuelson joins Susan Crawford (internet protocol), Michael Geist (intellectual property), and Nina Paley (intellectual property) in receiving the 2010 awards.
Public Knowledge is a Washington, D.C.–based public interest group working to defend citizens’ rights in the emerging digital culture. The awards will be presented at a ceremony October 13 in Washington, D.C.
