Biography
Pamela Samuelson is the Richard M. Sherman ’74 Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California at Berkeley and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She is also a faculty member of Berkeley’s School of Information and its College of Computing, Data Science, and Society. She has taught courses on intellectual property, cyberlaw, and information law. She has written and spoken extensively about the challenges that new information technologies pose for traditional legal regimes, especially for intellectual property law. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), a Contributing Editor of Communications of the ACM, a past Fellow of the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, a Life Member of the American Law Institute, and an Honorary Professor of the University of Amsterdam. She is a co-founder and chair of the Board of Directors for Authors Alliance, a nonprofit whose mission is to facilitate authorship in the public interest. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a member of the Advisory Boards for Public Knowledge and the Electronic Privacy Information Center.
