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Sonia Kumari Katyal
University of California, Berkeley School of Law
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Expertise
- Intellectual Property
- Civil Rights
- Intersection of technology
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- California
- State Bar of California
- ID Number: 214169
Professional Experience
- Chancellor’s Professor of Law, Faculty Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law and Technology
- University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- - Current
- Co-Chair, Faculty and Staff Climate Committee (formed in the wake of sexual harassment issues); Member, Faculty Appointments Committee, Dean Search Committee.
- Associate Dean for Research and Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law
- Fordham Law School
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- Associate
- Covington & Burling, San Francisco, CA
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- Law Clerk to The Hon. Dorothy Nelson
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Pasadena, CA
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- Law Clerk to The Hon. Carlos Moreno
- U.S. District Court, Los Angeles, CA
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Education
- Brown University
- A.B. (1993)
- Honors: Honors in International Development/Development Studies; Offered a Bayard Rustin Fellowship for civil rights work upon graduation; Named a Resource Scholar in 1993 for academic research on human rights and women’s rights; Honors Thesis, Problems of National Disintegration and International Integration; Named one of Brown’s Six Most Visible Women Activists for human rights work on East Timor.
- The University of Chicago Law School
- J.D. (1988)
- Honors: Recipient of Ann Barber Prize for outstanding contribution to student body; Hormel Public Service Grant Recipient;
- Activities: University of Chicago Law Review, Topic Access Editor; Street Law Moot Court participant; Co-Chair, Public Service Committee; member, Admissions Committee.
Professional Associations
- Committee on Recruitment and Retention of Minority Law Teachers, American Association of Law Schools
- Current
- Annual Selection of Good Legal Writing for The Green Bag
- Board of Advisors
- - Current
- California State Bar  # 214169
- Member
- - Current
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