Sonia Katyal
Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Research
Co-Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Distinguished Haas Chair
skatyal@law.berkeley.edu
Tel: 510-642-2306
586 Simon Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 MC:7200
Faculty Support Contact: Shamarah Helire
Publications
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Professor Sonia Katyal’s work focuses on the intersection of technology, intellectual property, and civil rights (including antidiscrimination, privacy, and freedom of speech).
Professor Katyal’s current projects focus on trademark law, branding and advertising; artificial intelligence and intellectual property; the intersection between the right to information and human rights; and a variety of projects on the intersection between art law, cultural heritage and new media.? As a member and chair of the university-wide Haas LGBTQ Citizenship Cluster, Professor Katyal also works on matters regarding law, gender and sexuality.
Professor?Katyal’s recent publications include?Technoheritage,?in the California Law Review;?Rethinking Private Accountability in the Age of Artificial Intelligence,?in the UCLA Law Review;?The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy,?in the Cornell Law Review;?Transparenthood?in the Michigan Law Review (with Ilona Turner);?Trademarks, Artificial Intelligence, and the Role of the Private Sector, also in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal (with Aniket Kesari);?The Gender Panopticon?in the UCLA Law Review (with Jessica Jung); and?From Trade Secrecy to Seclusion?in Georgetown Law Journal (with Charles Tait Graves).?
Professor Katyal has won several awards for her work, including an honorable mention in the American Association of Law Schools Scholarly Papers Competition, a Yale Cybercrime Award, and twice received a Dukeminier Award from the Williams Project at UCLA for her writing on gender and sexuality. Most recently, her article,?The Paradox of Source Code Secrecy, was selected for inclusion in the Best Intellectual Property articles of 2019. She has also previously published shorter pieces with the New York Times, Washington Post, CNN, Boston Globe’s Ideas section, Hyperallergic, Los Angeles Times, Slate, and the National Law Journal, and has also been cited by the Supreme Court.??
During the Obama administration,?Katyal?was selected by U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker to be part of the inaugural U.S. Commerce Department’s Digital Economy Board of Advisors.??
Education
A.B., Brown University (1993)J.D., University of Chicago Law School (1998)
Profiles
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Sonia Katyal is not teaching any Law courses in Fall 2022.
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Courses During Other Semesters
Summer 2021 278.1S sec. 001 Trademark Law and Branding
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