Speakers

Alumni Speaking Opportunities

Every year, JOLT hosts numerous events for the law school community. If you would be interested in speaking about your work or a law and technology topic, please reach out to our Speakers Editors, Ella Han and Ani Jonnavithula.

Past Speakers

Jake Laperruque (Center for Democracy and Technology, Security and Surveillance Project) October 30, 2023
Van Lindberg (Taylor English Duma) October 17, 2023
Morgan Chu, Michael Harbour, Charlotte Wen, and Russell Hoover (Irell & Manella) April 20, 2023
Matthew Butterick (Co-Counsel in class-action lawsuits against GitHub Copilot and Stable Diffusion) January 31, 2023
Brian Hauss (ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project) November 17, 2022
Paul Grewal (Chief Legal Officer, Coinbase) November 10, 2022
Carrie Goldberg (C.A. Goldberg) October 26, 2022
Brewster Kahle (Founder of Internet Archive) September 19, 2022
Jay Edelson (Edelson PC) September 19, 2022
Albert Fox Cahn (Surveillance Technology Oversight Project) September 8, 2022
David Hornik (Venture Capitalist, General Partner, August Capital) April 18, 2022
Evelyn Aswad (Human Rights and Content Moderation Expert, University of Oklahoma College of Law) April 12, 2022
Wilson Sonsini March 29, 2022
White & Case March 9, 2022
David Hoppe (Crypto, Video Game, and Media Law Expert) February 28, 2022
Natalie Ram (Genetic Technology and Privacy Expert, University of Maryland School of Law) February 23, 2022
Irell & Manella LLP February 14, 2022
Finnegan January 18, 2022
Thibault Schrepel (Blockchain & Antitrust Expert at Utrecht/Stanford) October 12, 2021
Dan Gallagher (Chief Legal Officer, Robinhood) March 12, 2021
Dr. Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio (Chair of the Executive Leadership Research Initiative for Women and Minority Attorneys, Center for the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School) March 8, 2021
Dr. Raj Sachdev February 26, 2021
Stephen Thomson (City University of Hong Kong School of Law) November 19, 2020
Dana Wagner (Chief Legal Officer, Impossible Foods) and Nicole Negowetti (Professor, Harvard Law School) November 18, 2020
Morgan Chu, Alan Heinrich, Elizabeth Tuan and Michael Harbour (Irell & Manella LLP) November 2, 2020
Ben Hovland (Chairman, U.S. Election Assistance Commission) October 27, 2020
Thibault Schrepel (Utrecht/Stanford) October 21, 2020
Bryan Choi (Assistant Professor of Law and Computer Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University) September 10, 2020
Steve Boom (Head of Amazon Music), Susan Genco (Co-President of the Azoff Company), and Ethan Schiffres (partner at Gang, Tyre, Ramer, Brown & Passma) April 20, 2020
Sheri Pan (Associate at Gibson Dunn), Kayla Wieche (Associate at Orrick), Kelsey Harclerode (Associate at Zwillgen), Vera Edelman (Attorney at ACLU Massachusetts), and James Sebel (Associate at Fish & Richardson) February 26, 2020
Gwen Hochman Stewart (IP Associate at Sidley Austin) February 13, 2020
Gish Jen (Award-winning author) February 4, 2020
Jason Fiorillo (Vice President and General Counsel of Boston Dynamics) November 22, 2019
Monika Bickert (Facebook's VP of Global Policy Management and Counterterrorism) November 20, 2019
Zach Lerner (Attorney at ZwillGen) November 12, 2019
Timothy Massad (Former Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission) November 6, 2019
Thibault Schrepel (Faculty Associate at Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School) October 30, 2019
Ravi Naik (Attorney and 2018-2019 Human Rights Lawyer of the Year) October 29, 2019
Matt Lovell (Partner at Kirkland & Ellis), Ryan Kane (Partner at Kirkland & Ellis), and Miranda Means (Associate at Kirkland & Ellis) October 22, 2019
Adam Cohen (Google's head of economic policy in Europe) October 17, 2019
Cary McClelland (Lawyer, author, and human rights advocate) October 7, 2019
Mike French (Senior VP for Commercial Space at Bryce Space and Technology) and Richard DalBello (VP of Business Development and Government Affairs at Virgin Galactic) April 22, 2019
Jessica Rosenworcel (FCC Commissioner) (cosponsored with HLS Democrats) April 18, 2019
Amy Keating (General Counsel at Mozilla) April 10, 2019
Andrea Matwyshyn (Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law) and Stephanie Pell (Assistant Professor and Cyber Ethics Fellow, West Point’s Army Cyber Institute) April 9, 2019
Eric Lander (president and founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard) March 27, 2019
Jet Deng (partner at Dentons) and Ken Dai (partner at Dentons), (cosponsored with HALS) March 25, 2019
Matthew Sipe (Visiting Associate Professor at The George Washington University Law School) March 12, 2019
Edward Knight (General Counsel of Nasdaq) and Louise Pentland (General Counsel of Paypal), (cosponsored with HALB) March 5, 2019
Erik Hovenkamp (postdoctoral fellow at Harvard Law School) February 26, 2019
Seth Berman (partner at Nutter, McClennen & Fish in Boston and Visiting Lecturer at Harvard Law School) January 29, 2019
Scott Ferber (Former Counsel for Cyber Investigations, DOJ National Security Division) (cosponsored with NSLA) November 29, 2018
Greg Reilly (Assistant Professor of Law, Kent-Chicago College of Law) November 14, 2018
David Wang (Head of Innovation, Wilson Sonsini), Jonathan Rudolph (Director of Professional Services, Actiance), Chelsea Russo (Public Relations, Special Counsel), Gail Bergmiller (Director of Knowledge Management & Library Services, Ropes & Gray) (cosponsored with HALB) November 4, 2018
Sarah R. Wasserman Rajec (Associate Professor of Law, William & Mary Law School) October 24, 2018
Andrew Gilden (Assistant Processor of Law, Willamette University College of Law) October 14, 2018
Stuart D. Levi (Co-head of Intellectual Property and Technology Group, Skadden) October 24, 2018
Adam Cohen (Head of Economic Policy in Europe, Google) & Alissa Davies (UK Economic Policy Team, Google) October 15, 2018
Scott Burwell (Partner in Reston office of Finnegan), Alissa Lipton (Partner in Boston office of Finnegan), Jeff Jacobstein (Associate in Boston office of Finnegan), Flora Amwayi (Associate in DC office of Finnegan) October 1, 2018
Maurice Turner (Senior Technologist, Center for Democracy & Technology) September 10, 2018
Gerald Flattman (Partner in the New York office of Paul Hastings), Scott Burwell (Partner in the DC Office of Finnegan), John McGaraghan (Partner in the Palo Alto office of Wilson Sonsini) April 9, 2018
Phil Rothernberg (VP Legal, Tesla Motors) (Cosponsored w/ HALB) February 28, 2018
Mike French (VP, Bryce Space & Technology), Benjamin Roberts (White House Space Advisory Council), Brian Israel (White House Space Advisory Council) February 11, 2018
Christopher Yoo (Professor, University of Pennsylvania), Matt Wood (Policy Director, Free Press) January 24, 2018
Georges Clement (Co-founder, Justfix.nyc) (Cosponsored w/ ACS + Urbanists) October 30, 2017
Alissa Lipton (Partner in the Boston office of Finnegan), Alex Civetta (Associate in the Boston office of Wilmerhale), Serrin Turner (Partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins) September 27, 2017
Lee Rowland (Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU), Crystal Nwaneri (HLS ‘17) April 11, 2017
Peter Menell (Professor, U.C. Berkeley) March 29, 2017
Marvin Ammori (GC of Hyperloop One) February 13, 2017
Commercial Spaceflight Panel with NASA, SpaceX, and Space Systems Loral (Mike French, Caryn Schenewerk, Mike Gold) October 18, 2016
Nick Psyhogeos (VP of OEM Licensing at Microsoft) October 12, 2016
Glenn Gerstell (General Counsel of the National Security Agency ) (co-sponsored event with NSLA, NSJ, the Cyberlaw Clinic, and OPIA) October 5, 2016
SingleStop CLO Angela Dorn (co-sponsored event with the Cyberlaw Clinic and BLSA) September 18, 2016
Congresswoman Katherine Clark (co-sponsored event with the Women’s Law Association) April 9, 2016
Robert Hacker (VP of Business and Legal Affairs for FOX Sports) March 29, 2016
Tiffany Tronko (VP and Assistant General Counsel at Pfizer in charge of the firm’s Trademark Group; brought in by Dale Cendali) October 31, 2015
Pam Samuelson (UC Berkeley) September 22, 2015
Auren Hoffman (CEO of LiveRamp) April 20, 2015
Parker Higgins (Director of Copyright Activism at the Electronic Frontier Foundation) March 22, 2015
Luke Dembosky (Deputy Assistant Attorney General) March 9, 2015
Joseph Loy (Partner in NY Office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP); Martin Galese (General Counsel for Formlabs, Inc) November 18, 2014
Brad Smith (Microsoft GC and Executive VP of Legal and Corporate Affairs) November 2, 2014
Liz Asai & Elliot Swart (Founders of 3Derm Sytems) October 20, 2014
John Carlin (Assistant Attorney General for National Security) October 8, 2014
Dr. Pushpa Kumar Lakshmanan (Faculty Associate at Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School) April 21, 2014
Gabriel Meister (HLS '98; Partner in the Technology Transactions Group (TTG) in the New York office of Morrison & Foerster LLP) April 20, 2014
William Fisher (WilmerHale Professor of Intellectual Property Law Harvard Law School; Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society); Pedro Paranaguá (Senior Legal Advisor for the Brazilian federal government on Intellectual Property) April 19, 2014
Alex Ewing (Wolf Greenfield patent lawyer; Harvard College '03; HLS '06); Michelle Nyei (Wolf Greenfield patent lawyer; MIT '04,'10,'13; HLS '07) April 8, 2014
Sarah Reed (General Counsel of Charles River); Bridgette Hylton (Founder of ShopHouseRag.com); Patricia Paul (Managing Director at a legal search consulting firm) March 24, 2014
Ben Wizner (Director of the ACLU's Project on Speech, Privacy and Technology; Edward Snowden's Legal Advisor) March 23, 2014
Andrew Bridges & Ken Myers (Attorneys at Fenwick & West LLP) March 8, 2014
Judge Lucy Koh (United States District Court, Northern District of California) March 4, 2014
Susan Crawford (John A. Reilly Visiting Professor in Intellectual Property at Harvard Law School; Professor at Cardozo Law School; contributor to Bloomberg View and Wired) March 2, 2014
Mark Wu (Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society) February 24, 2014
Michael Fertik (Founder of Reputation.com); Christopher Bavitz (Cyberlaw Clinic Managing Director) December 1, 2013
Bryant Walker Smith (Asistant Professor at Stanford School of Law; Fellow at Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law Schooll and Fellow at the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford (CARS)) November 16, 2013
John Williams (Partner in Boston Office of The Bridgespan Group; Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab) November 11, 2013
Steve Charkoudian, Bob Crawford, & Achal Oza (Attorneys at Goodwin Procter) November 2, 2013
Cindy Cohr (EFF Legal Director) October 28, 2013
Chase Madar (Author of "The Passion of Bradley Manning"); Yochai Benkler (Professor at HLS; witness for the defense in the Manning trial) October 7, 2013