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, Alex Rafferty and Di Ai (arafferty@jd22.law.harvard.edu and dai@jd22.law.harvard.edu).
Past Speakers
| 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 | |
| Neil Flanzraich (Expert in Residence at the Harvard Innovation Lab) | September 28, 2013 | |
| Matt Kleiman (Professor of Law at BU; Chair of the Space Law Committee of the ABA Section on Science and Technology Law) | September 22, 2013 | |
| J.H. Snider (President of iSolon.org) | September 18, 2013 |
J.H. Snider: Updating Americans' First Amendment Right to Petition Their GovernmentFriday, September 20, 2013 12pm Wasserstein Hall, 1010On Sept. 22, 2011, the White House launched its We the People petition website, which in the last two years has received tens of thousands of petitions and millions of signatures. How should the government implement the public.s First Amendment right to petition its government? What is it doing right and wrong? BiographyJ.H. Snider is the President of iSolon.org. He has been a fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard's Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard Business School, the New America Foundation, at the Department of Political Science at Northwestern, and worked in the U.S. Senate as a Congressional fellow with the American Political Science Association. He has written two books, been published in national newspapers and magazines, and is a nationally recognized expert on e-democracy. He has a Ph.D. in American Government from Northwestern University, an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School, and an undergraduate degree in Social Studies from Harvard College. VideoHere are the slides. |
| Heidi Keefe (Partner at Cooley) | March 31, 2013 | |
| Andrew Bridges (Partner at Fenwick & West in Silicon Valley) | March 2, 2013 | |
| Raj De (General Counsel for the National Security Agency) | February 5, 2013 | |
| Dr. Arthur Cosby (William L. Giles Distinguished Professor at Mississippi State University; Director of Mississippi State University's Social Science Research Center) | February 2, 2013 | |
| Molly Sauter (Berkman Center fellow and a graduate student in Comparative Media Studies at MIT) | January 27, 2013 | |
| William F. Lee (Partner in WilmerHale's Litigation and IP departments, The American Lawyer's "Mr. IP,") | November 24, 2012 | |
| William F. Patry (Senior Copyright Counsel of Google, Inc.) | November 6, 2012 | |
| James Bessen (Boston University School of Law Professor and Berkman Fellow); Julie Samuels(Electronic Frontier Foundation Staff Attorney) | October 30, 2012 | |
| Hank Greely (Director of the Program in Neuroethics at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics) | October 23, 2012 | |
| Christopher Soghoian (Principal Technologist & Senior Policy Analyst with the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union) | October 22, 2012 | |
| Matt Kleiman (Corporate Counsel at Draper Laboratories in Cambridge; Professor of Law at BU; Chair of the Space Law Committee of the ABA Section on Science and Technology Law) | September 30, 2012 | |
| Paul Egerman (CEO of eScription, Member, Health IT Policy Committee), Donald Rucker (VP & Chief Medial Officer, Siemens Healthcare USA), Peter Szolovits (MIT), Micky Tripathi (President & CEO, Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative), Peter van der Goes (Managing Director & Co-Head of Healthcare M&A, Goldman Sachs), Michael J. Kennedy (Partner, Shearman & Sterling) - Challenges and Opportunities Facing the Healthcare IT Industry | April 26, 2009 | |
| Thomas Lehrman (Founder & CEO of Boliven) - The Business of Technology | March 30, 2009 | |
| Prof. Charles Nesson - Online Poker and File-Sharing: Civil Liberties in Cyberspace | February 28, 2009 | |
| Chris Riley, Policy Counsel, Free Press - Comcast, BitTorrent, and Network Neutrality | February 10, 2009 | Video |
| Irell & Manella Event - Who Owns Reality? Many. None. - Featuring Morgan Chu, Elliot Brown, and Jane Shay Wald | November 30, 2008 | |
| Jones Day ITC Patent Litigation Event | November 18, 2008 | |
| Judge William Sessions (Former Director of the FBI) | November 11, 2008 | |
| Dale Cendali (Partner, O'Melveny & Myers & Attorney for J.K. Rowling) | November 4, 2008 |