What’s Free Culture?

Free Culture is a movement focused on creativity and innovation, communication and free expression, public access to knowledge and civil liberties. Students for Free Culture at Berkeley is hosting the Free Culture 2008 Conference over Columbus Day weekend. 

Conference Details

The conference will be held October 11th at the Chevron Auditorium at I-House.  Anyone interested in politics, tech policy, art, and culture will find something to like.  Keynoters include Prof. Pam Samuelson, Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law, and Mozilla Corporation CEO John Lilly.  Panel topics will include transparent politics, remix culture, copyright reform, and open access to knowledge and medicine. Richard Rinehart of Berkeley Art Museum will present the groundbreaking OpenMuseum project and Berkeley’s OKAPI group will demonstrate its virtual recreation of Çatalhöyük island for the Open Archaeology project. Filmmaker Nina Paley will be present for a screening of her groundbreaking film Sita Sings the Blues. And on October 12th, SFC will present a slate of intimate “unconference” style workshops on the Berkeley campus. Join guests from Creative Commons, Electronic Frontier Foundation, and others! 

Students for Free Culture at Berkeley are asking attendees to donate what they think the conference is worth, whether that’s $1 or $100.

Register at http://conference.freeculture.org/register/

The International Law Section of the Barristers Club and the California State Bar’s International Law Section are presenting an international law careers showcase on Wednesday, October 22, 2008 from 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm. at the BASF Conference Center, 301 Battery Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111

Speakers include:

Bruce Boyd (Partner, Holme Roberts & Owen) speaking on International Real Estate

Sarah Burt (Associate Attorney, Earthjustice) speaking on International Environmental Law

Natasha FainStaff (Attorney, Center for Justice And Accountability) speaking on International Human Rights

Arthur Gemmell (International Law Scholar, Santa Clara University Center for Global Law & Policy) speaking on International Commercial Arbitration

Tiffany Gomez (Corporate Counsel, International Employment Law, GAP, Inc.) speaking on International Retail Business

Daniel Zimmerman (Associate, Cooley Goodward Kronish) speaking on International Venture Capital Projects

Cost for students (including lunch): $20.00

For more details and to register online, visit the SF Bar’s informational webpage.

The CDO adheres to the general BBB rule against posting event announcements here; instead we post announcements about our events to the Berkeley Law Events Calendar (and the CDO Calendar). 

From time to time, however, we hear about interesting career networking opportunities sponsored by groups external to the School and which take place outside Berkeley Law.  As such, they are not appropriate to include on our internal calendars.  But, we do think they are useful for you to know about, so we’ve created a separate category of BBB posts to announce them called ”Events Away from Berkeley Law.”  

Below is the first such posting for this category, which comes from an organization known as Women Defenders: 

A RECEPTION TO CELEBRATE WOMEN’S SUCCESS IN CRIMINAL DEFENSE

Thursday, September 25

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Women Defenders hosts this event annually as a way to connect law students interested in criminal defense to the local criminal defense community.  Usually nearly 100 people attend!  For practitioners, it is a fun event to catch up with colleagues and share your insights and experience with aspiring criminal defense attorneys.  Help grow the criminal defense community by supporting the next generation of criminal defenders!

WHERE:  Clarence & Dyer, LLP, 899 Ellis Street, San Francisco  (Street Parking and Garage Parking Available)

Refreshments will be served.There is no cost to attend this event.Please RSVP to: 510-525-0995 or to: WomenDefenders@aol.com