| On Saturday 15 June 2002,
the title of 'Honorary Professor' was conferred on
Professor Pamela Samuelson by the University of Amsterdam.
Pamela Samuelson is a
Professor of Information Management and of Law at the
University
of California at Berkeley. She has a joint
appointment in the
School
of Information Management & Systems as well as in the
School
of Law, where she is a Director of the
Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. She is recognised as
one of the most prominent academics in the field of
intellectual property law and (other) legal aspects of the
Information Society. She teaches courses on intellectual
property, cyberlaw and information policy. In her numerous
publications, she has expressed particularly critical views on
the strong expansion of copyright in the digital environment
(Internet).
Professor Samuelson is a
frequent guest at the Institute for Information Law, where she
often participates in international workshops, conferences, or
symposia and where she is a regular lecturer on the
Institute’s International Copyright Law Summer Course.
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