Joe Mornin

Projects

• Bestlaw: Adds tools to Westlaw and Lexis. 30,000 users. 12 million legal documents enhanced.
• Perma: Archives URLs in legal documents. Used in law reviews and courts at all levels. Acquired by the Harvard library in 2013.
• Fluffblocker: Replaces “trending” stories on Facebook with real news.
• Quantius: Crowdsourced image analysis. In beta in scientific labs at Berkeley, Stanford, UCSF, and Penn.
• LaTeX for Lawyers: Machine-readable legal documents.
• django-docker: Popular framework for running Django apps on Docker.

See more projects on my GitHub profile.

Awards

Forbes 30 Under 30, 2016

• Featured as one of the top thirty young lawyers and policymakers nationwide.

Fastcase 50, 2015

• Recognized as one of “the law’s smartest, most courageous innovators, techies, visionaries, and leaders.”

Education

J.D., University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), 2015

• Editor-in-Chief, Berkeley Technology Law Journal
• Prosser Prize in tort law
• Certificate in law and technology
• Fellow, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
• Volunteer, Public Benefits & Justice Project
• Leader, boalt.org

B.A., English, Reed College, 2010

• Faculty’s commendation for academic excellence
• Junior qualification exam commendation
• Study abroad, L’Université de Paris IV (Sorbonne), Paris, 2007
• Leader, Reed Outing Club

Work

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 2016–present

Judicial Law Clerk

Winston & Strawn LLP, 2014–16

Associate Attorney (2015–16), Summer Associate (2014)

Electronic Frontier Foundation, 2014

Legal Intern

Center for Democracy & Technology, 2013

Legal Intern

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard, 2009–12

Research Associate (2010–12), Intern (2009)

Rootstrikers and Represent.Us, 2010–12

Online Director

Pickens Plan, 2008

Online Director

Copper Canyon Press, 2006

Intern

Fellowships

• Internet Law & Policy Foundry, 2017–present
• Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX), Stanford Law School, 2015–present
• Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), 2014–15
• Library Innovation Lab, Harvard Law School, 2013–14
• Public.Resource.Org, 2010–11

Research Assistant Positions

• Paul Schwartz, Jefferson E. Peyser Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), 2013–15
• Jennifer Urban, Clinical Professor of Law and Director, Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), 2013–14
• Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law & Leadership, Harvard Law School, 2010–12
• Howard Rheingold, Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, and Stanford, 2010–11

Speaking & Publications

• What You Need to Know about the Defend Trade Secrets Act, Intellectual Property and Technology Law Journal, September 2016
• “You Wouldn’t Reimplement an API: Oracle v. Google and Software Copyright,” Ironclad Rooftop Law School, July 2016
• “Web Tracking and Privacy Law: How Companies Track People Online, How Legal Challenges Have Played Out, and What’s Coming Next,” University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), April 2016
• “Innovation in Legal Technology,” University of California, Hastings College of the Law, September 2015
• “Innovation in Legal Technology,” Stanford Law School, November 2014
• NSA Metadata Collection and the Fourth Amendment, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, August 2014
• In re Application of the United States for Historical Cell Site Data, Wikipedia (featured front-page article in March 2014)

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