Gaia Bernstein

Associate Professor
of Law
 SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL


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Biography
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Curriculum Vitae
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Law and Genetics
Information Privacy Law
Property
Biography


Gaia Bernstein is an Associate Professor at Seton Hall University School of Law. Professor Bernstein’s scholarship focuses on the inter-relations between technology, law and society, examining the diffusion processes of new technologies, including both medical and communications technologies. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of intellectual property, law and genetics, Internet law, information privacy law and reproductive technologies.

Prior to joining the Seton Hall faculty in 2004, Professor Bernstein was a fellow at the Engelberg Center of Innovation Law & Policy and at the Information Law Institute at the New York University School of Law. Her degrees include: a J.S.D. from the New York University School of Law, an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, a J.D. (Intellectual Property concentration with Honors) from the Boston University School of Law, and a B.A. in Psychology and Political Science (magna cum laude) from Tel Aviv University. Professor Bernstein practiced law at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York and at S. Horowitz & Co. in Israel.

 
Publications
 

Law Review Articles

Toward a General Theory of Law and Technology: Symposium Introduction, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology (forthcoming 2007)

The Role of Diffusion Characteristics in Formulating a General Theory of Law and Technology, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology (symposium) (forthcoming 2007)

The Paradoxes of Technological Diffusion: Genetic Discrimination and Internet Privacy, 39 Connecticut L. Rev. 241 (2006)

When New Technologies Are Still New: Windows of Opportunity for Privacy Protection, 51 Villanova Law Review 921 (symposium) (2006)

Information Technologies and Identity, Computer Law Review International 1 (2005)

Accommodating Technological Innovation: Identity, Genetic Testing and the Internet, 57 Vanderbilt L. Rev. 963 (2004)

The Socio-Legal Acceptance of New Technologies: A Close Look at Artificial Insemination, 77(4) Washington L. Rev. 1035 (2002)

Works in Progress

In the Shadow of Innovation

Empirical Appendix

Progress and the Dissemination of Technology

 
 
Presentations
 
Information Society Project Colloquium, Yale Law School, April 2008

Women Judges Association, April 2008

Junior-Senior Scholars Intellectual Property and Communications Workshop, Michigan State University School of Law, February 2008

Society for Evolutionary Analysis in Law, Indiana Bloomington School of Law, October 2007

Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, George Mason Law School, September 2007

Lawtech Conference, MIT, October 2006

Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, Pittsburgh Law School, October 6, 2006

Law and Society, Annual Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, July 2006

Evolutionary Analysis in Law Conference, Vanderbilt Law School, March 2006

3rd Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Michigan State University School of Law, January 2006

Genetic Information: Perils & Promises Conference, Haifa University Faculty of Law, December 2005

Symposium: Privacy Law in the New Millennium: A Tribute to Richard C. Turkington, Villanova University School of Law, October 2005

Colloquium on Information, Technology and Society, New York University School of Law, September 2005

5th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Cardozo Law School, August, 2005

International Symposium on Technology and Society, Loyola Marymount University, California, June 2005

Health Law Teachers Conference, Houston, Texas, June 2005

Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nevada, June, 2005

Where Are Law, Ethics and the Life Sciences Headed? Frontier Issues, Minnesota Law School, May, 2005

Trimetab Conspiracy, New York, May 2005

Information Society Project Luncheon, Yale Law School, May, 2005

Law, Culture & Humanities Conference, Austin, Texas, March, 2005

5th Annual Symposium Privacy and Identity: The Promise and Perils of a Technological Age, Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology, DePaul Law School, October 2004

The Sixth Annual Ethics and Technology Conference, Boston College Law School, June 2003

Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, June 2003

Should Everyone be Above Average? Medical Enhancement – Reconsidering the Promises, Ethics Center, Oklahoma State University, February 2003

Law and Society Association, Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, June 2002