SEATTLE - The Technology Law and Public Policy Clinic at the University of
Washington School of Law received a $9,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation to support student projects involving public policy in the areas of law and technology. The clinic was one of 33 award recipients from the foundation, which funds
programs in the areas of technology access, literacy, and domestic violence prevention.
The Technology Law & Public Policy Clinic, associated with the
Shidler Center for Law, Commerce and Technology,
provides students with a year long opportunity to study how public policy is developed, refined
and impacts various high tech industries. The clinic works with nonprofit,
governmental and policy developing organizations on projects such as crafting
legislation, developing best business practices or investigating potential
violations of the law. Working with the Federal Trade Commission on halting
surreptitious delivery of spyware, assisting the Washington State Attorney's
General in developing a regulatory format governing IP delivered telephony and
working in conjunction with the UW Department of Computer Science and
Engineering on a Radio
Frequency Identification Device (RFID) project are a few of the efforts in which
the clinic is involved.
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