Clinical Projects

Clinical Projects

Clinical students undertake a wide variety of projects for our clients, including authoring memos, authoring and presenting testimony before government agencies, and offering legal services in matters requiring knowledge of technology or intellectual property. Below is a sampling of some of the projects our students have worked on since our inception.

Project TitleYearsort iconSubject Area
Clinic Comments on Private Sector Use of the Social Security Number2007
Clinic's Electronic Voting Research Helped To Advance Election Integrity2007
Samuelson Clinic Director and Student Testified Before the Copyright Office2006
Samuelson Clinic Students Assisted the Constitution Project in Preparing Guidelines for Video Surveillance2006
Samuelson Clinic Released Paper on Legal, Technical, and Software Interface Design Issues Related to Spyware2005
Samuelson Clinic Submitted Comment to U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of Edward Felten and J. Alex Halderman2005
Samuelson Clinic Non-Resident Fellow Co-Authors Report on Cease-and-Desist Letters Submitted to Chilling Effects2005
Clinic Submitted Comments to U.S. Copyright Office on behalf of Internet Archive regarding Orphan Works2005
Radio Frequency Identification and Privacy with Information Goods2004
Memorandum Addressing the Need for a Treatment Agenda2002
Oasis Rights Language Technical Committee2002-2003
Open Resource for Open Source2002-2003
Copyright, the Archivist, and the Public Interest2002-2003
Cyberslapp Suits2002-2003
Ubiquitous Computing: RFID and Information Goods2003-2004
Standards Project2001-2002
Location Information Privacy Project [“Geopriv”]2001

Clinic Comments on Private Sector Use of the Social Security Number

September  5,  2007 

In comments to the Federal Trade Commission, the Samuelson Clinic argued that credit grantors are using the Social Security number (SSN) both as a record locator to identify individuals, but also as a password to authenticate them. A series of cases points to credit grantors approving impostors’ applications for new accounts where the SSN matched, but other critical information, such as the date of birth and address, did not.  read more »

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