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Paul
Belonick

Faculty Assistant Director, Center for Innovation & Professor of Practice

  • Office 603C-200
  • Email Address belonickpaul@uchastings.edu

Biography

Prof. Belonick is Faculty Assistant Director of the Center for Innovation (C4i) and the Director of the Center’s flagship program, the Startup Legal Garage.

Prof. Belonick graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2010, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Virginia Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.  He clerked on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and has practiced civil and criminal law in both small and multinational law firms.

At Hastings he teaches numerous courses in addition to directing the Startup Legal Garage, including Criminal Investigations, Legal Ethics, Patent Law, and Property.  He also holds a PhD in History from the University of Virginia, where he focused on Ancient History and Early American Legal History.

Expertise

  • Criminal Law and Procedure
  • Intellectual Property
  • Legal Ethics
  • Property Law
  • Startup & Innovation Law

Education

  1. University of Virginia School of Law 2010

    J.D.

  2. University of Virginia 2016

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ancient History

  3. Hamilton College 2002

    Bachelor's Degree, Classical Languages and History

Accomplishments

  1. Los Angeles Times In-House Counsel of the Year in the Education and Non-Profit Category (for Startup Legal Garage) 2021

  2. American Bar Association’s Business Law Section National Public Service Award (for Startup Legal Garage) 2021

  3. California Lawyers Association’s Wiley W. Manuel Pro Bono Certificate (for Startup Legal Garage) 2021

Selected Scholarship

  1. Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic 2020

    Oxford University Press

  2. Blockchain’s Challenge for the Fourth Amendment 2021

    5 Judge's Book 39

  3. Transparency is the New Privacy: Blockchain’s Challenge for the Fourth Amendment 2020

    23 Stanford Technology Law Review 114

Courses

  1. Startup Legal Garage: Patent Module
  2. Startup Legal Garage: Corporate
  3. Professional Responsibility
  4. Property
  5. Criminal Procedure

Links

  1. Center for Innovation (C4i)
  2. Startup Legal Garage

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Startup Legal Garage Wins Two Prestigious Awards

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