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
Education
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University of Virginia School of Law 2010
J.D.
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University of Virginia 2016
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ancient History
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Hamilton College 2002
Bachelor's Degree, Classical Languages and History
Accomplishments
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Los Angeles Times In-House Counsel of the Year in the Education and Non-Profit Category (for Startup Legal Garage) 2021
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American Bar Association’s Business Law Section National Public Service Award (for Startup Legal Garage) 2021
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California Lawyers Association’s Wiley W. Manuel Pro Bono Certificate (for Startup Legal Garage) 2021
Selected Scholarship
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Restraint, Conflict, and the Fall of the Roman Republic 2020
Oxford University Press
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Blockchain’s Challenge for the Fourth Amendment 2021
5 Judge's Book 39
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Transparency is the New Privacy: Blockchain’s Challenge for the Fourth Amendment 2020
23 Stanford Technology Law Review 114
