California Law Review Spring 2026 Symposium: Surveillance Prices & Wages
Friday, April 24, 2026
9:00am-4:30pm Pacific / 12:00pm-7:30pm Eastern
UC Berkeley School of Law
Reception to follow from 4:30-6:00pm.
This symposium will bring together leading scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to examine the rise of surveillance-driven pricing and wages—practices that use data to set individualized prices for consumers and adjust pay rates for workers. By exploring questions of fairness, discrimination, competition, privacy, and regulation, the event aims to shape how law and policy respond to one of the most urgent issues in today’s economy.
Presented by the UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice, the California Law Review, and the UC Berkeley Center for Law and Work.
RSVP!
Please RSVP for meal headcount purposes if you plan to attend in person!
Livestream!
For those who cannot attend in person, please check the below links the day of the event for the livestream:
Livestream Pt. 1, beginning 9:30am Pacific / 12:30pm Eastern (Introduction through Lunch Keynote)
Livestream Pt. 2, beginning 2:15pm Pacific / 5:15pm Eastern (Panel 3 through Closing)
Schedule
9:00-9:30am PT—Check-In / Breakfast / Coffee
9:30-9:40am PT / 12:30-12:40pm ET—Introductions
Ted Mermin (Executive Director, UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice)
Christina Chung (Executive Director, UC Berkeley Center for Law & Work)
DeShawn Carter (Vol. 115 Symposium Editor, California Law Review)
Iman Eslami (Student Legal Fellow, UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice)
9:40-10:20am PT / 12:40-1:20pm ET—Digital Pricing & Wage-Setting 101
Park Sinchaisri (UC Berkeley Haas School of Business)
10:30-11:30am PT / 1:30-2:30pm ET—Panel 1: Prices
Colleen Chien (UC Berkeley School of Law)
Karen Levy (Cornell University)
Stephanie Nguyen (Columbia Law School)
Lindsay Owens (Groundwork Collaborative)
Moderator: David Dayen (The American Prospect)
11:45am-12:45pm PT / 2:45-3:45pm ET—Panel 2: Wages
Veena Dubal (UC Irvine School of Law)
Seema Nanda (Workshop)
Zephyr Teachout (Fordham Law School)
Moderator: Diana Reddy (UC Berkeley School of Law)
12:45-2:00pm PT / 3:45-5:00pm ET—Lunch & Keynote
Keynote remarks begin at 1:00pm PT / 4:00pm ET
Keynote Speaker: Samuel Levine (Commissioner, New York City Department of Worker and Consumer Protection)
2:15-3:15pm PT / 5:15-6:15pm ET—Panel 3: Public Enforcement Against Surveillance Prices and Wages
Eleanor Blume (California Attorney General's Office)
Christopher D'Angelo (New York State Office of the Attorney General)
Stevie DeGroff (Colorado Attorney General's Office)
Christopher D'Angelo (New York State Office of the Attorney General)
Stevie DeGroff (Colorado Attorney General's Office)
Deirdre Mulligan (UC Berkeley School of Information and Berkeley Center for Law and Technology)
Moderator: Ted Mermin (UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice)
3:30-4:30pm PT / 6:30-7:30pm ET—Panel 4: Private Enforcement Against Surveillance Prices and Wages
Elizabeth Cabraser (Lieff Cabraser)
Cecilia Cheng (Hausfeld LLP)
Lee Hepner (American Economic Liberties Project)
David Seligman (Towards Justice)
Moderator: Seth Frotman (UC Berkeley Center for Consumer Law & Economic Justice)
4:30-6:00pm PT—Closing & Reception
Accessibility
If you need reasonable accommodations for a disability, information about mobility access features, or communications or alternative media access like live captions or ASL interpretation in order to fully participate in this event, please contact Ben Hiebert at ben.hiebert@law.berkeley.edu with as much advance notice as possible and at least 7-10 days in advance of the event.