Sayoko Blodgett-Ford
- Lecturer in Law
Degrees
- BS College of William and Mary
- MS University of Maryland
- JD Yale Law School
Biography
Sayoko’s practice focuses on intellectual property strategy and transactions and data privacy and security in mergers and acquisitions. Sayoko is an Adjunct at Boston College Law School, where she teaches Privacy Law (Fall) and Mobile Apps and Big Data - Legal Contributions (Spring), and a Lecturer in Law at the University of Hawai’i law school, where she has taught Internet Law & Policy, Intellectual Property, Contracts Drafting, High-Growth Entrepreneurship and Administrative Law, among other subjects. She previously served as general counsel of Tetris Online, Inc. and as Senior Manager of the Intellectual Property Group at Nintendo of America Inc. in Redmond, Washington. Prior to Nintendo, Sayoko practiced at Foley Hoag LLP and was a law clerk for Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. Sayoko holds a B.S. in Physics from the College of William and Mary, an M.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Publications
- A Real Right to Privacy for Artificial Intelligence (book chapter) in Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence (Publisher: Edward Elgar) (Woodrow Barfield and Ugo Pagallo, editors) (forthcoming 2018)
- Advertising Legal Issues in Virtual and Augmented Reality (book chapter) in Research Handbook on the Law of Virtual and Augmented Reality (Publisher: Edward Elgar) (Woodrow Barfield and Marc Blitz, editors) (forthcoming 2018) (co-authors: Woodrow Barfield and Alexander Williams)
- Data Privacy Legal Issues in Virtual and Augmented Reality (book chapter) in Research Handbook on the Law of Virtual and Augmented Reality (Publisher: Edward Elgar) (Woodrow Barfield and Marc Blitz, editors) (forthcoming 2018) (co-author Mirjam Supponen)
- The Changing Meaning of the Right to Bear Arms, 6 SETON HALL CONST. LAW JOURNAL 101 (1995)
- Do Battered Women Have a Right to Bear Arms? 11 YALE L. & POL'Y REV. 509 (1993)
- Gun Controls and the Connecticut Constitution, 66 CONN. BAR J. 425 (1992) (with J. Drake Turrentine)
