J. Brad Bernthal
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Director, Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology and Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurial Law, Early Stage Finance, Innovation Policy
401 UCB
2450 Kittredge Loop Drive
Wolf Law Building
Boulder, CO 80309-0401
Office: 322E
Phone: (303) 492-0610
E-mail: brad.bernthal@colorado.edu
Curriculum Vitae: View (PDF format)
Bio:Brad specializes in startups, entrepreneurial law, and early stage finance (such as angel investment and venture capital). His current research studies finance instruments used in startup investment. Prior to that, Brad studied investment accelerators, providing legal scholarship's first work on the topic. In the classroom, Brad teams with co-professor Keith Olivia to lead the Entrepreneurial Law Clinic (LAWS 7619). He also teaches Venture Capital with co-professor Jason Mendelson (LAWS 7271, TLEN 5835). Brad is the Founder and Director of the Silicon Flatirons Center's Entrepreneurship Initiative. The Entrepreneurship Initiative, launched in 2008, creates a high velocity of interaction between the CU campus and the Front Range's high tech entrepreneurial community. The Entrepreneurship Initiative is closely involved with the CU New Venture Challenge, Startup Colorado, and the Blackstone Entrepreneurs Network.
Articles
| The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Finance: A New Typology, 2018 BYU L. Rev. 773 (2019). |
| Who Needs Contracts? Generalized Exchange Within Investment Accelerators, 100 Marquette Law Review 997 (2017). |
| Investment Accelerators, 22 Stan. J. L. Bus. & Fin. 139 (2016). |
| Procedural Architecture Matters: Innovation Policy At The Federal Communications Commission, 1 Texas A&M Law Review 615, (2014). |
| Bernthal (with Phil Weiser and Dale Hatfield), Study on the Health of the United States 9 1 1 Emergency Network: A Call to Action on 9-1-1, Colorado Law Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law, (2008). |
| Bernthal (with Nancy Jesuale), Smart Radios and Collaborative Public Safety Communications. Accepted, presented and published in IEEE Proceedings of the Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks (DySPAN 2008) Conference, Chicago, IL, October 14-17, (2008). |
| Bernthal (with Tim Brown, Dale Hatfield, Doug Sicker, Peter Tenhula, and Phil Weiser), Trends and Precedents Favoring a Regulatory Embrace of Smart Radio Technologies. Accepted, presented and published in Proc. of the IEEE Symposium on New Frontiers in Dynamic Spectrum Access Networks, Paper selected for Plenary session of Conference, Dublin, Ireland, April (2007). |
Bernthal (with Philip J. Weiser and Dale Hatfield), Toward A Next Generation Architecture for Public Safety Communications, (2006).
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Courses:
| Fall 2025 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-801 |
| Spring 2025 | Legal Negotiation | LAWS 7409-801 |
| Fall 2024 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-801 |
| Spring 2024 | Legal Negotiation | LAWS 7409-801 |
| Fall 2023 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-801 |
| Fall 2022 | Legal Negotiation | LAWS 7409-801 |
| Spring 2022 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Fall 2021 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-801 |
| Fall 2021 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Spring 2021 | Corporations | LAWS 6211-801 |
| Spring 2021 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Fall 2020 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Spring 2020 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Fall 2019 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-801 |
| Fall 2019 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Spring 2019 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Fall 2018 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-801 |
| Fall 2018 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-902 |
| Fall 2018 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Spring 2018 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Fall 2017 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-001 |
| Fall 2017 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Spring 2017 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Fall 2016 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-001 |
| Fall 2016 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Spring 2016 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Fall 2015 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-001 |
| Fall 2015 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Fall 2014 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-001 |
| Fall 2014 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Spring 2014 | Entrep Innovation and Public Policy | LAWS 5201-801 |
| Spring 2014 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Spring 2014 | Seminar: Business Law Colloquium | LAWS 8101-001 |
| Spring 2014 | LLM Seminar | LAWS 9846-901 |
| Fall 2013 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-001 |
| Fall 2013 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-801 |
| Fall 2013 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-001 |
| Spring 2013 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-801 |
| Fall 2012 | Venture Capital and Private Equity | LAWS 7271-002 |
| Fall 2012 | Entrepreneurial Law Clinic | LAWS 7619-001 |
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