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Faculty
Yochai Benkler Professor, Yale Law School |
Yochai Benkler
is a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Previously, Benkler had
been a professor at New York University School of Law, where he was
the Director of the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy
and of the Information Law Institute . His research focuses on the
effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange
on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge,
and cultural production in the digital environment. His particular
focus has been on the neglected role of commons-based approaches towards
management of resources in the digitally networked environment. He
has written about the economics and political theory of rules governing
infrastructure, such as wireless communications and telecommunications
law, rules governing private control over information, in particular
intellectual property, and of relevant aspects of U.S. constitutional
law. |
William Fisher III Professor of Law, Harvard Law School;
Faculty Director, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society; Director,
Harvard Program on Legal History |
William Fisher III
received his undergraduate degree (in American Studies) from Amherst
College and his graduate degrees (J.D. and Ph. D. in the History of
American Civilization) from Harvard University. Between 1982 and 1984,
he served as law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Thurgood
Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Since 1984, he has taught
at Harvard Law School, where he is currently Professor of Law and
Director of the Harvard Program on Legal History. His academic honors
include a Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship (1978-1982) and a
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral
Sciences in Stanford, California (1992-1993). In the spring of 1998,
he led one of the Berkman Center's first online lecture and discussion
series, Intellectual Property in Cyberspace. |
Lawrence Lessig Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Chair,
Berkman Center Advisory Board |
Lawrence Lessig
was the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial
Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. From 1991 to 1997, he was a professor
at the University of Chicago Law School. He graduated from Yale Law
School in 1989, and then clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the 7th
Circuit Court of Appeals, and Justice Antonin Scalia on the United
States Supreme Court. Lessig teaches and writes in the areas of constitutional
law, contracts, comparative constitutional law, and the law of cyberspace.
His book Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace was released in
1999 to widespread acclaim. In 1999-2000, he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg
zu Berlin. Lawrence Lessig's new book is The Future of Ideas: The
Fate of the Commons in a Connected World. |
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Charles Nesson William F. Weld Professor of Law, Harvard
Law School; Faculty Co-Director and Founder, The Berkman Center
for Internet & Society
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Charles Nesson is
the founder and faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet
& Society. He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from
Harvard College in 1960, and his J.D. degree from Harvard Law summa
cum laude in 1963. He clerked for Justice John Marshall Harlan
of the United States Supreme Court, and served as Special Assistant
to John Doar in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice.
He joined the Harvard Law faculty in 1966. Nesson has taught courses
on evidence, criminal law, trial advocacy, torts and ethics, incorporating
the latest technologies. Nesson is also well known as a moderator
for the Fred Friendly Seminars on public television employing the
Socratic dialogue method of discussion. He has served as a public
defender on the Massachusetts Defenders Committee, and as counsel
in the Woburn toxic tort case and various civil liberties cases. |
Jonathan Zittrain Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Assistant
Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies, Harvard Law School; Faculty
Co-Director, The Berkman Center for Internet & Society |
Jonathan Zittrain
is the Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurial
Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is a co-founder of the Berkman
Center and served as its first executive director from 1997-2000.
His research includes digital property, privacy, and speech, and the
role that is played by private intermediaries in Internet architecture.
He currently teaches Internet & Society: The Technologies and Politics
of Control, and has a strong interest in creative, useful, and unobtrusive
ways to deploy technology in the classroom. He holds a J.D. from the
Harvard Law School magna cum laude, an M.P.A. from the J.F.K. School
of Government, and a B.S. in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence
from Yale summa cum laude. He is also a fourteen-year veteran sysop
of CompuServe's online forums. |
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Glenn Otis Brown Executive Director, Creative Commons
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Glenn Otis Brown is Executive Director of Creative
Commons. Glenn graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in
1996 and from Harvard Law School in 2000. In college, Glenn was awarded
a national Harry S. Truman Scholarship for graduate study towards
a career in public service. At Harvard, Glenn was a member of the
Harvard Law Review and worked at the Berkman Center for Internet and
Society, where he organized Signal or Noise?, a digital music conference
and concert, in cooperation with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
After graduation, Glenn worked in The Economist's Washington D.C.
bureau before clerking for the Honorable Stanley Marcus on the Court
of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Miami. Last year, Glenn was assistant
producer of Digital Age, a New York public TV show hosted by Andrew
Shapiro. He has published articles on copyright and other issues in
The Economist, the Harvard Law Review, The New Republic Online, and
the Texas Observer, and has made presentations at the South by Southwest
Music Festival and 2600 Magazine's Hope Conference.
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Reed Hundt Former Chairman, FCC |
Reed E. Hundt is a senior advisor on information
industries to McKinsey & Company, a worldwide management consulting
firm. His work with McKinsey has focused on helping senior management
and boards address a wide range of strategic and other leadership
challenges. Mr. Hundt also serves on the board of directors of Allegiance
Telecom, Inc., Expedia, Polyserve, and Intel Corp. He is a special
advisor to Blackstone Group and a venture partner at Benchmark Capital,
a venture capital firm specializing in investments in high-tech companies.
He teaches a seminar cross-listed at the Yale Law School and the Yale
School of Management, where he serves as a member of the advisory
committee. Mr. Hundt served four years as Chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission (FCC), from 1993 to 1997. He is especially
proud of his role in making the largest single national commitment
to K-12 education in America’s history: the Snowe-Rockefeller
program that dedicates more than $2 billion annually to connect all
classrooms in the country to the Internet. Mr Hundt is the author
of, “You Say You Want A Revolution: A Story of Information Age
Politics.” (Yale University Press, 2000). He has also been Co-Chairman
of The Forum on Communications and Society at The Aspen Institute.
Mr. Hundt is a magna cum laude graduate of Yale
College and a graduate of Yale Law School (1974) where he was a member
of the executive board of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for the
late Chief Judge Harrison L. Winter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Fourth Circuit, and is a member of the District of Columbia, Maryland,
and California bars. Prior to his position as Chairman of the FCC,
Mr. Hundt was a partner in the Washington, DC office of Latham &
Watkins, a national and international law firm.
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Fred von Lohmann Senior Staff Attorney, EFF |
Fred von Lohmann is a senior staff attorney with
the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property
issues. In that role, he has represented programmers, technology innovators,
and individuals in litigation against every major record label, movie
studio, and television network (as well as several cable TV networks
and music publishers) in the United States, including in the pathbreaking
case of MGM v. Grokster. In additon to litigation, he is involved
in EFF's efforts to educate policy-makers regarding the proper balance
between intellectual property protection and the public interest in
fair use, free expression, and innovation. Fred served as a law clerk
to Chief Judge Thelton Henderson, of the US District Court for Northern
California, and Judge Betty B. Fletcher, of the US Ninth Circuit Court
of Appeals. He received both his undergraduate and law degrees from
Stanford University. |
Alex Macgillivray Intellectual Property Counsel, Google
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Alex Macgillivray just joined long-time client Google
as Intellectual Property Counsel. Prior to joining Google, Mr. Macgillivray
was a litigator with Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. There he
also concentrated on intellectual property and internet law issues
while representing clients including Napster, Streamcast Networks,
Borland, Canal+Technologies, Netflix, Kontiki, the Internet Archive
and Creative Commons. Mr. Macgillivray writes about law and code at
Bricoleur, serves as vice-chair of the American Bar Association's
Open Source Task Force, and is coding a news aggregator and mood-based
music server. He received his J.D. from Harvard Law School and is
an affiliate of the Berkman Center. |
Jason Matusow Manager,
Shared Source Initiative, Microsoft Corporation |
As manager of the Shared Source Initiative at Microsoft
Corp., Jason Matusow is responsible for working with internal and
external constituencies to establish the company-wide framework for
Microsoft’s global source licensing strategy. In early 2001,
Microsoft launched the Shared Source Initiative to share source code
with customers, partners and governments globally. Shared Source balances
the benefits of both the commercial software model and the open source
model in order to provide maximum value to customers while still maintaining
a healthy commercial software business. Microsoft is currently sharing
Microsoft’s most valuable intellectual property assets including
Windows®, Windows CE.NET® and .NET® technologies. Matusow
consults with governments, corporations, academics and analysts globally
on the business implications of software intellectual property issues.
He has been in the software industry for 10 years and with Microsoft
since 1995, holding both technical and policy positions in that time. |
Wendy Seltzer Staff Attorney, EFF and Berkman Fellow
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Wendy Seltzer is a Staff Attorney with the Electronic
Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and free
speech issues. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet
& Society, Wendy founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse,
helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist
threats. Prior to joining EFF, Wendy taught Internet Law as an Adjunct
Professor at St. John's University School of Law and practiced intellectual
property and technology litigation with Kramer Levin Naftalis &
Frankel in New York. Wendy speaks frequently on copyright, trademark,
open source, and the public interest online. She has an A.B. from
Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School, and occasionally
takes a break from legal code to program (Perl). |
Leslie L. Vadasz Director Emeritus, Intel Corporation |
Leslie Vadasz was part of the founding team of Intel
and has held various engineering and general management positions
with the company since 1968. In 1988, he was elected to Intel’s
board of directors and became director emeritus in 2002. He retired
in June 2003 as an executive vice president of Intel Corporation and
president of Intel Capital. Prior to joining Intel, he worked at Transitron
Corporation and Fairchild Semiconductor Company. Mr. Vadasz served
on the Presidential Advisory Committee for Information Technology
(PITAC) from 1997 to 2002 and on the Computer Science and Telecommunications
Board (CSTB) of the National Research Council from 1991 to 1996. He
was elected a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) in 1977 for "leadership in the development of
semiconductor memories and microcomputer components." Mr. Vadasz
graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Engineering degree
in 1961 and completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business
School in 1990. |
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