| Profile David Post is currently the I. Herman Stern
Professor of Law at Temple University Law School, where he teaches
intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace. He is also an Adjunct
Scholar at the Cato Institute in Washington DC, and the CoFounder of ICANN Watch.
Trained originally as a physical anthropologist, Professor
Post spent two years studying the feeding ecology of yellow baboons in
Kenya's Amboseli National Park. He also taught at the Columbia
University Department of Anthropology from 1976 through 1981. Post next
attended Georgetown Law Center, from which he graduated summa cum laude in
1986. After clerking with then Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit
Court of Appeals, he spent 6 years at the Washington D.C. law firm of
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, practicing in the areas of intellectual
property law and high technology commercial transactions. Post then had a
second opportunity to clerk for Ruth Bader Ginsburg, this time during her
first term as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Post went on to join the faculty of Georgetown University
Law Center and then the Temple University Law School. From 1996 to
1997 Post also conducted, along with colleagues Larry Lessig and Eugene
Volokh, the first Internet-wide online course on Cyberspace Law for
NonLawyers which attracted over 20,000 subscribers.
In his spare time, David Post also plays guitar, piano, banjo, and
harmonica in the band Bad Dog and has appeared as a guest artist with
the band Transistor Rodeo and at the New York Guitar
Festival.
Web Presence
Selected
Publications - Cyberlaw: Problems of
Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age; coauthored with Paul
Schiff Berman and Patricia Bellia (West, 2003)
- David has
also had articles featured in
- Stanford
Law Review, the Journal of Legal Studies
- The Berkeley
Technology Law Journal
- Esther Dyson's Release 1.0, the
Journal of Online Law
- The University of Chicago Legal
Forum
- The Vanderbilt Law Review
- The
Georgetown Law Journal
Published Columns
- Plugging In, a monthly column on law and technology for
the American Lawyer (1994-1998)
- On the Horizon,
coauthored for InformationWeek with Bradford Brown (1998-2003)
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