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Dan Hunter – Professor of Law and Institute Director

Dan Hunter is the director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy.  He is an expert in internet law, intellectual property, and artificial intelligence and cognitive science models of law. He joins the New York Law School faculty from the University of Melbourne Law School (Australia) and the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He was one of the first scholars to examine the social significance of virtual worlds, co-founded the scholarly blog Terra Nova (terranova.blogs.com), and ran the 2006 State of Play/Terra Nova Conference at New York Law School, and the 2007 State of Play Conference in Singapore. His current projects include examination of the economics and laws relating to user-generated content, and the social significance of luxury handbags.
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Beth Simone Noveck - Professor of Law

Professor Beth Simone Noveck  focuses her scholarship, activism and teaching on the future of democracy in the 21st century. Specifically, her work addresses how we can use technology to create more open and collaborative government.  She served in the White House as the first United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer and founder and director of the White House Open Government Initiative (2009-2011). She founded the Democracy Design Workshop: Do Tank, a program for the design of law, policy, and technology to foster openness and collaboration. With support from the Sloan Foundation, she is currently prototyping OrgPedia, the Wikipedia of firms. Her book Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger and Citizens More Powerful (Brookings Institution Press 2009), appeared in Arabic, Chinese, Russian and in an audio edition. She is also co-editor of The State of Play: Law, Games and Virtual Worlds (NYU Press 2006). Her new book, The Networked State will appear with Harvard University Press. She tweets @bethnoveck and blogs at the Cairns Blog.
 
She is on leave 2012-2014 and visiting at New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and the MIT Media Lab.
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Molly Land - Associate Professor of Law

Drawing on her human rights expertise and background as a litigator in the areas of intellectual property and technology, Professor Land’s scholarship focuses on access to knowledge and the intersection of intellectual property, information law, and human rights. Her current work explores the extent to which human rights law can provide a foundation for claims of access to the Internet as well as the opportunities and challenges for using new technologies to achieve human rights objectives.
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Richard Chused - Professor of Law

Professor Chused is a prolific scholar and an expert on property law, law and gender, copyright law, and cyberlaw. He joined New York Law School in the 2008–09 academic year after spending thirty-five years teaching and writing at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC. During 2004–05, he received a Senior Scholar Fulbright Grant to teach at the Law Faculty of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Before joining Georgetown’s faculty in 1973, he taught for five years at Rutgers School of Law in Newark. He served on the Board of Governors of the Society of American Law Teachers for twelve years and as its webmaser for ten.

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James Grimmelmann - Associate Professor of Law

James Grimmelmann studies how the law governing the creation and use of computer software affects the distribution of wealth, power, and freedom in society. As a lawyer and technologist, he aims to help these two groups speak intelligibly to each other. He writes on such topics as intellectual property, virtual worlds, search engines, and the use of software as a regulator.
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David R. Johnson - Visiting Professor of Law

Professor Johnson joined NYLS in Spring 2004.  His previous legal practice focused primarily on the emerging area of electronic commerce, including counseling on issues relating to privacy, domain names and Internet governance issues, jurisdiction, copyright, taxation, electronic contracting, encryption, defamation, privacy, ISP liability, and intellectual property.  Additionally, Professor Johnson served as founding director of the Aspen Institute Internet Policy Project and as founding president, CEO, and chairman of Counsel Connect, an online meeting place for the legal profession.  Professor Johnson has served on the boards of directors of the National Center for Automated Information Research and the Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction.  He is a co-founder of the Law Practice Technology Roundtable. He recently served for a year as a Senior Resident Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology and he currently serves on the Advisory Board of Legal OnRamp.
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Rudolph Peritz – Professor of Law

An expert on antitrust law, Rudolph J.R. Peritz brings to the Institute a focus on the historical and legal relationships between competition policy and private property rights. Professor Peritz has recently been published in both the Journal of the Patent and Trademark Office Society and The Antitrust Bulletin and is currently working on a chapter for the upcoming book “Microsoft at the Dock: Legal and Economic Analysis of a Transatlantic Antitrust Case.” In July, Professor Peritz will present a paper entitled "The Incentive Conundrum: Intellectual Property Rights and the Taxidermist's Progress" at the 2008 ATRIP conference, which will be held at the Max Planck Institute in Munich.
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Richard Sherwin – Professor of Law

Richard Sherwin, an expert on the use of visual representations and visual argument at trial, has written widely on the interrelationship between law and culture, including interdisciplinary works on the theoretical and practical dimensions of law's migration to film, television, and computer screens - in court and out.
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Mark Webbink – Visiting Professor of Law

Mark Webbink is Executive Director of the Center for Patent Innovations, a research and development arm of the Institute. Previously, Webbink was General Counsel of Red Hat, Inc., an open source software company. His work at New York Law School focuses on harnessing social networks and utilizing Web-based technology to improve patent systems globally.  Professor Webbink has written and spoken extensively on the subjects of patent reform, software patents, and open source licensing.
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