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Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler

Professor of Law

Yale Law School

  Yochai Benkler a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His research focuses on the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and culture 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 telecommunications infrastructure, with a special emphasis on wireless communications, rules governing private control over information, in particular intellectual property, and of relevant aspects of U.S. constitutional law. 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.
 

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