• Beth Simone Noveck - Professor and Institute Director

Beth Simone Noveck is director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy. She also directs the Democracy Design Workshop, an interdisciplinary “do tank” dedicated to deepening democratic practice through technology design.

• Molly Beutz - Associate Professor

Professor Beutz’s research and scholarship focuses on the intersection of intellectual property and international human rights. she is currently working on a project that seeks to marshal human rights arguments in support of compulsory licensing of educational materials.

• James Grimmelmann - Associate Professor

James Grimmelmann received his J.D. in 2005 from Yale Law School, where he was a Student Fellow of the Information Society Project, Editor-in-Chief of LawMeme, and a member of the Yale Law Journal. He holds an A.B. in computer science from Harvard College. He has worked as a programmer for Microsoft and as a legal intern for Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is currently working as a law clerk to the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

• Dan Hunter - Visiting Professor

Dan Hunter is an expert in Cyberspace and Internet law, artificial intelligence and cognitive science models of law, and electronic commerce regulation. He is joining the New York Law School faculty as a Visiting Associate Professor of Law, while he teaches as an Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at Wharton, University of Pennsylvania. He holds a Ph.D. from University of Cambridge. He earned both a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Laws cum laude from Monash University, Australia. Hunter has also taught at University of Melbourne, where he received his LL.M. (by Research).

• David Johnson - Visiting Professor

Professor Johnson helped to write the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, was involved in discussions leading to the Framework for Global Electronic Commerce, and has been active in the introduction of personal computers in law practice. He is curently devoting substantial time to the development of new types of graphical interface software products for the training and educating of law students and lawyers. Examples of some of his recent work can be seen at http://dotank.nyls.edu.

• Rudolph Peritz - Faculty Professor

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.

• David Post - Visiting Professor

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, and a Senior Fellow at the National Center for Technology and Law at George Mason University Law School.

• Richard Sherwin - Faculty Professor

Richard Sherwin is an expert on the use of visual representations and visual persuasion in litigation and litigants' public relations, Richard K. Sherwin has written widely on the interrelationship between law and culture, including interdisciplinary works on law and rhetoric, discourse theory, political legitimacy, and the theoretical and practical dimensions of the relationship between law and film/television.

• Cameron Stracher - Faculty Professor

Cameron Stracher is a graduate of Harvard Law School, Amherst College, and the Iowa Writers´ Workshop, teaches Legal Scholarship, Newsgathering and the Law, and conducts workshops and tutorials on writing and editing for law review students. He is the publisher of the New York Law School Law Review.