Affiliated Faculty:
Visiting Professor David R. Johnson
Professor Rudolph J.R. Peritz
Professor Richard Sherwin
Professor Cameron Stracher

Specialty Areas:
Computers and Information Technology
Internet Law
Media
Law and Virtual Worlds

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Beth Simone Noveck is Director of the Institute for Information Law and Policy, New York Law School's home for the study for law, technology and civil liberties. She also directs the Democracy Design Workshop, a first-of-its-kind laboratory dedicated to fostering  civic innovation and the development of new technologies to support participatory and deliberative democratic practice  in the digital age. Noveck teaches intellectual property, innovation and technology law. She is an expert in e-democracy and e-government. A founding fellow and project director of the Yale Law School Information Society Project, she concentrates her research and design on information and technology law and policy with a focus on the intersection between technology and civil liberties. At present, she is developing an on-line interactive inventory of  collaborative practices  with funding from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and new tools to facilitate citizen participation in electronic rulemaking. Noveck is also the developer of the Unchat software for real-time structured and democratic group deliberation in cyberspace.
 

Specialty Areas:
Computers and Information Technology
Internet Law

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David Johnson joined the Law School’s faculty in spring 2004 as a visiting professor of law. He recently retired as a partner of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and is devoting substantial time to the development of new types of "graphical groupware" software products.

Johnson joined Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in 1973, following a judicial clerkship, and became a partner in 1980. His 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, ISP and OSP liability, regulation, and other intellectual property matters.
 

Specialty Areas:
Computers and Information Technology
Intellectual Property 
Antitrust

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An expert on antitrust law, Rudolph J.R. Peritz focuses his scholarship on the historical and legal relationships between competition policy and private property rights. A former Assistant Attorney General of Texas, Peritz spent three years working in the Antitrust Division as Director of the Computer-Assisted Enforcement Project. His critically acclaimed book, Competition Policy in America: 1888-1992 (Oxford University Press, rev. ed. 2001), traces the public discourse of free competition. More recently, as senior research scholar at the American Antitrust Institute in Washington, D.C., he was involved in several major education and research projects.
 

Specialty Areas:
Legal Ethics
Media
Popular Culture and the Law

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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. He gained nationwide attention when he focused his well-received book, When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2000), on what happens when truth intermingles with fiction not only in the public's perception of the law but also in the advocate's strategies of legal persuasion. Sherwin created Visual Persuasion in the Law, the first course of its kind in the nation, to teach students about the role and efficacy of visual persuasion in contemporary legal practice. Sherwin is a regular commentator for television, radio, and print media on the relationship between law, culture, and film, and has appeared on NBC's "Today Show," CourtTV, WNET, and National Public Radio.
 

Specialty Areas:
Computers and Information Technology

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An expert in media law, Cameron Stracher is a published novelist and memoirist with work appearing in major newspapers and magazines. He is active as a First Amendment litigator, representing, most recently, various media companies in motions seeking access to sealed pleadings in the Moussaoui case. Publisher of the New York Law School Law Review, Stracher's writing appears regularly in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The American Lawyer, and many other publications. A graduate of Harvard Law School, Amherst College, and the Iowa Writers Workshop, his 1996 novel, The Laws of Return, and his 1998 memoir, Double Billing: A Young Lawyer's Tale of Greed, Sex, Lies, and the Pursuit of a Swivel Chair, were published by Morrow. Stracher is currently a partner at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz where he specializes in First Amendment litigation and other legal issues facing the media.