Shyam Balganesh
Student Fellow
Shyam is a second year JD student at the Yale Law School and a student fellow at the Information Society Project. Before coming to Yale, he was at the National Law School in India where he got a B.A., LL.B (Hons.), where he was Chief Editor of the law review and clerked for Chief Justice V.N. Khare of the Supreme Court of India. He then moved to Oxford, where he did the B.C.L. and M.Phil degrees and was a Senior Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. He is a board member of the Union for the Public Domain (UPD) and a representative to the WIPO for the organization. His research involves understanding the interface between property concepts and the Internet. His publications include "Copyright and Free Expression: The Convergence of Conflicting Normative Frameworks", 4 Chi.-Kent J. Intell. Prop. 45 (2003), "Common Law Property Metaphors on the Internet: The Real Problem with the Doctrine of Cybertrespass", 12 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2006), "Property Along the Tort Spectrum: Trespass to Chattels and the Anglo-American Doctrinal Divergence", 35 Common L. World Rev. (forthcoming 2006).
Sascha Becker
Sascha works as a Postgraduate Fellow at Yale Law School, where his focus is law
and economics. At YLS, Sascha supports Prof John Donohue in analyzing the real
world effects of policy changes; current projects span the death penalty,
medical malpractice, the Americans with Disability Act and motor vehicle
safety. Sascha studied law at University of Marburg in Germany, his native
country, and University of Adelaide, Australia, and studied economics at
University of California, Berkeley. At Cal, he organized a student run class on
how technological changes affect human collaboration, and wrote papers on the
underlying mathematics of accreditation mechanisms and on the motivation of
open source programmers. True to the emerging forms of ad-hoc collaboration and
in line with his personal interests in understanding the shifts in human
interaction, Sascha volunteers time to and participates in the Information
Society Project.
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Lea Bishop
A2K Conference Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
Lea Bishop is a JD candidate at Yale Law School with a focus on international human rights law. Next year she will be a Fulbright Scholar studying the implementation of socio-economic rights in South Africa. Her current research project involves the design of an A2K index to measure and monitor access to knowledge in cross-national perspective.
Shay David
Resident Fellow 2005-6
Shay David is fellow of the ISP and a doctoral candidate at Cornell's Science and Technology Studies department. Shay is interested in how people collaborate in 'open systems' in various domains including software, publishing and life sciences. Shay studies these novel practices as part of an attempt to develop a new theory of innovation in the area of information and communication technologies. Shay holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.A. in Philosophy, Magna Cum Laude, from Tel-Aviv University, and an MA from New York University where his research thesis focused on the political economy of free and open source software and file sharing networks. Shay is an entrepreneur that co-founded two software start-up companies, and was involved for several years in cutting edge software research, combining open source and proprietary software. He shares his time between Ithaca, New Haven and New York City, where his wife Ofri, who is an exhibiting video artist, is working on several large-scale art projects. Shay has published extensively on areas of technology and innovation. For a full list of publications and past and upcoming presentations check out Shay's website
Laura Denardis
Visiting fellow, 2006-7
DeNardis research addresses the cultural, political, and legal dimensions of Internet technical protocols and network security standards, including issues of democracy and expertise relative to Internet standards setting. A technical analyst in computer networking and security, Laura has published in numerous technical journals and served as a National Science Foundation reviewer in advanced network protocols, broadband innovations, and Internet security. Professionally, Laura was previously a management consultant in Ernst & Young’s information technology practice, spent many years as an independent network and security consultant, and taught for three years as an adjunct professor in the School of Information Technology and Engineering at George Mason University. She holds engineering degrees from Dartmouth (A.B.) and Cornell University (M.Eng.) and received a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech.
Sarah Faulkner
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Nathaniel Gleicher
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James Grimmelmann
Resident Fellow ISP 2006-7
James Grimmelmann is a Resident Fellow at the ISP. He received his J.D. in 2005 from Yale, where he was Editor-in-Chief of LawMeme and a member of the Yale Law Journal. He received an A.B. in computer science from Harvard College in 1999. He has worked as a programmer for Microsoft, as a legal intern for Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
James 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, electronic commerce, online privacy, and the use of software as a regulator. Recent publications include Virtual Borders, First Monday (Feb. 2006), Regulation by Software, 114 Yale L.J. 1719 (2005), and Virtual Worlds as Comparative Law, 49 N.Y. L. Sch. L. Rev. 147 (2005). Regulation by Software was awarded the Michael Egger prize for the best student scholarship in volume 114 of the Yale Law Journal.
He has been blogging since 2000 at The Laboratorium. His home page is at james.grimmelmann.net.
Caitlin Hall
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Caitlin Hall is a 1L at the Yale Law School, where she is an editor on the Journal of Law and Technology. She graduated in 2005 from the University of Arizona with a B.A. in philosophy and a B.S. in molecular and cellular biology. In college, she worked as a research assistant in theoretical chemistry and molecular biophysics, and served as the editor in chief of the Arizona Daily Wildcat, the campus daily newspaper.
Anne Huang
A2K Conference, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
Anne is a second-year JD candidate at Yale Law School and a Student Fellow at the Information Society Project. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary and conducted research on network performance monitoring systems for her honors thesis. Anne contributed to the Access to Education Panel in the 2006 Access to Knowledge Conference, and currently serves as Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of Regulation and Senior Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology.
Jami Johnson
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Amy Kapczynski
Samuelson Fellow
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Eddan Katz
Executive Director, Information Society Project and Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School
Eddan Katz is the Executive Director of the Information Society Project and Lecturer-in-Law at Yale Law School. He has written articles and teaches in the areas of cyberlaw, intellectual property, telecommunications, and bioethics. He also wrote the hypertext poem Revolution is not an AOL Keyword, which has since been made into a T-shirt through the public domain license under which it was released. Eddan received his J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC, Berkeley in 2002, with a Certificate in Law and Technology and honors in Intellectual Property Scholarship. He was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Information Management and Systems at UC, Berkeley in 2002-3; and a Resident Fellow with the ISP in 2003-4. Eddan received his B.A. in philosophy from Yale in 1997.
Rudy Kleysteuber
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Nancy Liang
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Nancy is a third year Cognitive Science major at Yale University. She is currently the National Chair of the East Coast Asian American Student Union. She works on maintaining the website and participate in marketing efforts for the Information Society Project. Last summer, she worked in Brand Marketing for Intel. She will work in Online Sales for Google this summer.
Katherine McDaniel
A2k Conference Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
Katherine McDaniel graduated from the Yale Law School in May 2006. She also holds degrees from the University of Washington in Philosophy and Comparative Intellectual History and has a minor in Mathematics. While at Yale she served as an Executive Editor on the , and contributed to Lawmeme. She studies intellectual property in international law; the tensions between liberalizing IP law and protecting tradition knowledge; and the digital production, transformation, and distribution of cultural information goods such as music, film, and digital art. She recently presented her paper "Accounting for Taste: An Analysis of Tax-and-Reward Alternative Compensation Schemes for Digital Distribution of Music" to the /Harvard-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group /and she is a co-author of "Model Language for Exceptions and Limitations to Copyright Concerning Access to Learning Materials in South Africa," forthcoming in The Southern African Journal of Information and Communication. In addition to her academic interests, Katherine is a self-identified nerd who enjoys poetry, comic books, photography, and running. She is the author of KatSCAN: Yet Another IP and Tech Blog and the developer and administrator of The Clerkship Notification Blog. Katherine's evil twin, however, enjoys weekly poker games, rocking out on her electric guitar, and moonlighting as a mixologist.
Ami Parekh
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Jason Pielemeier
Student Fellow
Jason grew up in Botswana, Liberia, Washington DC and Brazil. After graduating from Northwestern University with honors in political science and international studies, he joined the Peace Corps as an environmental management volunteer in Northern Guatemala. While there he helped set up several community-managed tourism projects, start a local youth-run television station, found a non-profit organization promoting scholarships for rural women and resolve a land dispute in a newly declared national park. After the Peace Corps, Jason managed a USAID-funded land titling project in Guatemala for a year before returning to the US for law school. As a member of the A2K seminar he is currently writing on the role of international treaties in expanding TRIPS-plus regimes around the world. He is scheduled to graduate with a JD from Yale in May of 2007.
Christopher Riley
Student Fellow
Chris Riley is a 3L at Yale Law School. Prior to law school, he received a Ph.D. in computer science from Johns Hopkins University, specializing in the theory of network communications. He has worked at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, California, and at Ropes & Gray in Boston, Massachusetts. He served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law & Technology for 2006-2007. His scholarly interests focus on the protection of technology innovation and on cognitive framing effects in technology law.
Gabe Rosenberg
A2K Conference Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
Gabe Rosenberg is a first year law student at YLS. He graduated from with a degree in Economics from Harvard in 2004 and spent the next year getting a Masters in Applicable Mathematics from the London School of Economics. His IP-related interests include access to scientific knowledge and intellectual property issues relating to financial institutions.
Amanda Shanor
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Julia Sonnevend
Student Fellow
Julia Sonnevend is an LL.M. student at Yale Law School, a student fellow with The Information Society Project at YLS and an assistant professor in the Department of Communications, Institute for Art Theory and Media Research, Eötvös Loránd University Budapest. She received her Master of Laws degree and her Master of Arts degrees in German Literature and in Aesthetics from Eötvös Loránd University and studied one term at the Humboldt University, Berlin. Sonnevend is interested in the intersections between legal theories, communication theories, art history and cultural studies, her research areas include: cultural memory, representation of law in art and media; art and activism; law and performance; digital archives; audiovisual archives, access to knowledge; intellectual property; media criticism, post-socialist identities, feminist theories, contemporary Hungarian and German literature, grief work and trauma in contemporary art.
Michael Steffen
Student Fellow
Michael is a 2L at Yale Law School, where, to date, he has spent an inordinate amount of his time working on patent licensing and access to medicines issues, and not nearly enough on his classes. He serves on the Coordinating Committee of Universities Allied for Essential Medicines for both the Yale chapter and the national movement. He also serves as a member of the Yale Law & Policy Review and assists with an undergraduate class on "Computers and the Law." Prior to law school, Michael spent two years at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington D.C. There, Michael's work focused on copyright policy, spyware, and international Internet governance.
David Tannenbaum
Student Fellow
David Tannenbaum is a third year J.D. student at Yale Law School. David wrote his M.Phil, Oxford thesis on the history of free software. Before coming to Yale he worked as the coordinator of Union for the Public Domain, focusing his efforts on the WIPO Broadcasters' Treaty and the BBC Creative Archive. Previous to that he worked as a community organizer for Brooklyn ACORN and led student anti-sweatshop and living wage campaigns at Princeton University. Next year he will work for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Hong Xue
Microsoft Fellow
Dr. Xue specializes in intellectual property law, information technology law and the Internet governance. Her current research includes the Development Agenda of the WIPO, WTO Doha Round of Negotiation on the Trips Agreement and China’s National Intellectual Property Development Strategy. She has published widely in both Chinese and international journals. Her books include: Intellectual Property in Electronic Commerce (China Law Press, 2003); Chinese Intellectual Property Law in the 21st Century (Sweet & Maxwell Asia, 2002); Intellectual Property in the Network Age (China Law Press, 2000); Chinese Software Protection—A Complete Guide (Sweet & Maxwell Asian, 1999). She also contributed chapters in many prestigious international law book series, including: International Copyright Law and Practice (LexisNexis Matthew Bender) and Domain Name Law and Practice: An International Handbook (Oxford University Press). Dr. XUE Hong was elected as one of the Ten Nationally Distinguished Young Jurists by the China Law Society and granted the Special Governmental Allowance for prominent contribution to social science by the State Council. She also got the Outstanding Young Researcher Award from the University of Hong Kong. Internationally, she works in many governmental and non-governmental organizations. She is one of the three Asia-Pacific Representatives in the At-large Advisory Committee of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) and the Member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for Promotion of the Advanced Teaching and Research of Intellectual Property (ATRIP). She successfully organized the Internet Users Organization in the Asia-Pacific Region.