Laura DeNardis
Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
Laura DeNardis is a 2006-2007 visiting fellow in the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Her 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. Her doctoral dissertation, IPv6: Politics of the Next Generation Internet, described how IPv6, a new Internet protocol designed to exponentially increase the global availability of Internet addresses, has served as a locus for incendiary international tensions over globalization and control of the Internet.
Laura is also a classical guitarist enamored with renaissance, baroque, and 19th Century Spanish compositions. Click here to listen to one of her recordings
Shay David
Resident Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
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
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.
Kris M Kavanaugh
Conference Coordinator, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
Pascale Mathieu
International Programs Coordinator, Information Society Project, Yale Law School