Application for Resident Fellows for 2008-2009 now available here.

Resident Fellows 2006-2007

• James Grimmelmann, Knight Fellow
• Katherine McDaniel, Knight Fellow
• Hong Xue, Microsoft Fellow
• Amy Kapczynski, Samuelson Fellow

Resident Fellows 2005-2006

• Shay David, Fellow
• Mike Godwin, Microsoft Fellow
• Gal Levita, Fellow

Visiting Fellows 2006-2007

• Laura DeNardis, Knight Fellow
• Christopher Mason

Student Fellows 2006-2007

• Julia Sonnevend
• Michael Steffen
• Anne Huang
• Jason Pielemeier
• Chris Riley
• David Tannenbaum

Student Fellows Previous Years

• Shyam Balaganesh
• Becky Bolin
• Jesse Grittner
• Katherine McDaniel

ISP Resident Fellows

James Grimmelmann

Resident Fellow 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.

Katherine McDaniel

Resident Fellow 2006-7

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.

Hong Xue

Resident Fellow 2006-7

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

Mike Godwin

Microsoft Fellow 2005-6

Mike Godwin is an ISP Resident Fellow, funded by Microsoft, for the year 2005-6. Mr. Godwin also holds an appointment as Research Scientist with the PORTIA project at the Yale University department of Computer Science. Mike Godwin served for nine years as the first Staff Counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, where he informed users of electronic networks about their legal rights and responsibilities, instructed criminal lawyers and law-enforcement personnel about computer civil-liberties issues, and conducted seminars about civil liberties in electronic communication for a wide range of groups. Godwin has published articles for print and electronic publications on topics such as electronic searches and seizures, the First Amendment & electronic publications, and the application of international law to computer communications. His blog is called "Godwin's Law."
Godwin has written articles about social and legal issues on the electronic frontier that have appeared in the Whole Earth Review, Quill,Index on Censorship, Internet World, WIRED & HotWired, and Playboy. In 1991-92, Godwin chaired a committee of the Massachusetts Computer Crime Commission, where he supervised the drafting of recommendations to Governor Weld for the development of computer-crime statutes. From 1999 to 2001, Godwin served as a reporter one-commerce and intellectual-property issues for American Lawyer Media,first as senior editor of E-Commerce Law Weekly, then as chief correspondent of IP Worldwide. Most recently, he has been legal director of Public Knowledge and a senior policy fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology. Godwin is currently a research fellow at Yale University. He also is a contributing editor at Reason.
Godwin is a graduate of the University of Texas School of Law where he served, while still a law student, as Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Texan, the award winning University of Texas student newspaper. Prior to his legal studies, Godwin worked as a journalist and as a computer consultant. He received a B.A. in liberal arts from the University of Texas at Austin with highest honors, and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. Godwin served as co-counsel to the plaintiffs in the Supreme Court case Reno v. ACLU. EFF was also a plaintiff in that case. Godwin's first book, Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age, was published by Random House/Times Books in the summer of 1998. It was reissued in a revised edition by MIT Press in 2003.

Gal Levita

Gal is a J.S.D. Candidate and an ISP Fellow. He holds a LL.B. and a LL.M. from Tel-Aviv University, were he also served as a student editor-in-chief of the Tel-Aviv Law Review, and a LL.M. from Yale Law School. After graduating from Tel-Aviv University, Gal clerked for Chief-Justice Aharon Barak, Supreme Court of Israel. For over a decade, Gal has worked in the Israeli military and civil hi-tech industry, specializing in automation, software design, system analysis, and project management. Gal’s current research focuses on the regulation of interventions in the human genome. Past research looked into the criminalization of cloning, the inheritance rights of children conceived via post-mortem conception and the ethics of genetic enhancement. Gal is the founder of the ISP’s Genetic Initiative and he is co-leading a popular biotech reading group in the fall 2005 semester.

ISP Visiting Fellows

Laura DeNardis

Visiting Fellow

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.

Julia Sonnevend

Visiting Fellow

Julia Sonnevend is 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 in 2004 and her Master of Arts degrees in German Literature and in Aesthetics in 2006 from Eötvös Loránd University. She studied at the Humboldt University, Berlin in 2001-2002. Currently, Sonnevend is in the LL.M. program at Yale Law School, takes courses at the Law School, the Department of the History of Art and the Sociology Department. She serves as an editor on the e-journal Eastbound. She is a co-author of the ISP paper “Distance Education and Intellectual Property: Legal Obstacles to Capacity Building.” She has published papers on: visual memory, cultural memory, representation of law in art and media, art and activism, law and performance, digital archives, audiovisual archives, intellectual property, access to knowledge, ‘Vergangenheitsbewältigung’ in Hungary, contemporary Hungarian and German literature, grief work and trauma in contemporary art.

Christopher Mason

Visiting Fellow

Christopher Mason is the current visiting fellow for Genomics, Ethics, and Law. He received two degrees from University of Wisconsin-Madison in Biochemistry and Genetics and a Ph.D. in Genetics from Yale University

ISP Student Fellows

Shyam Balganesh

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).

Becky Bolin

Jesse Grittner

Jesse Grittner is a third-year student at Yale Law School and a Student Fellow of the Information Society Project. A former managing editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology, his research focuses on the intersection of business, technology and privacy. He recently completed an article, titled /Location, Location, Location/, examining the privacy implications of the widespread deployment of radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. Jesse holds a BA in Computer Science from Brandeis University. His varied work experience includes stints as a programmer, web designer, IT consulting account executive, and summer associate at both a law firm and a consulting firm. Upon graduation, he will join McKinsey & Company as an Associate in their Seattle office.

Anne Huang

Anne is a 2L at Yale Law School. She holds a B.S. in Computer Science from The College of William and Mary and conducted research on monitoring network performance 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 Editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology.

Jason Pielemeier

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.

Chris Riley

Michael Steffen

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

David Tannenbaum is a second year J.D. candidate at Yale Law School, and a D.Phil candidate in Economic & Social History at the University of Oxford. David is writing his dissertation on the history of free software, and holds an M.Phil for a thesis on the same subject. 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. David recentrly pubished an article titled: Recycling Electrons, Undermining Justice(115 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 155, 2006.)