 | Yochai Benkler |
Yochai Benkler, the inaugural Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law, is a world-renowned scholar on information law and policy in the digital environment, communications law and intellectual property.
The professorship, established by a gift from a pioneer in the telecommunications industry, is given to a faculty member with expertise in telecommunications law.
Benkler's research focuses on the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge and culture in the digital environment. His particular focus has been on the role of commons-based approaches towards management of resources in the digitally networked environment, which he wrote about in his book "The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom" and in numerous articles. He has also written about the economics and political theory of rules governing telecommunications infrastructure, with a special emphasis on wireless communications, rules governing private control over information, particularly intellectual property, and of relevant aspects of U.S. constitutional law.
Benkler joined the Yale faculty in 2003. Before coming to Yale, he was a professor of law at New York University School of Law, where he was also director of the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy and director of the Information Law Institute. He has been a visiting professor at both Harvard and Yale.
Prior to beginning his teaching career, Benkler was a law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer 1995-1996 and was an associate in the Boston law firm Ropes & Gray 1994-1995. He earned his LL.B. in 1991 from Tel Aviv University and his J.D. from Harvard Law School. From 1984 to 1987 he was a member and treasurer of Kibbutz Shizafon in Israel. He served in the Israel Defense Force 1982-1986.
Benkler has been a member of the editorial board of Info: The Journal for Information and Telecommunications Policy and has served on the board of advisers of Public Knowledge.
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