Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler (* 1964) is professor of law at Harvard Law School. It deals, among other things, in his book The Wealth of Networks and the paper Coase 's Penguin with issues of network production and copyright.

Life

Benkler made ​​- after military service and several years in a kibbutz - 1991 at the University of Tel Aviv and his Bachelor of Laws in 1994 from the Harvard Law School 's Juris Doctor. He worked from 1994-1995 in an American law firm and then, from 1995 to 1996, as Clerk of the U.S. Supreme Court when Judge Stephen Breyer. He was only a lecturer ( assistant professor ), then professor at New York University School of Law, with residencies at Yale Law School and Harvard Law School in 1996. In 2003 he was appointed to the Yale Law School. In 2007, he was " Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman " Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.

Work

These theses leads from Benkler in his published under a Creative Commons license book The Wealth of Networks. Benkler makes it on the hypothesis that a culture be freely exchanged in the information that could prove to be economically more efficient than one that will be difficult in the innovations through patents and copyright.