Mark Bartholomew is Professor of Law at the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law. He writes and teaches in the areas of intellectual property and law and technology, with an emphasis on copyright, trademarks, advertising regulation, and online privacy. His recent scholarship has appeared in the Vanderbilt Law Review, Washington University Law Review, Minnesota Law Review, William & Mary Law Review, and Advertising & Society Quarterly. He is the author of two books, Adcreep: The Case Against Modern Marketing (2017) and Intellectual Property and the Brain: How Neuroscience Will Reshape Legal Protections for Creations of the Mind, forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. He received his B.A. from Cornell University and his J.D. from Yale Law School. After clerking on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, he practiced law, both as a litigator for a San Francisco law firm and as a deputy county counsel in Sonoma County, California.
Paul Schiff Berman, the Walter S. Cox Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, is one of the world’s foremost theorists on the interactions among legal systems. He is the author of over sixty scholarly works, including Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law beyond Borders, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012, and The Oxford Handbook of Global Legal Pluralism (2020). He was also among the first legal scholars to focus on legal issues regarding online activity, and he is co-author of one of the leading casebooks in the field. In addition to his scholarly work, Berman has extensive experience in university and law school administration, having served as Vice Provost for Online Education and Academic Innovation at George Washington University from 2013–16; Dean of the George Washington University Law School from 2011–13; and Dean of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University from 2008–1. Berman is now regarded as one of the nation’s thought leaders concerning online education, and he serves as a sought-after consultant to universities, corporations, and private equity firms.
Mario Biagioli is Professor of Law and Communication at UCLA. He has also taught at Harvard, Stanford, The University of Chicago? and the EHESS (Paris). A former Guggenheim, IAS, and CASBS fellow, he is author of Galileo Courtier (1993) and Galileo’s Instruments of Credit (2006), and the editor of The Science Studies Reader (1998).
Deven Desai is Professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology, Scheller College of Business. He joined the faculty in fall of 2014 in the Law and Ethics Program. His is also Associate Director for Law, Policy, and Ethics for ML@GATECH. He was the first Academic Research Counsel at Google, Inc., and a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s Center for Information Technology Policy. His scholarship examines how business interests, new technology, and economic theories shape privacy, technology, competition, and intellectual property law and where those arguments explain productivity or where they fail to capture society’s interest in the free flow of information and development. His work has appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Notre Dame Law Review, Florida Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. He is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley with highest honors. He received his law degree from the Yale Law School, where he was co-editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities.
Janet Halley is the Royall Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and writes about family law, anti-trafficking, the regulation of sexual misconduct from international criminal law to Title IX, and the slavery legacy of her Chair. She is the author of Split Decisions: How and Why to Take a Break from Feminism (2006), and Don’t: A Reader’s Guide to the Military’s Anti-Gay Policy (1999). She coedited Left Legalism/Left Critique with Wendy Brown (2002) and After Sex? New Writing since Queer Theory with Andrew Parker (2011), and solo-edited Critical Directions in Comparative Family Law, the Fall 2010 special issue of American Journal of Comparative Law. With Prabha Kotiswaran, Rachel Rebouché, and Hila Shamir, she has published Governance Feminism: An Introduction (2018) and Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field (2019). She holds a Ph.D. in English from UCLA and a J.D. from Yale Law School, and has taught at Hamilton College, Stanford Law School, the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, the Tel Aviv University Buchman Faculty of Law, and the Law Department of the American University of Cairo.
Joshua Hunt is a journalist and author. His writing has appeared in Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, Harper’s, The New Yorker, GQ, Wired, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, The New Republic, California Sunday Magazine, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, The Economist, The Guardian, and The Atavist Magazine. Previously a Tokyo-based foreign correspondent for Reuters, he has reported from Japan, China, Hong Kong, South Korea, India, Tanzania, Kenya, and throughout Europe and the Americas. In 2020, his reporting on the spread of Covid-19 among passengers aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship won a Foreign Press Association award. He is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School, where he earned an M.S. as a fellow at the Toni Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism. As an undergraduate, he studied at Waseda University, in Tokyo, and Portland State University, in Oregon, earning degrees in Japanese language and in communication studies. His first book, University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education, was published in 2018 by Melville House. His next book, which explores the criminal underworld of counterfeit couture, will be published in 2022.
Celia Lury is Professor in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies, University of Warwick. She has a long-standing research interest in brands and the cultural economy. Her latest book is Problem Spaces: Why and How Methodology Matters (2020).
Jeremy N. Sheff is Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law and the founding Faculty Director of the St. John’s Intellectual Property Law Center. He teaches Property, Introduction to Intellectual Property, Patent Law, Trademark Law, International Intellectual Property, and First Amendment Law. His recent publications include articles in SMU Law Review, Cardozo Law Review, and Stanford Law Review. He is a co-author of the free, open-access Property Law casebook Open Source Property. His forthcoming book, Valuing Progress: A Pluralist Account of Knowledge Governance, is under contract with Cambridge University Press.
Haochen Sun is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He specializes in intellectual property, technology law, and Chinese law. His recent scholarship has focused on the theoretical and policy foundations of intellectual property, Chinese intellectual property law, and technology law and the public interest. His book Technology and the Public Interest: Rethinking Rights and Responsibilities for Humanity’s Future will be published by Cambridge University Press in early 2022.
Madhavi Sunder is the Frank Sherry Professor of Intellectual Property Law and Associate Dean for Graduate and International Programs at the Georgetown University Law Center. She is a leading scholar of intellectual property and law and culture. Her articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review and numerous other law journals. Her book, From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice, was published in 2012 by Yale University Press.