David Post
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David G. Post (born 1951) is an American legal scholar. Post is an expert in intellectual property law and cyberspace law. Until his retirement in 2014, Post served as Professor of Law at Beasley School of Law of Temple University in Philadelphia.[1]
Education
Post received his B.A. cum laude from Yale College in 1972, his Ph.D. in anthropology from Yale University in 1978, and his J.D. summa cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1986.[2]
Career
Post was the director of programs for the American Anthropological Association from 1976 to 1981 and an assistant professor of anthropology at Columbia University from 1981 to 1983.[2]
Post served as
From 1994 to 1997, Post was an associate professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center. In 1997, he joined the Beasley School of Law of Temple University in Philadelphia as a professor of law, remaining there until his retirement as the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law in fall 2014.[2][3]
Post is a fellow of the
Works and views
Post's main area of scholarly interest is intellectual property law and the relationship of complexity theory to the law.[1]
Post wrote In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (
Post had authored a number of
Post was a signatory to an open letter from law professors in 2014 that expressed support for the legal recognition of same-sex marriages but also expressed concern that events (such as the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich after an outcry over a contribution that Eich had made to an anti-same-sex-marriage effort) "signal an eagerness by some supporters of same-sex marriage to punish rather than to criticize or to persuade those who disagree."[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b c David G. Post: Research & Writing Archived 2019-03-07 at the Wayback Machine (updated September 2014).
- ^ a b c d e f g h David G. Post CV Archived 2017-11-16 at the Wayback Machine, Temple University Beasley School of Law (accessed July 3, 2016).
- ^ Open Technology Institute(accessed June 3, 2016).
- ^ a b David G. Post, Cato Institute (accessed June 3, 2016).
- ^ Book Forum: In Search of Jefferson's Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (February 4, 2009).
- ^ Lawrence Lessig (March 11, 2009). "REMIX: buy the remix".
- RealClearPolitics.com(April 22, 2014)
External links
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Blog postings by Post at the Volokh Conspiracyon The Washington Post
- David Post publications indexed by Google Scholar
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