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| '''James Boyle, advocate of the Public Domain'''
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| URL = http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/
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| Picture at http://flickr.com/photos/joi/557550046/
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| =Bio=
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| James Boyle is is one of the founding Board Members of [[Creative Commons]], a not-for-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others to legally build upon and share.
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| (bio from http://www.answers.com/James%20Boyle )
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| He is also the William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain at Duke Law School. He joined the faculty in July 2000. He has also taught at American University, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is the editor of Critical Legal Studies (Dartmouth/NYU Press 1994), special editor of Collected Papers on the Public Domain (Duke: L&CP 2003) and author of Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society (Harvard University Press 1996). Recently he was the winner of the 2003 World Technology Award for Law for his work on the "intellectual ecology" of the public domain, and on the "second enclosure movement" that threatens it; (a disappointing amount of which was foretold in his 1996 New York Times article on the subject.)
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| Professor Boyle writes on legal and social theory, on issues ranging from political correctness to constitutional interpretation and from the social contract to the authorship debate in law and literature. Most recently his work has focused on the information age. He is currently working on a book about the Public Domain. His recent essays include discussion of the "Opposite of Property," First Amendment implications of Clinton-era intellectual property policy as it affects the Internet, the economic rhetoric of price discrimination in digital commerce, and the administrative and constitutional restraints on Internet governance.
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| Professor Boyle teaches Intellectual Property, the Constitution in Cyberspace, Law and Literature, Jurisprudence and Torts. He is a columnist for the online Financial Times and one of the founding Board Members of Creative Commons. He is also a member of the academic advisory board of the Electronic Privacy and Information Center, Public Knowledge, and the Connexions open source courseware project.
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| (bio from http://www.law.duke.edu/fac/boyle/)
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| '''Duke University Profile'''
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| "Law is the only subject I know of that connects the intellectual fascinations of history, political theory, and literary interpretation to the practical imperatives of a daily struggle for justice. It is important, certainly, but it is also fun."
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| Areas of Specialization Jurisprudence. Intellectual Property. Constitutional Law. Torts. Social Theory. Law and Literature.
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| Currently Teaching
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| Law in the Information Society, Torts. Jurisprudence.
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| Law and Literature. Constitutional Law.
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| Contact
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| Telephone: (202) 274-4204
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| Room 348
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| (bio from http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/indexbio.html)
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| =Publications=
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| His essays on the Public Domain, the Commons and the "Second Enclosures Movement" are located at:
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| http://www.law.duke.edu/boylesite/
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