About David Post

David Post is currently the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at the Beasley School of Law at Temple University, where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace. He is also a Fellow at the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Fellow of the Institute for Information Law and Policy at New York Law School, an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and a contributor to the Volokh Conspiracy blog. Professor Post is the author of In Search of Jefferson’s Moose: Notes on the State of Cyberspace (Oxford, 2009) (see http://jeffersonsmoose.org), a Jeffersonian view of Internet law and policy described as “beautifully written [and] astonishing” (Lawrence Lessig), “brilliant, and a joy to read” (Jonathan Zittrain), and “an authentic work of genius, conceived and written in the finest Jeffersonian spirit” (Sean Wilentz). He is also co-author of Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age (West, 2007) (with Paul Schiff Berman and Patricia Bellia), and numerous scholarly articles on intellectual property, the law of cyberspace, and complexity theory. He has been a regular columnist for the American Lawyer and InformationWeek, a commentator on the Lehrer News Hour, Court TV’s Supreme Court Preview, NPR’s All Things Considered, BBC’s World, and recently was featured in the PBS documentary The Supreme Court. After receiving a Ph.D. in physical anthropology, he taught in the Anthropology Department at Columbia University before attending Georgetown Law Center, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1986. After clerking with then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, he spent 6 years at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, after which he then clerked again for Justice Ginsburg during her first term at the Supreme Court (1993-94), before joining the faculty of the Georgetown University Law Center (1994 – 1997) and then Temple University Law School (1997 – present). Professor Post’s writings can be accessed online at .

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Software as Snoop:

By David Post on January 27, 2005 11:38 am

In the news today: “MPAA FILES NEW FILM SHARE SUITS, RELEASES DETECTION SOFTWARE: The MPAA has filed a second round of lawsuits against online movie-swappers. The MPAA also made available a new free software tool so parents can scan their computers for file-swapping programs and for movie or music files, which may be copyrighted.” That’s […]

Carson:

By David Post on January 26, 2005 8:49 am

Funny that just last week I was talking to a student about the peculiar little case of Carson v. Here’s Johnny Portable Toilets, Inc., 698 F.2d 831 (6th Cir. 1983). The caption tells the story: a portable toilet company was selling “Here’s Johnny” toilets (advertising slogan: “The World’s Foremost Commodian.” I guess Carson didn’t think […]

Craigslist:

By David Post on January 4, 2005 1:25 pm

A nice article by William Taylor in this Sunday’s NYTimes about ING Direct Bank and about the phenomenon that is “Craigslist.” I had never heard of Craigslist till this past summer, when my daughter was moving to New York and looking for an apartment or a share; I asked a bunch of friends for advice […]

What We Think.

By David Post on December 10, 2004 9:38 am

I love it when columnists or other pundits tell me what I think. Here’s the sort of thing I’m talking about. Michael Wilbon and Mike Wise are two sports columnists at the Washington Post (and darn good ones, too – the Washington Post has many flaws, but it also boasts an extraordinary array of fine […]

Why Football Stinks, Part XXVI:

By David Post on December 7, 2004 8:47 am

Richard Sandomir, in today’s New York Times, has an article that explains part of the reason football games are becoming completely unwatchable. The big LSU-Oklahoma matchup Sunday night lasted for 3 hours and 43 minutes, of which — get this! — a total of 16 minutes and 28 seconds was actual live football action. The […]

Free Culture:

By David Post on December 1, 2004 10:54 am

For those of you who may be interested, a copy of my review (in Reason magazine) of Larry Lessig’s most recent book (“Free Culture”) is posted here.

Bills of Rights:

By David Post on November 9, 2004 5:36 pm

I love reading those ridiculous “Riders’ Bill of Rights” things posted in taxicabs throughout the country. You know the ones I mean: “You Have the Right To: A clean cab, a driver who speaks English and knows the location of major destinations in the city, a smoke-free environment, etc. etc. etc.” [Someone should do a […]

Clinton v. Schwarzenegger, 2008

By David Post on November 8, 2004 5:30 pm

So here’s an idea: what if the Republicans and Democrats were to make the following trade: (a) repeal (or modification) of Amendment 22 (which provides that “no person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice”) for (b) repeal (or modification of) the provision of Article II of the Constitution (which […]

And Where was John?

By David Post on October 21, 2004 11:30 am

In all the extraordinary hubbub surrounding the well-deserved defeat — nay, the humiliation — of the Yankees last night in the Bronx, I’m surprised that there hasn’t been much talk about why we didn’t see Kerry at any of the games. He’s the junior senator from Massachusetts; he’s got a bona fide reason to snap […]

Understatement of the Month:

By David Post on June 15, 2004 11:09 am

From an article about Stalin’s official movie editor: “Stalin loved movies, but he was much more than a movie buff.” I’ll say!

Some Good News from Iraq:

By David Post on May 13, 2004 11:00 am

Not to minimize the accumulated impact of the stream of dreadful news from Iraq over the past few weeks, but a piece of good news appears today: the Iraqi soccer team has qualified for the 2004 Olympics. Good for them — a step towards rejoining the World. I keep a list of things that, were […]

The Daily Me:

By David Post on May 13, 2004 10:54 am

The June issue of Reason magazine has to go down as a landmark in publishing. My copy arrived in the mail yesterday; on the cover it says: “DAVID POST: They know where you are!” And there’s an accompanying aerial photograph which shows a portion of my neighborhood in Washington DC, with my house circled in […]

Jefferson’s Cipher:

By David Post on May 11, 2004 7:49 am

As some of you know, I’m something of a Jefferson freak, and my eye was caught by this wonderful software implementation of one of Jefferson’s coolest inventions: a “wheel cipher.” It was a remarkable little device for encrypting messages — far and away the most powerful encryption device available in its time (and for over […]

Not tooting my own horn,

By David Post on April 19, 2004 8:00 am

but my wife’s. Sebastian Mallaby has an interesting article in today’s Washington Post entitled “Visions of US Aid,” in which he looks at the index created by the Center for Global Development for measuring the contributions that the world’s richest countries are making to the well-being of the world’s poorest. Interesting — and, as my […]

Driving While Black:

By David Post on April 5, 2004 12:13 pm

Like most people, I suppose, I had thought that there was some pretty firm statistical evidence that racial profiling was going on in regard to highway stops — i.e., that black drivers are a lot more likely, all other things being equal, to be pulled over by cops than white drivers. According to an article […]

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