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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The French Mind:

By David Post on March 7, 2004 7:28 pm

I’ve been on a bit of a Roman poet/philosopher kick the last year or so, and I was leafing through a biography of Seneca, the great Roman philosopher, by Paul Veyne, Professor of Classics at the College de France in Paris. I came across this little gem: Veyne describes the the “modernity” of Seneca’s writing […]

Higher Education, Con’t.:

By David Post on March 4, 2004 9:29 am

Thanks to Michael Mayans for sending me the link to the full version of Jim Harrick’s Basketball exam that I mentioned in an earlier post.

By David Post on March 4, 2004 8:09 am

Another Washington Post story today reports that apparently Arnold Schwarzenegger’s not such a bad governor after all! The story has this great nugget: Last fall, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California’s Democratic eminence, denounced the recall vote that led to Schwarzenegger’s election as a grave threat to democracy. A few days ago, she stood beside the governor […]

Higher Education:

By David Post on March 4, 2004 7:59 am

A story in today’s Washington Post reports on the final exam given by Jim Harrick, Jr., the former assistant basketball coach at the University of Georgia (and son of Head Coach Jim Harrick, Sr.) in his class on Principles and Strategies of Basketball in 2001. [The print edition of today’s Post also has the actual […]

The only time you’re likely to see “Mel Gibson” and “JS Bach” used in the same sentence:

By David Post on February 28, 2004 5:34 am

Edward Rothstein, in today’s New York Times, has what is for my money the most intelligent and well-reasoned discussion of the whole Passion brouhaha — a comparison between Gibson’s oddly medieval conception of the death of Christ and Bach’s setting of the same story in the St. Matthew and St. John Passions. Worth reading.

To The Archeologists of the Future:

By David Post on February 4, 2004 4:19 am

Should you have unearthed, during your digging around the detritus of our long-vanished civilization, the Op-Ed article in yesterday’s New York Times by Erin Sullivan (“The Stars Have Voted“), do not be misled. You wouldn’t know it from reading the article, but we actually did not believe that the configuration of the stars at the […]

Funniest Line in the NY Times This Year:

By David Post on January 31, 2004 7:00 am

From Thomas Friedman’s column this past Thursday: Someone asks Mikhail Gorbachev how — in one word — he would sum up the Soviet economy. “Good,” he replies. In two words? “Not good.”

Conspiracy in the court:

By David Post on January 18, 2004 5:43 am

Reader Bob Ambrogi points out that a blog posting of mine has made it into a published opinion of the Massachusetts federal district court in the case of Suboh v. Borgioli. Alas, it was not some brilliant piece of legal reasoning, shot through with insight and perceptive legal analysis; instead, it was a reference to […]

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