Introducing Guest Blogger David Opderbeck

posted by Daniel Solove

I’m very pleased to announce that Professor David Opderbeck will be joining us for a guest visit this month. David is an Associate Professor at Seton Hall University Law School. David graduated cum laude from Seton Hall Law School in 1991 and earned an LL.M. in Trade Regulation from New York University Law School in 1998. He previously was a Partner in the Intellectual Property / Trade Regulation group at McCarter & English, LLP, where he represented clients in the life sciences, consumer products, telecommunications, computer software, and other industries.

David’s work focuses on the regulation of access to scientific and technological information. His recent articles have employed the tools of game theory, microeconomics, and statistical analysis to address issues such as intellectual property restrictions on essential medicines in developing countries, open source biotechnology, patent damages reform, and the interaction of law and social norms concerning music file sharing.

In addition to his traditional legal scholarship, David is interested in the philosophical and moral foundations of information policy and other aspects of the law. He has written on a virtue ethics approach to biotechnology law, and most recently has explored the philosophical aspects of information policy in an essay that seeks to apply a critical realist approach to the ontology of information. He is a principal organizer of a conference on “Religious Legal Theory: State of the Art” that will be held at Seton Hall Law School in 2009.

Some recent publications include:

* Patent Damages and the Shape of Patent Law, 89 BOSTON UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW __ (2009) (forthcoming)

* Patents, Essential Medicines, and the Innovation Game, 58 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 501 (2005)

* Deconstructing Jefferson’s Candle: Towards a Critical Realist Approach to Cultural Environmentalism and Information Policy, 49 JURIMETRICS ___ (2009) (forthcoming)

* Peer-to-Peer Networks, Technological Darwinism, and Intellectual Property Reverse Private Attorney General Litigation, 20 BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW J. 1 (2005)

* The Penguin’s Genome, or Coase and Open Source Biotechnology, 18 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW AND TECHNOLOGY 168 (2004)

* The Penguin’s Paradox: The Political Economy of International Intellectual Property and the Paradox of Open Source, 18 STANFORD LAW & POLICY REV. 101 (2007)

* A Virtue Ethics Approach to the Biotechnology Commons (or, The Virtuous Penguin), 59 MAINE LAW REV. 316 (2007)

November 3, 2008 at 12:00 am Posted in: Administrative Announcements Print This Post