James Boyle

James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law and co-founder 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), author of Shamans, Software and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society (Harvard University Press 1996) and, most recently, the co-author of Bound By Law, (CSPD 2006) a comic book(!) on fair use in documentary film. He is the winner of the 2003 World Technology Award for Law for his work on the "intellectual ecology" of the public domain, and on the new "enclosure movement" that seems to threaten it.