Is Policy the Future of the Internet?
a lecture by
Yochai Benkler
Joseph M. Field '55 Professor of Law, Yale Law School
author of The Wealth of Networks and the influential paper Coase's Penguin
Tuesday, December 12, 2006 at 3:00 p.m.
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Abstract: Jon Kleinberg, Cornell professor of Computer Science, says that the future of the Internet is policy. Yochai Benkler agrees and lays out those policy choices that will shape the future of the Net, layer by layer: physical, logical, application, and content.
Speaker Biography: Yochai Benkler is a professor of law at Yale Law School. His research focuses on the effects of laws that regulate information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and culture in the digital environment. His particular focus has been on the neglected role of commons-based approaches towards management of resources in the digitally networked environment. He has written about the economics and political theory of rules governing telecommunications infrastructure, with a special emphasis on wireless communications, rules governing private control over information, in particular intellectual property, and of relevant aspects of U.S. constitutional law.