People

Faculty Co-Directors

James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School. He is the 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. Boyle 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. He is one of the founding Board Members of Creative Commons, and of Science Commons.

David Lange is the Melvin G. Shimm Professor of Law at Duke Law School, where he has been on the faculty for more than thirty years. He is coauthor of Lange, LaFrance and Myers, Cases and Materials on Intellectual Property, which is now in its second edition. A founding member of the ABA Forum Committee on the Entertainment and Sports Industries, he served on the Forum Committee's initial Governing Board. He was an Advisor to the Reporters on the ALI's Restatement (3d) of Unfair Competition. He has also served as Trustee of the Copyright Society of the United States. With coauthor Jefferson Powell, he is currently at work on a book on the First Amendment and intellectual property, under contract with the Stanford Press.

Arti Rai is a leading expert in patent law, law and the biopharmaceutical industry, and health care regulation. Her recent publications include "Synthetic Biology: Caught Between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons", PLoS Biology (forthcoming) (with James Boyle); "Who's Afraid of the APA? What the Patent System Can Learn from Administrative Law", 95 Georgetown Law Journal 270-336 (2006) (with Stuart M. Benjamin); "Harnessing and Sharing the Benefits of State Sponsored Research", 21 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 1187-1213 (2006) (with Rebecca S. Eisenberg); and "Open and Collaborative Research: A New Model for Biomedicine", in Intellectual Property Rights in Frontier Industries 131-158 (Robert W. Hahn ed., AEI-Brookings Press 2005).

Jerome H. Reichman is Bunyan S. Womble Professor of Law at Duke Law School. He has written and lectured widely on diverse aspects of intellectual property law, including comparative and international intellectual property law and the connections between intellectual property and international trade law. His articles in this area have particularly addressed the problems that developing countries face in implementing the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement). On this and related themes, he and Keith Maskus have recently published a book entitled International Public Goods and Technology Transfer in a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime (Cambridge University Press, 2005). Other recent writings have focused on intellectual property rights in data; the appropriate contractual regime for online delivery of computer programs and other information goods; and on the use of liability rules to stimulate investment in innovation.

Director

Jennifer Jenkins received her J.D. and an M.A. in English from Duke University. She is co-author of Bound By Law (CSPD 2006), a comic book about the effects of intellectual property on documentary film, and several short pieces on intellectual property issues. After Duke, she joined the firm of Kilpatrick Stockton in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was a member of the team that defended the copyright infringement suit against the publisher of the novel “The Wind Done Gone” in Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin. While at Duke, she co-authored, filmed, and edited “Nuestra Hernandez,” a video demonstrating how appropriation can affect culture and implicitly proposing that intellectual property must make room for transformative critical appropriation.

Senior Fellow in Science and Health Policy

Dr. Anthony So joined the Center in March 2004 as Senior Fellow in Science and Health Policy. He is also director of the Program on Global Health and Technology Access at Duke University's Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, and serves on the steering committee for the university's Center for Genome Ethics, Law and Policy. Before coming to Duke, he served as Associate Director of the Rockefeller Foundation's Health Equity Program. While there, his grantmaking shaped the foundation's work on access to medicines policy in developing countries. He also co-founded a cross-thematic program on charting a fairer course for intellectual property rights and launched "Trading Tobacco for Health," an initiative focused on enabling developing countries, particularly in Southeast Asia, to respond on their own terms and for the long term to the challenge of tobacco use.