People

Faculty Co-Directors

James Boyle is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Law at Duke Law School. In November 2008, Yale University Press will release his newest book, The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind. He is also the special editor of Collected Papers on the Public Domain (Duke: L&CP 2003), the author of Shamans, Software, and Spleens: Law and Construction of the Information Society (Harvard University Press 1996) and the co-author of Tales from the Public Domain: Bound By Law? (CSPD 2006), a graphic novel 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. Boyle currently serves as Chairman of the Board for Creative Commons and on the Board of the Public Library of Science.

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. Lange and co-author H. Jefferson Powell have just released No Law: Intellectual Property in the Image of an Absolute First Amendment (Stanford University Press, 2008). He is also coauthor of Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials (with Mary LaFrance and Gary Myers), which is now in its third 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.

Arti Rai is a leading expert in patent law, law and the biopharmaceutical industry, and health care regulation. Prof. Rai is currently on leave from Duke Law School while serving as Administrator for External Affairs at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Her recent publications include "Building a Better Patent System: Facially Neutral Standards with Disparate Impact," 45 Houston Law Review (forthcoming 2008); "University Software Ownership: Technology Transfer or Business as Usual?" 78 North Carolina Law Review (forthcoming 2008) (with John R. Allison, Bhaven Sampat, & Colin Crossman); "Pathways Across the Valley of Death: Novel Intellectual Property Strategies for Accelerated Drug Discovery," 8 Yale Journal of Health Law, Policy & Ethics 53 (2008) (with Jerome H. Reichman, Paul F. Uhlir, & Colin Crossman); "Synthetic Biology: The Intellectual Property Puzzle," 85 Texas Law Review 1745 (2007) (with Sapna Kumar); "Synthetic Biology: Caught Between Property Rights, the Public Domain, and the Commons," 5 PLoS Biology e58 (March 2007) (with James Boyle); "The Ends of Intellectual Property: Health as a Case Study," 70 Law & Contemporary Problems 125 (Spring 2007); and "Who's Afraid of the APA? What the Patent System Can Learn from Administrative Law," 95 Georgetown Law Journal 269 (2007) (with Stuart M. Benjamin). Prof. Rai currently chairs the Intellectual Property Committee of the Administrative Law Section of the American Bar Association.

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 and a book (International Public Goods and Technology Transfer in a Globalized Intellectual Property Regime (Cambridge University Press, 2005) (with Keith Maskus)) 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). Other 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. His most recent articles include: "Pathways Across the Valley of Death: Novel Intellectual Property Strategies for Accelerated Drug Discovery," 8 Yale Journal of Health Law, Policy & Ethics 53 (2008) (with Arti K. Rai, Paul F. Uhlir, & Colin Crossman); "A Reverse Notice and Takedown Regime to Enable Public Interest Uses of Technically Protected Copyrighted Works," 22 Berkeley Technology Law Journal 981 (Summer 2007) (with Graeme B. Dinwoodie & Pamela Samuelson); and, "Harmonizing Without Consensus: Critical Reflections on Drafting a Substantive Patent Law Treaty," 57 Duke Law Journal 85 (2007) (with Rochelle Cooper Dreyfus).

Director

Jennifer Jenkins received her J.D. and an M.A. in English from Duke University. She is co-author of Tales from the Public Domain: Bound By Law? (CSPD 2006), a graphic novel 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.

Program Coordinator

Balfour Smith joined the Center in November 2007 as Program Coordinator. He oversees the administrative needs of the Center and works closely with the Director and Faculty Co-Directors in organizing the Center's programs. Immediately prior to joining the Center, he worked as a faculty assistant at Duke Law School and previously worked in technical writing, advertising, and publishing.