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Peter S. Menell
Title: Professor of Law; Director, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology
Office: 686 Simon Hall
Tel: 510-642-5489
Email Address: pmenell@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Jennifer Zahgkuni
After graduating from law school, Peter Menell clerked for Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. He joined the Boalt faculty in 1990 and co-founded the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology in 1995, where he serves as a director. Menell has visited at the Georgetown University Law Center, Harvard Law School, and Stanford Law School; taught an annual course on U.S. intellectual property law at the ETH (Zurich) since 1997; and organized more than two dozen intellectual property education programs for the Federal Judicial Center since 1998.
Menell has authored Intellectual Property in the New Technological Age (with R. Merges and M. Lemley, 1997, 2nd ed. 2000, 3rd ed. 2003, 4th ed. 2006, 4th rev. ed. 2007); Software and Internet Law (with M. Lemley, R. Merges and P. Samuelson, 2000, 2nd ed. 2003, 3rd ed. 2006); Environmental Law (International Library of Essays in Law and Legal Theory (Second Series) 2002); Property Law and Policy (with J. Dwyer, 1998); and Environmental Law and Policy (with Richard Stewart, 1994). He founded and supervises the Annual Review of Law and Technology (now in its 11th year, published by the Berkeley Technology Law Journal) and founded the Annual Review of Environmental and Natural Resource Law (published by the Ecology Law Quarterly). Menell's recent articles include: "Legal Realism in Action: Indirect Copyright Liability's Continuing Tort Framework" and "Sony's de facto Demise," UCLA L. Rev. (forthcoming 2007) (with D. Nimmer); "The Property Rights Movement's Embrace of Intellectual Property: True Love or Doomed Relationship?," Ecology Law Quarterly (forthcoming 2007); "Unwinding Sony," California Law Review (forthcoming 2007) (with D. Nimmer); "Bankruptcy Treatment of Intellectual Property Assets; An Economic Analysis," Berkeley Technology Law Journal (forthcoming 2007); "A Method for Reforming the Patent System," Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review (forthcoming 2007); "Economic Aspects of Intellectual Property," in Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, Sage Publications (forthcoming 2007); "Intellectual Property Law," chapter in Handbook of Law and Economics, edited by A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell (forthcoming 2007) (with S. Scotchmer); "An Economic Assessment of Market-Based Approaches to Regulating the Municipal Solid Waste Stream," in Market Based Incentives, in Jody Freeman and Charles Kolstad (Eds), Moving to Markets in Environmental Regulation: Lessons from Twenty Years of Experience (Oxford University Press, New York, 2006); "Copyright's 'Staple Article of Commerce Doctrine': Patently Misguided," 53 Journal of the Copyright Society 365 (2006) (with D. Nimmer).
Education:
S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1980)M.A., Stanford University (1982)
J.D., Harvard Law School (1986)
Ph.D., Stanford University (1986)
