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Molly S. Van Houweling
Title: Assistant Professor of Law
Office: 347 Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Tel: 510-643-2670
Fax: 510-643-2673
Email Address: mvanhouweling@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Stephanie Dorton
Molly Shaffer Van Houweling joined the Boalt faculty in fall 2005 from the University of Michigan Law School, where she had been an assistant professor since 2002. Van Houweling's teaching and research interests include intellectual property, law and technology, property, and constitutional law. She was a visiting professor at Boalt in 2004-05.
Before joining the Michigan faculty, Van Houweling was president of Creative Commons, a nonprofit group that facilitates sharing of intellectual property. Van Houweling has served as senior adviser to the president and board of directors of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the entity that oversees the Internet Domain Name System. She has been a research fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School and at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Van Houweling clerked for Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Van Houweling's recent publications include "Distributive Values in Copyright" in the Texas Law Review (2005); "Enforcement of Foreign Judgments, the First Amendment, and Internet Speech: Notes for the Next Yahoo! v. LICRA (Special Feature: Cyberage Conflicts Law)" in the Michigan Journal of International Law (2003); and "Cultivating Open Information Platforms: A Land Trust Model" in the Journal of Telecommunications and High Technology Law (2002).
Education:
B.A., University of Michigan (1994)J.D., Harvard Law School (1998)
