Info/Law

Harvard Law School’s recent faculty hiring spree seems to be paying off! Although there has been no formal announcement as yet, the Berkman Fellows mailing list has been abuzz with the news that Yale’s Yochai Benkler has accepted an offer to join the HLS faculty and the Berkman Center (where David W and Doc have already broken the news).

Benkler is a name that will be familiar to many Info/Law aficionados; he has written widely on the legal and economic aspects of open-source software and related phenomena, and his most recent book, The Wealth of Networks, became an instant classic of the cyberlaw genre, the rival of Larry Lessig’s best work. It’s truly a red letter day for HLS and for Berkman in particular, and congratulations are in order all around.

UPDATE:  Here’s the official announcement.

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