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Donald Langenberg
- posted on 2000-10-01 19:02:27
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No! (I'm a physicist. I don't know if that's better or worse.)
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Emerson Tiller, J.D., Ph.D.
- posted on 2000-09-15 11:30:25
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I have a BA in Math (but don't consider myself a mathematician). I have a law degree, but do not practice (so I don't consider myself a lawyer in the traditional sense). I have a Ph.D. in Business (subfield Business and Public Policy) and I do consider myself an educator. I am a tenured professor at the University of Texas at Austin and that is my full time job.
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Barbara Simons
- posted on 2000-09-14 15:40:04
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No. I have a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in computer science.
I have, however, learned a fair amount of intellectual property law during the past eight years of working on issues relating to copyright, trademark, security, and the net. A few examples are:
- letters I submitted in my capacity as Chair of the U.S. Technology Policy Committee of ACM (USACM) and later as ACM President discussing the negative impact the Digital Millennium Copyright Act will have on computer/Internet security and fair use (see http://www.acm.org/usacm/copyright/dmca.exemption.htm);
- a deposition for the defense in the MPAA v. 2600 case (see http://eon.law.harvard.edu/openlaw/DVD/NY/depositions/simons.html);
- letters in opposition to export restrictions on encryption and on a legislative proposal that encryption algorithms be required to include key recovery or escrow (see http://www.acm.org/usacm/crypto/joint_crypto_letter_1997.html).
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Lawrence Lessig
- posted on 2000-09-14 00:41:26
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Yes, I am a lawyer. I don't practice in the
sense of working in a firm, though I have
done a bunch of internet related pro bono
work. I am lead counsel in the case
challenging the Copyright Term Extension
Act (aka, the Mickey Mouse Protection
Act); I wrote an expert opinion in the
Napster case; I have given scores of talks
and given formal testimony defending the
net's principle of end-to-end against the
efforts by AT&T to architect broadband to
give it power; I have worked on briefs
defending the distribution of deCSS and
cpHack (in the Cyberpatrol case), and I
have advised in other internet and free
speech related cases.
Worse than being a lawyer, in some
peoples' mind at least, I produce lawyers
for a living. But while acknowledging the
evil (especially in cyberspace) that some
lawyers have perpetrated, I have no
apologies for my profession. Any
profession that holds itself to the ideal
that reason, not power, is the test at least
has within it the potential to do good. I
know many lawyers who have done a
great deal of good.
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Harris Miller
- posted on 2000-09-12 10:51:56
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No. I have an undergraduate degree in political science and philosophy and a graduate degree in political science.
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Karl Auerbach
- posted on 2000-09-11 12:07:32
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Yes, since 1978. I graduated with a JD cum laude from Loyola-Marymount (Los Angeles)and entered the California Bar the same year.
I'm not in active practice - I find it far more fun to build the technology that will be the Internet of 2010.
(If anybody wants to verify that I have solid techie credentials - come visit me at the iLabs at the Interop trade show in Atlanta later this month (September) - I'm handling IP multicast.)
--karl--
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Lyman Chapin
- posted on 2000-09-10 19:02:12
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No, I'm not a lawyer, and have never been one. My academic degree is in mathematics, and I've been in the computer/communications business for my entire professional career.
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