Mission
The mission of Authors Alliance is to advance the interests of authors who want to serve the public good by sharing their creations broadly. We create resources to help authors understand and enjoy their rights and promote policies that make knowledge and culture available and discoverable.
Board of Directors
Paul Courant is Professor Emeritus of Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. He previously served as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs as well as university librarian and dean of libraries at the University of Michigan.
Dan Cohen is Vice Provost for Information Collaboration, Dean of the Libraries, and professor of history at Northeastern University.
Carla Hesse is a Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2009, she is a specialist in modern European History and the history of communication.
Jeffrey MacKie-Mason is the University Librarian and Chief Digital Scholarship Officer at the University of California, Berkeley. He has joint appointments as a professor in the School of Information and in the Department of Economics.
Pamela Samuelson is a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology.
MacKenzie Smith is the University Librarian and Vice Provost of Digital Scholarship at the University of California, Davis. She is one of the nation’s leading experts in digital libraries.
Molly Van Houweling is a Professor of Law and a Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. She serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of Creative Commons.
Staff
Dave Hansen is Executive Director of Authors Alliance. He holds a JD and an MSLS from UNC Chapel Hill and is a copyright attorney licensed to practice in North Carolina.
You can reach Dave at dave@authorsalliance.org
Yuanxiao Xu is Staff Attorney for Authors Alliance. She holds a JD from the University of Michigan and is an attorney licensed to practice in New York.
You can reach Yuanxiao at xu@authorsalliance.org
Eric Harbseon is the Scholarly Publishing Legal Fellow for Authors Alliance. He holds a JD from the University of Oregon, an MSLIS from the University of Illinois, and a Masters of Music in Music History from Cleveland State University.
You can reach Eric at eric@authorsalliance.org
Advisory Board
Peter Baldwin
Professor of History at UCLA
danah boyd
Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Founder of Data & Society, and Visiting Professor at New York University
Amy Brand
Director of the MIT Press
Paul Brest
Former Hewlett Foundation President; Professor of Law, Emeritus, and former Dean, Stanford Law School
Maria Bustillos, a journalist, information activist, and founding editor of Popula and the Brick House Cooperative
Robert Darnton
Harvard University Librarian Emeritus, and Carl H. Pforzheimer Professor of History Emeritus
Cory Doctorow
Novelist, activist, blogger, and journalist
Michael Eisen
Professor of Genetics, Genomics, and Development at UC Berkeley and PLOS Cofounder
Edward Felten
Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and Director of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University
Michael Geist
Professor of Law and the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law
James Grimmelmann, Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School
Katie Hafner
Writer and journalist
Lewis Hyde
Poet, essayist, translator, cultural critic, and former Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College
Brewster Kahle
Digital Librarian and Founder of the Internet Archive
Kevin Kelly
Senior Maverick Editor and founding Executive Editor at Wired Magazine
Danny Kingsley
Researcher and administrator in Scholarly Communication
Lawrence Lessig
Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and former Director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University
Jonathan Lethem
Novelist, essayist, short story writer, and the Roy Edward Disney Professor in Creative Writing at Pomona College
Amanda Levendowski, Associate Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic (iPIP) at Georgetown Law
Rebecca MacKinnon, Vice President, Global Advocacy, Wikimedia Foundation
Alison Mudditt
CEO, Public Library of Science (PLOS)
Robert Pinsky
39th Poet Laureate of the United States, Founder of the Favorite Poem Project, and Professor of Creative Writing at Boston University
Margaret Jane Radin
Henry King Ransom Professor of Law Emerita at University of Michigan
Randy Schekman
Howard Hughes Investigator and Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at UC Berkeley, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Sidonie Smith
Lorna G. Goodison Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan
Timothy R. Tangherlini, Professor in the Department of Scandinavian. at UC Berkeley and a leader in cultural analytics.
Harold Varmus
Co-founder of Public Library of Science, Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Eric von Hippel
T. Wilson (1953) Professor in Management and Professor of Management and Systems Engineering at MIT
Jonathan Zittrain
Professor of Law and Computer Science at Harvard University, and Co-Founder and Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society
Note that Advisory Board members serve in their individual capacity. Affiliations are for identification purposes only and do not imply any organizational endorsement.
Founding Members
Jasmine Abdel-khalik
UMKC School of Law
Alessandro Acquisti
Carnegie Mellon University
Prue Adler
Association of Research Libraries
Julie Ahrens
Stanford Law School, Center for Internet & Society
Ivy Anderson
California Digital Library
Jonas Anderson
American University Washington College of Law
Patricia Aufderheide
American University
Margo Bagley
Emory University School of Law
Eric Bakovic
UC San Diego
Jack Balkin
Yale Law School
Jonathan Band
Ann Bartow
University of New Hampshire School of Law
Barton Beebe
NYU School of Law
Steven Bellovin
Columbia University
Yochai Benkler
Bob Berring
UC Berkeley Law
Mario Biagioli
UC Davis
James Boyle
Duke University School of Law
Oren Bracha
University of Texas School of Law
Annemarie Bridy
University of Idaho College of Law
Tobias Buckell
Dan Burk
UC Irvine
Brandon Butler
L. Jean Camp
Indiana University
Michael Carrier
Rutgers Law School
Michael Carroll
American University Washington College of Law
Cathryn Carson
UC Berkeley
Alissa Centivany
Western University, Ontario
Margaret Chon
Seattle University School of Law
Dan Cohen
Digital Public Library of America
Julie Cohen
Georgetown Law
Cindy Cohn
Michele Collu
Robert Cooter
UC Berkeley Law
Ray Corrigan
The Open University, UK
Carys Craig
Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
Jessie Daniels
City University of New York
Primavera De Filippi
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Stacey Dogan
Boston University School of Law
Paul Duguid
UC Berkeley School of Information
Niva Elkin-Koren
Haifa Center for Law and Technology, University of Haifa Faculty of Law
Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
Graduate Center, City University of New York
Sharon E. Farb
UCLA
Kathleen Fitzpatrick
Michigan State University
Karl Fogel
QuestionCopyright.org
Roger Ford
University of New Hampshire School of Law
Sarah Warshauer Freedman
UC Berkeley
Brett Frischmann
Villanova University
A. Michael Froomkin
University of Miami School of Law
Laura Gasaway
University of North Carolina School of Law
Steve Gass
MIT
Andy Gass
Paul Geller
Ilana Gershon
Indiana University
Shubha Ghosh
Rebecca Giblin
Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia
James Gibson
University of Richmond School of Law
Jen Jack Gieseking
University of Kentucky
Dan Gillmor
Bobby Glushko
University of Toronto
Eric Goldman
Santa Clara University School of Law
Jennifer Granick
Stanford Center for Internet and Society
James Grimmelmann
Cornell Law School
Seda Gürses
KU Leuven
Bronwyn Hall
UC Berkeley, Emerita
David Hansen
Duke University
Paul Heald
University of Illinois
Laurence R. Helfer
Duke University
Don Herzog
University of Michigan
Robert Heverly
Albany Law School
Laura A. Heymann
William & Mary Law School
Peter Hirtle
Harvard University
Adam Hochschild
Arlie Hochschild
Kinch Hoekstra
UC Berkeley
Chris Hoofnagle
UC Berkeley Law
Martin Husovec
Tim Hwang
Steven Jamar
Professor of Law and Associate Director, Howard Intellectual Property Program
Peter Jaszi
American University Washington College of Law
Jennifer Jenkins
Michael Jordan
UC Berkeley
Eran Kahana
Stanford Law School; Maslon LLP
Brian Kahin
MIT
Amy Kapczynski
Ethan Katsh
National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution
Ariel Katz
University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Christopher Kelty
UCLA
John Leslie King
John Kingdon
University of Michigan
Kirsten Kingdon
Pushpa Kumar Lakshmanan
Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, India
Airi Lampinen
Stockholm University
Michael Landau
Georgia State University College of Law
Susan Landau
Tufts University
Amy Landers
Drexel University School of Law
Alex Leavitt
Facebook Research
Edward Lee
IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law
Mark Lemley
Stanford Law School
Jack Lerner
Karen Levy
Cornell University
Roger Levy
MIT
Yvette Joy Liebesman
St. Louis University School of Law
Jacqueline Lipton
Authography LLC
Jessica Litman
University of Michigan
Lydia Loren
Lewis & Clark Law School
Brian Love
Santa Clara University School of Law
Glynn Lunney
Texas A&M University School of Law
Michael Madison
University of Pittsburgh
Matthew J.X. Malady
Lara Markstein
Alice Marwick
UNC Chapel Hill
Stephen Maurer
UC Berkeley
Mark McKenna
Notre Dame Law School
Corynne McSherry
Hiram Meléndez-Juarbe
Kate Miltner
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Joseph Mornin
Cooley LLP
Calvin Morrill
UC Berkeley
Lateef Mtima
Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice
Bryce Newell
University of Oregon
Annalee Newitz
Author and Journalist
Peter Norvig
Google
Paul Ohm
Georgetown Law School
Ruth Okediji
Harvard Law School
Dotan Oliar
University of Virginia School of Law
Harlan Onsrud
University of Maine School of Computing and Information Science
Kurt Opsahl
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Nina Paley
John Palfrey
Phillips Academy, Andover
Aaron Perzanowski
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Jim Pitman
UC Berkeley
Ethan Pollock
Brown University
Jedediah Purdy
Columbia Law School
Laura Quilter
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Kevin Quinn
University of Michigan
Justin Reich
MIT
Jerome Reichman
Duke Law School
Blake Reid
Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law and Policy Clinic, Colorado Law
Chris Ridder
Ridder, Costa & Johnstone LLP
Jorge Roig
Touro Law Center
Daniel Rosenberg
University of Oregon
Betsy Rosenblatt
Whittier Law School
Jennifer E. Rothman
Loyola Law School, Loyola Marymount University
Brian Rowe
Seattle University Law & University of Washington Information School
Daniel Rubinfeld
UC Berkeley Law
Matthew Sag
Loyola University of Chicago School of Law
Julie Samuels
Tech:NYC
Sharon Sandeen
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Joshua Sarnoff
DePaul University College of Law
AnnaLee Saxenian
UC Berkeley
Rich Schneider
UC San Francisco
Jason Schultz
NYU School of Law
Michael Scott
Southwestern Law School
Jeffrey Selbin
UC Berkeley Law
Lea Shaver
Indiana University
Jonathan Sheehan
UC Berkeley
Stuart Shieber
Harvard University
Stephen M. Silberstein
Jessica Silbey
Northeastern University
Luca Simeone
Aalborg University
Aram Sinnreich
American University
David Sklansky
Stanford Law School
Kevin Smith
University of Kansas
Daniel Solove
George Washington University Law School
Tricia Soto
Menlo College
Christopher Sprigman
New York University School of Law
Peter Stansky
Stanford University
Philip Stark
UC Berkeley
Scott Stern
MIT Sloan School
Ali Sternburg
Victoria Stodden
Mitch Stoltz
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Katherine Strandburg
New York University School of Law
Peter Suber
Harvard University
Stephen Sugarman
UC Berkeley Law
Nicolas Suzor
Queensland University of Technology
Alexander Tabarrok
George Mason University
Stefan Tanaka
UC San Diego
Audrey Thorne
Denise Troll Covey
Carnegie Mellon University
Samuel Trosow
University of Western Ontario
Lokman Tsui
Rebecca Tushnet
Paul Uhlir
Jennifer M. Urban
Siva Vaidhyanathan
Barbara van Schewick
Stanford Law School
Robert Walker
Kimberlee Weatherall
University of Sydney
Jonathan Weiler
UNC Chapel Hill
Phil Weiser
University of Colorado Law School
Steven Weissman
UC Berkeley Law
Yana Welinder
IFTTT
Heather Whitney
NYU
John Willinsky
Stanford University
Esther Wojcicki
Palo Alto Schools
Martha Woodmansee
Case Western Reserve University
Christina Xu
Peter Zhou
UC Berkeley
Diane Zimmerman
New York University School of Law