Harvard Law School – Faculty
Disclosures re: Related Outside Interests and Activities
Name: Yochai Benkler
Institution: HLS
Title (HLS): Tenured Professor
Client/Interest |
Role/Interest |
Matter |
Issue |
Dates |
U.S. Government: Federal
Communications Commission. |
Expert |
Commissioned to prepare a review
of international experiences in the first decade of broadband and planning
for next generation connectivity as part of the National Broadband Plan. Work
funded by the Ford and MacArthur Foundations. |
Broadband policy. |
June 2009-February 2010 |
President's Council of Science and
Technology Advisors |
Expert |
Advised White House Spectrum
Policy Report |
12/11-07/12 |
|
Open Society Foundations |
Board |
US Programs Board Member |
10/11-Ongoing |
|
World Bank |
Expert |
Member of the Knowledge Advisory
Commission |
04/12-ongoing |
|
Sunlight Foundation |
Other |
Government Transparency; Member of
the Advisory Board |
02/07-ongoing |
|
Bradley Manning |
Other |
Organized academics letter
protesting conditions of Bradley Manning's pre-trial detention. |
03/11-03/11 |
|
Freedombox Foundation |
Board |
Creation of a user-owned cloud. |
07/11-ongoing |
|
The Floyd Abrams Institute for
Freedom of Expression |
Other |
Advisory Committee Member |
Freedom of Speech; Freedom of the
Press |
11/11-Ongoing |
Universities Allied for Essential
Medicines |
Other |
University patent policy and
access to medicines; Faculty advisory board. |
2007-ongling |
|
MIT Media Lab |
Expert |
University unit intellectual
property policy |
Patents and copyright licensing by
universities |
02/2012-onging |
Ford Foundation |
Other |
Received Ford Foundation Funding
for projects on broadband, internet policy; innovation and patents policy; a
general award as a "Ford Visionaries" recipient |
2008-Ongoing |
|
MacArthur Foundation |
Other |
Broadband policy review for the
FCC's National Broadband Plan. Grant principle investigator. |
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|
Public lectures at conferences;
some compensated |
I give public lectures; some are
pro bono; for some I am paid a speaker's fee. |
All the issues about which I
write; in particular internet policy; broadband; spectrum; Internet
democracy; Wikileaks; copyright policy; human
cooperation; peer production. Talks include commercial organizations and
associations, such as Club de Madrid; The Swedish Internet Society; The
Marker (Israeli newspaper); ABN_AMRO; Avecina; Lean
Software Systems Conference. I have not been paid speaking fees for any
lectures, talks or similar activities by companies as to whose legal,
regulatory, or policy interests my work speaks directly. |
01/2011-Ongoing |
|
Kaltura |
Other |
Advisory board member to video CMS
startup and early-stage company. |
Internet video delivery |
2008-Ongoing |