David G. Post is currently the I. Herman Stern Professor of Law at Temple University Law School, where he teaches intellectual property law and the law of cyberspace. Prof. Post is also an Adjunct Scholar at the Cato Institute, and the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Cyberspace Law Institute and ICANN Watch, and a sometime contributor to the Volokh Conspiracy blog.
Trained originally as a physical anthropologist, Professor Post spent two years studying the feeding ecology of yellow baboons in Kenya's Amboseli National Park, and he taught at the Columbia University Department of Anthropology from 1976 through 1981. He then attended Georgetown Law Center, from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1986. After clerking with then-Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals, he spent 6 years at the Washington D.C. law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, practicing in the areas of intellectual property law and high technology commercial transactions. He then clerked again for Justice Ginsburg during her first term at the Supreme Court of the United States before joining the faculty of, first, the Georgetown University Law Center (1994 - 1997) and then the Temple University Law School (1997 - present).
Professor Post is the author of Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age (West, 2003) (co-authored with Paul Schiff Berman and Patricia Bellia), as well as numerous articles on intellectual property, the law of cyberspace, and the application of complexity theory to Internet legal questions that have appeared in the Stanford Law Review, the Journal of Legal Studies, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Esther Dyson's Release 1.0, the Journal of Online Law, the University of Chicago Legal Forum, the Vanderbilt Law Review, the Georgetown Law Journal, and numerous other publications. For four years (1994 - 1998) he wrote a monthly column on law and technology ("Plugging In") for the American Lawyer, and from 1998 ? 2004 he wrote the "On the Horizon" column for InformationWeek (with Bradford Brown). He has appeared as a commentator on the law of cyberspace on such programs as the Lehrer News Hour, Morning Edition, PBS' "Life on the Internet" series, NPR?s All Things Considered and MarketPlace, and Court TV's Supreme Court Preview. During 1996-1997 he conducted, along with two colleagues (Professors Larry Lessig and Eugene Volokh) the first Internet-wide e-mail course on "Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers" which attracted over 20,000 subscribers. He also plays guitar, piano, banjo, and harmonica in the band "Bad Dog".
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