Yochai Benkler a Professor of Law at Yale Law School. His research focuses on the effects of laws regulating information production and exchange on the distribution of control over information flows, knowledge, and culture in the digital environment. His particular focus has been on the neglected role of commons-based approaches towards management of resources in the digitally networked environment. He has written about the economics and political theory of rules governing telecommunications infrastructure, with a special emphasis on wireless communications, rules governing private control over information, in particular intellectual property, and of relevant aspects of US constitutional law.

Recent articles

Yochai Benkler's new book "The Wealth of Networks" is both precise and provocative in defining afresh the role of peer production in the networked information economy. Christian Ahlert, public project lead of Creative Commons England and Wales, interviews him.