LLM Guest Lecture: "Intellectual Property Inequality Alleviation"

23 February, 2024

9-11 am 

Durham Law School

Prof. Daniel Benoliel (LL.B, LL.M, J.S.D.) is a law professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and the Co-Director of the Haifa Center of Law and Technology (HCLT). His main fields of expertise include intellectual property, law and economics, public international law, and entrepreneurship law.

He holds a Doctorate in law (J.S.D.) from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and has been a John M. Olin Research Fellow with the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at Berkeley and an alumnus of the Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP). He was also a Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, at Munich Visiting Fellow, and a Post-Doctoral German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Residential Fellow with the Law and Economics Graduate College at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He was an invited visiting professor and taught at various universities in Europe and North and South America.  

Benoliel received various prizes, awards, and research grants. These include the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grants (2015-2017, 2018), the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions grant (2015), the University of Haifa Gishush grant (2010), the Harvard-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum award (2009), the Microsoft Research Award for best article (ALACDE, 2009), the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics (2002-2004) grants, the 1st place article awards at both the 14th Computers, Freedom and Privacy Annual Conference (CFP 2004) & the 13th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC 2002), and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) grant (2002).

Benoliel authored and edited four books. These are Patent Intensity and Economic Growth (CUP, 2017) & (Chinese edition) (CUP & China National Publishing Foundation, 2023); Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Global Inequality (Daniel Benoliel, Francis Gurry, Keun Lee & Peter Yu, eds.) (CUP, 2024) (forthcoming), and Improbable Leaders: The Battle of Developing Countries for Access to Patented Medicines (with Bruno M. Salama) (FGV University Press, 2017) (in Portuguese). His leading publications are with the Cambridge University Press, California Law Review, Berkeley Law & Technology Journal, Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Michigan Journal of International Law, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.

Prof. Benoliel wrote legal opinions and advised high-tech companies traded on Nasdaq and many start-up companies in telecommunications, biosciences, software, e-commerce, and medical devices.