David Levine, associate professor of law
(336) 279-9200 / dlevine3@elon.edu
David S. Levine is an Associate Professor of Law at Elon University School of Law and an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School (CIS). His scholarship focuses on the operation of intellectual property law at the intersection of technology and public life and intellectual property law's impact on public and private transparency and accountability.
Levine founded and hosts Hearsay Culture on KZSU-FM (Stanford University), a technology and intellectual property law radio show and podcast that was chosen as one of the top five podcasts in the American Bar Association's Blawg 100 of 2008.
Prior to becoming a law professor, Levine was a resident fellow at CIS. He also practiced intellectual property, entertainment, labor/employment and commercial litigation as an associate in the Manhattan offices of Pryor Cashman LLP and Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf LLP and as Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York. He holds a bachelor of science degree in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University and a juris doctor degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.
RECENT PUBLIC ACTIONS
Co-author of “Don’t Break the Internet” - published Dec. 19, 2011 by the Stanford Law Review online, detailing "potentially disastrous consequences" of two pieces of federal legislation related to the Internet and intellectual property law (Stop Online Piracy Act [SOPA] and the PROTECT IP Act [PIPA]. With Mark Lemley, the William H. Neukom Professor at Stanford Law School, and David Post, a Professor at Beasley School of Law, Temple University.
Co-author of July 6 and November 16, 2011 letters to Congress, signed by more than 100 intellectual property and cyberlaw experts opposing SOPA and PIPA. With Lemley and Post.
Co-author of Feb. 16, 2011 submission to the U.S. Trade Representative and Oct. 28 letter to President Obama, signed by more than 70 law professors, urging the Obama administration to seek Congressional approval before entering into the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
RECENT SCHOLARSHIP
On March 28, Levine’s article, Bring in the Nerds: Secrecy, National Security and the Creation of Intellectual Property Law, examining TPP negotiations and proposing a qualified right to national security information in international lawmaking in the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) was one of two papers featured at a Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law symposium in New York.
The Social Layer of Freedom of Information Law, 90 North Carolina Law Review 1687 (2012).
The People’s Trade Secrets?, 18 Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review 61 (2011).
Transparency Soup: The ACTA Negotiating Process and ‘Black Box’ Lawmaking, 26 American University International Law Review 811 (2011).
“The Impact of Trade Secrecy on Public Transparency,” in The Law and Theory of Contemporary Research (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011).
What Can the Uniform Trade Secrets Act Learn From the Bayh-Dole Act?, 33 Hamline Law Review 615 (2010).
Secrecy and Unaccountability: Trade Secrets in Our Public Infrastructure, 59 Florida Law Review 163 (2007)
RECENT NEWS
David Levine presents at NYU School of Law
David Levine presents internationally on transparency and global trade agreements
David Levine’s scholarship published in Michigan and North Carolina law reviews
David Levine authors article for Slate on trade and secrecy
David Levine urges greater transparency in U.S. trade negotiations
David Levine engages copyright and cyber law at Drake and UNC law schools
David Levine discusses "Transparency Soup: ACTA and the Failure of Black Box Lawmaking" at AALS
David Levine coauthors “Don’t Break the Internet”
David Levine publishes “The People’s Trade Secrets?”
Elon scholar engages Congress on intellectual property bill
David Levine publishes on “Black Box” law making
David Levine analyzes federal intellectual property legislation on WUNC radio
David Levine leads effort to stop passage of PROTECT IP Act
David Levine presents on government trade secrecy at spring academic and professional forums
Elon Law faculty explore WikiLeaks in launch of Hot Topics series
David Levine presents at Boston University School of Law
David Levine helps to shape law scholars' submission to U.S. Trade Representative on ACTA
David Levine presents on trade secrecy at Yale Law School
David Levine featured in The Magazine of Elon
David Levine coauthors letter to President Obama urging halt to U.S. endorsement of ACTA
David Levine presents on trade secrecy at intellectual property law "unconference"
David Levine announces fall schedule for Hearsay Culture radio show
David Levine announces July-August schedule for Hearsay Culture radio show
David Levine announces spring schedule for Hearsay Culture radio show
David Levine's Hearsay Culture begins fall interview series on technology and public life
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