Biography
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Michael Birnhack
Visiting Professor
LL.B. Tel Aviv University, 1996
LL.M. New York University, 1998
J.S.D. New York University
birnhack@post.tau.ac.il
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Michael Birnhack is a Professor of Law at the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University; currently he is on a sabbatical leave, and an Associate Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, UK. He researches, teaches and writes about intellectual property, law and technology, information law and privacy law.
Professor Birnhack’s IP-related research focuses on the intersection between copyright law and freedom of speech, employees’ ownership, IP and globalization, contributory infringement and the history of copyright in Mandate Palestine. He was a member of Tel Aviv University’s patent, copyright and Internet committees. In the privacy field, he served as the Chair of the Legal Committee of the Israeli Public Council for the Protection of Privacy (2004-2009), advised the European Commission on the status of data protection in Israel (2007, 2008) and was a member of an expert committee on Data Protection (2005-2007).
Professor Birnhack served as co-director of Computers & Ethics at the Mishkenot Sha’ananim Ethics Center in Jerusalem; Chief Editor of Tel Aviv University Law Review; and as a founding member of the Association for Strengthening Ethics in Journalism. During September 2009 – August 2010, he was a member of the board of the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI).
He earned his LL.B. degree at Tel Aviv University (1996), and his LL.M. (1998) and J.S.D. (2000) degrees at New York University School of Law. Prior to joining Tel Aviv University in 2007, he was a faculty member at the University of Haifa (2000-2007) and co-director of the Haifa Center of Law & Technology.