An International Workshop
Creating the Information Commons for e-Science:
Toward Institutional Policies and Guidelines for Action
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
1-2 September 2005

Wendy Gordon - Biography

Wendy J. Gordon is Professor of Law and Paul J. Liacos Scholar in Law at Boston University (USA), where she is Advisor to the Intellectual Property Concentration.  Her work focuses on the ethical and economic analysis of the various legal regimes regulating information and expression.  Currently Chair-Elect of the Section on Intellectual Property of the Association of American Law Schools and First Vice-President of the Society for Economic Research on Copyright Issues, she has been a Fulbright Scholar, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at St. John's College, Oxford, a visiting fellow at Oxford's Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy, a visiting scholar in Comparative Media Law and Policy at MIT, and a member of the editorial board of the Encyclopedia of Law & Economics. She speaks widely, and has published in Australia, Canada, England, Germany, and India, as well as in the US.  For more information about her activities and publications, see http://www.bu.edu/law/faculty/profiles/gordon/  and http://www.bu.edu/law/faculty/profiles/gordon/scholarship.html .