David Opderbeck

  Professor of Law
SETON HALL LAW SCHOOL


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Biography
 
Professor David Opderbeck joins the Seton Hall Law faculty from Baruch College, City University of New York, where he was an Assistant Professor in the Law Department of the Zicklin School of Business. Prior to joining the Baruch College faculty, Professor Opderbeck was a Faculty Fellow at Seton Hall Law School, where he also served as Assistant Director of the Law School's Institute of Law, Science & Technology. Before embarking on his academic career, he was a Partner in the Intellectual Property / Information Technology Law practice group at McCarter & English, LLP, where he practiced for 13 years, representing clients in a variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals, information technology, manufacturing and financial services.

Professor Opderbeck's scholarship focuses on the law, norms, economics and ethics of information, including intellectual property and other aspects of information regulation.

Publications
 

Articles

Peer-to-Peer Networks, Technological Darwinism, and Intellectual Property Reverse Private Attorney General Litigation, 20 Berkeley Technology Law J. 1 (2005).

Patents, Essential Medicines, and the Innovation Game, 58 Vanderbilt Law Review 501 (2005).

The Penguin’s Genome, or Coase and Open Source Biotechnology, 18 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 168 (2004).

The Penguin’s Paradox: The Political Economy of International Intellectual Property and the Paradox of Open Source, 18 Stanford Law & Policy Rev. 101 (2007) (symposium).

A Virtue Ethics Approach to the Biotechnology Commons (or, The Virtuous Penguin), 59 Maine Law Rev. 316 (2007) (symposium).

Presentations

Rivalrous Information, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, George Mason University Law School, (September 2007) (planned).

Virtue Ethics and Intellectual Property, The World and Christian Imagination, Baylor University, (November 2006).

Virtue Ethics and Open Source Biotechnology, Closing in on Open Science: Trends in Intellectual Property and Scientific Research, University of Maine Law School, (September 2006 )

The Penguin’s Paradox: the Political Economy of International Intellectual Property and the Paradox of Open Source, Working Conference, Con/Texts of Invention, The Society for Critical Exchange, Case Western Reserve Law School, (April 2006).

Challenges for Open Source Biotechnology, The Evolution of Life-Saving Drugs: The Open Source Model and Beyond, Temple Journal of Science, Technology and Environmental Law, Temple Law School, (February 2006).

Protective Orders in Intellectual Property Cases, The Sedona Conference, Best Practices Concerning Protective Orders, Seton Hall University Law School (September 2005).