Stanford CIS
David Levine

David Levine

Affiliate Scholar

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). He is also the founder and host of Hearsay Culture on KZSU-FM (Stanford University), an information policy, intellectual property law and technology talk show for which he has recorded over 190 interviews since May 2006. Hearsay Culture was named as a top five podcast in the ABA's Blawg 100 of 2008 and can be found at http://hearsayculture.com. His scholarship, which has been published in several law reviews including Florida, North Carolina and Stanford Online, focuses on the operation of intellectual property law at the intersection of technology and public life, specifically information flows in the lawmaking and regulatory process and intellectual property law's impact on public and private secrecy, transparency and accountability. He has spoken about his work in numerous venues, from the American Political Science Association annual meeting to the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and internationally.Active in policy analysis, he has made presentations to the negotiators at several negotiating rounds for the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), testified before the Library of Congress, co-authored influential law professors' letters regarding the TPP, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), and is a member of the North Carolina Mining and Energy Commission's Protection of Trade Secret and Proprietary Information Study Group that is tasked with writing the state's hydraulic fracturing regulations. Having been interviewed and quoted in many media outlets, from NPR to the Los Angeles Times, he is a recurring contributor to Slate. He was previously a resident fellow at CIS, legislative aide in the New York State Assembly, assistant corporation counsel for the City of New York and in private practice in Manhattan. He holds a BS in industrial and labor relations from Cornell University and a JD from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

Recent articles

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Hearsay Culture Information and Detritus

A few months ago I mentioned that I was unburdening this website with my schedule updates, etc. for my radio show/podcast Hearsay Culture.  And so it is done.…

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Hearsayculture.com Lives

At long last, and after repeated mentions on my radio show and podcast, Hearsay Culture, I am pleased to announce that Hearsayculture.com is live.  The webpage…

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Balancing the Federal Budget

It is always dangerous to blog when upset, but I will take the risk now so as to not subject my poor wife to further rants. I have just finished the process of…

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Hearsay Culture Schedule Through Mid-May

I am very pleased to announce the Hearsay Culture schedule through mid-May.  Also, I think that I have solved my tech glitches [thanks to Lauren, Kent, Ben and…

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Hearsay Culture Update

I am working on the Hearsay Culture schedule into the Spring and am very excited about the guests that I'm lining up.  I'll be posting a schedule, hopef…

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Further Revised Hearsay Culture Schedule

My hectic schedule has caused some further revisions to the schedule of Hearsay Culture.  So, here's a further revised schedule of upcoming shows, with some…