Prof Eben Moglen to lecture in Edinburgh |
| Posted on Jun 18 2007 |
Eben Moglen, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School, Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, New York, and the lawyer behind the GNU General Public Licence v3, is lecturing in Edinburgh on Tuesday 26th June, at the Scottish Society for Computers and the Law.
His lecture, "The Global Software Industry in Transformation: After GPLv3" will cover how private legislation is replacing public law as the organising intellectual structure for software and technology industries, with far-reaching social consequences and theoretical implications.
Professor Moglen has represented many of the world's leading free software developers. He earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his “long, dark period” in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School – and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia since 1987.
In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society.
Professor Moglen is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States Supreme Court.