Dan Hunter Faculty Profile

Dan Hunter
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies and Business Ethics

PhD, University of Cambridge, 1999; LLM, University of Melbourne, 1996; LLB (Hons) Monash University, 1989; BS Monash University, 1987.

Research Areas
Cyberspace and Internet law; artificial intelligence and cognitive science models of law; electronic commerce regulation

Current Projects
Open source and Marxism; The social significance of peer-to-peer technologies.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2000-present. Previous appointments: University of Melbourne, University of Cambridge, Deakin University. Visiting appointments: Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Wharton Undergraduate Teaching Award, 2000; Fulbright Postgraduate Fellowship, 1995; Herchel Smith Research Fellowship in Intellectual Property Law, Emmanuel College, Cambridge, 1995.

Professional Leadership 2001-2005
World Intellectual Property Organization Domain Name Panelist, 2000-present; Executive Board Member, Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction, 1999-present

Representative Publications
(with G. Lastowka)
"Amateur-to-Amateur." William and Mary Law Review (forthcoming 2005).

(with G. Lastowka)
"The Laws of the Virtual Worlds." California Law Review (2003).

"ICANN and the Concept of Democratic Deficit." Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review (2003).

"Cyberspace as Place, and the Tragedy of the Digital Anticommons." California Law Review (2003).

"Philippic.com." California Law Review (2002).