Lea Shaver

Professor of Law and Dean's Fellow

Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, Room 315
530 W. New York Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3225

Phone: (317) 278-4475
E-Mail: lbshaver@iupui.edu

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Education

B.A., M.A., 2002, University of Chicago
J.D., 2006, Yale Law School

Courses

Intellectual Property, Copyright, and Patent Law

Bio

Lea Shaver’s scholarship applies a social justice perspective to the study of copyright law. By recognizing that copyright’s incentive system creates both winners and losers, she argues, copyright scholars can help identify ways to adapt copyright law and cultural policy to better serve all of society. A frequent hallmark of her scholarship is the use of social scientific case studies, uniting empirical and normative perspectives to understand the law's real-world impact while building a vision of more just and inclusive alternatives.

An internationally recognized expert on the intersection of intellectual property and human rights law, Professor Shaver's scholarship informs the concept of “the right to science and culture” recently embraced at the United Nations. She is currently writing a book exploring solutions to the profound shortage of mother-tongue reading material in most of the world’s languages, a problem affecting more than one billion children worldwide: How Social Publishing Can End BOOK HUNGER (forthcoming from Yale University Press in 2018).

Professor Shaver holds a J.D. From Yale Law School and an M.A. from the University of Chicago. She was a clerk to Hon. David F. Hamilton and a Fulbright Scholar in South Africa, and taught at Yale Law School before joining the IU McKinney School of Law faculty in 2012.