Dotan Oliar is a professor of law at the University of Virginia. His scholarship focuses on human creativity. He researches and teaches in the areas of intellectual property law, property theory, entrepreneurship, art law, and cyberlaw, and uses methodologies such as law and economics, empirical and behavioral methods, and legal history. His projects include empirical analyses of copyright registrations at the U.S. Copyright Office, first possession in intellectual property law, the interaction between expressive creativity and technological change, the scope of Congress’s intellectual property power under the U.S. Constitution, and joke-ownership social norms among stand-up comedians. Oliar’s scholarship has been published in leading journals, including the Georgetown Law Journal and the BU, Stanford, Texas, UCLA, and Virginia Law Reviews. He clerked for Justice Kedmi on the Israeli Supreme Court and holds an S.J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Virginia, and an LL.B. and B.A. from Tel Aviv University.