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.

Rochelle C. Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law Emerita at New York University School of Law and co-Director of NYU’s Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy, a member of the American Law Institute (ALI), and member of the Executive Committee of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP). She is a graduate of Wellesley College (BA), the University of California, Berkeley (MS), and Columbia University School of Law (JD). Before teaching at NYU, Professor Dreyfuss clerked for Wilfred Feinberg in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Warren Burger at the U.S. Supreme Court. With Jane Ginsburg and François Dessemontet, she was a Reporter on the ALI Project on Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes. Her writings include Advanced Introduction to International Patent Law (with Margo Bagley); Balancing Wealth and Health: The Battle over Intellectual Property and Access to Medicines in Latin America (with César Rodríguez-Garavito); and A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: Building a Resilient International Intellectual Property System (with Graeme Dinwoodie). She is a co-editor of numerous volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Intellectual Property Law (with Justine Pila) and The Law and Theory of Trade Secrecy (with Katherine Strandburg). She has served on committees of the National Academies of Sciences dealing with intellectual property law, a National Institute of Health Advisory Committee on genetics and health, and the Intellectual Property Section of the American Association of Law Schools.

Sacha Bourgeois-Gironde is Professor of Law and Economics at Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas (Sorbonne Universités) and Professor of Law at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law. His research lies at the intersection of legal theory, economics, and environmental governance, with a particular focus on the representation of non-human interests, the rights of nature, and the institutional implications of artificial intelligence for law and public decision-making. He is the author of several books and numerous articles in leading journals across law, economics, and philosophy. His recent work explores AI-based legal representation, environmental legal personhood, and the design of constitutionally constrained institutional architectures for governing global commons, and the relationship between Intellectual Property and the Environmental Crisis (in collaboration with Prof. Daniel Benoliel). He has held visiting positions and research affiliations at institutions in Europe, North America (Columbia University), and Asia (Taipei) and regularly collaborates on interdisciplinary projects involving law, ecology, and artificial intelligence.

Ethan Katsh is Professor Emeritus of Legal Studies at the University of Massachusetts. With Janet Rifkin, he established and, for many years, directed the National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution. The Center (odr.info) continues to be the primary focal point of online and offline activities involving Online Dispute Resolution (ODR). Professor Katsh is considered to be the founder of the field of online dispute resolution. In his first book, The Electronic Media and the Transformation of Law (Oxford University Press, 1989), and in his 1995 book Law in a Digital World (Oxford University Press), he was the first to discuss how deeply new information technologies would impact not only legal doctrines and rules of law but bring about broad changes to the rule of law itself. A decade later, he co-directed the eBay Online Dispute Resolution Project that led to eBay’s current system that handles over sixty million disputes each year. In 2001, with Professor Janet Rifkin, he wrote Online Dispute Resolution: Resolving Conflicts in Cyberspace (John Wiley, 2001), the first book about ODR. The often-referred-to metaphor of technology as the “Fourth Party” originated in this book (2001). Professor Katsh is a graduate of Yale Law School. His articles have appeared in the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Legal Forum, and many other law reviews and legal periodicals. In recent years, he co-edited Online Dispute Resolution: Theory and Practice (Eleven International Publishing, 2nd ed., 2021)  and, with Orna Rabinovich-Einy, published  Digital Justice: Technology and the Internet of Disputes (Oxford University Press, 2017).  During 2010-2011, Professor Katsh served as the Fulbright Distinguished Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Haifa. In 2014-2015, Professor Katsh was appointed an Affiliate of Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law and Cyberspace at Brandeis University. Professor Katsh received the University of Massachusetts Chancellor’s Medal and gave the UMass distinguished faculty lecture. In 2017, he received the D’Alemberte-Raven Award from the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution, the Section’s most prestigious award. In 2014, Professor Katsh served as principal online dispute resolution consultant for the US Office of Government Information Services (OGIS), a federal agency mandated to provide mediation in Freedom of Information Act disputes. He has also advised the National Mediation Board in its resolution of airline and railroad disputes and assisted an internet start-up, SquareTrade, in its development of software that has resolved many millions of disputes. From 2004 – 2010, Professor Katsh was co-Principal Investigator with several computer science faculty on three National Science Foundation-funded projects to model processes of online dispute resolution. This work was coordinated with the United States National Mediation Board. His current research interests involve both the resolution and prevention of disputes involving electronic medical records and identifying new paradigms in how to respond to the rapidly growing number of disputes generated by AI.

Prof. Joshua D. Sarnoff is the Raymond P. Niro Professor of Intellectual Property Law at DePaul University College of Law. He was a consultant to the World Health Organization’s COVID-19 Technology Access Pool from 2021 to 2023, has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Intellectual Property Subcommittee, and from 2014 to 2015 was a Thomas A. Edison Distinguished Scholar at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is a registered patent attorney and private consultant, having served as an expert witness and mediator in patent disputes, and has submitted amicus curiae briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals on a wide range of subjects. He is a Senior Fellow at the Haifa Center for Law & Technology. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Antitrust Institute and the Editorial Board of the UAE University Journal. Professor Sarnoff’s research and teaching focus on the intersections of domestic and international intellectual property law, environmental law, health law, administrative and constitutional law, and antitrust law. He is the editor of and a contributing author to the RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND CLIMATE CHANGE (Edward Elgar Pub 2016)