Information Society Project

About Shyam Balaganesh

Shyam is a second year JD student at the Yale Law School and a student fellow at the Information Society Project. Before coming to Yale, he was at the National Law School in India where he got a B.A., LL.B (Hons.), where he was Chief Editor of the law review and clerked for Chief Justice V.N. Khare of the Supreme Court of India. He then moved to Oxford, where he did the B.C.L. and M.Phil degrees and was a Senior Editor of the Oxford University Commonwealth Law Journal. He is a board member of the Union for the Public Domain (UPD) and a representative to the WIPO for the organization. His research involves understanding the interface between property concepts and the Internet. His publications include "Copyright and Free Expression: The Convergence of Conflicting Normative Frameworks", 4 Chi.-Kent J. Intell. Prop. 45 (2003), "Common Law Property Metaphors on the Internet: The Real Problem with the Doctrine of Cybertrespass", 12 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2006), "Property Along the Tort Spectrum: Trespass to Chattels and the Anglo-American Doctrinal Divergence", 35 Common L. World Rev. (forthcoming 2006).

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