Yochai Benkler

Yochai Benkler, Growth-Oriented Law for the Networked Information Economy: Emphasizing Freedom to Operate Over Power to Appropriate, in Rules for Growth: Promoting Innovation and Growth…

Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and…

David M. J. Lazer, Matthew A. Baum, Yochai Benkler, Adam J. Berinsky, Kelly M. Greenhill, Filippo Menczer, Miriam J. Metzger, Brendan Nyhan, Gordon Pennycook, David…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This workshop is devoted to reading and discussing new scholarly work on law and political economy. Outside speakers and…

Yochai Benkler, Don’t Let Industry Write the Rules for AI, Nature (May 1, 2019).

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Law and political economy is the study of how law shapes power in market societies.  The course will begin…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This workshop is devoted to reading and discussing new scholarly work on law and political economy. Outside speakers and…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The course will provide an introduction and overview to questions of communications and Internet law and policy. The intensive…

Why do McDonald’s workers in Denmark earn more than twice as much as do McDonald’s workers in the United States, while the Heritage Foundation ranks…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule Basic introduction to property and the role of law in the construction of markets…

Students enrolling in Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by February 4, 2022.…

Jerome Hergueux, Emeric Henry, Yochai Benkler & Yann Algan, Social Exchange and the Reciprocity Roller Coaster: Evidence from the Life and Death of Virtual Teams,…

Jérôme Hergueux, Yann Algan, Yochai Benkler & Mayo Fuster-Morell, Do I Trust this Stranger? Generalized Trust and the Governance of Online Communities, in WWW ’21:…

Yochai Benkler, The Battle Over the Institutional Ecosystem in the Digital Environment, 44 Comm. ACM 84 (2001).

Yochai Benkler, Follow the Money, Back to Front, in Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy 255 (Lee C. Bollinger &…

Yochai Benkler, The Unselfish Gene, 89 Harv. Bus. Rev. 76 (2011).

Yochai Benkler, Communications Infrastructure Regulation and the Distribution of Control Over Content, 22 Telecomm. Pol’y 183 (1998).

Yochai Benkler, Power and Productivity: Institutions, Ideology, and Technology in Political Economy, in A Political Economy of Justice (Danielle Allen et al. eds., 2022).

A Political Economy of Justice (Danielle Allen, Yochai Benkler et al. eds., 2022).

Yochai Benkler, A Political Economy of the Origins of Asymmetric Propaganda in American Media, in The Disinformation Age: Politics, Technology, and Disruptive Communication in the…

Yochai Benkler, Designing Cooperative Systems for Knowledge Production: An Initial Synthesis from Experimental Economics, in Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property: Creative Producton in Legal and…

Yochai Benkler, The Alternative to Despair is to Build an Ark, 373 Science 750 (2021).

Hal Roberts, Rahul Bhargava, Linas Valiukas, Dennis Jen, Momin M. Malik, Cindy Bishop, Emily Ndulue, Aashka Dave, Justin Clark, Bruce Etling, Rob Faris, Anushka Shah,…

Yochai Benkler, From Utopia to Practice and Back, in Wikipedia @ 20 Stories of an Incomplete Revolution 43 (Joseph Reagle & Jackie Koerner eds., 2020).

Robert Faris, Justin Clark, Bruce Etling, Jonas Kaiser, Hal Roberts, Carolyn Schmitt, Casey Tilton & Yochai Benkler, Polarization and the Pandemic: American Political Discourse, March…

Robert Faris, Justin Clark, Bruce Etling, Jonas Kaiser, Hal Roberts, Carolyn Schmitt, Casey Tilton & Yochai Benkler, Partisanship, Impeachment, and the Democratic Primaries: American Political…

Yochai Benkler, Casey Tilton, Bruce Etling, Hal Roberts, Justin Clark, Robert Faris, Jonas Kaiser & Carolyn Schmitt, Mail-In Voter Fraud: Anatomy of a Disinformation Campaign…

Yochai Benkler, Power and Productivity: Institutions, Ideology, and Technology in Political Economy (Dec. 14, 2019).

Yochai Benkler, Cautionary Notes on Disinformation and the Origins of Distrust, MediaWell (Oct. 17, 2019).

Yochai Benkler, A Political Economy of Utopia?, 18 Duke L. & Tech. Rev. 78 (2019).

Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris & Hal Roberts, Network Propaganda:
Manipulation, Disinformation, and Radicalization in American Politics (2018).

Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, Bruce Etling, Nikki Bourassa, Ethan Zuckerman & Yochai Benkler, Partisanship, Propaganda, and Disinformation: Online Media and the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election…

Yochai Benkler, Robert Faris, Hal Roberts & Ethan Zuckerman, Study: Breitbart-led right-wing media ecosystem altered broader media agenda, Colum. Journalism Rev. (Mar. 3, 2017).

Yochai Benkler, Peer Production of Survivable Critical Infrastructures, in The Law and Economics of Cybersecurity 73 (Mark F. Grady & Francesco Parisi eds., 2005).

Yochai Benkler, Law, Innovation and Collaboration in Networked Economy and Society, 13 Ann. Rev. L. & Soc. Sci. 231 (2017).

Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, Bruce Etling, Dalia Othman & Yochai Benkler, The Role of the Networked Public Sphere in the US Net Neutrality Policy Debate,…

Yochai Benkler, Next Generation Connectivity: A review of broadband Internet transitions and policy from around the world (Berkman Ctr. for Internet & Soc’y, Feb. 8,…

Yochai Benkler, Property, Commons, and the First Amendment: Towards a Core Common Infrastructure (White Paper, First Amendment Program, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School…

Yochai Benkler, Open Wireless vs. Licensed Spectrum: Evidence from Market Adoption, 26 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 69 (2012).

Yochai Benkler, A Public Accountability Defense for National Security Leakers and Whistleblowers, 8 Harv. L. & Pol’y Rev. 281 (2014).

Yochai Benkler, Information, Structures, and the Constitution of American Society, in The Constitution in 2020 187 (Jack Balkin & Reva Siegel eds., 2009).

Yochai Benkler, Between Spanish Huertas and the Open Road: A Tale of Two Commons?, in Governing the Knowledge Commons 69 (Brett Frischmann, Michael Madison &…

Yochai Benkler, Open Access and Information Commons, in Oxford Handbook of Law and Economics: Private and Commercial Law 256 (Francesco Parisi ed., 2017).

Yochai Benkler, Aaron Shaw & Benjamin Mako Hill, Peer Production: A Modality of Collective Intelligence, in Handbook of Collective Intelligence (Thomas W. Malone & Michael…

Yochai Benkler, The Political Economy of Commons, 4 UPGRADE 6 (2003).

Yochai Benkler, Correspondence: A New Era of Corruption?, New Republic Online (Mar. 4, 2009).

Yochai Benkler, Hacks of Valor: Why Anonymous Is Not a Threat to National Security, Foreign Aff., April 4, 2012.