Shani Shisha
S.J.D. Candidate
sshisha at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Dissertation
History, Custom, and Procedure: Essays on Copyright Policy
Fields of Research and Supervisors
- Copyright Law and Theory with Professor William W. Fisher, Harvard Law School, Principal Faculty Supervisor
- Licensing Law and Extralegal Copyright Norms with Professor Rebecca Tushnet, Harvard Law School
- Consumer Protection Law and Behavioral Market Failures with Professor Oren Bar-Gill, Harvard Law School
Additional Research Interests
- Patents
- Trademark
- Contracts
- Property
- Privacy Law
- Theories of Private Law
Education
- Harvard Law School, S.J.D. Candidate 2017-Present
- Harvard Law School, LL.M., 2017
- Tel Aviv University, Israel, LL.B., magna cum laude, 2014
Academic Appointments and Fellowships
- Teaching Fellow, Law & Technology Writing Workshop, Harvard Law School, 2020–Present
- Fellow, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2020–2021
- Graduate Forum Coordinator, Harvard Law School, 2018–2020
- LL.M. Advisor, Graduate Program Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2017–2018
- Student Fellow, Harvard Project on the Foundations of Private Law, 2017–2018
- Teaching Fellow, CopyrightX, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017
- Summer Academic Fellow, Harvard Law School, 2017
Representative Publications
- The Folklore of Copyright Procedure, 36 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (forthcoming 2023) (Irving Oberman Memorial Prize in Intellectual Property, Harvard Law School)
- The Copyright Wasteland, 47 BYU Law Review 1721 (2022) (Writing Prize, Project on the Foundations of Private Law, Harvard Law School)
- Fairness, Copyright, and Video Games: Hate the Game, Not the Player, 31 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal 694 (2021)
- Aeyal Gross & Shani Shisha, Bodas de Sangre: Reflections on Family, Privacy, and the Right to Demonstrate, 39 The Law: Human Rights 4 (2015) (Hebrew)
Additional Information
Languages: English, Hebrew
Last Updated: June 15, 2022