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Shani Shisha is an Assistant Professor of Law at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Dedman School of Law. He teaches and writes in the field of intellectual property law, focusing on copyright law, art, and the intersection of law and technology.

His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the New York University Law Review, Southern California Law Review, Boston College Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, among other publications. Professor Shisha received numerous awards for his scholarly work, including Harvard Law School’s 2023 Irving Oberman Memorial Prize in Intellectual Property and the 2022 Foundations of Private Law Prize. His article on copyright remedies has been selected as one of “the most important and timely articles on computer, technology, and the law” of 2022, and his article on copyright formalities has been judged one of the best intellectual property articles of 2023 and selected for inclusion in West/Thomson’s annual Intellectual Property Law Review.

Professor Shisha holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School. His dissertation — an interdisciplinary analysis of copyright law — won several awards for scholarly distinction. Before joining the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø faculty, Professor Shisha taught at Harvard Law School, where he held fellowships with the Berkman Klein Center of Internet & Society and the Project on the Foundations of Private Law. At Harvard, Professor Shisha taught courses and workshops on intellectual property, law and technology, and private law.