Professor Eben Moglen will be speaking on “Free as in Freedom: The Political Economy of Digital Production” at a faculty workshop on Monday, March 26th. The workshop takes place from noon to 1:00 p.m. in the Strong Common Room in Bergin Hall.
Professor Moglen is the Chairman of the Software Freedom Law Center, Professor of Law and Legal History at Columbia University Law School and
General Counsel of the Free Software Foundation. In addition to FSF, Professor Moglen has represented many of the world’s leading free software developers.
Professor Moglen earned his PhD in History and law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his “long, dark period” in New Haven. After law school he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University and the University of Virginia since 1987.
In 2003 he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society. Professor Moglen is admitted to practice in the State of New York and before the United States Supreme Court.
