Ben Sobel is a scholar of information law. His work considers how the exercise of private rights shapes the public distribution of information, wealth, and cultural expression. In particular, he examines the way digital media, artificial intelligence, and networked devices influence the law of tangible and intellectual property, privacy, competition, and expression.
Ben has served on the faculty of Harvard Law School and as a law clerk on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston, Massachusetts. His scholarship has been cited in briefs submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, and has been published by the Lewis & Clark Law Review, the Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, and Oxford University Press. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
For fun, Ben plays music and bakes sourdough bread.