Home Page for Dotan Oliar

E-Mail:
oliar@virginia.edu

Phone:
(434) 924-3219

Office: WB302M

Secretary/Assistant:
Sharon E. Hutchinson

Subjects:
Intellectual property, law and economics, property theory, cyberlaw

Dotan Oliar

Associate Professor of Law
S.J.D., Harvard Law School, 2007
LL.M., (waived) Harvard Law School, 2001
LL.B., Tel Aviv University, 1999
B.A., Tel Aviv University, 1999

Dotan Oliar joined the faculty in 2007 as an associate professor of law. His areas of interest include intellectual property, law and economics, property theory and cyberlaw.

Oliar received his LL.B. and B.A. from Tel-Aviv University, and clerked for the Israeli Supreme Court. His S.J.D. dissertation advances a new understanding of the Constitution’s intellectual property clause. His LL.M. thesis — an economic analysis of the fair use doctrine on the Internet — won the HLS Irving Oberman Award for Best Essay on The Internet and the Law. He served as a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and Olin Center for Law and Economics.

Oliar has presented in several fora, including the Stanford/Yale junior faculty forum, the annual meetings of the American, Canadian and European law and economics associations, and the intellectual property scholars conference.

Publications

"The (Constitutional) Convention on IP: A New Reading," 57 UCLA L. Rev. ____ (forthcoming 2009).
“From Corn to Norms: How IP Entitlements Affect What Stand-Up Comedians Create” (with Chris Sprigman), 95 Va. L. Rev. In Brief 57 (2009).

“There’s No Free Laugh (Anymore): The Emergence of Intellectual Property Norms and the Transformation of Stand-Up Comedy" (with Chris Sprigman), 94 Va. L. Rev. 1789 (2008).

“Alternatives to the Copyright Power: The Relationship of the Copyright Clause to the Commerce Clause and the Treaty Power” (panelist), 30 Colum. J.L. & Arts 287 (2007).

"Resolving Conflicts among Congress’s Powers Regarding Statutes’ Constitutionality: The Case of Anti-Bootlegging Statutes," 30 Colum. J.L. & Arts 467 (2007).

"Making Sense of the Intellectual Property Clause: Promotion of Progress as a Limitation on Congress's Intellectual Property Power," 94 Geo. L.J. 1771 (2006).

"Incentives to Create Under a 'Lifetime-Plus-Years' Copyright Duration: Lessons from a Behavioral Economic Analysis for Eldred v. Ashcroft" (with Avishalom Tor), 36 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 437 (2002).

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