Prof. Shyam Balganesh

Professor of Law

Penn Law

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Shyamkrishna Balganesh is a Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Law School. His scholarship focuses on understanding how intellectual property and innovation policy can benefit from the use of ideas, concepts and structures from different areas of the common law, especially private law. He is currently working on a book that examines the evolution of American copyright law from a system of private law to one of public law, under the influence of the Legal Process school of jurisprudence. He filed an amicus brief in the Supreme Court case of Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org., Inc. on behalf of the respondent, based on a paper that he is working on tracing the normative foundations of the government edicts doctrine. Balganesh is also a coauthor on sections relating to the idea-expression dichotomy and the copyrightability of photographs in the leading copyright law treatise, Nimmer on Copyright.