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Yochai Benkler received his LL.B. from Tel-Aviv University in 1991 and J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1994.

He worked at a law firm, clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, was a professor at New York University School of Law, and visiting professor at Yale Law School and Harvard Law School, before joining the Yale Law School faculty in 2003.

In 2007, Benkler joined Harvard Law School where he is Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies. He is also faculty co-director of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society.

==Writings==
Yochai Benkler is the author of the paper Coase's Penguin and the book The Wealth of Networks. The Wealth of Networks is published under a Creative Commons license. 

==Ideas==
Yochai Benkler coined the term "commons-based peer production" to describe collaborative efforts, such as free and open source software and Wikipedia.

He also uses the term "networked information economy" to describe a system of production, distribution, and consumption of information goods characterized by decentralized individual action carried out through means that do not depend on market strategies. Benkler raises the possibility that a culture where information were shared freely could prove more economically efficient than one where innovation is frequently encumbered by patent or copyright law.

==Links==
*Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yochai_Benkler
*Coase's Penguin: http://www.benkler.org/CoasesPenguin.html

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