Ben Sobel is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School. His work examines how law and technology construct legal significance out of raw information.
Ben is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He previously served as a law clerk to Chief Judge David Barron and Judge Michael Boudin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and to Judge Pierre Leval of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Before joining the University of Wisconsin, Ben was a postdoctoral fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech and an affiliate scholar at NYU’s Information Law Institute. He has also served as a fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.
Ben’s scholarship has been cited by a federal court, briefs submitted to the Supreme Court of the United States, a copyright treatise, and the 2024 Economic Report of the President of the United States. For fun, Ben plays music and bakes bread.
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