Molly Van Houweling

Molly Shaffer Van Houweling is the Harold C. Hohbach Distinguished Professor of Patent Law and Intellectual Property at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarship focuses on copyright law, including how it shapes and is shaped by developments in information technology. Professor Van Houweling is an Associate Reporter on the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law of Copyright, a major effort to summarize and clarify the law of copyright in the United States.

Professor Van Houweling graduated from the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School. She clerked for Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. She previously served as Chair of the board of the non-profit Creative Commons and is a founding member of the board of directors of the non-profit Authors Alliance.