An International Workshop
Creating the Information Commons for e-Science:
Toward Institutional Policies and Guidelines for Action
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, France
1-2 September 2005

Michael Spence - Biography

Dr. Michael Spence is Head of Social Sciences Division in the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Catherine's College, Oxford. He is a consultant to the London law firm, Olswang. Regularly teaching, researching and speaking in the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, the United States, Japan and Australia, Michael has a comparative perspective on the law. His work includes articles and books on both intellectual property law and the law of obligations, with a critical focus on suggested ethical and economic justifications of the existing regimes. With Paul David of the Oxford Internet Institute and Stanford University he wrote the report "Towards Institutional Infrastructures for e-Science: The Scope of the Challenge".