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Neil Netanel joined the UCLA School of Law faculty in fall 2004. He teaches Copyright, International Intellectual Property, and Intellectual Property Scholarship. Professor Netanel received his B.A. from Yale University (1976), J.D. from Boalt Hall School of Law (1980), and J.S.D. from Stanford University (1998). From 1980 to 1981, Netanel was Assistant to the General Counsel of the State of Israel's Environmental Protection Service. He then practiced law at Loeb and Loeb in Los Angeles (1981-84) and Yigal Arnon and Co. in Tel-Aviv (1985 to 1992).After completing his J.S.D. coursework at Stanford Law School in 1994, Netanel joined the faculty of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, where he was the Arnold, White and Durkee Centennial Professor of Law. He has also taught at the law schools of Haifa University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University, the University of Toronto, and New York University. Professor Netanel's recent scholarship includes; Copyright's Paradox; Property in Expression/Freedom of Expression (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2005); Copyright and the First Amendment; What Eldred Misses - and Portends, in Copyright and Free Speech; Comparative and International Analyses (J. Griffiths and U. Suthersanen, eds, Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2005), Impose a Noncommercial Use Levy to Allow Free Peer-to-Peer File Sharing, 17 Harvard Journal of Law and Technology 1 (2003); The Commodification of Information (Niva Elkin-Koren and Neil Weinstock Netanel eds., Kluwer Law International 2002); and Locating Copyright Within the First Amendment Skein, 54 Stanford Law Review 1 (2001).