Prof. Shyam Balganesh

Shyamkrishna ("Shyam") Balganesh is the Sol Goldman Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he has taught since 2021, and writes and teaches in the areas of copyright law, intellectual property, and legal theory. Before joining Columbia, he was a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, where he co-directed the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition. He has written extensively on how intellectual property and innovation policy can benefit from ideas, concepts, and structures drawn from other areas of the common law, especially private law, and on the interaction between copyright law and key institutional features of the American legal system. His work has appeared in leading law journals, including the Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. He is a co-author of sections of the leading copyright treatise Nimmer on Copyright. In 2017 he was elected a member of the American Law Institute, and since 2015 he has served as an adviser to the Restatement of the Law, Copyright.