Daniel Benoliel

Prof. Daniel Benoliel

Prof. Daniel Benoliel (LL.B, LL.M, J.S.D.) is a law professor at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and the Co-Director of the Haifa Center of Law and Technology (HCLT). His main fields of expertise include intellectual property, law and economics, public international law, and entrepreneurship law.

He holds a Doctorate in law (J.S.D.) from the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall) and has been a John M. Olin Research Fellow with the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics at Berkeley and an alumnus of the Yale Law School Information Society Project (ISP). He was also a Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, at Munich Visiting Fellow, and a Post-Doctoral German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Residential Fellow with the Law and Economics Graduate College at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He was an invited visiting professor and taught at various universities in Europe and North and South America. These include the University of Oxford (2021 & 2022), University of Bologna (2018), Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2010-2019), University of Masaryk (2014), University of Lucerne (2009), Hebrew University (2007, 2016), and Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV) in São Paulo (2009).

Benoliel received various prizes, awards, and research grants. These include the Israel Science Foundation (ISF) grants (2015-2017, 2018), the Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions grant (2015), the University of Haifa Gishush grant (2010), the Harvard-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum award (2009), the Microsoft Research Award for best article (ALACDE, 2009), the John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics (2002-2004) grants, the 1st place article awards at both the 14th Computers, Freedom and Privacy Annual Conference (CFP 2004) & the 13th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC 2002), and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) grant (2002).

Benoliel authored and edited four books. These are Patent Intensity and Economic Growth (CUP, 2017) & (Chinese edition) (CUP & China National Publishing Foundation, 2023) (forthcoming); Intellectual Property, Innovation, and Global Inequality (Daniel Benoliel, Francis Gurry, Keun Lee & Peter Yu, eds.) (CUP, 2023) (forthcoming), and Improbable Leaders: The Battle of Developing Countries for Access to Patented Medicines (with Bruno M. Salama) (FGV University Press, 2017) (in Portuguese). His leading publications are with the Cambridge University Press, California Law Review, Berkeley Law & Technology Journal, Yale Journal of Law & Technology, Michigan Journal of International Law, and the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law.

Prof. Benoliel serves as legal advisor to the Zuckerman Institute, which supports academic research in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in the United States and Israel. In addition, he wrote legal opinions and advised high-tech companies traded on Nasdaq and many start-up companies in telecommunications, biosciences, software, e-commerce, and medical devices. Daniel is also a marathoner and an Ironman triathlete.

  • Intellectual Property
  • Law and Economics
  • Public International Law
  • Entrepreneurship Law

Books

Articles

Work-in-Progress

  • Intellectual Property Inequality Alleviation (2023) (with Ariel Ezrachi) (law review article)
  • Tacit Knowledge in Technological Entrepreneurship (2023/4) (with Dalit Ken-Dror) (book chapter)

Other

Academic Experience

  • Academic Visitor, University of Oxford Faculty of Law, Oxford Intellectual Property Research Center (OIPRC) (Hilary & Trinity Terms 2021) & St. Catherine’s College Visiting Fellow (Hilary Term 2021)
  • Visiting Professor, University of Bologna Faculty of Law, Italy, European Union Erasmus Plus program (March 2018)
  • Research Workshop Grant, Israel Science Foundation (ISF), on Intellectual Property, Innovation and Global Inequality, 2018
  • Visiting Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition, at Munich, Germany (July-August 2016)​
  • Adjunct Lecturer, The Bronica Entrepreneurship Center (BEC), the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology (2010-2019; recipient of Excellent Teaching Award for 2017)
  • Cambridge University Press, Intellectual Property and Information Law series, Pool of peer reviewers (2014-present)
  • Research Grant, Israel Science Foundation (ISF), for a study on Patents and Innovation between Advanced and Developing Countries, 2015-2017
  • Research Grant, Minerva  Center  for  the  Rule  of  Law  under Extreme  Conditions, for a study on Cyber Security and Public International Law (with Dr. Yaniv Roznai), 2015
  • Co-Organizer and member of the Academic Prize Committee of the Israeli Ministry of Justice – Patent Commissioner’s Prize for Outstanding Student Article National Competition (2008-2019)
  • Visiting Professor, European Master in Law and Economics (EMLE) Erasmus Mundus Program at University of Masaryk Faculty of Law, Brno, Czech Republic (March 2014)
  • Visiting Professor, University of Lucerne, Faculty of Law, Lucerne Academy on Human Rights Implementation, Lucerne, Switzerland (July 2009)
  • Visiting Professor, The Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Faculty of Law, São Paulo, Brazil (Aug.-Sept. 2009)
  • Member at the Harvard-Stanford Junior Faculty Forum for 2009, for selected article titled: “Towards an Intellectual Property Bargaining   Theory:  The Post WTO Era”  [International Articles Competition & Conference]
  • Microsoft Research Award for Outstanding Research Paper, Latin American and Iberian Law Economics Association (ALACDE), 2009, for selected article: Towards an Intellectual Property Bargaining  Theory:  The Post WTO Era
  • Visiting Fellow, Yale Law School – Information Society Program (ISP), 2004-2005
  • Research Fellow, John M. Olin Fellowship, University of California at Berkeley, School of Law, John M. Olin Center for Law and Economics (2002-2004)
  • Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, DAAD Residential Fellowship, Law and Economics Graduate College, at the University of Hamburg (Graduiertenkolleg fur Recht und Okonomik, Universitat at Hamburg), Germany , 2003
  • Research Grant , Information Technology Research (ITR), University of California at Berkeley, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS), for a study on On-line territorial privacy (2002)
  • Research Grant, University of Haifa Gishush Grant, March 2010 for “Technological Change over Software Patents”
  • 1st Place Award, The Fourteenth Computers, Freedom and Privacy Annual Conference (CFP 2004) Student paper competition (2004)
  • 1st Place Award, The Thirtieth Telecommunications Policy Research Conference (TPRC 2002) Graduate Student article competition (2002)