Shani Shisha

Assistant Professor of Law

Full-time faculty

Email

sshisha@mail.smu.edu

Shani Shisha is an Assistant Professor of Law at ÃÛÌÒ½´Dedman School of Law. He teaches and writes in the field of intellectual property law, focusing on copyright law, art, and the intersection of law and technology.

His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in the New York University Law Review, ÃÛÌÒ½´California Law Review, Boston College Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, among other publications. Professor Shisha received numerous awards for his scholarly work, including Harvard Law School’s 2023 Irving Oberman Memorial Prize in Intellectual Property and the 2022 Foundations of Private Law Prize. His article on copyright remedies has been selected as one of “the most important and timely articles on computer, technology, and the law” of 2022, and his article on copyright formalities has been judged one of the best intellectual property articles of 2023 and selected for inclusion in West/Thomson’s annual Intellectual Property Law Review.

Professor Shisha holds a doctorate from Harvard Law School. His dissertation — an interdisciplinary analysis of copyright law — won several awards for scholarly distinction. Before joining the ÃÛÌÒ½´faculty, Professor Shisha taught at Harvard Law School, where he held fellowships with the Berkman Klein Center of Internet & Society and the Project on the Foundations of Private Law. At Harvard, Professor Shisha taught courses and workshops on intellectual property, law and technology, and private law.

Area of expertise

  • Copyright
  • Intellectual Property

Education

LL.B., Tel Aviv University
LL.M., Harvard Law School
S.J.D., Harvard Law School

Courses

Copyright Law

Articles

Copyright's Dominion, 100 New York University Law Review (forthcoming 2025)

Infringement Episodes, 97 ÃÛÌÒ½´California Law Review 1029 (2024)
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Commercializing Copyright, 65 Boston College Law Review 453 (2024)

The Folklore of Copyright Procedure, 36 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 61 (2023)

The Copyright Wasteland, 47 BYU Law Review 1721 (2022)

Fairness, Copyright, and Video Games: Hate the Game, Not the Player, 31 Fordham Intellectual Property Media & Entertainment Law Journal 694 (2021)

Media

Bloomberg Law, quoted in  (February 2023)