Andrew Rens blogs at http://aliquidnovi.org
He is a proponent and practitioner of open lawyering, and a scholar of the complex interactions of law, knowledge and innovation. He is currently an SJD candidate at Duke Law School, and Research Associate at the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and the Intellectual Property Law and Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town.
Andrew has taught and researched in the academy, litigated and consulted as an attorney and worked for social change in the non profit sector. He was the founding Legal Lead of Creative Commons South Africa, a co-founder and former director of The African Commons Project, a charter member and director of Freedom to Innovate South Africa ,a fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society , and a research associate at the LINK Center at the School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Andrew was awarded a Master of Laws from the Law School at the University of the Witwatersrand where he where he subsequently taught Master’s courses in Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Space and Satellite, and Media and Information Technology Law, before spending several years in San Francisco, California. Andrew was the Intellectual Property Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation, and taught Master’s courses in Telecommunications Law (February to May 2010) and Electronic Intellectual Property Law (July to November 2009) at the University of Cape Town Law School.
