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Which employer did David Post work for from 1994 to 1997?
David Post David G . Post ( born 1951 ) is an American legal scholar . Post is an expert in intellectual property law and the law in cyberspace . Until his retirement in 2014 , Post served as Professor of Law at Beasley School of Law of Temple University in Philadelphia . Education . Post received his B.A . cum laude from Yale College in 1972 , his Ph.D . in anthropology from Yale University in 1978 , and his J.D . summa cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center in 1986 . Career . Post was the director of programs for the American Anthropological Association from 1976 to 1981 and an assistant professor of anthropology at Columbia University from 1981 to 1983 . Post served as law clerk to Ruth Bader Ginsburg twice , once from 1986 to 1987 , when Ginsburg was a judge of the U.S . Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit , and a second time from 1993 to 1994 , after Ginsburg had been elevated to the Supreme Court of the United States . In between , from 1987 to 1993 , Post practiced law in Washington , D.C . as an associate at the law firm of Wilmer , Cutler & Pickering . From 1994 to 1997 , Post was an associate professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center . In 1997 , he joined the Beasley School of Law of Temple University in Philadelphia as a professor of law , remaining there until his retirement as the I . Herman Stern Professor of Law in fall 2014 . Post is a fellow of the Center for Democracy and Technology and the New York Law Schools Institute for Information Law and Policy , an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute , and a contributor to the Volokh Conspiracy blog at The Washington Post . Post was formerly a senior fellow at the Open Technology Institute of the New America Foundation . Works and views . Posts main area of scholarly interest is intellectual property law and the relationship of complexity theory to the law . Post wrote In Search of Jeffersons Moose : Notes on the State of Cyberspace ( Oxford , 2009 ) . In the book , Post draws a parallel between the Internet and the natural and intellectual landscape that Thomas Jefferson explored , documented , and shaped . The book earned positive reviews from legal scholars , including Lawrence Lessig , Jonathan Zittrain , and Sean Wilentz . Post also coauthored , with Paul Schiff Berman and Patricia Bellia , another book , Cyberlaw : Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age ( West , 2007 ) , currently in its fourth ( 2011 ) edition . Post had authored a number of amicus briefs to the U.S . Supreme Court and other courts . Post was a signatory to an open letter from law professors in 2014 that expressed support for the legal recognition of same-sex marriages but also expressed concern that events ( such as the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich after an outcry over a contribution that Eich had made to an anti-same-sex-marriage effort ) signal an eagerness by some supporters of same-sex marriage to punish rather than to criticize or to persuade those who disagree . External links . - Blog postings by Post at the Volokh Conspiracy on The Washington Post