Professor

Michael

J.

Madison

Michael Madison is Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a Senior Scholar with the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security (Pitt Cyber). At Pitt Law, he is Faculty Director of the Future Law Project and a John E. Murray Faculty Scholar.

His teaching addresses intellectual property law and (separately) leadership.  His research focuses on institutions for producing, storing, and distributing knowledge. The scope of his writing includes information, data, creativity, innovation, and art. Specific scholarly interests range from the development of research universities to patent history, from the law of fair use and production of conceptual art to legal rules governing data, network security, and computer software.

He is a co-Principal Investigator of the Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons global research collaborative and a series editor of the Cambridge University Press Studies in Governing Knowledge Commons series. He is a founder and leader of Future Law Works, an independent corps of volunteer leaders focused on the futures of legal education and other institutions of the legal system. He is an affiliate faculty member with the University of Pittsburgh Center for Governance and Markets. From time to time, he publishes The Future Law Podcast, together with Dan Hunter, Executive Dean of the Dickson Poon School of Law at King’s College London; Your Leadership Podcast; and a Substack newsletter titled “Everything in Between,” about institutions and governance. 

Professor Madison joined the Pitt Law faculty in 1998. Before becoming a law professor, he practiced law in San Francisco and Silicon Valley for nine years. He received his J.D. from Stanford University and his B.A. from Yale.