Robert Dunne
Senior Lecturer

J.D, The University of Connecticut School of Law, 1996
Joined Yale Faculty 1999

Robert Dunne is interested in legal problems arising from the use of computers in contemporary society–particularly in the context of the Internet. He has written on alternative paradigms for behavioral control in cyberspace, the impact of cyberspace on the legal profession, and Internet crime. He teaches Computers and the Law, Privacy in the Digital Age, and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age. He was awarded the 2006 William Clyde DeVane Medal. Each year the Alpha of Connecticut confers the DeVane Medal on members of the faculty who have distinguished themselves as teachers of undergraduates in Yale College and as scholars in their fields.

Along with David Gelernter, Dunne is a Co-Director of Yale’s Center for Internet Studies, an interdisciplinary effort whose goal is to explore the Internet’s effect on society, and vice versa, from many perspectives–technological, legal, political, economic, cultural, and educational.

As an attorney, Dunne serves in a consulting capacity with Internet Software companies. He is a Fellow of Yale’s Silliman College and a member of the American, Connecticut, and New Haven County Bar Associations.

Representative Publications:
	"Technology and Law: A United States Perspective, in Digital Evidence and Computer Crime," 2nd Ed., Eoghan Casey, Editor, Elsevier Academic Press, 2004.
	"Paradise Night Shift" (fiction), Prima Materia, Vol. 2, Bliss Plot Press, January 2003.
	"Internet Crime," with H. Morrow Long and E. Casey, The Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences, Elsevier Academic Press, 2000.
	"Deterring Unauthorized Access to Computers: Controlling Behavior in Cyberspace through a Contract Law Paradigm," JURIMETRICS, American Bar Association Journal of Law, Science and Technology, Fall 1994.