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Peter M. Shane is the Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law at OSU’s Moritz College of Law. He served as executive director to the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy, and was a principal drafter of its report, Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age (2009). An internationally recognized authority on public law, he co-chairs with Professor Stephen Coleman of the University of Leeds, the International Working Group on Online Consultation and Public Policy Making (IWG). His books include Madison’s Nightmare: Executive Power and the Threat to American Democracy (2009); Peter M. Shane, ed., Democracy Online: The Prospects for Political Renewal through the Internet (2004); and Peter M. Shane, John Podesta and Richard C. Leone, eds., A Little Knowledge: Privacy, Security and Public Information After September 11 (2004). He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.

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