David Hansen

Dave Hansen is responsible for Duke University Libraries' general research services and collections, and scholarly publishing support as the Associate University Librarian for Research, Collections & Scholarly Communications and Lead Copyright & Information Policy Officer. He is focused particularly on copyright issues and is a PI for the Library Copyright Institute project. His background is in intellectual property law. Before coming to Duke he was Clinical Assistant Professor and Faculty Research Librarian at UNC School of Law. Before that, he was a fellow at UC Berkeley Law in its Digital Library Copyright Project. His law degree is from UNC-Chapel Hill, where he also earned his M.S. in Library Science. His B.S. in Economics is from UNC Charlotte, which is near his hometown of Belmont, NC. Dave lives with his family on a 53 acre orchard and farm about 25 miles from campus.