Eben Moglen is executive director of the Software Freedom Law Center and professor of law and legal history at Columbia University Law School. He has represented many of the world’s leading free software developers. He earned his PhD in history and his law degree at Yale University during what he sometimes calls his “long, dark period” in New Haven. After law school, he clerked for Judge Edward Weinfeld of the United States District Court in New York City and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He has taught at Columbia Law School since 1987 and has held visiting appointments at Harvard University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Virginia. In 2003, he was given the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Pioneer Award for efforts on behalf of freedom in the electronic society.