Hiram Meléndez Juarbe

Hiram Meléndez-Juarbe is Full Professor at the University of Puerto Rico Law School, where he teaches constitutional law, privacy and technology, copyright and intellectual property topics, cyberlaw, administrative law and seminars on constitutional law and cyberspace. He is founder of the UPR New Technologies, Intellectual Property and Society Clinic and co-legal lead of Creative Commons Puerto Rico. Hiram graduated from the University of Puerto Rico (BA 1997, JD 2000), Harvard University (LL.M. 2002) and New York University (LL.M. 2008, JSD 2013). He is co-founder of the blawg derechoalderecho.org. Hiram has been Visiting Professor at the University of Ottawa and the Leving College of Law, University of Florida. He is also a Member of the Puerto Rico Civil Rights Commission and has served as Associate Dean of the Law School and as Special Advisor to the UPR-RP Chancellor.

• Universidad de Puerto Rico, B.A. 1997
• Universidad de Puerto Rico, J.D. 2000
• Harvard Law School, LL.M 2002
• New York University, LL.M 2008
• New York University, JSD 2013

• Law and Technology
• Privacy
• Copyright Law
• Intellectual Property
• Constitutional Law
• Information Policy
• Freedom of Speech