Dan Hunter is a Professor of Law at the University of Melbourne and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Legal Studies at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He teaches regularly at New York Law School and previously taught in the law faculty at Cambridge University, England. While at Cambridge, he held the Herchel Smith Research Fellowship in Intellectual Property Law at Emmanuel College. He regularly publishes on issues dealing with the intersection of computers and law, including papers dealing with the regulation of virtual worlds, the use of artificial intelligence in law, and high technology aspects of intellectual property. His research has appeared in journals such as the California Law Review, Texas Law Review, and the Journal of Legal Education. He was one of the first scholars to examine the social significance of virtual worlds, co-founded the blog Terra Nova, and ran the 2007 State of Play/Terra Nova Symposium at New York Law School.