# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/molly-shaffer-van-houweling
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:58:49.969Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/molly-shaffer-van-houweling"
name: "Molly Shaffer Van Houweling"
slug: "molly-shaffer-van-houweling"
description: "Molly Shaffer Van Houweling is an American cyclist, academic and legal scholar. Van Houweling is Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley School of Law and founding President and Treasurer of Creative Commons. Van Houweling is also on the board of Authors Alliance a non-profit organization that helps authors disseminate their work broadly. Van Houweling also serves as an Associate Reporter for the American Law Institute Restatement of Copyright. She received her J.D. from the Harvard Law School in 1998. After law school she clerked for Judge Michael Boudin of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and then in 2000-2001 for Justice David Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court. She was previously on the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School before moving to UC Berkeley."
tagline: "American cyclist, academic and legal scholar"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Molly_S._Van_Houweling.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Athletes"
  slug: "athletes"
profileType:
  name: "Athlete"
  slug: "athlete"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q2066131"
birthDate: "1973-03-01"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.18
  momentum:             0
  historical:           5.006768
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Shaffer_Van_Houweling"
    title: "Molly Shaffer Van Houweling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Shaffer_Van_Houweling"
    title: "Molly Shaffer Van Houweling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Shaffer_Van_Houweling"
    title: "Molly Shaffer Van Houweling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Shaffer_Van_Houweling"
    title: "Molly Shaffer Van Houweling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Shaffer_Van_Houweling"
    title: "Molly Shaffer Van Houweling"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20968991"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump