Molly Shaffer Van Houweling

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Molly Shaffer Van Houweling Road cycling
Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
Molly Shaffer Van Houweling
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Date of birth March 1, 1973
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Road cycling
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Metromint Cycling Team
Most important successes
Hour record
September 12, 2015: 46.273 kilometers
Last updated: September 13, 2015
Molly Shaffer after her record run, with UCI commissioner Randy Shafer

Molly Shaffer Van Houweling (born March 1, 1973 ) is an American lawyer and cyclist .

Activities as a lawyer

Molly Shaffer Van Houweling studied law at Harvard Law School and worked as an editor for the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society during her studies . She also worked as a research assistant for Arthur R. Miller and Lawrence Lessig and taught at the Harvard College Government Department . During this time she received the Derek Bok Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education for her teaching . In 2002 she was part of the founding team of Creative Commons , of which she was also President. Further studies in political science at the University of Michigan followed, which she completed with a dissertation on The Politics of Presidential Position-Taking . In addition, she was one of the first employees of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Shaffer Van Houweling has been a professor of law at the UC Berkeley School of Law since 2005 and is the deputy dean of the faculty. She also worked for Judge Michael Boudin of the US Court of Appeals and Judge David Souter of the US Supreme Court . Her main research interests are the copyright regulations regarding the new information technologies. The focus is on the legal basis for regulating commercial interests, which also affect the rights of private users.

Cycling

In addition to her scientific activities, Molly Shaffer Van Houweling - like her husband, the political scientist Robert Van Houweling - is active in cycling. In 2004, the couple became Michigan state champions together in the tandem time trial . In 2011, Molly Van Houweling was eighth in the individual time trial at the US road championships , the following year she was twelfth and in 2013 she was eleventh. Also in 2013 she started in the high-class French time trial Chrono des Herbiers and finished 16. In 2011 she became world champion in time trial in the Masters class and runner-up in road racing (W35–39), in 2012 (W35–39) and 2014 ( W40–44) she became two-time world champion on the road.

In July 2015, Shaffer Van Houweling set a new national hour record at the Velodromo Bicentenario in Aguascalientes, Mexico, with 45.637 kilometers per hour . On September 12, 2015, at the same location, she managed to improve the twelve-year-old hour record set by the Dutch world and Olympic champion Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel from 46.065 to 46.273 kilometers. In 2017 she won the US team pursuit together with Christina Birch , Catherine Moore and Amanda Seigle , and one more time the following year (with Jennifer Wheeler , Christina Birch and Sarah Munoz ).

Web links

Commons : Molly Shaffer Van Houweling  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Molly S. Van Houweling. University of Michigan Law School , September 13, 2015, accessed September 13, 2015 .
  2. ^ Faculty Profiles - Berkeley Law. UC Berkeley School of Law , accessed September 13, 2015 .
  3. ^ Molly S. Van Houweling - Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (CASBS). (No longer available online.) Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University (CASBS), archived from the original September 20, 2015 ; accessed on September 13, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.casbs.org
  4. ^ Wheels Out: Van Houweling sets Hour Record of 46,088 m. (No longer available online.) In: Norcal Cycling News. June 26, 2015, archived from the original on September 10, 2015 ; accessed on September 13, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / norcalcyclingnews.com
  5. ↑ Molly Shaffer Van Houweling sets a new women's hour record. In: rad-net.de . September 13, 2015, accessed September 13, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Shaffer Van Houweling, Molly
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1973