Mario Biagioli is Distinguished Professor of Law and Communication at UCLA. He has also taught at Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, UC Davis, and the EHESS (Paris). A former Guggenheim, IAS, and CASBS fellow, he is the author of Galileo, Courtier (1993) and Galileo's Instruments of Credit (2006), the editor of The Science Studies Reader (1998), and the co-editor of Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property (2011), Nature Engaged (2011), From Russia with Code (2019), and Gaming the Metrics (2020).