Diane Thilly Cabell

Country:

USA

Diane Thilly Cabell has practiced law for almost 50 years and she participated in the formation of ICANN by being on ICANN's earliest board committee. She has worked in Internet law, including e-commerce, privacy issues, access provider, website development and hosting agreements, corporate Internet and e-mail policy, trademark-domain name dispute arbiter. She has also practiced Intellectual property law including copyright, trademark, trade secret and licensing. She worked at the Boston firm of Fausett, Gaeta & Lund, LLP and served as webmaster of the Women's Bar Association of Massachusetts.

Ms. Cabell has written on legal issues for the Internet Society and the Association of Internet Professionals. Her most recent publication is "Foreign Domain Disputes" which appears in the Winter 1999 issue of New Matter, journal of the Intellectual Property Section of the State Bar of California. She is co-founder of the Global Cyberlaw Network, an international society of Internet lawyers and a member of the Boston Bar Association, the Internet Society, and the Massachusetts Interactive Media Council. Ms. Cabell was scribe for the IFWP-Reston Trademark/Domain Names Working Group and the Boston Working Group.

Career

• Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, former Instructor in Law, Director of Clinical Program in Cyberlaw, Center Assistant Director;
• Assistant Counsel, Patent, Copyright and Licensing Office, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
• Faculty Resident, MacGregor House, Massachusetts Institute of Technology;
• Law Office of Diane Thilly, Esq., Cambridge, MA
• Visiting Scholar at the Institutt for rettsinformatikk, Universitetet i Oslo (European privacy and database protection law with Jon Bing of the European Commission's Legal Advisory Board)

Associations

• Co-chair, Intellectual Property Law Section, Boston Bar Association, 2001-2003;
• Co-chair, Computer & Internet Law Committee, Intellectual Property Law Section, Boston Bar Association, 1999-2001;
• Member, Membership Advisory Committee, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers, 1998-99;
• Member, Membership Implementation Task Force, Internet Corporation for Assigned Names & Numbers, 1999-2000.

Education

Boston University, B.A., 1968
Northeastern University, J.D., 1973