Molly Shaffer Van Houweling (born March 1, 1973) 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.
In addition to her work as a legal academic and copyright activist, Shaffer Van Houweling is also a competitive bicycle racer. On September 12, 2015, she set a new Hour record by cycling 46.273 km in an hour. Van Houweling is also a six-time UCI Amateur Road World Champion, most recently winning the time trial titles at the 2018 UCI World Cycling Tour Final in Varese, Italy.
Palmares
2007 1st Northern California/Nevada Time Trial Championship
2009 1st Northern California/Nevada Time Trial Championship 1st Colorado Time Trial Championship
2010 1st Overall Mt. Hood Cycling Classic 1st Stage 2 1st Overall Kern County Women's Stage Race 1st Overall Topsport Stage 1st Copperopolis Road Race 1st Northern California/Nevada Time Trial Championship 1st Stage 1 Valley of the Sun Stage Race
2011 1st UCI Masters World Championship Time Trial (W35-39) 1st Overall Valley of the Sun Stage Race 1st Stage 1 1st Northern California/Nevada Road Race Championship 1st Northern California/Nevada Time Trial Championship
2012 UCI Masters World Championship (W35-39) 1st Time Trial 1st Road Race 1st Overall Mariposa Women's Stage Race 1st Northern California/Nevada Time Trial Championship 1st Northern California/Nevada Prestige Series
2014 UCI Masters World Championship (W40-44) 1st Time Trial 1st Road Race 1st Northern California/Nevada Time Trial Championship US Hour Record 44.173km
2015 UCI Hour Best Performance (W40-44) 46.088km UCI Hour Record 46.273km UCI Masters World Championship (W40-44) 1st Time Trial 1st Road Race 1st Northern California/Nevada Time Trial Championship
2016 Masters National Track Championships 1st Individual Pursuit (W40-44) National Records 40km Time Trial Record (W40-44), 52:48 Individual Pursuit (W40-44), 2:30.613 Kilo (W40-44), 1:16.104
2017 UCI Masters World Track Championships 1st Team Pursuit (W40-44) 1st Individual Pursuit (W40-44) National Track Championships 1st Team Pursuit 2nd Individual Pursuit World Bests UCI Hour Best Performance (W40-44), 47.061km UCI Best Performance 2km Pursuit (W40-44), 2:24.753 National Records Kilo (W40-44), 1:14.772 Team Pursuit (W40-44), 3:48.259
2018 UCI Masters World Road Championship (W45-49) 1st Time Trial National Track Championships 1st Team Pursuit 2nd Individual Pursuit World Bests UCI Hour Best Performance (W45-49), 46.897km National Records 40km Time Trial Record (W45-49), 55:16.626
2019 National Track Championships 1st Individual Pursuit
2022 UCI Masters World Road Championship (W45-49) 3rd Time Trial 3rd UCI Masters World Gravel Championship (W45-49)
2023 UCI Masters World Road Championship (W50-54) 2nd Time Trial
UCI Hour record attempts
Date Location Distance (km) Difference to record (m)(+) indicates behind the current record (-) indicates ahead of the current record Notes December 2014 Carson, CA, 44.173 1892 (+) New national record. Beat Carolyn Donnellys 44.028 km distance set in 1990. February 2015 Aguascalientes, 45.637 698 (+) New national record. July 7, 2015 Aguascalientes, 46.088 23 (-) New national record. This attempt also beat the previous UCI hour record of 46.065 km but as Van Houweling was not part of the athletes biological passport programme the attempt did not count. September 12, 2015 Aguascalientes, 46.273 208 (-) Beat the 12-year-old record held by Dutchwoman Leontien van Moorsel. Note, Van Moorsel rode a 'Merckx-style' bike.
UCI Masters Hour Best Performance attempts
Date Location Distance (km) Difference to record (m)(+) indicates behind the current record (-) indicates ahead of the current record Notes July 15, 2017 Aguascalientes, 47.061 973 (+) New national record and world best performance for Women 40-44, exceeding Van Houweling's own W40-44 record set on July 7, 2015. September 24, 2018 Aguascalientes, 46.897 5,658 (-) New national record and world best performance for Women 45-49, exceeding Lillian Pfluke's W45-49 US and World record set in of 41.239 set in Manchester, England in 2006.
Footnotes
See also List of law clerks for the third seat of the Supreme Court of the United States
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