Hannibal Travis is an Associate Professor of Law at Florida International University College of Law. Professor Travis received his B.A. summa cum laude from Washington University and his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as a member of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and the Harvard Human Rights Journal. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable William Matthew Byrne, Jr., of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. He was an associate at O'Melveny & Myers in San Francisco, and later worked at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. Professor Travis teaches and conducts research in the fields of cyberlaw, intellectual property, antitrust, telecommunications, international and comparative law, and human rights. His writings have been published in law reviews and journals affiliated with American University, Hofstra University, Northwestern University, Pepperdine University, the University of California, the University of Arizona, the University of California, the University of Miami, and the University of Virginia. Most recently, he has published in the Notre Dame Law Review on the copyright liability of Internet service providers in the U.S. and the European Union, and in the Yale Journal of Law and Technology on the future of technology policy in the U.S. He has a chapter forthcoming in The Top Ten Global Security Law Articles of 2008, published by Oxford University Press.
Genocide, Human Rights, and International Law
Genocide in Sudan: The Role of Oil Exploration and the Entitlement of the Victims to Reparations, Arizona Journal of International & Comparative Law (2008)
Review of Richard Hovannisian ed., The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies, Journal of Genocide Research (2008)
This is a review of The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies (Richard Hovannisian ed.,...
Human Rights in Disaster Policy: Improving the Federal Response to Natural Disasters, Disease Pandemics, and Terrorist Attacks, THROUGH THE EYE OF KATRINA: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES (2007)
This is a contribution to an edited volume on the legal and human rights implications...
“Native Christians Massacred”: The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during World War I, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (2006)
The Ottoman Empire's widespread persecution of Assyrian civilians during World War I constituted a form...
Freedom or Theocracy?: Constitutionalism in Afghanistan and Iraq, Northwestern University Journal of International Human Rights (2005)
This article analyzes the claim that the Bush doctrine, the declaration of President George W....
Cyberspace Law and Intellectual Property
Opting Out of the Internet in the United States and European Union: Copyright, Safe Harbors, and International Law, Notre Dame Law Review (2008)
This Article analyzes the legal and human rights implications of efforts by copyright owners such...
The Future According to Google: Technology Policy from the Standpoint of America’s Fastest-Growing Technology Company, Yale Journal of Law & Technology (2008)
Google is at the center of some of the most contentious technology policy disputes of...
Are Issuers of and Dealers in Securities Immune from Lawsuits Arising under Federal and State Antitrust Laws?, American Bar Association Preview of U.S. Supreme Court Cases (2007)
Of Blogs, eBooks, and Broadband: Access to Digital Media as a First Amendment Right, Hofstra Law Review (2007)
In an information society, wealth and power are increasingly linked to access to knowledge and...
Building Universal Digital Libraries: An Agenda for Copyright Reform, Pepperdine Law Review (2006)
This article proposes a series of copyright reforms to pave the way for digital library...