I study how the law governing the creation and use of computer software affects
individual freedom and the distribution of wealth and power in society. By giving close
attention to both technical and social details, I hope to develop better legal
conceptions of such technologies as search engines, spyware, open source, spam, and
virtual worlds -- and to help lawyers and technologists speak intelligibly to each
other.

Law Review Articles

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The Structure of Search Engine Law, Iowa Law Review (2007)
 

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Modeling Facts, Culture, and Cognition in the Gun Debate (with Donald Braman and Dan M. Kahan), Social Justice Research (2005)
 

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Regulation by Software, Yale Law Journal (2005)
 

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Virtual Worlds as Comparative Law, New York Law School Law Review (2005)
 

Books

Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment (2006)
 

Elements of the Theory of Computation (2d ed.): Solutions Manual (1999)
 

Contributions to Books

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Virtual Power Politics, The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds (2006)
 

Virtual World Law, Business and Legal Primer for Game Development (2006)
 

Essays

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Accidental Privacy Spills, Journal of Internet Law (2008)
 

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Information Policy for the Library of Babel, Maryland Journal of Business and Technology Law (2008)
 

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Virtual Borders: The Interdependence of Law and Virtual Worlds, First Monday (2006)
 

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Seven Ways in Which Code Equals Law (And One in Which It Does Not) (with Cindy Cohn), Ars Electronica 2003 (2003)
 

Drafts

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Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: An Opinionated Primer (2008)
 

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SSRN Considered Harmful (2007)
 

Thesis, Discussion Papers, and Other Unpublished Works

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Diagram Trouble (2007)
 

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Policy Responses to Spam (with Becky Bolin), ISP/PORTIA Reading Group (2005)
 

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State of Play Primers: The Law, The State of Play II (2004)
 

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Quantum Computation: An Introduction (1999)