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.

Computers and Collaboration

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Dr. Generative Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPhone (with Paul Ohm), Maryland Law Review (2010)
 

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The Internet Is a Semicommons, Fordham Law Review (2010)
 

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The Ethical Visions of Copyright Law, Fordham Law Review (2009)
 

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Regulation by Software, Yale Law Journal (2005)
 

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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)
 

Virtual Worlds

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Virtual World Feudalism, Yale Law Journal Pocket Part (2009)
 

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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)
 

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

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

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Computer Simulations

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

Computer Science

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First-Class Objects, Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law (2011)
 
Elements of the Theory of Computation (2d ed.): Solutions Manual (1999)
 

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Quantum Computation: An Introduction (1999)
 

Miscellaneous

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Koans of Equity, Journal of Legal Education (2008)
 

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

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Diagram Trouble (2007)
 

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SSRN Considered Harmful (2007)
 
Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment (2006)
 

Privacy

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First-Class Objects, Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law (2011)
 

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Known and Unknown, Property and Contract: Comments on Hoofnagle and Moringiello, Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial, and Commercial Law (2011)
 

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Privacy as Product Safety, Widener Law Journal (2010)
 

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The Unmasking Option, Denver University Law Review Online (2010)
 

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Saving Facebook, Iowa Law Review (2009)
 

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Search Engines

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Speech Engines, Minnesota Law Review (2014)
 

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Three Theories of Copyright in Ratings, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (2011)
 

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Some Skepticism About Search Neutrality, The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet (2010)
 

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The Google Dilemma, New York Law School Law Review (2009)
 

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

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Google Books Settlement

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Future Conduct and the Limits of Class-Action Settlements, North Carolina Law Review (2013)
 

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The Elephantine Google Books Settlement, Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA (2011)
 

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D Is for Digitize: An Introduction, New York Law School Law Review (2010)
 

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Objections and Responses to the Google Books Settlement: A Report, Public-Interest Book Search Initiative at New York Law School (2010)
 

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The Amended Google Books Settlement Is Still Exclusive, CPI Antitrust Journal (2010)
 

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Internet Law

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The Illegal Process: Basic Problems in the Making and Application of Censorship, University of Chicago Law Review Dialogue (2013)
 

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Sealand, HavenCo, and the Rule of Law, University of Illinois Law Review (2012)
 

Copyright

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Three Theories of Copyright in Ratings, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (2011)