My primary research interests are in intellectual property, copyright and music, law and technology, law and anthropology, accounting, corporate and securities law, private equity, entrepreneurship, technological capacity and development, the law school as organization, and the empirical study of legal scholarship.
Articles
Vultures, Hyenas, and African Debt: Private Equity and Zambia (Private Equity Symposium), Northwestern Journal of International Law & Business (2009)
A 2007 U.K. court case involving Donegal, a private equity fund, and the Republic of...
The Freedom to Copy: Copyright, Creation and Context, U.C. Davis Law Review (2007)
Although much separates them musically, George Harrison and Michael Bolton share a common legal fate....
Is Apple Playing Fair? Navigating the iPod FairPlay DRM Controversy (with Nicola F. Sharpe), Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property (2007)
On April 2, 2007, Apple Inc. and EMI Music held a joint press conference in...
Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw, Law Schools and the Legal Information Market, Lewis & Clark Law Review (2006)
This Article considers issues of open access from the context of the broader legal information...
Copyright on Catfish Row: Musical Borrowing, Porgy & Bess and Unfair Use, Rutgers Law Journal (2006)
Treatment of musical borrowing under current copyright standards is far too often inequitable. This is...
Unpublished Papers
Trading Places: Securities Regulation, Market Crisis, and Network Risk (2009)
The rising power of traders has fundamentally transformed financial market networks and risks. Further, the...
Valuable Asset or Vibrant Force? Intellectual Property and Conceptions of Culture, ExpressO (2008)
Discussions of intellectual property as property often implicitly rely upon conceptions of value that give...
Borrowing the Blues: Copyright and the Contexts of Robert Johnson (2008)
In 2004, Eric Clapton released the DVD-CD Sessions for Robert J and the CD Me...
Culture as Property: Intellectual Property, Local Norms and Global Rights (2007)
Intellectual property frameworks today reflect an increasing emphasis on framing knowledge and culture within a...
Strategic Behaviors and Competition: Intangibles, Intellectual Property and Innovation (2006)
Intangibles such as intellectual property rights are an increasingly important source of value for businesses...