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
Creativity, Improvisation, and Risk: Copyright and Musical Innovation, Notre Dame Law Review (2011)
The goals and beneficiaries of copyright frameworks have long been contested in varied contexts. Copyright...
Blues Lives: Promise and Perils of Musical Copyright, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (2010)
The application of copyright law to music has long been fraught with complexities and continuing...
Risky Business: The Credit Crisis and Failure, Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy (2010)
The credit crisis represents a watershed event for global financial markets and has been linked...
YouTube, UGC, and Digital Music: Competing Business and Cultural Models in the Internet Age, Northwestern University Law Review (2010)
YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, and other websites that contain user-generated content (UGC) have become key reference...
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...
Unpublished Papers
Writing Rights: Copyright’s Visual Bias and African American Music, ExpressO (2012)
Copyright was first applied to words and was initially visual in orientation. Since the earliest...
The Rise of Nollywood: Creators, Entrepreneurs, and Pirates (2012)
The rise of Nollywood illustrates the revolutionary potential of digital technologies in Africa. Nollywood, or...
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...
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...