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Hannibal Travis
Professor of Law
Florida International University College of Law
11200 S.W. 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199
EDUCATION
J.D., 1999 Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
magna cum laude
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2005- (Associate) Professor of Law, Florida International University College of Law,
Miami, FL
* Taught Antitrust Law, Copyright Law, Intellectual Property Law, Computer and
Internet Law, Business Law for Engineers & Entrepreneurs, Sports and Entertainment
Law, Special Topics in International and Comparative Copyright (summer 2024), and
seminars including Entertainment Law, Advanced Copyright, and Internet Law
* Served as Interim Director of the Law Library, Interim Associate Dean for
Information Resources, and on College of Law Appointments and Promotion and Tenure
Committees (2010-2011)
* Served on Bylaws Revision Committee (2023-), University Faculty Senate
Technology Committee and Textbook Affordability Committee (2009-2017); University
Graduate Council (2021-2023); Cyber@FIU Working Group (2018); Cybersecurity
(Cyber 9/12) Simulation Coach (2020-2022); Jessup International Law Moot Coach
(2007-2011); and FIU Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) Quality
Enhancement Plan AI Steering Committee (2020-2021, 2022-2023)
2017 Irving Cypen Visiting Professor of Law, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL (Fall)
2009 Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, United
Kingdom
2008 Visiting Associate Professor, Villanova Univ. School of Law, Villanova, PA (Fall)
2001-2004 Associate (Litigation Group), Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, NY
2000-2001 Law Clerk, Honorable Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., United States District Court for the
Central District of California, Los Angeles, CA
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1999-2000 Associate (Litigation), O’Melveny & Myers, San Francisco, CA
1997-1998 Teaching Fellow (Law and Philosophy), Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
1999 Graduate Student Instructor (Philosophy), University of California, Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Selected Books
2024 PLATFORM NEUTRALITY RIGHTS: AI CENSORS AND THE FUTURE OF FREEDOM (Routledge)
(forthcoming)
2018 COPYRIGHT CLASS STRUGGLE: CREATIVE ECONOMIES IN A SOCIAL MEDIA AGE
(Cambridge University Press)
2013 CYBERSPACE LAW: CENSORSHIP AND REGULATION OF THE INTERNET (London:
Routledge) (edited volume)
2010 GENOCIDE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, IRAQ AND SUDAN (Carolina
Academic Press)
Articles and Chapters on Internet Law and Intellectual Property
Cyberlaw
2024 Augmented Creativity in a Harmonized Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy, in
HARMONIZING INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW FOR A TRANS-ATLANTIC KNOWLEDGE
ECONOMY, Ch. 2 (Peter Mezei, Hannibal Travis, & Anett Pogacsas eds., Brill) (forthcoming)
2023 The Freedom of Influencing, 77 MIAMI L. REV. 388 (invited contribution)
2023 Trademarks, Legal Remedies, and Social Injustices, in CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SOCIAL JUSTICE (Lateef Mtima & Steven Jamar eds.,
Cambridge University Press)
2022 Patents, the Private Property Ideal, and the Public Interest in Seamless Global Public
Health Regime, 31 FEDERAL CIRCUIT BAR J. 1-40
2022 State of Florida Appeals Ruling Against Anti-deplatforming Law: Initial Conclusion Is That Law
Violates Freedoms of Speech and of the Press, 3/21 MEDIEN UND RECHT INT’L 126-129
2021 Crypto Coin Offerings and the Freedom of Expression, 24 CHAPMAN LAW REV. 401-485
2021 Injury, Inequality, and Remedies: Developments in Injunctive Relief and Damages in
Intellectual Property Cases, 21 J. OF HIGH TECHNOLOGY LAW 34-69
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2020 Intelligent Entertainment: Shaping Policies on the Algorithmic Generation and
Regulation of Creative Works, 14 FIU L. REV. 179-199 (invited contribution)
2019 Enjoining the Cloud: Equity, Irreparability, and Remedies, 64 VILLANOVA L. REV. 393-
457, later published in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW REVIEW 2019 (Karen Tripp ed.,
Thomson Reuters/West Group, 2020)
2017 Counter-IP Conspiracies: Patent Alienability and the Sherman Antitrust Act, 71 MIAMI
L. REV. 758-858
2016 The Economics of Mass Digitization and the Google Books Litigation, in RESEARCH
HANDBOOK ON E-COMMERCE LAW 117-137 (John Rothchild ed., Edward Elgar
Publishing) (invited contribution)
2016 Free Speech Institutions and Fair Use: A New Agenda for Copyright Reform, 33
CARDOZO ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW J. 673
2015 Myths of the Internet as the Death of Old Media, 43 AMERICAN INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY LAW ASSOCIATION QUARTERLY J. 1-68 (peer-reviewed)
2015 Patent Alienability and Its Discontents, 17 TULANE J. OF TECHNOLOGY & INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY 109-162
2014 WIPO and the American Constitution: Thoughts on a New Treaty Relating to Actors and
Musicians, 16 VANDERBILT J. OF ENTERTAINMENT AND TECHNOLOGY LAW 45
2012 YouTube from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: Tyrannize Locally, Censor Globally, in
TRANSNATIONAL CULTURE IN THE INTERNET AGE (Sean Pager and Adam Candeub eds.,
Edward Elgar)
2011 The FCC’s New Theory of the First Amendment, 51 SANTA CLARA LAW REV. 417-515
2010 The Principles of the Law of Software Contracts: At Odds with Copyright, Consumers,
and European Law?, 83 TULANE LAW REV. 1557-94, later published in INTELLECTUAL
PROPERTY LAW REVIEW 2010 (Karen Tripp ed., Thomson Reuters/West Group)
2010 Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright Holders:
Evidence from the Google Book Search Litigation, 57 J. OF THE COPYRIGHT SOCIETY OF
THE USA 907-49 (peer-reviewed)
2009 The Future According to Google: Technology Policy from the Standpoint of America's
Fastest-Growing Technology Company, 11 YALE J. OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY 209-27
(2009) (invited symposium), later published in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW REVIEW
2008 (Karen Tripp ed., Thomson Reuters/West Group)
2008 Opting Out of the Internet in the United States and European Union: Copyright, Safe
Harbors, and International Law, 83 NOTRE DAME LAW REV. 331-409 (2008), excerpted
in GOOGLE ET LES NOUVEAUX SERVICES EN LIGNE (Alain Strowel ed., Editions Larcier).
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2007 Of Blogs, eBooks, and Broadband: Access to Digital Media as a First Amendment Right,
35 HOFSTRA LAW REV. 1519-82 (symposium)
2006 Google Book Search and Fair Use: iTunes for Authors, or Napster for Books?, 61
MIAMI LAW REV. 87-167
2006 Wi-Fi Everywhere: Universal Broadband Access as Antitrust and Telecommunications
Policy, 55 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REV. 1697-1799
2006 Building Universal Digital Libraries: An Agenda for Copyright Reform, 33 PEPPERDINE
LAW REV. 761-832
2005 The Battle for Mindshare: The Emerging Consensus that the First Amendment Protects
Corporate Criticism and Parody on the Internet, 10 VIRGINIA J. OF LAW & TECH. 3-74
2000 Pirates of the Information Infrastructure: Blackstonian Copyright and the First
Amendment, 15 BERKELEY TECH. LAW J. 777 (winner, Comment Competition)
Human Rights, Legal History, and International Law
2023 Recognizing and Repairing the Harm to Iraq's Minority Communities, MIDDLE EAST
REVIEW OF INT’L POLITICS no. 306 (invited contribution)
2023 Missions, Millets, and the Motherland: Xenophobic Narratives of an Ottoman Christian
“Stab in the Back”, 54 INT’L J. OF MIDDLE EAST STUDIES 559 (invited contribution)
2023 The Long Genocide in Sudan: Famine, Slavery, and Depopulation, in GENOCIDE TODAY
(Ezat Mossallanejad ed., Toronto: Zagros Editions) (invited contribution)
2021 Ethnic Cleansing and Genocidal Intent: Conceptualizing Destruction of Local
Populations, 20 WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY GLOBAL STUDIES L. REV. 803-861
2021 Medieval Violence or Demographic Surgery? Genocide and the Dialectics of
Enlightenment (Responses to Genocide), in A CULTURAL HISTORY OF GENOCIDE 111-132
(Elisa von Joeden-Forgey ed., Bloomsbury) (invited contribution)
2020 The Long Genocide in Upper Mesopotamia: Minority Population Destruction amidst
Nation-building and "International Security," 13 GENOCIDE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL
92-131 (invited contribution)
2020 Sobre la clasificación retroactiva de los acontecimientos históricos como genocidios [On
the Retroactive Classification of Historical Events as Genocides], ISTOR: REVISTA DE
HISTORIA INTERNACTIONAL [a publication of the Division de Historia del Centro de
Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE), Mexico City] (invited contribution)
2019 The Right of Return in Iraq: Conceptualizing Insecurity, State Fragility, and Forced
Displacement, in TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND FORCED MIGRATION: PERSPECTIVES FROM
THE GLOBAL SOUTH 158-190 (Nergis Canefe ed., Cambridge Univ. Press) (with
Shamiran Mako)
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2019 Genocide and Other International Crimes by Unincorporated Groups: Will There Be
Loopholes for Them in the African Court?, in THE AFRICAN COURT OF JUSTICE AND
HUMAN AND PEOPLES’ RIGHTS IN CONTEXT: DEVELOPMENT AND CHALLENGES 285-313
(Charles Jalloh, Kamari Clarke, & Vincent Nmehielle eds., Cambridge Univ. Press)
(invited contribution)
2018 Genocide by Deportation into Poverty: Western Diplomats on Ottoman Christian
Killings and Expulsions, 1914—24, in GENOCIDE IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE: ARMENIANS,
ASSYRIANS, AND GREEKS 354-402 (George Shirinian ed., Berghahn Books)
2018 Exile or Extinction: The Assyrian Genocide, 1915 to 2015, in THE ASSYRIAN GENOCIDE:
CULTURAL AND POLITICAL LEGACIES (Hannibal Travis ed., Routledge)
2017 Why Was Benghazi "Saved," But Sinjar Allowed to Be Lost? New Failures of Genocide
Prevention, 2007-2015, 10 GENOCIDE STUDIES INT’L 139
2017 Sobre la comprehension original del crimen de genocidio [On the Original
Understanding of the Crime of Genocide], 12 REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS SOBRE GENOCIDIO
101 [Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina)], https://revistas.untref.edu.ar
2016 Counterinsurgency as Genocidal Intent: From the Ottoman Christians to the Bosnian
Muslims, in THE ARMENIAN GENOCIDE LEGACY 149-164 (Alexis Demirjian ed., New
York: Palgrave Macmillan) (invited contribution)
2016 Genocide, Counterinsurgency, and the Self-Defense of UN Member States Before the
International Criminal Court, 22 UC DAVIS JOURNAL OF INT'L L. & POLICY 139-202
2016 When the UN Refuses to Prevent Genocide: Legal, Political, and Religious Factors, in
THE UNITED NATIONS AND GENOCIDE 146-185 (Deborah Mayersen ed., New York:
Palgrave Macmillan) (invited contribution)
2015 Reparations for Mass Atrocities as a Path to Peace: After Kiobel v. Royal Dutch
Petroleum, Can Victims Seek Relief at the International Criminal Court?, 40 BROOKLYN
INTERNATIONAL LAW J. 547-617
2013 Wargaming the Arab Spring: Predicting Likely Outcomes and Planning U.N. Responses,
46 CORNELL INTERNATIONAL LAW J. 75-143
2013 Constructing the “Armenian Genocide”: How Genocide Scholars Unremembered the
Ottoman Assyrians and Greeks, in HIDDEN GENOCIDES: POWER, KNOWLEDGE, AND
MEMORY (Alex Hinton et al eds., Rutgers University Press)
2013 Did the Armenian Genocide Inspire Hitler?, MIDDLE EAST QUARTERLY, Winter 2013,
at 27-35
2012 On the Original Understanding of the Crime of Genocide, 7 GENOCIDE STUDIES AND
PREVENTION: AN INTERNATIONAL J. 37 (invited contribution)
2011 The Assyrian Genocide: A Tale of Oblivion and Denial, in FORGOTTEN GENOCIDES:
OBLIVION, DENIAL, AND MEMORY (René Lemarchand ed., U. of Pennsylvania Press)
(invited contribution)
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2009 United States Law and Policy Regarding Iraqi Refugees, 2003-2008, 55 WAYNE L. REV.
1009
2008 Genocide in Sudan: The Role of Oil Exploration and the Entitlement of the Victims to
Reparations, 25 ARIZONA J. OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW
2007 Human Rights in Disaster Policy: Improving the Federal Response to Natural Disasters,
Disease Pandemics, and Terrorist Attacks, in THROUGH THE EYE OF KATRINA: SOCIAL
JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES (Richelle Swan and Kristin Bates eds., Carolina Academic
Press)
2007 The Cultural and Intellectual Property Interests of the Indigenous Peoples of Turkey and
Iraq, 15 TEX. WESLEYAN L. REV. 415 (invited contribution)
2006 “Native Christians Massacred”: The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during World
War I, 1(3) GENOCIDE STUDIES AND PREVENTION: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL 327-371 (peer-
reviewed)
2005 Freedom or Theocracy?: Constitutionalism in Afghanistan and Iraq, 3 NORTHWESTERN U.
J. OF INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS 4
SHORTER WORKS
2022 The Future of Creative Freedom Is on the Line, Starring Andy Warhol, Prince and 2
Live Crew, THE CONVERSATION, Oct. 28, 2022
2020 Causes of the Darfur Genocide: Role of the Government of Sudan, in DARFUR
GENOCIDE: THE ESSENTIAL REFERENCE GUIDE (Alexis Herr ed., ABC-CLIO), previously
published in MODERN GENOCIDE: ANALYZING THE CONTROVERSIES AND ISSUES (Paul
Bartrop ed., ABC-CLIO) (peer-reviewed)
2018 United States [Banks’ Duty of Care], in A BANK’S DUTY OF CARE (Danny Busch and
Cees van Dam eds., Hart Publishing) (with George Harris and Sabrina Larson)
2017 A Genocide Trial in Limbo: The Case of the Yezidis and Their Neighbors, GEORGETOWN
JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS ONLINE
2017 To What Extent Has Intervention in Darfur Been Successful?, in MODERN GENOCIDE.
DATABASE (Paul Bartrop et al. eds., ABC-CLIO) (peer-reviewed)
2016 Ecocide: A Brief History of an Explosive Concept, COLUMBIA JOURNAL OF EUROPEAN
LAW PRELIMINARY REFERENCE
2016 Poverty and Financial Regulation: Socioeconomic Human Rights in the Obama Era, in
POVERTY IN AMERICA 344-368 (Max Skidmore ed., Westphalia Press), prior version
published as President Obama’s “Pivot” to Jobs: Lessons from Comparative Law and
America’s Rivals, 3 POVERTY AND PUBLIC POLICY No. 3 (2012), www.psocommons.org
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2010 An Uncomfortable Fit? Intellectual Property Policy and the Administrative State, 14
MARQUETTE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY L. REV. 441 (invited panel presentation)
2007 Are Issuers of and Dealers in Securities Immune from Lawsuits Arising under Federal
and State Antitrust Laws?, 34 ABA PREVIEW OF UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT CASES
296 (case note on Credit Suisse Securities (USA) v. Billing (2007))
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
2023 The Nexus Between Knowledge Preservation and Freedom of Expression in a Global
Circular Economy, IP Researchers of Asia, Singapore (virtual)
2022 Docile Platforms and Networked Disciplinary Power, Law and Society Annual
Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal (virtual)
2022 Digital Rights, Law and Society Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal (virtual) (panel
chair and discussant)
2022 Tell Our Stories: Artifacts from the Assyrian Genocide Period, California Humanities,
California State University, Stanislaus
2021 The Right to Upgrade: Multimedia Lessons for Mashups and Remixes, Tri-Continental
Workshop on Intellectual Property, S/C de Tenerife, Spain (virtual)
2021 The Right Not to Be Deplatformed in International and Comparative Perspective,
American University Washington College of Law, Global Congress on Intellectual
Property and the Public Interest, Tenleytown, MD (virtual)
2021 Institutionalizing Algorithmic Competition Law in the Shadow of the First Amendment,
Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL (virtual)
2021 The Browsing Subject, The New School, New York, NY (virtual)
2021 Bearing Witness and Learning the Lessons from the Halabja Genocide, Kurdistan
Regional Government-Iraq Mission to the United States of
America/Facebook/Kurdistan24 television (virtual)
2020 Transnational Interference with Privacy as a Crime Against Humanity, Global
Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest, American University,
Washington, DC (virtual)
2020 Remedies across IP Lines: Developments in Injunctive Relief and Damages (Especially
for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises), IP Summit, Miami, FL
2020 Connections and Boundaries between Intellectual Property and Data Privacy,
INTA/FIU College of Law, Miami, FL
2019 Intelligent Entertainment (Concluding Remarks), FIU Law Review 25th Annual
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Symposium, Miami, FL
2019 Enjoining Precisely: Intellectual Property Injunctions and eBay v. Mercexchange,
AALS Annual Meeting, Section on Remedies Panel, New Orleans, LA
2019 Trademarks, Legal Remedies, and Social Injustices, Mosaic Symposium on
Intellectual Property, Howard University School of Law, Washington, DC
2018 We're Gonna Need a Bigger Sandbox: Light Touch Regulation of AppCoins and ICOs,
ABA Section of Business Law Annual Mtg., Teaching Banking Law panel, Austin, TX
2018 The Case of the Missing Consumer Surplus: The Complex Economics of Digital
Music Royalties, Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest,
Tenleytown, MD
2018 How (Much) Artists Are Getting Paid in the Digital Age, Intellectual Property Institute
of the California Lawyers Association, San Jose, CA
2017 Strategic Considerations in Issuing Guidelines for Unobjectionable Fanworks,
Copyright Society of the USA 2017 Mid-Winter Meeting, Savannah, GA
2017 The Plight of Refugees from the Middle East as Evidence of Genocidal Intent,
University of Chicago Center for Middle East Studies, Chicago, IL
2017 The Refugee Crisis, National Hellenic Museum, Chicago, IL
2016 Latin America Cybersecurity Symposium, Kroll, and Jones Day, Miami, FL
2016 Cybersecurity Summit (The Dark Web: Liberty, Privacy, and Security), School of
International and Public Affairs, Miami, FL
2015 Cybercrime for the Trademark Practitioner: Data Security and Privacy Issues,
International Trademark Association Roundtable/FIU College of Law, Miami, FL
2015 Debunking Copyright Myths, Copyright Society of the USA, Miami FL
2015 Myths of the Internet as the Death of Old Media, Association for the Study of Law,
Property, and Society, Athens, GA
2015 Why Was Benghazi ‘Saved’, But Sinjar Allowed to Be Destroyed?, Austrian Academy
of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
2015 Counterinsurgency as/and Genocidal Intent: From the Ottoman Christians to the
Bosnian Muslims, Netherlands Institute for War Documentation/Hague Institute for
Global Justice, The Hague, the Netherlands
2013 WIPO and the American Constitution, Vanderbilt Law School, Nashville, TN
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2012 Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright Holders:
Evidence from the Google Book Search Litigation, Association of American Law
Schools Annual Meeting, Washington, DC
2012 Cultural and Symbolic Reparations for the Ottoman Christian Genocide, Harvard
University Department for Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations--Naby
Lecture Series, Cambridge, MA
2011 The Anticompetitive and Censorial Impact of Corporate-Drafted Norms Restricting
Internet Content, Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting, Section on
the Computers and the Law, San Francisco, CA
2010 Cold War Genocides: Failures of Global Justice in Nigeria and Pakistan, University of
Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
2010 Journalism in the World of Social Media, Twitter & Facebook, Florida Bar Media Law
Conference, Miami, FL
2010 Copyright Basics and the Web, American Bar Association Conference on Legal Issues
in Museum Administration, Miami, FL
2009 The FCC’s New Theory of the First Amendment, Florida Legal Scholarship Forum, St.
Petersburg, FL
2009 The FCC’s Involvement in Copyright-Related Rulemakings: Administrative Expertise or
in Excess of Jurisdiction?, Southeast Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting
(roundtable), Palm Beach, FL
2009 Opting Out of the Internet in the U.S. and E.U.: Copyright and Safe Harbors, Oxford
University, Dept. of Social Sciences, Oxford Internet Institute, Oxfordshire, UK
2009 Broadcast and Internet Neutrality: Towards a Theory of Constitutional (Digital) Media
Regulation, Univ. of North Carolina School of Law, Chapel Hill, NC
2009 The Political Struggle for Mosul: Constitutionalism and Transitional Justice in the
Shadow of War and Ethnosectarian Conflict, Middle East Studies Association
Annual Meeting, Boston, MA
2009 The Bond that Divides: Transitional Justice and Human Rights in the Republic of
Iraq, London School of Economics, “Civil Society and Reconciliation in
Comparative Perspective”, London, United Kingdom
2008 The Intellectual Property Interests of the Indigenous Peoples of Turkey and Iraq, Tulane
Law School, New Orleans, LA
2008 Opting Out of the Internet in the U.S. and the European Union: Copyright, Safe
Harbors, and International Law Stanford Law School, Palo Alto, CA
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2008 The Future According to Google: Technology Policy from the Standpoint of America's
Fastest-Growing Technology Company Yale Law School, Computers, Freedom, and
Privacy, New Haven, CT
2008 Genocide in Sudan: Should Reparations for the Victims Be Administered by the United
Nations, or by U.S. Courts?, Yale Law School Symposium, New Haven, CT
2008 The Google Book Project: Noble Pursuit or Exploitive Endeavor?, Association of
American Law Schools Annual Meeting, New York, NY
2007 Of Blogs, eBooks, and Broadband: Access to Digital Media as a First Amendment Right,
Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School, with Hofstra Law School, NY
2007 Google Book Search, Exceptions to Copyright, and the Freedom of Information,
Catholic University of Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
2007 Google Book Search and Fair Use: iTunes for Authors, or Napster for Books?, Wayne
State University Law School, Detroit, MI
2006 Toward Universal Broadband Access: Bridging the Digital Divide with Free Citywide
Wi-Fi, Southeast Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Palm Beach, FL
2006 iTunes for Authors, or Napster for Books? Copyright and Antitrust Implications of the
Publishing Industry’s Campaign against Google Book Search, AALS Mid-Year
Meeting on Intellectual Property, Vancouver, Canada
2006 Federalism, Autonomy, and National Reconciliation in Iraq, Association of American
Law Schools Annual Mtg., Washington, DC
