lawblogs

This page covers legal blogs and home pages.

     blogs

Blogging, discussed in detail elsewhere on this site, has proved attractive to many of the more influential writers about information law. Law blogs (aka Blawgs) include

Martin Schwimmer's perceptive Trademark blog

Lessig Blog by US guru Lawrence Lessig

Eugene Volokh - US academic with a particular interest in free speech

beSpacific - US law and technology issues

Donna Wentworth's Copyfight blog at the Berkman Center

GrepLaw - collective blog at the Berkman Center

LawMeme - a collective blog at Yale

Nerdlaw.org - a US blawg

The Shout by Jennifer Granick at CIS

Weatherall's Law from Kim Weatherall, University of Sydney

Instapundit from Glenn Reynolds, University of Tennessee

David Sorkin's Law blog

Sean Hocking's Australian Legal Eye blog

     homepages

Yochai Benkler (New York) is one of the more provocative theorists of the 'network economy', with important papers regarding telecommunications, standards and intellectual property. An example is his 1998 Intellectual Property & the Organisation of Information Production.

Dan Burk (Minnesota) is responsible for one of the classic early papers on trademarks, 'cybermarks' and the internet.

Canadian academic and Berkman Fellow Rosemary Coombe, with a particular interest in Indigenous intellectual property and questions about consumer interactions with trademarks online

Intellectual property academic William Fisher of the Berkman Centre for Internet & Society.

Michael Froomkin (Miami) is one of the more prominent critics of ICANN, playing a leading part in ICANNWatch. Apart from papers about domain administration he was an early writer on questions of anonymity, for example Flood Control on the Information Ocean: Living With Anonymity, Digital Cash & Distributed Databases.

Michael Geist (Ottawa) has an influential daily newsletter, highlighted above, and has written papers such as Is There A There There? Towards Greater Certainty for Internet Jurisdiction.

Jane Ginsburg (Columbia) has written extensively on intellectual property. An example is her 1997 paper Copyright Without Borders? Choice of Forum & Choice of Law for Copyright Infringement in Cyberspace.

Jack Goldsmith (Chicago) is one of the more eloquent propnents of the view that, legally speaking, it's just business as usual in cyberspace. His 1998 Against Cyberanarchy article is useful as a corrective to the overheated rhetoric of Barlow and Gilmore.

Paul Goldstein (Stanford) produced the succinct Copyright's Highway: The Law & Lore of Copyright from Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox and superb International Copyright: Principles, Law & Practice. He's less prominent than Lessig but increasingly persuasive.

L Trotter Hardy (William & Mary) has written on jurisdictions, censorship and e-commerce law.

Bernt Hugenholtz (Uni of Amsterdam) is a luminary on the EC Legal Advsory Board.

Peter Jaszi (American) co-edited The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature.

Lawrence Lessig (Stanford) is author of influential polemics Code & Other Laws of Cyberspace and The Future of Ideas, EFA supporter, one of the major US legal thinkers about the regulation of cyberspace, content regulation and intellectual property. In 1985 he smuggled a heart valve - hidden in his trousers - into the USSR for a dissident. He's located within the long US tradition of the jeremiad; in his case warning against the evils of major publishers and other copyright owners.

Jessica Litman (Wayne State) is one of the more entertaining US polemicists, noted for Digital Copyright and on 1996 paper Revising Copyright Law For The Information Age arguing that digital technology has made 'reproduction' untenable as a basis for copyright law. Her site includes a valuable 'New Developments' page.

Eben Moglen, Free Software Foundation and author of Anarchism Triumphant: Free Software and the Death of Copyright, is clever, unconvincing but entertaining.

Milton Mueller, author of Ruling the Root and Dancing the Quango: ICANN & the Privatization of International Governance, is an influential writer about ICANN and the UDRP

Henry Perritt (Chicago-Kent) is another academic who's dealt with jurisdictions, intellectual property and content regulation.

David Post (Temple) is another ICANN critic, noted for important papers such as Law & Borders: The Rise of Law in Cyberspace, Pooling Intellectual Capital: Thoughts on Anonymity, Pseudonymity, & Limited Liability in Cyberspace and Anarchy, State & the Internet: An Essay on Law-Making in Cyberspace

Joel Reidenberg (Fordham) has written about online content regulation, jurisdictions and privacy, including Yahoo & Democracy on the Internet and Lex Informatica: The Formulation of Information Policy Rules through Technology

Sam Ricketson (Monash) produced what for its time was the definitive The Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary & Artistic Works and has written major studies of Australian intellectual property law.

Pamela Samuelson (Berkeley) - sometimes dubbed the 'queen of copyright' - is an EFA Director and author of works such as the 1991 Is Information Property? and The Copyright Grab.

Andrew Shapiro (Yale) is best-known for The Control Revolution: How the Internet is Putting Individuals in Charge & Changing the World We Know but has written narrower papers such as The 'Principles In Context' Approach To Internet Policymaking.

Brad Sherman (Griffith) co-edited Of Authors & Origins and co-authored The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law.

Cass Sunstein (Chicago) is author of the pessimistic Republic.com and several works on jurisprudence.

Peter Swire (Ohio State) is a former US Chief Counselor for Privacy and author of some of the more thoughtful US literature about privacy in the digital environment.

Jonathan Weinberg (Wayne State) - author of several important studies of ICANN and internet governance such as An Analysis of the DNSO's Names Council and the clever (although unconvincing) Geeks & Greeks.

Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard) works at the Berkman Center and has produced incisive comment on censorship, economics and domain administration such as Evaluating The Costs & Benefits of Taxing Internet Commerce.

Philip Argy is one of the commercial Great & Good - president of the Australian Computer Society, WIPO and auDA panellist, e-commerce law expert ...

Tim Denton's site is worth visiting for the perspective on developments in Canada (and the animals).

::