Research & Academic Publications

Research & Academic Publications

  • The Future of the Internet — And How to Stop It (Yale University Press and Penguin UK, 2008)
  • Access Denied: The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering (MIT Press, 2008) (with Ronald J. Deibert, John G. Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski)
  • Internet Law, Foundation Press, with Charles Nesson, Larry Lessig, Terry Fisher, and Yochai Benkler (forthcoming 2008).
  • Technological Complements to Copyright (2005). Jurisdiction (2005).
  • The Generative Internet, 119 Harvard Law Review __ (forthcoming 2006).
  • Generativity and Meta-Gatekeeping, 19 Harvard J.L. Tech. __ (forthcoming 2006).
  • Searches and Seizures in a Networked World, 119 Harv. L. Rev. Forum 83 (2006).
  • Gaining Broadband, Losing World, in The Bandwidth Explosion, Harvard Business School Press (2005).
  • Normative Principles for the Evaluation of Free and Proprietary Software, 71 U. Chi. L. Rev. 265 (2004).
  • The Torts Game: Defending Mean Joe Greene, Aspen Publishing (2004).
  • Internet Points of Control, 43 Boston College Law Review 653 (2003). Derivatively in The Emergent Global Information Policy Regime, Palgrave Macmillan (2004).
  • Be Careful What You Ask For: Reconciling a Global Internet and Local Law, in Who Rules the Net?, Cato (2003).
  • Documentation of Internet Filtering Worldwide, with Ronald Deibert, Rafal Rohozinski, and Ben Edelman (2003). ; – Internet Filtering in Tunisia; Burma; Singapore; Iran; Bahrain; UAE (2005).
    • Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia: A Country Study (2004).
    • “China and Internet Filters,” Neiman Reports (2004).
    • Statement of issues & call for data on differential Google filtering (2002).
    • Real-time testing of Internet filtering in China (2002).
    • Filtering in Saudi Arabia (2002).
    • Development of a distributed filtering analysis application (2003).
  • Book Review: What’s in a Name?, 55 Fed. Comm. L.J. 153 (2002).
  • Survey of Usage of the .BIZ TLD, with Ben Edelman (2002).
  • What the Publisher Can Teach the Patient: Intellectual Property and Privacy in an Era of Trusted Privication, 52 Stanford Law Review 1201 (2000). Derivatively as Comments on Standards for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (February 14, 2000).
  • ICANN: Between the Public and the Private, 14 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1071 (edited testimony before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, Committee on Commerce, U.S. House of Representatives, 1999).
  • Evaluating the Costs and Benefits of Taxing Internet Commerce, with Austan Goolsbee, 52 National Tax Journal 413 (1999).
  • The Un-Microsoft Un-Remedy: Law Can Prevent the Problem That It Can’t Patch Later, 31 Connecticut Law Review 1361 (1999).
  • The Rise and Fall of Sysopdom, 10 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 495 (1997).

Public Testimony

  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security Privacy Advisory Board, Cambridge, MA, June 15, 2005.
  • “The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain: New Legal Approaches in the Private Sector,” in The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain: Proceedings of a Symposium (169-174), National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 2003.
  • Testimony before the Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel, United States Copyright Office, Library of Congress, “In the Matter of: Digital Performance Right in Sound Recordings and Ephemeral Recordings,” August 2001. Supplemental testimony, October 19, 2001.
  • The Internet and Federal Courts: Issues and Obstacles,” Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, June 29, 2000.
  • Testimony before the U.S. Senate, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, on S. 2255, a proposed extension of the Internet Tax Freedom Act, April 12, 2000.
  • “Domain Name System Privitization: Is ICANN Out of Control?”, Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, Committee on Commerce, July 22, 1999.

Other Publications & Projects

  • “A Sullivan Principles for the Internet,” The New Republic (forthcoming 2006).
  • “Without a Net,” Legal Affairs, January/February 2006.
  • “Score a Victory for the P in IPO,” Boston Globe, August 21, 2004.
  • “The End of Hide-and-Seek,” CIO, Fall/Winter 2003.
  • “Internet Filtering in China,” IEEE Internet Computing, March/April 2003.
  • “The Copyright Cage,” Legal Affairs, July/August 2003. – Longer version derivatively in Darwin, September 2003.
  • “Reactions to the Supreme Court’s decision in Eldred v. Ashcroft,” Washington Post, January 16, 2003.
  • “Calling Off the Copyright War,” Boston Globe, November 24, 2002.
  • “Can the Internet Survive Filtering?”, CNET, July 2002.
  • “Beware the Cybercops,” Forbes, July 8, 2002.
  • “Taming the Consumer’s Computer,” New York Times, March 11, 2002.
  • Derivatively in Policy Matters 02-10, AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies, March 2002.
  • “Too Much of a Good Thing,” World Economic Forum Worldlink, January/February 2002.
  • “Welcome to Second Class,” Difference Engine: The Social Impact of Technology, CIO, March 1, 2001.
  • “Balancing Control and Anarchy on the Internet,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October 13, 2000.
  • “Is There Any Difference Between .com and .edu?”, World Economic Forum Worldlink, May/June 2000.
  • “How to Think About the Net Sales Tax Quandry,” New Republic Online, May 4, 2000.
  • “The Right Microsoft Remedy – and Beyond,” intellectualcapital.com, November 1999.
  • Dialogue with George Priest about Department of Justice v. Microsoft, Slate, November 1999.
  • “Keyword: Obsolete,” Wired, September 1998.

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  • OpenNet Initiative – Tracking Internet filtering worldwide.
  • Stopbadware – Building a distributed application to confront the problem of malicious code.
  • H2O – Tools for teaching. ;
  • Chilling Effects Clearinghouse – Reports of legal threats to information providers and search engines.
  • Eldred v. Ashcroft (co-counsel), 537 U.S. 186 (2003); 239 F.3d 372 (D.C. Cir. 2001); 74 F.Supp.2d 1 (D.D.C. 1999).

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