Writings

Academic work.

Books
Copyright
Telecommunications
International

Updated December 2005

 

 

 

Books

• Who Controls the Internet?  Illusions of a Borderless World, Oxford U. Press (forthcoming Spring 2006).

Copyright, etc.

• Intellectual Property, Innovation, & Decentralized Decisions, Va. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2006)
  Can the assignment of property rights change industry decision-making?
  
  
• Copyright's Communications Policy, 103 Mich. L. Rev. 278 (2005)
  Copyright's greatest challenge in the 21st century is the control of disseminators. 

• Copyright's Authorship Policy, (early draft) (forthcoming 2006)
  Can copyright inspire multiple modes of authorship at once?
   
• When Code Isn't Law, 89 Virginia L. Rev. 679 (2003)
  The study of the use of code to resist law, with a history of P2P filesharing.

Telecommunications

• One Rule for Telecommunications, 4 J. Telecom. & High Tech (forthcoming 2006).
  On the use of anti-discrimination rules in telecommunications law.

• The Broadband Debate, A User's Guide, 3 J. Telecom. & High Tech 69 (2004).
  The deeper questions behind the fight over broadband.
   
• Network Neutrality, Broadband Discrimination, 2 J. Telecom. & High Tech 141 (2003)
  The idea of network neutrality, and an empirical depiction of broadband discrimination.
  
  
• Network Neutrality, FCC CS Docket 02-52(with Lawrence Lessig) (PDF)
  Why a network neutrality regime encourages market competition.

International

• When Do American Judges Enforce Treaties?, Chicago Public Law Research Paper No. 82, When and why do American judges enforce treaties?

• Copyright and the Treaty Power (early draft available on request)
  Can treaty copyright overcome the limits of statutory copyright?
   
• The Doctrine of Command Responsibility and Its Analogues in United States Law, 38 Harv. Int'l L.J. 272 (1997) (with Jonathan Kang).

Older Papers

• Book review:  Ruling the Root, Technology & Culture (2003)
• When Law and the Internet First Met, 3 Green Bag 2d 171 (2000)
• Application-Centered Internet Analysis, 85 Virginia L. Rev. 1165 (1999)
• Cyberspace Sovereignty?  The Internet and the International System, 10 J. L. & Tech. (1997)
• MPLS VPNs Reopen Switch/Routing Debate EETimes, Oct. 18, 2001