James Grimmelmann

Professor of Law

Publications by Professor Grimmelmann

Privacy
Privacy as Product Safety, Widener Law Journal (forthcoming 2010)
The Privacy Virus, in Facebook and Philosphy (Dylan Wittkower ed., Open Court forthcoming 2010)
The Unmasking Option, 87 Denver University Law Review Online 23 (2010
Saving Facebook, 94 Iowa Law Review 1137 (2009)
Saving Facebook: A Response to Professor Freiwald, 95 Iowa Law Review Bulletin 13 (2009)
Accidental Privacy Spills, Journal of Internet Law, July 2008, at 3
Search Engines
The Google Dilemma, 53 New York Law School Law Review 939 (2009)
Information Policy for the Library of Babel, 3 Journal of Business and Technology Law 29 (2008)
Don’t Censor Search, 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 48 (2007)
The Structure of Search Engine Law, 93 Iowa Law Review 1 (2007)
 

Virtual Worlds
Virtual World Feudalism, 118 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 126 (2009)
Virtual World Law, in Busines and Legal Primer for Game Development (S. Gregory Boyd & Brian Green eds., Charles River Media 2006)
Virtual Power Politics, in The State of Play: Law, Games, and Virtual Worlds (Jack M. Balkin & Beth S. Noveck eds., N.Y.U. Press 2006)
Virtual Borders: The Interdependence of Real and Virtual Worlds, First Monday (Feb. 2006)
Virtual Worlds as Comparative Law, 49 New York Law School Law Review 147 (2004)
State of Play II Primers (prepared for State of Play II conference, Oct. 2004)

Google Books Settlement
The Amended Google Books Settlement Is Still Exclusive, CPI Antitrust Journal (Jan. 2010)
The Google Settlement: Why It Matters, Publishers Weekly (Nov. 23, 2009)
Objections to the Google Books Settlement and Responses in the Amended Settlement
• Version 1.0 (Dec. 2009)
• Version 2.0 (May 2010)
The Google Book Search Settlement: Ends, Means, and the Future of Books, American Constitution Society Issue Brief (Apr. 15, 2009)
How to Fix the Google Book Search Settlement, Journal of Internet Law, April 2009, at 1

Software, the Internet, and Collaboration

James Grimmelmann and Paul Ohm, Book Review, Dr. Generative or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPhone, 69 Maryland Law Review (forthcoming 2010) (reviewing Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It (2008))
The Ethical Visions of Copyright Law, 77 Fordham Law Review 2005 (2009)
Note: Regulation by Software, 114 Yale Law Journal 1719 (2005)
Cindy Cohn and James Grimmelmann,
Seven Ways in Which Code Equals Law (with Cindy Cohn), in Code: The Language of Our Time (Christine Schipf et al. eds., Hatje Cantz 2003)

Miscellaneous
Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: An Opinionated Primer (2008)
Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment (Jack M. Balkin, James Grimmelmann, Eddan Katz, Nimrod Kozlovski, Shlomit Wagman, and Tal Zarsky eds., N.Y.U. Press 2007)
Donald Braman, Dan M. Kahan, and James Grimmelmann, Modeling Facts, Culture, and Cognition in the Gun Debate, 18 Social Justice Research 283 (2005)
 

Non-Academic
Total Information Awareness, The New Republic (online ed.) (Dec. 11, 2008)
Koans of Equity, 58 Journal of Legal Education 472 (2008)
SSRN Considered Harmful (Feb. 2007)
Bunnies, Ducks, and One Great Dane, KillingTheBuddha.com (Jan. 2002)
Peer-to-Peer Terrorism, Salon.com (Sept. 26, 2001)
From Each According to His IPO, Salon.com (Apr. 25, 2001)
My Week, Grist Magazine (Oct. 2000)
Quantum Computation: An Introduction (unpublished undergraduate thesis 1999)
Elements of the Theory of Computation (2d ed.): Solutions Manual (Prentice-Hall 1999)
Finding Every Loophole, Harvard Crimson (Oct. 1, 1998)
Welcome to Microsoft: Here Be Dragons, Harvard Computer Review (Sept. 1997)
James Grimmelmann, Sarah Hurwitz, and Benjamin Rahn,
Towards a More Flexible Core, Harvard Crimson (Apr. 10, 1997)
 

Contact Information:

T: 212-431-2864 
F: 212-791-2144
E: james.grimmelmann@nyls.edu
O: 40 Worth St., SE 941

Education:

Harvard, B.A. 1999 (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)
Yale, J.D. 2005 (LawMeme, Editor-in-Chief; Yale Law Journal, Member)
Law Clerk, Hon. Maryanne Trump Barry, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit

Courses:

  • Copyright
  • Intellectual Property
  • Internet Law
  • Property Law

At New York Law School since 2007.

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