State of Play VI: Speakers' Bios

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Joshua Fairfield brings a spirited pedagogy and a strong interest in the intersection of computing technologies and law to his courses in commercial law. Before earning his JD magna cum laude from the University of Chicago in 2001, he directed the development of the award winning Rosetta Stone Language Library, a leading language teaching software program for educational institutions. After law school, Professor Fairfield clerked for Judge Danny J. Boggs at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He then joined Jones Day in Columbus, Ohio, where he litigated cases in commercial law and software/technology law. Before going to Indiana, Professor Fairfield taught comparative law to LLM students at Columbia Law School.

Professor Fairfield's scholarship is focused in the areas of commercial law, comparative commercial law, property law, and computer law. His publications include "Virtual Property," Boston University Law Review (2005); "Cracks in the Foundation: The CAN-SPAM Act's Hidden Threat to Privacy and Commerce," Arizona State Law Journal (2004); "To Err Is Human: The Judicial Conundrum of Curing Apprendi Error," Baylor Law Review (2003); and "ERISA Preemption and the Case for a Federal Common Law of Agency Governing Employer-Administrators," Comment, University of Chicago Law Review (2001).

Fairfield joined the Indiana Law faculty in the fall of 2005, and has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Washington & Lee University since 2007.