State of Play VI: Speakers' Bios

Profile

James Grimmelmann is a Resident Fellow of the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. He received his J.D. in 2005 from Yale, where he was Editor-in-Chief of LawMeme and a member of the Yale Law Journal. He received an A.B. in computer science from Harvard College in 1999. He has worked as a programmer for Microsoft, as a legal intern for Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

He studies how the law governing the creation and use of computer software affects the distribution of wealth, power, and freedom in society. As a lawyer and technologist, he aims to help these two groups speak intelligibly to each other. He writes on such topics as intellectual property, virtual worlds, search engines, electronic commerce, online privacy, and the use of software as a regulator. 

Web Presence

In The News...

• Featured in Interview Magazine's "50 People to Watch" (June 2007)
  

Selected Publications

• Cybercrime: Digital Cops in a Networked Environment Coedited and authored with Jack M. Balkin, Eddan Katz, Nimrod Kozlovski, Shlomit Wagman, and Tal Zarsky eds., (N.Y.U. Press 2006)
• Virtual Borders, First Monday (Feb. 2006)
• Regulation by Software, 114 Yale L.J. 1719 (2005)
  • Regulation by Software was awarded the Michael Egger prize for the best student scholarship in volume 114 of the Yale Law Journal.
• Virtual Worlds as Comparative Law, 49 N.Y. L. Sch. L. Rev. 147 (2005).