Internet Law: Cases and Problems, Semaphore Press (2d ed. 2012) (homepage)
Speech Engines, 94 Minnesota Law Review (forthcoming 2014) (PDF)
Some Skepticism About Search Neutrality, in The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet (Berin Szoka & Adam Marcus eds., TechFreedom 2010) (PDF, HTML)
The Google Dilemma, 53 New York Law School Law Review 939 (2009) (PDF)
Information Policy for the Library of Babel, 3 Journal of Business and Technology Law 29 (2008) (PDF, Draft HTML)
Don’t Censor Search, 117 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 48 (2007) (HTML/PDF)
The Structure of Search Engine Law, 93 Iowa Law Review 1 (2007)
(PDF)
Three Theories of Copyright in Ratings, 14 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law 851 (2012) (PDF)
The Ethical Visions of Copyright Law, 77 Fordham Law Review 2005 (2009) (PDF)
Future Conduct and the Limits of Class-Action Settlements, 91 North Carolina Law Review 387 (2013) (PDF)
The Orphan Wars, EDUCAUSE Review, Jan./Feb. 2011, at 48 (PDF, HTML)
The Elephantine Google Books Settlement, 58 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 497 (2011) (PDF)
D Is for Digitize: An Introduction, 55 New York Law School Law Review 11 (2010) (PDF)
The Amended Google Books Settlement Is Still Exclusive, CPI Antitrust Journal (Jan. 2010) (PDF)
The Google Settlement: Why It Matters, Publishers Weekly (Nov. 23, 2009) (HTML)
Objections to the Google Books Settlement and Responses in the Amended Settlement
The Google Book Search Settlement: Ends, Means, and the Future of Books, American Constitution Society Issue Brief (Apr. 15, 2009) (PDF)
How to Fix the Google Book Search Settlement, Journal of Internet Law, April 2009, at 1 (Draft PDF)
The Illegal Process: Basic Problems in the Making and Application of Censorship: 79 University of Chicago Law Review Dialogue 57 (2013) (responding to Derek E. Bambauer, Orwell’s Armchair, 79 University of Chicago Law Review 863 (2012)) (PDF)
Sealand, HavenCo, and the Rule of Law, 2012 University of Illinois Law Review 405 (PDF)
James Grimmelmann and Paul Ohm, Book Review, Dr. Generative or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the iPhone, 69 Maryland Law Review 910 (2010) (reviewing Jonathan Zittrain, The Future of the Internet—And How to Stop It (2008)) (PDF)
The Internet Is a Semicommons, 78 Fordham Law Review 2799 (2010) (PDF)
Note: Regulation by Software, 114 Yale Law Journal 1719 (2005) (PDF)
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) (HTML)
This essay is a slightly edited version of an address Cindy Cohn delivered at the Ars Electronica festival in 2003. It is available under a Creative Commons license thanks to generous permissions from her and from Ars Electronica.
First-Class Objects, 9 Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law 421 (2011) (PDF)
Known and Unknown, Property and Contract: Comments on Hoofnagle and Moringiello, 5 Brooklyn Journal of Corporate, Financial, and Commercial Law 85 (2011) (PDF)
The Privacy Virus, in Facebook and Philosphy (Dylan Wittkower ed., Open Court 2010) (Amazon preview)
Privacy as Product Safety, 26 Widener Law Journal 793 (2010) (PDF)
The Unmasking Option, 87 Denver University Law Review Online 23 (2010) (PDF)
Saving Facebook, 94 Iowa Law Review 1137 (2009)
(PDF)
Saving Facebook: A Response to Professor Freiwald, 95 Iowa Law Review Bulletin 13 (2009) (PDF)
Accidental Privacy Spills, Journal of Internet Law, July 2008, at 3 (PDF)
Virtual World Feudalism, 118 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 126 (2009) (HTML/PDF)
Virtual World Law, in Busines and Legal Primer for Game Development (S. Gregory Boyd & Brian Green eds., Charles River Media 2006) (PDF)
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) (Draft PDF)
Virtual Borders: The Interdependence of Real and Virtual Worlds, First Monday (Feb. 2006) (HTML)
Virtual Worlds as Comparative Law, 49 New York Law School Law Review 147 (2004) (PDF)
State of Play II Primers (prepared for State of Play II conference, Oct. 2004) (PDF)
Thanks to the kind permission of New York Law School, my contributions only (the Contract, Copyright, Free Expression, Property, and Trademark primers) are available under a Creative Commons license.
Undiplomatic Immunity, Jotwell: Cyberlaw (Nov. 2011) (reviewing Felix T. Wu, Collateral Censorship and the Limits of Intermediary Immunity, 87 Notre Dame Law Review 101 (2011)) (HTML)
Good Faith Scholarship, Jotwell: Cyberlaw (Oct. 2010) (reviewing Joseph Michael Reagle Jr., Good Faith Collaboration: The Culture of Wikipedia (2010)) (HTML)
Third Parties to the Rescue, Jotwell: Cyberlaw (Nov. 2009) (reviewing Michael Risch, Virtual Third Parties, 25 Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal 416 (2009)) (HTML)
Copyright, Technology, and Access to the Law: An Opinionated Primer (2008) (HTML, PDF)
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) (PDF)
Why Johnny Can’t Stream: How Video Copyright Went Insane, Ars Technica (August 30, 2012) (HTML)
Death of a Data Haven: Cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the World’s Smallest Nation, Ars Technica (March 27, 2012) (HTML)
Owning the Stack: The Legal War to Control the Smartphone Platform, Ars Technica (Sept. 11, 2011) (HTML)
Total Information Awareness, The New Republic (online ed.) (Dec. 11, 2008) (HTML)
Koans of Equity, 58 Journal of Legal Education 472 (2008) (PDF)
SSRN Considered Harmful (Feb. 2007) (PDF)
Bunnies, Ducks, and One Great Dane, KillingTheBuddha.com (Jan. 2002) (HTML)
Peer-to-Peer Terrorism, Salon.com (Sept. 26, 2001) (HTML)
From Each According to His IPO, Salon.com (Apr. 25, 2001) (HTML)
My Week, Grist Magazine (Oct. 2000) (HTML)
This series of diaries is available under a Creative Commons license through kind permission from Grist.
Quantum Computation: An Introduction (unpublished undergraduate thesis 1999)
(PDF)
Elements of the Theory of Computation (2d ed.): Solutions Manual (Prentice-Hall 1999)
Please do not ask me for a copy. I do not own the copyright, and I am not in a position to verify teachers’ credentials. All inquiries should be directed to Prentice-Hall.
Finding Every Loophole, Harvard Crimson (Oct. 1, 1998) (HTML)
Welcome to Microsoft: Here Be Dragons, Harvard Computer Review (Sept. 1997) (HTML)
James Grimmelmann, Sarah Hurwitz, and Benjamin Rahn, Towards a More Flexible Core, Harvard Crimson (Apr. 10, 1997) (HTML)
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