James Grimmelmann
I’m a professor at Cornell Law School
and Cornell Tech, where I direct CTRL-ALT, the Cornell Tech Research Lab in Applied Law and Technology.
I study how laws regulating software affect freedom, wealth, and power. I try to help lawyers and technologists understand each other. My research interests include search engines, digital copyright, online governance, content moderation, and other topics in computer and Internet law.
I am working on a book, CPU, Esq.: How Lawyers and Coders Do Things with Words, which explores the linguistic parallels between software and legal texts.
I tweet @jtlg@mastodon.lawprofs.org and blog at The Laboratorium.
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Current Teaching
Recent Writings
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Madiha Zahrah Choksi and James Grimmelmann, How Licenses Learn, 28 Lewis and Clark Law Review 249 (2024)
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Armin Namavari, Barry Wang, Sanketh Menda, Ben Nassi, Nirvan Tyagi, James Grimmelmann, Amy Zhang, and Thomas Ristenpart, Private Hierarchical Governance for Encrypted Messaging, 45th IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy (Oakland) (2024)
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Yan Ji and James Grimmelmann, Regulatory Implications of MEV Mitigations, 5th Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance (CoDecFin) (forthcoming)
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Madiha Zarah Choksi, Marianne Aubin Le Quéré, Travis Lloyd, Ruojia Tao, James Grimmelmann, and Mor Naaman, Under the (Neighbor)hood: Hyperlocal Surveillance on Nextdoor, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) (2024)
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James Grimmelmann, Blake E. Reid, and Alan Z. Rozenshtein, Generative Baseline Hell and the Regulation of Machine-Learning Foundation Models, Lawfare (May 8, 2024)
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The Return of Age Verification Laws, Communications of the ACM, May 2024, at 34
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Katherine Lee, A. Feder Cooper, and James Grimmelmann, Talkin’ ’Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative-AI Supply Chain, Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. (forthcoming 2024)
Resources
I have written three inexpensive casebooks: Internet Law: Cases and Problems, Patterns of Information Law (IP), and Open Source Property (with four colleagues).
I maintain some lists of IP/tech resources for scholars and students:
Cornell Tech
2 West Loop Road
New York, NY 10044
james.grimmelmann@cornell.edu
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