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, Lewis and Clark Law Review (forthcoming 2024)
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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)
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Katherine Lee, A. Feder Cooper, and James Grimmelmann, Talkin’ ’Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative-AI Supply Chain (The Short Version), 3rd ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law 48 (2024)
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A. Feder Cooper, Katherine Lee, Madiha Zahrah Choksi, Solon Barocas, Christopher De Sa, James Grimmelmann, Jon Kleinberg, Siddhartha Sen, and Baobao Zhang, Arbitrariness and Social Prediction: The Confounding Role of Variance in Fair Classification, AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) (forthcoming 2024)
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Timothy B. Lee and James Grimmelmann, Why The New York Times Might Win Its Copyright Lawsuit Against OpenAI, Ars Technica
(Feb. 20, 2024)
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Charles Duan and James Grimmelmann, Content Moderation on End-to-End Encrypted Systems: A Legal Analysis, 8 Georgetown Law Technology Review 1 (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
he/him/his
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