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

• Intellectual Property (Fall 2024)
• Digital Property (Spring 2025)
• The Law of Software (Spring 2025)

Recent Writings

• Kenny Peng and James Grimmelmann, Rescuing Counterspeech: A Bridging-Based Approach to Combating Misinformation (draft 2024)
• David Goedicke, Alexandra Bremers, Stacey Li, James Grimmelmann, and Wendy Ju, Mutual Benefit: The Case for Sharing Autonomous Vehicle Data with the Public (draft 2024)
• Public Business and Private Accounts, Communications of the ACM, September 2024, at 37
• The Barons and the Mob (Charles Duan and James Grimmelmann, eds., 2024)
• The Defamation Machine (2024)
• When Law is Code, Jotwell: Technology Law (July 2024)
• A. Feder Cooper and James Grimmelmann, The Files are in the Computer: On Copyright, Memorization, and Generative AI, Chicago-Kent Law Review (forthcoming)
• Internet Law: Cases and Problems (Semaphore Press 14th ed. 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:

• Inexpensive casebooks
• Resources for students
• Edited cases
• Research ideas

Contact

Cornell Tech
2 West Loop Road
New York, NY 10044
james.grimmelmann@cornell.edu
he/him/his

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