I’m a law professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. I study how laws regulating software affect freedom, wealth, and power. I try to help lawyers and technologists understand each other by writing about digital copyright, search engines, privacy on social networks, online governance, and other topics in computer and Internet law.
I tweet @grimmelm and blog at The Laboratorium.
Cornell Tech
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New York, NY 10044
(657) 529-2633 [LAW-CODE]
james.grimmelmann@cornell.edu
Pronouns: he/him/his
CV | Biography | Courses | Publications
Bone Crusher 2.0: The Fourth Annual Greg Lastowka Memorial Lecture, 71 Rutgers University Law Review 843 (2019)
Property Conveyances as a Programming Language, in Proc. 2019 ACM SIGPLAN Int’l Symp. on New Ideas, New Paradigms, & Reflections on Programming and Software (Onward!) 128 (2019) (with Shrutarshi Basu and Nate Foster)
All Smart Contracts Are Ambiguous, 2 Journal of Law and Innovation 1 (2019)
I edit the Viewpoints: Law and Technology column for CACM and co-edit the Technology Law section for Jotwell. I am an Advisor to the joint ALI/ELI project on Principles for a Data Economy.
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: