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. Sign up for updates.

I tweet @jtlg@mastodon.lawprofs.org and blog at The Laboratorium.

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Current Teaching

• Intellectual Property (Fall 2023)
• Digital Property (Spring 2024)
• Content Moderation and Platform Regulation (Spring 2024)

Recent Writings

• Report of the 1st Workshop on Generative AI and Law (with A. Feder Cooper, Katherine Lee, Daphne Ippolito, and 31 others) (2023)
• Talkin’ ‘Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative AI Supply Chain (with Katherine Lee and A. Feder Cooper) (draft 2023)
• Internet Law: Cases and Problems (13th ed. 2023)
• Words of Wisdom, Jotwell: Technology Law (June 2023), reviewing Samuel R. Bowman, Eight Things to Know About Large Language Models
• Content Moderation on End-to-End Encrypted Systems: A Legal Analysis, Georgetown Law Technology Journal (forthcoming) (with Charles Duan)
• The Structure and Legal Interpretation of Computer Programs, 1 Journal of Cross-Disciplinary Research in Computational Law no. 3, art. 19 (2023)
• An Economic Model of Intermediary Liability, Berkeley Technology Law Journal (forthcoming) (with Pengfei Zhang)

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
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