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 tweet @grimmelm and blog at The Laboratorium.

Cornell Tech
2 West Loop Road
New York, NY 10044
james.grimmelmann@cornell.edu
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Teaching

• Fundamentals of Modern Software (Fall 2021)
• Intellectual Property (Fall 2021)
• Internet Law (Spring 2022)
• Content Moderation Reading Group (Spring 2022)

Current Research

• Programming Languages and Law: A Research Agenda, 2nd ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law (Nov. 1-2, 2022) (forthcoming)
• Littleton: A Future Interests Interpreter
• Shrutarshi Basu, Nate Foster, James Grimmelmann, Shan Parikh, and Ryan Richardson, A Programming Language for Future Interests, 24 Yale Journal of Law and Technology 75 (2022)
• James Grimmelmann, Yan Ji, and Tyler Kell, Copyright Vulnerabilities in NFTs, IC3 Blog (Mar. 21, 2022) (also adapted for The Verge)
• 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.
• My other writings are collected on my Publications page.

Service

I edit the Viewpoints: Law and Technology column for CACM and co-edit the Technology Law section for Jotwell.

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