My Students

Maintained by James Grimmelmann
Current as of October 2025

I have had the pleasure of working with some outstanding junior scholars.

Postdoctoral Fellows

• Katrina Geddes (2023–25) (Ohio State)
• Benjamin Sobel (2023–25) (UW Madison)
• David Gray Widder (2023–25) (UT Austin)
• Charles Duan (2021–23) (American)
• Elettra Bietti (2022–23) (Northeastern)
• Sunoo Park (2021–22) (NYU)
• M.C. Forelle (2019–22) (Virginia)

Ph.D./J.S.D. Committees

• Dan Bateyko (Information Science)
• Madiha Zahrah Choksi (Information Science) (co-advisor)
• Andrés Fábrega (Computer Science)
• Kowe Kadoma (Information Science)
• Brandon Liu (Information Science) (advisor)
• Anshuman Mohan (Computer Science)
• Michelle du Plessis (Law) (advisor)
• Dani Vilardell (Computer Science)
• Sanketh Menda (Computer Science 2025) (Amazon Web Services)
• Aaron Gokaslan (Computer Science 2025) (MBZUAI)
• A. Feder Cooper (Computer Science 2024) (Yale)
• Yan Ji (Computer Science 2024) (Chainlink Labs)
• Ana Ruival (Law 2022) (World Bank)
• Lauren van Haaften-Schick (Art History 2022) (Columbia)
• Xiang Long (Computer Science 2021) (Google)

Visitors

• Artur Pericles L. Monteiro (visiting fellow 2026–)
• Leopold Beer (visiting fellow 2026–)
• Silvia Carreta (visiting PhD student 2023–24)
• Yijing (Cathy) Zhang (visiting PhD student 2023–24)
• Bao Kham Chau (visiting fellow 2022–24)

Seminar Papers

I teach two writing seminars and I encourage my students work up their papers for publication. The following articles were developed in part in these courses.

• Minjie Lu, Twins Raised Apart: A Case Study of Douyin and TikTok on Content Moderation Paradigms in China and the U.S, 21 University of Pennsylvania Asian Law Review 96 (2026)
• José Acevedo Mundaca, A Self-Eating Snake: Half-truths in the Chilean Constituent Process and Lessons for The Content Moderation Debate, 12 Revista de Investigações Constitucionais e520 (2025)
• Katherine Lee, A. Feder Cooper, and James Grimmelmann, Talkin’ ’Bout AI Generation: Copyright and the Generative-AI Supply Chain, 72 Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. 251 (2025)
• Yan Ji and James Grimmelmann, Regulatory Implications of MEV Mitigations, 5th Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance, in Financial Cryptography and Data Security. FC 2024 International Workshops 335 (2024)
• Madiha Zahrah Choksi and James Grimmelmann, How Licenses Learn, 28 Lewis and Clark Law Review 249 (2024)