About the Blog
Welcome to Info/Law, a blog about information, law, and most of all “Information Law.”
What is Information Law? We see it as an obvious convergence of intellectual property doctrine, communications regulation, First Amendment norms, and new technology. As information becomes the most precious commodity of the 21st century, the law surrounding it will have to evolve. That’s what we want to talk and think about here — along with various related and not-so-related threads (hey, “information” covers a lot of ground!).
About the authors:
- William McGeveran is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota Law School in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He is a graduate of Carleton College and the New York University School of Law and was a law clerk to Circuit Judge Sandra Lynch of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and an intellectual property litigator. Before law school he worked in Washington politics for seven years.
- Derek Bambauer is Assistant Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Law School, and spent two years as a Research Fellow working on the OpenNet Initiative. Derek has five years’ experience as a principal systems engineer, Web designer, and technical writer at Lotus, a division of IBM.
- Tim Armstrong is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Texas School of Law, and Harvard Law School, and was a law clerk to Circuit Judge John Minor Wisdom of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Info/Law began when all three authors were fellows at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School (which continues to host Info/Law on its server).
We hope you enjoy it!