James Grimmelmann

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James Grimmelmann is a Resident Fellow at the ISP. He received his J.D. in 2005 from Yale, where he was Editor-in-Chief of LawMeme and a member of the Yale Law Journal. He received an A.B. in computer science from Harvard College in 1999. He has worked as a programmer for Microsoft, as a legal intern for Creative Commons and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and as a law clerk to the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He will be an Associate Professor at New York Law School beginning in the 2007-08 academic year.

James studies how the law governing the creation and use of computer software affects the distribution of wealth, power, and freedom in society. As a lawyer and technologist, he aims to help these two groups speak intelligibly to each other. He writes on such topics as intellectual property, virtual worlds, search engines, electronic commerce, online privacy, and the use of software as a regulator. Recent publications include Virtual Borders, First Monday (Feb. 2006), Regulation by Software, 114 Yale L.J. 1719 (2005), and Virtual Worlds as Comparative Law, 49 N.Y. L. Sch. L. Rev. 147 (2005). Regulation by Software was awarded the Michael Egger prize for the best student scholarship in volume 114 of the Yale Law Journal.