Robert A. Heverly

Robert Heverly was appointed to the Norwich Law School Faculty in June 2003 as a Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law. He earned his LL.M. from Yale Law School, after which he undertook a Resident Fellowship with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Robert received a dual Bachelor of Arts (Broadcasting & Mass Communications Studies and Psychology) from the State University of New York College at Oswego (with honours), and his Juris Doctor (with honours) from Albany Law School of Union University. In the nine years between earning his J.D. and his LL.M., worked at the Government Law Center of Albany Law School, focusing on telecommunications, media, technology, and eventually the Internet; government and administrative law; U.S. federalism; and, land use and environmental law. He has also taught in Trier, Germany, as a Guest Professor in the Common Law.

Mr. Heverly is active in the intellectual property, technology and telecommunications law arenas. He has recently taken on the role as Project Leader of Open Access Law Europe, working with academics and scholars across Europe to make both primary materials and legal scholarship more freely available. He retains an appointment as an Affiliated Faculty Fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, serves as a member of the Editorial Board of I/S: A Journal of Law and Society for the Information Age, and serves as a member of the Legal Experts Panel of the Carnegie Mellon based Institute for the Study of Information and Technology in Society (InSITeS). In addition, he is a member of the Working Group on Property, Citizenship and Social Entrepreneurism at Syracuse University, and is involved in the Democracy Design Workshop at New York Law School. Robert has also served on the Board of Editors of the International Journal of Communications Law & Policy, served as the Convention Chair for the 2001 Convention of the Broadcast Education Association, and has participated in or chaired panels for the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, and the Engineering Professional Development Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Robert’s research interests include intellectual property, technology and society (especially the Internet, computers, networks, and information law), media law, property, and globalization. His courses include intellectual property law, international copyright law, information technology law, law and the information society, and a number of related topics.