Recent Publications

Law as Intermediary, 2006 Michigan St. L. Rev. 107 (2006) [final version, pdf]

The Information Semicommons, 18 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1127 (2003) [pdf 433 kb]

Forthcoming and Works in Progress

Growing Up Digital: Control and the Pieces of a Digital Life, for, "The MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning," Volume 6: Innovative Uses and Unexpected Outcomes (edited by Tara MacPherson) (September 2007)

The Information Semicommons: Information, Ownership and Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (book, in draft)

Keeping Copies Past the Due Date: Howitt v. Hall and Reversionary Copyright Interests in the Digital Age (article, in draft)

Living in Glass Houses: The Need for Transparency in Democratic Technology (article, in draft)

 

Journal Publications and Outlines of Public Talks

Is this Art Illegal? (outline, lunchtime talk, Sainsbury Centre, UEA, October 2003) [pdf]

Technology Raises Risk of Tyranny, Op Ed, LA Times, Dec. 5 2002 [reprinted, inter alia, in the Chicago Tribune]

Manual for Administrative Law Judges and Hearing Officers (editor/chapter author), NYS Department of Civil Service (2002) [pdf here 2.6 mb; alternative scan of original here: large pdf file: 15 mb]

Co-author, Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996: An Update on Zoning and Wireless Facilities, Urban Lawyer (Fall 1998), with D. Pugh & R. Foster.

Rights and Freedoms under the State Constitution (symposium participant), 13 Touro L. Rev. 98 (1996).

The State Role in Regulating Telecommunications: An Introduction, 6 Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology 1 (1996).

Author, Federal Preemption of Local Zoning, Sub-committee report (Land Use Regulation Committee, ABA State and Local Government Law Section) Urban Lawyer (1999).

Chapter Author, Siting of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities, in Salkin, New York Zoning Law and Practice (West 1999).

Chapter Author, Land Use Law Sites on the World Wide Web, ABA State and Local Law Section Land Use Law Update (1999).

Chapter Author, Site Development Plan Review, in Salkin, New York Zoning Law and Practice (West 2000).

Contributor, Historical Dictionary of American Radio, Godfrey & Leigh (Greenwood Publ. 1998)

The Role of Legislation, and the Legislature, in the Regulatory Reform Process, 1 Albany Law Environmental Outlook 36 (1995) [pdf]

Public Deposits and Investments: A Review of Investment and Banking Law as Applied to Local Governments, Government Law Center of Albany Law School (2002)

Alcohol Over the Airwaves, Broadcasting and the Law: Volume 1, published jointly by the Government Law Center of Albany Law School/New York State Broadcasters Association (1994, revised 2001).

Lotteries and Games of Chance, Broadcasting and the Law: Volume 2, published jointly, Government Law Center of Albany Law School/New York State Broadcasters Association (1994, revised 2001).

Intermunicipal Cooperative Agreements, A Practical Guide, Issues & Options, National League of Cities, 1994.

 

Magazine, Newspaper & Newsletter Articles

Dealing with Towers, Antennas, and Satellite Dishes, 48 Land Use L. & Zn. Dg. 3 (Nov. 1996).

Wireless Facilities Siting: National Protections, Local Control, CCH Power and Telecom Law, vol. 2, no. 6 (September/October 1999).

Technology Property: Instant Messaging for Lawyers, Probate and Property (publication of the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section), May/June 2001

Technology Property: Pitfalls of Exchanging Documents Electronically, Probate and Property (publication of the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section), January/February 2001

Technology Property: Technofears and Modern Law Practice, Probate and Property (publication of the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section), May/June 2000

Technology Property: Finding and Using Forms on the Internet, Probate and Property (publication of the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section), January/February 2000

Ways the legal profession can make use of the Internet, The Business Review (Albany), April 26, 1999

Training helps employees overcome 'technophobia', The Business Review (Albany), July 13, 1998

Technology/Property: Law Practice on the World Wide Web, Probate and Property (publication of the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section), May/June 1998

Web poses potential ethics pitfalls for lawyers, The Business Review (Albany), April 25, 1997