INTERESTS

• Transparency– How we are “Getting Naked” all of a sudden. Who should and shouldn’t “get naked.”

• Privacy — The current state of privacy protections online under our existing tort law regime.

• Celebrity privacy & the privacy of those who make themselves celebrity.

• Resource Wars– Whether it’s over water or over the digital commons (I put Network Neutrality here).

• Constitutional interpretation of Article 1, Section 8– The Copyright & Patent Clause.

• First Amendment jurisprudence — student rights on college campuses specifically.

• Trans-lay-tion – crafting complex issues in a way that a compelling narrative, as well as the facts, can get citizens to come to public judgment & move public policy.

• Civic Engagement — Online deliberative dialogue, citizen journalism, the use of mobile technology to drive action.

• Human Rights Online — How U.S. Policy affects policy abroad. How covenants like the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights are applicable to the online world.

• California–Its’ diverse geography is less diverse than its’ people. Looking at the sub-urban election in California in 2008 and beyond.

Publications

On Privacy: Liberty in the Digital Revolution, Journal of High Technology Law (Forthcoming Summer 2010).

Democracy 2.0: Millennial-Generated Change to American Governance, National Civic Review, Volume 97, No. 3 (2008).

Running Cases Through a Merck Sieve: Biopharmaceutical Research in the Wake of Merck v. Integra, University of San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, Volume 12, No. 2 (2008).

Survey, Kemin Foods, L.C. v. Pigmentos Vegetales del Centro S.A. de C.V. University of San Francisco Intellectual Property Law Bulletin, Volume 11, No. 2 (2007).