Tim’s research interests include copyright and other intellectual property law, digital rights management and other legal issues arising from networked communications technologies, licensing and other issues surrounding free and open-source software, and statutory interpretation. He is the co-author, along with Professor William McGeveran of the University of Minnesota Law School and Professor Derek Bambauer of Wayne State University Law School, of Info/Law, a weblog focusing on legal issues arising from the domain of high technology and the Internet.
Tim completed a manuscript entitled Dueling Monologues on the Public Domain: What Digital Copyright Can Learn from Antitrust. The article, which examines the interplay between legal scholarship and substantive law and policy change over time, will be published online in … Continue reading →
Tim began a one-semester academic leave in January 2015. Tim’s Info/Law blog post, “Can States Copyright Their Statutes?,” was cited in Beth Ford, Comment, Open Wide the Gates of Legal Access, 93 Or. L. Rev. 539 (2014). His article Digital … Continue reading →
Tim delivered a presentation entitled “Internet & Society: Technologies and Politics of Control” at a meeting of the Harvard Law School Association of Cincinnati. He joined an amicus curiae brief filed by Professor Pamela Samuelson of the University of California, … Continue reading →
Tim presented a short paper entitled “The DMCA and the Cell Phone Unlocking Debate” as part of the College’s 2014 Downtown Teach-In for student scholarships, and to a student audience at the College of Law. Several of Tim’s articles were cited: Chevron Deference … Continue reading →
Several of Tim’s articles were cited: Chevron Deference and Agency Self-Interest, 13 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Policy 203 (2004), in R. George Wright, At What Is the Supreme Court Comparatively Advantaged?, 116 W. Va. L. Rev. 535 (2013); and in Philip … Continue reading →
Tim’s article, Chevron Deference and Agency Self-Interest, 13 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Policy 203 (2004), was cited in Student Author, Communications Act of 1934 — Chevron Deference — City of Arlington v. FCC, 127 Harv. L. Rev. 338 (2013). … Continue reading →
In October, two of Tim’s articles were cited: Digital Rights Management and the Process of Fair Use, 20 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 49 (2006), in Gregory Capobianco, Student Author, Rethinking Redigi: How a Characteristics-Based Test Advances the “Digital First Sale” … Continue reading →
Tim’s article, Chevron Deference and Agency Self-Interest, 13 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Policy 203 (2004), was cited in Philip A. Wallach, When Can You Teach an Old Law New Tricks?, 16 N.Y.U. J. Legis. & Pub. Pol’y 689 (2013) … Continue reading →
Two of Tim’s articles were cited: Chevron Deference and Agency Self-Interest, 13 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Policy 203 (2004), in Jacob E. Gersen, Administrative Law Goes to Wall Street: The New Administrative Process, 65 Admin. L. Rev. 689 (2013); and … Continue reading →
Three of Tim’s articles were cited in April: Chevron Deference and Agency Self-Interest, 13 Cornell J.L. & Pub. Policy 203 (2004), in Jason Marisam, Interagency Administration, 45 Ariz. St. L.J. 183 (2013); Shrinking the Commons: Termination of Copyright Licenses and … Continue reading →