NEW FOR SPRING 2026
Projects:
I am co-organizing and hosting a roundtable and lecture series titled “The Ethics and Economics of Expertise: The University in the AI Age”. Season 2 of “Your Leadership Podcast” wraps and Season 3 launches. Monthly PASTA lunches continue. The Substack newsletter “Everything in Between” continues. The Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons is planning for a workshop event and publication that focuses on Generative AI.
Publications:
The IPCC as Expert Knowledge Commons, in The Environmental Knowledge Commons: Cases and Lessons for Knowledge Sharing (Anjanette Raymond, Scott J. Shackelford, Jessica Steinberg, and Michael Mattioli eds.) (2026)
The Past, Present, and Future of Polycentric Legal Order: a Comparative Institutional Analysis of Lex Mercatoria and Blockchain, J. Institutional Economics (2026) DOI: 10.1017/S1744137425100386 (with Ilia Murtazashvili and Ali Palida)
An Emergent Order Perspective on Governance of Generative AI Review of Austrian Econ. (2025) DOI: 10.1007/s11138-025-00706-1 (with Ilia Murtazashvili and Timothy G. Wood)
Teaching:
The Spring 2026 course syllabus for Copyright Law is now available.
FORTHCOMING WORK
The Decentralized Autonomous Corporation as Knowledge Commons, in Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons (David Gindis ed.) (with Ilia Murtazashvili)
Knowledge Commons, in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law (Paul Torremans, Irini Stamatoudi, Peter K. Yu, and Justin Jütte eds.)
LATEST ARTICLES AND ESSAYS
The Past, Present, and Future of Polycentric Legal Order: a Comparative Institutional Analysis of Lex Mercatoria and Blockchain, J. Institutional Economics (2026) DOI: 10.1017/S1744137425100386 (with Ilia Murtazashvili and Ali Palida)
An Emergent Order Perspective on Governance of Generative AI Review of Austrian Econ. (2025) DOI: 10.1007/s11138-025-00706-1 (with Ilia Murtazashvili and Timothy G. Wood)
A Substack newsletter, “Everything in Between,” launched in August 2024.
The Futures of Law, Lawyers, and Law Schools: A Dialogue 85 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 207 (2024) (with Sameer M. Ashar, Benjamin H. Barton, and Rachel F. Moran)
Building Legal Leaders, post at ColinSLevy.com on legal technology (July 16, 2024)
LATEST BOOK CHAPTERS
La chasse aux diplômes (The Paper Chase), in 100 films à voir (ou à revoir) lorsque l’on est juriste (100 films to watch or rewatch when you are a lawyer) (Mathieu Perrin ed. 2025)
Smart Cities and Knowledge Commons, in Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons (Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, and Madelyn R. Sanfilippo, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2023) DOI: 10.1017/9781108938532.002
The Kind of Solution a Smart City Is: Knowledge Commons and Postindustrial Pittsburgh, in Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons (Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, and Madeline R. Sanfilippo eds.) (Cambridge University Press 2023) (reviewed in JOTWELL, here) DOI: 10.1017/9781108938532.009
LATEST BOOKS
Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons (Cambridge University Press, 2023) (edited with Brett M. Frischmann and Madelyn R. Sanfilippo) DOI: 10.1017/9781108938532
Governing Medical Knowledge Commons (Katherine J. Strandburg, Brett M. Frischmann, and Michael J. Madison eds.) (Cambridge University Press 2017) DOI: 10.1017/9781316544587
LATEST PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Power, Participation, and Heterogeneity in Knowledge Commons (panel chair), 20th Biennial Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, June 17, 2025
Governing Knowledge Commons (GKC) Convergence Conference (co-organizer), Villanova University Charles E. Widger School of Law, Villanova, PA, May 22-23, 2025
Bad Commons: Silicon Valley, ‘Technically Urban’ Workshop, University of Pittsburgh Department of Sociology, Pittsburgh, PA, April 23, 2025
Pitt Business Impact Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2025, University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business, Pittsburgh, PA, April 11, 2025
Lastowka Cyberlaw Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania Wharton School, Philadelphia, PA, March 27-28, 2025
2025 Three Rivers Intellectual Property and Technology Law Colloquium, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Pittsburgh, PA, January 17, 2025
The Decentralized Autonomous Corporation as Knowledge Commons, World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) 2024 Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, September 20, 2024
OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
Learning module: Data Governance, part of the Information Ecosystems Cookbook (May 17, 2022)
WRITING ABOUT POSTINDUSTRIAL CITIES AND PITTSBURGH
Opinion articles published at PostIndustrial magazine (2020-2023)
[Last updated 20 January 2026; images via Stable Diffusion and DALL-E]