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FOR FALL 2026

Projects:

I am co-organizing and hosting the second year of a roundtable and lecture series titled “The Ethics and Economics of Expertise: The University in the AI Age”. “Your Leadership Podcast” continues. Monthly PASTA lunches continue. The Substack newsletter “Everything in Between” continues. The Workshop on Governing Knowledge Commons is planning a publication that focuses on Generative AI and continuing to extend the knowledge commons community of practice and research around the world.

Research and Publications: 

In progress:

Among other work, I am producing a book chapter on knowledge commons, AI, and Silicon Valley; an article on copyright and other systems for capturing all of the world’s knowledge, now including Generative AI; and a book manuscript on the past, present, and several futures of universities.

Recently published:

“The Decentralized Autonomous Corporation as Knowledge Commons,” in Governing Corporate Knowledge Commons (David Gindis ed.) (Cambridge University Press 2026) (with Ilia Murtazashvili)

“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.) (Cambridge University Press 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 Economics (2025) DOI: 10.1007/s11138-025-00706-1 (with Ilia Murtazashvili and Timothy G. Wood)

Teaching:

Fall 2026 course syllabi and readings for Trademark Law and Technology, Law and Leadership are now available.

FORTHCOMING WORK

“Silicon Valley and the Limits of Knowledge Commons,” forthcoming in Governing Generative AI as Knowledge Commons (Ece Gumusel, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, and Michael J. Madison eds.) (Cambridge University Press)

“Knowledge Commons,” forthcoming in the Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law (Paul Torremans, Irini Stamatoudi, Peter K. Yu, and Justin Jütte eds.)