Latest

• Too Much of a Good Thing? A Governing Knowledge Commons Review of Abundance in Context, Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics Sec. Research Policy and Strategic Management (13 July 2022) DOI: 10.3389/frma.2022.959505 (with Brett M. Frischmann, Madelyn R. Sanfilippo, and Katherine J. Strandburg)
• Government by Code? Blockchain Applications to Public Sector Governance, Frontiers in Blockchain 5:869665 (21 June 2022) DOI: 10.3389/fbloc.2022.869665 (with Pedro Bustamante, Meina Cai, Marcela Gomez, Colin Harris, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Wilson Law, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili, Tymofiy Mylovanov, Nataliia Shapoval, Annette Vee, and Martin Weiss)
• Blockchain Networks as Knowledge Commons, Int’l J. of the Commons 16:108–119 (16 June 2022) DOI: 10.5334/ijc.1146 (with Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer B. Murtazashvili, and Martin B.H. Weiss)
• Ostrom amongst the Machines: Blockchain as a Knowledge Commons, Cosmos + Taxis 10:3+4 1-15 (2022) (with Herminio Bodon, Pedro Bustamante, Marcela Gomez, Prashant Krishnamurthy, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Murtazashvili, Tymofiy Mylovanov, and Martin Weiss)
• Fair Play: Notes on the Algorithmic Soccer Referee, 23 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 341-432 (2021)
• No Machines in the Garden, JOTWELL, Jan. 13, 2021 (reviewing Rebecca Crootof & BJ Ard, Structuring TechLaw, 34 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 347 (2021))
• Tools for Data Governance, 2020 Technology & Regulation 29-43 DOI: 10.26116/techreg.2020.004
• Faculty Perspectives: The ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Education, AALS News (Spring 2020)

• The Kind of Solution a Smart City Is: Knowledge Commons and Postindustrial Pittsburgh, Forthcoming 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)
• The Republic of Letters and the Origins of Scientific Knowledge Commons in Governing Privacy in Knowledge Commons (Madelyn Sanfilippo, Katherine J. Strandburg, and Brett M. Frischmann, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2021) DOI: 10.1017/9781108749978.007
• Data Governance and the Emerging University in Research Handbook on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer (Jacob H. Rooksby, ed.) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020) DOI: 10.4337/9781788116633.00027

• Governing Medical Knowledge Commons (Katherine J. Strandburg, Brett M. Frischmann, and Michael J. Madison eds.) (Cambridge University Press 2017) DOI: 10.1017/9781316544587
• Governing Knowledge Commons (Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, and Katherine J. Strandburg eds.) (Oxford University Press 2014) DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199972036.001.0001
• The Law of Intellectual Property (5th ed.) (Wolters Kluwer 2017) (with Craig Nard and Mark McKenna)

[See slide decks from recent presentations here.]

2022

• Organizer and host, Law’s Futures 3: New Institutions for Law and Legal Education (virtual), October 14, 2022
• It Isn’t Easy Being Free: the Promise and Peril of Knowledge for All, Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, University of Tulsa, Tulsa, OK, September 15, 2022
• Book launch panels for Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons and Governing Misinformation in Everyday Knowledge Commons, WINIR (World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research) Conference 2022 (virtual), September 8 and 8, 2022
• Contemporary Governance Problems in Knowledge, Information, Data, and Law, Governance Learning Forum (virtual), August 18 and 19, 2022
• Technology, Information, and the Rule of Law, European Humanities University Centre for Constitutionalism and Human Rights, Vilnius, Lithuania (virtual), August 1, 2022
• IP 2042, Law, Legal Institutions, and Technological Change Conference, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, WI, April 22-23, 2022
• Workshop: Cultural Heritage Institutions from a Commons Perspective, Center for Digitalization Research (CAIS), Bochum, Germany (virtual), March 1, 2022
• Fifth Annual Three Rivers Intellectual Property & Technology Law Colloquium (co-host), University of Pittsburgh School of Law (co-sponsored by the Duquesne University School of Law), Pittsburgh, PA (virtual), January 28-29, 2022

2021

• Governing Knowledge Commons: Looking Back and Looking Ahead, European University Institute, Florence, Italy (virtual), September 16, 2021
• 4th Conference on the Future of Legal Services, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (virtual), April 14-15, 2021
• Twenty-First Century Battles and Eighteenth Century Tools: Copyright in the COVID-19 Era (interview, conducted by Brendan Kredell), Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (Teaching Media, Spring 2021)
• Four Models of Law in Leadership, Lawyers, Leadership, and Change: Addressing Challenges and Opportunities in Unprecedented Times, Santa Clara University School of Law, Santa Clara, CA (virtual), February 26, 2021
• Fourth Annual Three Rivers Intellectual Property & Technology Law Colloquium (co-host), Duquesne University School of Law (co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law), Pittsburgh, PA (virtual), January 29, 2021
• The Future of Law in Technology and Governance (virtual seminar series) (organizer and host), University of Pittsburgh Center for Governance and Markets (co-sponsored by the University of Pittsburgh School of Law Future Law Project), Pittsburgh, PA, Spring 2021

2020

• Knowledge Commons and the Smart Post-Industrial City: Pittsburgh, Smart Cities GKC Workshop (virtual), October 9, 2020
• 3rd Conference on the Future of Legal Services, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland (virtual), April 6-7, 2020
• Trust, Truth, and Justice: A Soccer Story, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law Symposium, Vanderbilt University School of Law, Nashville, TN, February 20, 2020
• Third Annual Three Rivers Intellectual Property & Technology Law Colloquium (organizer and host), University of Pittsburgh School of Law (co-sponsored by the Duquesne University School of Law), Pittsburgh, PA, January 31, 2020

All podcast appearances

• The Future Law Podcast [co-host]
• EdUp Legal
• Oral Argument
• Ipse Dixit [on “the work of authorship” in copyright] [on soccer refereeing, VAR, and algorithms in judging]
• Products of Pittsburgh
• Information Ecosystems

• Learning module: Data Governance, part of the Information Ecosystems Cookbook (May 17, 2022)
• Syllabus and free/open materials: Copyright Law (Spring 2022)
• Syllabus and free/open materials: Leadership (Fall 2021)
• Syllabus and free/open materials: Trademark Law (Fall 2021)
• Syllabus and free/open materials: Contracts (Fall 2018)
• Syllabus and free/open materials: Intellectual Property in Institutional Context (Spring 2018)
• Syllabus: Foundations of Intellectual Property Law (seminar) (Spring 2021) (based on Intellectual Property at the Edge (Dreyfuss & Ginsburg eds.))

• Food and the Future of Postindustrial Cities, Postindustrial, December 22, 2022
• Public Art for Postindustrial Cities, Postindustrial, November 12, 2022
• On Stadium Names, Artificial Intelligence, and Pittsburgh Poetry, Postindustrial, August 15, 2022
• Pittsburgh’s Future Isn’t Local, Postindustrial, May 5, 2022
• Beyond Innovation Theater, Postindustrial, November 24, 2021
• Tech for all … but who’s it really for?, Postindustrial, September 25, 2021
• A New Pittsburgh Labor Movement, Part 2, Postindustrial, July 5, 2021
• A New Pittsburgh Labor Movement, Part 1, Postindustrial, July 1, 2021
• Renewing Pittsburgh’s Governance, Postindustrial, March 31, 2021
• Let’s expand what it means to be “a Pittsburgher”, Postindustrial, January 1, 2021
• Imagining a future Pittsburgh for all, Postindustrial, October 24, 2020
• Shaping the Pittsburgh region post-pandemic, TribLive, April 3, 2020 (with Chris Briem)

• Alumni Associations should help tackle humanity’s big challenges, Times Higher Education, November 18, 2021 (with Martin Skladany)

[Last updated 9 January 2023; images via DALL-E and craiyon]