
Postindustrial and Pittsblog
I write essays about Pittsburgh and its postindustrial futures (plural!) for Postindustrial, a local magazine. My themes echo my writing years ago at Pittsblog, a blog about Pittsburgh and 21st century urbanism that I created in 2004 and published through 2011. Since 2012, Pittsblog essays have appeared at madisonian.net. Since 2020, they have found a home at postindustrial.com. [PIttsblog’s pre-2012 version is here.]

The Future Law Project
The Future Law Project (FLP) produces a forum for leadership conversations about ongoing transformations in two areas.
One is the future of law as a field of expertise and information. By tradition, that’s the legal profession, but traditions are changing. Amid massive and continuing disruptions in economic conditions, technologies, and social and physical mobility, both locally and globally, what is the future of legal education? Of law firms, nonprofit organizations, and other legal services providers? Courts and other dispute resolution institutions? Systems for providing access to law, legal information, and justice itself?
Two is the future of law itself as political, economic, and cultural infrastructure, again, amid massive changes to economic, technological, and geographic conditions.
Partnership to Advance Responsible Technology (PART)
A Pittsburgh Intellectual Property Hall of Fame
Items, people, and companies are included or omitted based entirely on one person’s judgment (mine), based on 20 years of living and working in Pittsburgh, 30 years of working in and studying intellectual property law, and more than 50 years of cultivating idiosyncratic tastes. [Image via DALL-E and craiyon]
Law, Technology, and Society Researchers
To correct errors and omissions, please contact me by email. [Image via DALL-E and craiyon]
The Law of Intellectual Property
I co-authored all five editions with Craig Nard (Case Western Reserve University). The third, fourth, and fifth editions were also co-authored with Mark McKenna (UCLA). The first and second editions were also co-authored with David Barnes (Seton Hall).
Three Rivers IP & Tech Law Colloquium
The event is a forum for scholarly conversations among researchers affiliated with universities in the “Three Rivers” region, centered in Pittsburgh but broadly defined. Hosting rotates annually between Pitt Law and Duquesne Law.