Writing

A complete CV is available here (Web version) and here (pdf version).

BOOKS

• Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons (Cambridge University Press, 2023) (edited with Brett M. Frischmann and Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo) DOI: 10.1017/9781108938532
• Governing Medical Knowledge Commons (Cambridge University Press, 2017) (edited with Brett M. Frischmann and Katherine J. Strandburg) DOI: 10.1017/9781316544587
• Governing Knowledge Commons (Oxford University Press 2014) (edited with Brett M. Frischmann and Katherine J. Strandburg) DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199972036.001.0001

ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

• “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) DOI: 10.1017/9781009482134.014
• “Knowledge Commons Past, Present, and Future,” 28 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 303 (2024)
• “Smart Cities and Knowledge Commons,” in Governing Smart Cities as Knowledge Commons (Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison, and Madelyn Rose 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 Rose. Sanfilippo eds.) (Cambridge University Press 2023) (reviewed in JOTWELL, here) DOI: 10.1017/9781108938532.009
• “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 Rose Sanfilippo, and Katherine J. Strandburg)
• “Blockchain Networks as Knowledge Commons,” 16 Int’l J. of the Commons 108–119 (2022) (with Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer B. Murtazashvili, and Martin B.H. Weiss) DOI: 10.5334/ijc.1146 
• “Ostrom amongst the Machines: Blockchain as a Knowledge Commons,” 10 Cosmos + Taxis 3+4 1-15 (2022) (with Herminio Bodon, Pedro Bustamante, Marcela Gomez, Prashant Krisnamurthy, Ilia Murtazashvili, Jennifer Murtazashvili, Tymofiy Mylovanov, and Martin Weiss)
• “The Republic of Letters and the Origins of Scientific Knowledge Commons,” in Governing Privacy in Knowledge Commons (Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, Katherine J. Strandburg, and Brett M. Frischmann eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2021) DOI: 10.1017/9781108749978.007
• “Tools for Data Governance,” 2020 Technology & Regulation 29 DOI: 10.26116/techreg.2020.004“
• “Knowledge Commons,” in Research Handbook on the Economics of Intellectual Property Law (Vol. II – Analytical Methods) (Peter Menell & David Schwartz, eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) (with Brett M. Frischmann & Katherine J. Strandburg)
• “Biobanks as Knowledge Institutions,” in Global Genes, Local Concerns: Legal, Ethical, and Scientific Challenges in International Biobanking (Timo Minssen, Janne Rothmar Herrmann, and Jens Schovsbo eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019)
• “Knowledge Commons,” in Routledge Handbook of the Study of the Commons (Blake Hudson, Jonathan Rosenbloom, and Dan Cole eds.) (Routledge, 2019) (with Brett M. Frischmann and Katherine J. Strandburg)
• “Information Abundance and Knowledge Commons,” in User Generated Law: Re-Constructing Intellectual Property in a Knowledge Society (Thomas Riis ed.) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016)
• “Commons at the Intersection of Peer Production, Citizen Science, and Big Data: Galaxy Zoo,” in Governing Knowledge Commons (Brett M. Frischmann, Michael J. Madison & Katherine Strandburg eds.) (Oxford University Press, 2014)
• “Knowledge Curation,” 86 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1957 (2011)
• “Reply: The Complexity of Commons,” 95 Cornell L. Rev. 839 (2010) (with Brett M. Frischmann & Katherine J. Strandburg)
• “Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment,” 95 Cornell L. Rev. 657 (2010) (with Brett M. Frischmann & Katherine J. Strandburg)
• “The University as Constructed Cultural Commons,” 30 Wash. U. J. Law & Pol’y 365 (2009) (with Brett M. Frischmann and Katherine J. Strandburg)

• “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)
• “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)
• “Fair Play: Notes on the Algorithmic Soccer Referee,” 23 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 341-432 (2021)
• “Tools for Data Governance,” 2020 Technology & Regulation 29
• “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
• “Contrasts in Innovation: Pittsburgh Then and Now,” in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Evolving Economies: The Role of Law (Megan Carpenter ed.) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012)
• “Knowledge Curation,” 86 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1957 (2011)
• “Notes on a Geography of Knowledge,” 77 Fordham L. Rev. 2038 (2009)
• “Intellectual Property and Americana, or Why IP Gets the Blues,” 18 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 677 (2008)
• “Metaphor, Objects, and Commodities,” 54 Cleve. St. L. Rev. 141 (2006) (with George Taylor)
• “Social Software, Groups, and Governance,” 2006 Mich. St. L. Rev. 153
• “Complexity and Copyright in Contradiction,” 18 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L. J. 125 (2000)

• “IP Things as Boundary Objects: The Case of the Copyright Work,” 6 Laws 13 (2017)
• “The End of the Work as We Know It,” 19 J. Intell. Prop. L. 325 (2012)
• “Madisonian Fair Use,” 30 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 39 (2012)
• “Creativity and Craft,” in Creativity, Law, and Entrepreneurship (Shubha Ghosh & Robin Paul Malloy eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)
• “Beyond Creativity: Copyright as Knowledge Law,” 12 Vanderbilt J. Ent. & Tech. L. 817 (2010)
• “Some Optimism About Fair Use and Copyright Law,” 57 J. Copyright Soc’y U.S.A. 351 (2010)
• “Of Coase and Comics, or the Comedy of Copyright,” 95 Va. L. Rev. In Brief 27 (2009)
• “Fair Use and Social Practices,” in Intellectual Property and Information Wealth (Peter Yu ed.) (Greenwood Publishers, 2006)
• “Rewriting Fair Use and the Future of Copyright Reform,” 23 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L.J. 391 (2005)
• “A Pattern-Oriented Approach to Fair Use,” 45 Wm. & Mary L. Rev. 1525 (2004)
• “Where Does Creativity Come From? and Other Stories of Copyright,” 53 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 747 (2003)
• “Complexity and Copyright in Contradiction,” 18 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L. J. 125 (2000)

• “The Football as Intellectual Property Object,” in A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects (Claudy Op Den Kamp and Dan Hunter, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• “IP Things as Boundary Objects: The Case of the Copyright Work,” 6 Laws 13 (2017)
• “Understanding Access to Things: a Knowledge Commons Perspective,” in Intellectual Property and Access to Im/material Goods (Jessica Lai & Antoinette Maget Dominicé eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2016)
• “The End of the Work as We Know It,” 19 J. Intell. Prop. L. 325 (2012)
• “Metaphor, Objects, and Commodities,” 54 Cleve. St. L. Rev. 141 (2006) (with George Taylor)
• “Law as Design: Objects, Concepts, and Digital Things,” 56 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 381 (2005)

• “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)
• “An Invitation Regarding Law and Legal Education, and Imagining the Future,” (February 12, 2018) (unpublished), U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2018-03 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3122624
• “Preparing for Service: A Template for 21st Century Legal Education,” (August 12, 2015) (unpublished), U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2015-27 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2646931
• “Innovators, Esq.: Training the Next Generation of Lawyer Social Entrepreneurs,” 83 UMKC L. Rev. 967 (2015) (with Stephanie A. Dangel)
• “Leading New Lawyers: Leadership and Legal Education,” 83 Tenn. L. Rev. 751 (2016)
• “Visions of the Future of (Legal) Education,” (March 21, 2014) (unpublished), U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-13 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2412238
• “Writing to Learn Law and Writing in Law: An Intellectual Property Illustration,” 52 St. Louis Univ. L.J. 823 (2008)
• “The Idea of the Law Review: Scholarship, Prestige, and Open Access,”10 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 901 (2006)
• “The Lawyer as Legal Scholar,” (book review), Reviewing Academic Legal Writing, by Eugene Volokh, 65 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 63 (2003)

• “Fair Play: Notes on the Algorithmic Soccer Referee,” 23 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 341-432 (2021)
• “The Football as Intellectual Property Object,” in A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects (Claudy Op Den Kamp and Dan Hunter, eds.) (Cambridge University Press, 2019)

• “Authority and Authors and Codes,” 84 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1616 (2016)
• “Notes on a Geography of Knowledge,” 77 Fordham L. Rev. 2038 (2009)
• “The Narratives of Cyberspace Law (or, Learning from Casablanca),” 27 Colum. J. L. & Arts 249 (2004)
• “Rights of Access and the Shape of the Internet,” 44 B.C. L. Rev. 433 (2003)

• The Law of Intellectual Property (Wolters Kluwer, 5th ed. 2017) (with Craig Nard & Mark McKenna)
• “Lost Classics of Intellectual Property Law,” (August 1, 2014) (unpublished), U. of Pittsburgh Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2014-28 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2475883
• “Open Secrets,” in The Law and Theory of Trade Secrecy: A Handbook of Contemporary Research (Rochelle C. Dreyfuss & Katherine J. Strandburg, eds.) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2011)
• “Beyond Invention: Patent as Knowledge Law,” 15 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 71 (2011)
• “Intellectual Property and Americana, or Why IP Gets the Blues,” 18 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 677 (2008)

• Reconstructing the Software License,” 35 Loy. U. Chi. L.J. 275 (2003)
• Legal-Ware: Contract and Copyright in the Digital Age,” 67 Fordham L. Rev. 1025 (1998) DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/4y2h6

SCHOLARSHIP

• “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)
• “Contrasts in Innovation:  Pittsburgh Then and Now,” in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Evolving Economies: The Role of Law (Megan Carpenter ed.) (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012) DOI: 10.4337/9780857934703.00013
• “Complexity and Copyright in Contradiction,” 18 Cardozo Arts & Ent. L. J. 125 (2000) DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/4y2h6

POPULAR WRITING

• “Food and the Future of Postindustrial Cities,” Postindustrial, December 22, 2022
• “Public Art for Postindu”strial 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)
• “The Cupcake Class and Its Contentment,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, April 1, 2007
• “Note to the Allegheny Conference – Get out of the way,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Nov. 6, 2005

[Last updated 16 August 2026]