About

I received my B.A. in Philosophy and English from the University of Pittsburgh, and my J.D. from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where I was Editor-in-Chief of the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. Subsequent to graduation, I served as a law clerk to the Hon. D. Michael Fisher and Hon. Joseph F. Weis of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and practiced in the Intellectual Property and Copyright and Trademark practice groups at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP (now K&L Gates LLP). Prior to joining the faculty of St. Thomas University School of Law, I taught at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law.

My scholarship primarily focuses on the role that technology plays in the creation, dissemination, and retrieval of information. I’m also interested in legal education reform as well as law & literature. I’m honored to have twice received the Ladas Memorial Award for my papers on domain names and meta-tags. My writings have been or are being published in the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, University of Pittsburgh Law Review, University of Louisville Law Review, and Akron Intellectual Property Journal. Selected articles can be found at SSRN.

I teach courses in Cyberlaw, Intellectual Property, and Civil Procedure. In 2009, I was honored to be selected as 1L Professor of the Year by the students and SBA at St. Thomas.  Regarding my upper-level classes, my Cyberlaw course is taught as a simulation, which uses live, continually changing websites for role-playing exercises in which students act as “counsel” to a fictitious client. You can find archives of previous Cyberlaw simulation websites here. My current scholarship focuses on the merits of skills simulations as a way of teaching Cyberlaw. An abstract of Best Practices for the Law of the Horse: Teaching Cyberlaw through Simulations can be found here.

Beyond the ivy-covered (or in South Florida, stucco-covered) walls of academia, I publish a blog, digital garbage, post to Twitter, and enjoy photography.

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Last updated: July 15, 2010.