James Grimmelmann

James Grimmelmann is the Tessler Family Professor of Digital and Information Law at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School. He studies how laws regulating software affect freedom, wealth, and power. He helps lawyers and technologists understand each other, applying ideas from computer science to problems in law and vice versa.

Grimmelmann is the author of the casebook “Internet Law: Cases and Problems” and of over seventy scholarly articles and essays on digital copyright, content moderation, search engine regulation, online governance, privacy on social networks, and other topics in computer and internet law.

Grimmelmann holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. in computer science from Harvard College. Before law school, he worked as a programmer for Microsoft. After graduation, he clerked for a federal appellate judge. He is a board member at Creative Commons and an affiliated fellow of the Yale Information Society Project. He previously taught at New York Law School, Georgetown, and the University of Maryland.

He has written for Slate, the Verge, Wired, Ars Technica, and Publishers Weekly. He is also a regular source of expert commentary for major news media outlets, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and All Things Considered.