I am a professor of law at Stanford Law School and the director of Stanford’s Juelsgaard Intellectual Property and Innovation Clinic. I specialize in intellectual property, innovation and cyberlaw, Previously I taught at Harvard Law School for over a decade, directing the school’s Cyberlaw Clinic at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and before that I served for more than 20 years as a public prosecutor with the US Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division.
My current research and clinical practice focuses on ensuring that IP and other laws and regulations serve the public interest by facilitating innovation, competition, access to justice and knowledge, open government and open data, free speech, and privacy. I am especially interested in legal innovation and, in particular, in the role that technology can play in facilitating open access to the courts and to legal services. I participated in the 2012-2013 US Legal Services Corporation’s Technology Summit addressing legal innovation on a national level. I've worked extensively with the Massachusetts trial courts and other US state judicial systems to ensure that courts are open and accessible to all members of the public, and I helped author the report Best Practices in the Use of Technology to Facilitate Access to Justice Initiatives. I have also consulted and spoken about the importance and legality of efforts to make U.S. laws and codes freely available online for all to access.