AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Privacy, Communications, and Speech; Technology & Culture (telecommunications, mass media, and Internet technology); Creativity & Ownership (intellectual property, open source software); Civil Liberties.

EXPERIENCE

Adjunct, Convergence Law Institute, commentary on regulatory issues, including network neutrality, regulatory reform, and intellectual property, May 2007 to present.

Adjunct Fellow, The Institute for Policy Innovation, timely commentary on IP and technology issues, February 2007 to present, part time.

Senior Adjunct Fellow, The Progress and Freedom Foundation's Center for the Study of Digital Property (IPCentral.info), Washington, D.C. Grappled with foundational copyright and patent policy issues, authoring and coauthoring timely papers, amicus briefs, and regular blogs on the subject; gave talks and participated in panels in the United States and abroad; organized and moderated seminars. October 2004 to present, part time.

Visiting Fellow, Independent Women's Forum, Washington D.C. Authored papers on the problem of indecency in media and the benefits of technology for women. October 2004 to present on occasional basis.

Editor, Telecommunications Project of the Institute for Policy Innovation. Worked as part of a team researching, drafting, and editing sections of telecommunications guides for legislators. July 2004 to present on occasional basis.

Senior Analyst, Project on Technology & Innovation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. Analyzed technology, telecommunications, and Internet public policy and regulatory issues. Authored papers, book chapters, and agency comments. Testified before Congress. Spoke before business and academic audiences as well as the general public, and appear on television and radio. November 2000 to February, 2004.

Senior Analyst, Project on Technology & Innovation, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C. Analyzed technology, telecommunications, and Internet public policy and regulatory issues. Authored papers, book chapters, and agency comments. Testified before Congress. Spoke before business and academic audiences as well as the general

public, and appear on television and radio. November 2000 to March, 2004.

Director of Information Studies, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. Assessed legal, constitutional and economic aspects of privacy, the digital divide, regulatory reform, and other E-commerce and telecommunications issues. Testified before the FTC and Congress, and delivered speeches and presentations. Wrote and edited books, papers, opeds, and articles. Appeared on radio and television. October 1997 to August, 2000.

Associate Director of Telecommunications & Technology Studies, Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. Analyzed telephone, broadcast, Internet, and cable television regulation. Authored analysis of Communications Decency Act, as well as opeds and articles. February 1996 to October 1997.

Telecommunications Consultant, Washington, D.C. Researched and drafted book chapters for Greg Sidak of the American Enterprise Institute, Peter Huber of the Manhattan Institute, and Paul MacAvoy of the Yale School of Management. Analyzed competition in the telephone industry, copyright law, foreign ownership restrictions on broadcasters, and other topics. August 1994-February 1996, November 1999-May 2000.

Associate, Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans, P.C. Washington, D.C. Researched and drafted chapters of telecommunications treatise as well as briefs and memoranda concerning communications law. November 1992-August 1994.

EDUCATION

Cornell Law School, J.D. cum laude, 1992. Ithaca, New York.

Eotvos Lorand School of Law/Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Budapest, Hunary. Summer Program in Constitutional Law, International Trade Law, Communications Law (summer, 1990).

Reed College, B.A. (Philosophy), 1987. Portland, Oregon.

SELECTED INVITED TALKS

November 2, 2007, “Intellectual Property and Virtual Reality,” panel presentation at Vanderbilt Law School’s conference on User-Generated Confusion: The Legal and Business Implications of Web 2.0, Nashville, Tennessee.

May 21-23, “Licensing and the Commons as Copyright Alternatives,” panel presentation at the University of Maryland’s Center for Intellectual Property conference on Copyright Utopia,
College Park, Maryland.

April 26, 2006, “The Digital Millennium Copyright Act,” panel presentation at the Cato Institute’s conference on Copyright Controversies, Washington, D.C.

July 12-13, 2005, “On Grokster,” presentation at TTI Vanguard’s conference on Evolving Systems, Miami, Florida.

November 13, 2002, “Privacy for the Twenty-First Century: Civil Liberties after the Patriot Act,” University of Minnesota School of Law Federalist Society Luncheon Presentation, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

November 4, 2002, “The Tempting of Switzerland: Financial Privacy and Capital Markets,” Starker Finanzplatz-Starke Schweiz, Financial Center Switzerland In Its International Environment, Berne, Switzerland.

July 23, 2002, “Reflections on Civil Liberties After 9/11,” Institute for Humane Studies, Koch Fellows Seminar, George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia.

April 16-17,2002, “Creating Opportunities for Growth of Information Technology Worldwide” and “Structuralists, Libertarians, and Pragmatists Consider Intellectual Property,” Microsoft’s Government Affairs Leadership Conference, Seattle, Washington.

SELECTED RECENT ARTICLES

Copy Protection and Games: Lessons for DRM Debates and Development, Progress on Point 14.2 (February 2007)

The Patent Prejudice: Intellectual Property As Monopoly, Progress on Point 13.28 (October 2006)

"The DMCA Dialectic: Toward Constructive Criticism," Progress on Point 13.11, May 11, 2006

Patents and Loser Pays: Why Not?, Progress on Point 13.3 (Feb. 13, 2006)

“The Need for Financial Privacy,” published in An Opportunity for Iceland (Hannes H. Gissurarson and Tryggi Thor Herbertsson, eds.)(Reykjavik, Iceland: The University of Iceland Press 2001).

"Privacy Versus the First Amendment: A Skeptical Approach," XI FORDHAM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT L. J. 98 (2000).

"Privacy and Human Rights: Comparing the United States to Europe," published in The Future of Financial Privacy (Washington, DC: Competitive Enterprise Institute 2000).

"Reviving A First Amendment Absolutism for the Internet," 3 TEXAS REVIEW OF LAW & POLITICS 191 (1999).

"Privacy as Censorship: A Skeptical View of Proposals to Regulate Privacy in the Private Sector," Cato Institute's Policy Analysis Series, No. 295, January 1998.

BOOKS

Singleton, Solveig, and Daniel T. Griswold, eds., Economic Casualties: How U.S. Foreign Policy Undermines Trade, Growth, and Liberty (Washington D.C.: Cato Institute, 1999)

Singleton, Solveig, and Tom W. Bell, Regulators' Revenge: The Future of Telecommunications Deregulation (Washington D.C., Cato Institute, 1998).

HONORS

Claude Lambe Fellow
1988, 1989, 1990 (Honorable Mention), 1991

Eastern Mineral Law Association Writing Competition
First Prize, 1991. Topic: Oil Pollution Act of 1990

Donald Bogie Prize in Philosophy. Runner-Up, 1991

Reed College Commendation for Academic Excellence 1985/86.

British Columbia Lieutenant Governor’s Scholarship 1983/1984