Pleased to sit down with James Grimmelmann, 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. He is the author of the casebook Internet Law: Cases and Problems and of over fifty 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.

He has written for Slate, Salon, WIRED, Ars Technica, and Publishers Weekly; he is a regular source of expert commentary for major news media including the The New York Times, the The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and All Things Considered. He and his students created the Public Index website to inform the public about the Google Books settlement.

He has been blogging since 2000 at the Laboratorium. His home page is at https://james.grimmelmann.net/.

1:49:– The Laboratorium: Independence in thought; Chatting with ChatGPT.

9:58:– Internet Law: Innovation in casebook publishing; obtaining feedback.

19:43:– #Blockchain and poop: Helping lawyers and technologists understand each other, applying ideas from computer science to problems in law and vice versa.

23:11:– How AI may change legal practice.

25:25:– How AI may transform academia.

29:11:– How higher ed should respond to AI.

30:28:– Cornell Law and Cornell Tech: Interdisciplinary teaching and research.

40:30:– Communicating through the mainstream media.

44:21:– Independence in research.

47:22:– What does meaningful feedback look like?

50:13:– Funded research.

52:24:– Mentors and mentees.

58:05:– 2023 and beyond.