About the site.
Nathenson’s digital garbage is a blog about the intersection of information and law, technology, and culture, published by Ira Nathenson. Sometimes it’s about other stuff, too.
Disclaimer.
If your house were on fire, would you search the internet to figure out how to put out the flames? Of course not! Same with legal advice. The views I express on this site are mine alone. Nothing on this site is intended as, or constitutes, legal advice. If you have a legal problem, please consult an attorney.
Scholarship.
I’m a law professor in sunny Miami at St. Thomas University School of Law. I write about the role that changing technology plays in how information is created, disseminated, and retrieved. My works have 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. I’m honored to have twice received the Ladas Memorial Award for writings on domain names and meta-tags. Selected writings can be found at SSRN.
Teaching.
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 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 scholarly work-in-progress 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. Prior to joining the faculty of St. Thomas University School of Law, I served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Background.
I got 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. Outside the ivy-covered (or in South Florida, stucco-covered) walls of academia, I publish this blog, digital garbage, post to Twitter, and enjoy photography.
Contact information:
Ira S. Nathenson
Assistant Professor of Law
St. Thomas Univ. School of Law
16401 NW 37th Avenue
Miami Gardens, FL 33054
phone: 305-474-2454
email: inathenson at stu dot edu
Last update: July 22, 2010
