Paul Ohm
Associate Professor of Law and Telecommunications
University of Colorado Law School
433 Wolf Law Building
Phone: 303-492-0384
E-mail: paul.ohm@colorado.edu
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Publications [SSRN]

Works in Progress

The Probability of Privacy: importing the recent advances in the science of data reidentification into law and policy and concluding that these advances will force us to reevaluate every privacy law and policy.

The Future of Internet Law: reviewing Jonathan Zittrain's The Future of the Internet: And How to Stop It (2007) and defining a new subspecialty of cyberlaw (with James Grimmelmann).

Articles

The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance, 2009 University of Illinois Law Review (forthcoming 2009).

Good Enough Privacy, 2008 University of Chicago Legal Forum 1.

The Myth of the Superuser: Fear, Risk, and Harm Online 41 U.C. Davis Law Review 1327 (2008).

Essays, Technical Papers, and Other Shorter Works

Investigating Computer Crime: The Irrelevance of Justification Standards, 93 Minnesota Law Review ____ (forthcoming 2010)

When Net Neutrality Met Privacy, 52 Communications of the ACM ____ (forthcoming 2009).

The Greatest Threat to Privacy, invited contribution to Deep Packet Inspection, A Collection of Essays from Industry Experts, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (2009).

Computer Programming and the Law: A New Research Agenda, 54 Villanova Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2009).

The Olmsteadian Seizure Clause, 2008 Stanford Technology Law Review 2.

Legal Issues Surrounding Network Monitoring Research, Proceedings of the Internet Measurement Conference 2007 (invited paper) (with Dirk Grunwald and Doug Sicker).

The Analog Hole and the Price of Music: An Empirical Study, 5 Journal on Telecommunications & High Techology Law 573 (2007) (with Doug Sicker and Shannon Gunaji).

Do Blogs Influence SSRN Downloads? Empirically Testing the Volokh and Slashdot Effects (unpublished manuscript posted 2007)

Forum-format commentary, The Fourth Amendment Right to Delete, 119 Harvard Law Review Forum 10 (2005).

Published Prior to Becoming a Full-Time Academic

Parallel-Effect Statutes and E-Mail "Warrants": Reframing the Internet Surveillance Debate, 72 George Washington Law Review 1599 (2004).

Usenet, A Case Study: On Regulating the Internet, 46 UCLA Law Review 1941 (1999) (student note).

Case-Related

Brief of Amici Curiae Electronic Freedom Foundation, Bunnell v. MPAA (9th Circuit) (with Marcia Hoffman and Kevin Bankston).

Brief of Amici Curiae Experts in Computer Forensics Technology, U.S. v. Andrus (10th Circuit) (with Jennifer Granick).

Non-Law Review and Blogging

September, 2008 - Present: Freedom to Tinker (a blog authored mostly by computer scientists founded by Ed Felten of Princeton), Permanent Blogger.

August - October, 2008: Concurring Opinions, Guest Blogger.

April 2007: Volokh Conspiracy, Guest Blogger.

March 2007: Concurring Opinions, Guest Blogger.

Presentations

Notable Presentations

Symposium on Cyber Civil Rights, Denver University Law Review, November 20, 2009

Limitless Probable Cause: The Misguided Debate Over Justification Standards, Minnesota Law Review Symopsium on Cyberlaw, October 16-17, 2009

DePaul Center for IP Law and Information Technology Symposium, Chicago, IL, October 15-16, 2009

The Future of Internet Law, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Cardozo University, New York, NY, August 6-7, 2009

The Probability of Privacy, Privacy Law Scholars Conference, Berkeley, CA, June 5, 2009

The Probability of Privacy: Faculty Workshops at:

The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance, Information Security Best Practices Workshop, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, January 2009.

The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Survillance, Technology Policy Research Conference, September 2008.

The Thin Line Between Reasonable Network Management and Illegal Wiretapping, Privacy Law Scholars Conference, June 13, 2008.

Network Management or Illegal Wiretapping?, Computers, Freedom, and Privacy 2008 Conference, May 22, 2008.

Good Enough Privacy, Chicago Legal Forum Symposium on Law and Networks, October 28, 2007.

Legal Issues in Network Monitoring Research, Internet Measurement Conference, October 26, 2007.

Investigating Computer Crime: The Problem with Justification Standards, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, September 29, 2007.

The Olmsteadian Seizure Clause, Stanford Technology Law Review Symposium, January 28, 2007.

ECPA, 10 Years From Now, University of San Francisco Law Review Symposium, October 28, 2006.

The Myth of the Superuser, Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, October 1, 2006.

The Myth of the Superuser, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, August 11, 2006.

The Myth of the Superuser, Princeton/NYU Spyware Workshop, March 17, 2006.

Local Conferences and Talks

Wiretapping the Internet, ATLAS Institute Series on Internet Commerce and Technology, December 8, 2008

The Law and Ethics of Network Monitoring, Silicon Flatirons, December 5, 2008 (organizer and moderator).

Internet Privacy: Between Security and Privacy, Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, November 1, 2007

Recent Developments in Internet Privacy Law and Policy, Boulder Bar Association Intellectual Property Section, October 11, 2007

The Future of User-Generated Content, Silicon Flatirons, October 10, 2007 (panelist on Legal Issues panel).

The Web and the West, Silicon Flatirons, March 20, 2007 (panelist on The Democratic Impulse panel).

Re-examining Open Source and Community Development, Silicon Flatirons, March 5, 2007 (organizer and moderator).

The Digital Broadband Migration 2007, Silicon Flatirons, February 11, 2007.

The Challenges of Information Management, Silicon Flatirons, March 13, 2006 (panelist on Data Security panel).

The Digital Broadband Migration 2006, Silicon Flatirons, February 19, 2006 (moderated panel on DRM).

This document last modified June 24, 2009.