Hannibal Travis
[email protected]
Professor of Law
Florida International University College of Law
11200 S.W. 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199
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Education
J.D., 1999
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
• magna cum laude (conferred for achieving Class Rank in top 10% of class)
• Teaching Fellow in Harvard College
B.A., 1996
Washington University, St. Louis, MO
• summa cum laude in Philosophy, Phi Beta Kappa
• Studies in human rights and EU law with EU Erasmus Programme
Professional Experience
2005-
(Associate) Professor of Law, Florida International U. College of Law, Miami, FL
• Head of the Intellectual Property Certificate Program, 2014• Taught Advanced Copyright Law, Copyright Law, Entertainment Law,
Introduction to International and Comparative Law, Internet Law,
Intellectual Property Law, and Antitrust Law
• Served as Interim Director of the Law Library, 2010-2011
• Served on College of Law International & Comparative Law Programs
Committee (2006-2009)
2009
Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, United
Kingdom
2008 (Fall)
Visiting Associate Professor, Villanova Univ. School of Law, Villanova, PA
2001-2004
Associate (Litigation Group), Debevoise & Plimpton, New York, NY
2000-2001
Law Clerk, Honorable Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr., United States District Court
for the Central District of California, Los Angeles, CA
1999-2000
Associate (Litigation), O’Melveny & Myers, San Francisco, CA
1997-1998
Teaching Fellow, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
1999 (Spr.)
Graduate Student Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Publications
Books
2013
Cyberspace Law: Censorship and Regulation of the Internet (London: Routledge) Page | 2
(editor) (peer-reviewed),
https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=qWiAAAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA11
2012
Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations (London: Routledge)
(peer-reviewed),
http://books.google.com/books?id=NbWdlRL8WzMC&printsec=frontcover
2010
Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan (Durham,
NC: Carolina Academic Press) (monograph),
http://www.amazon.com/Genocide-Middle-East-Ottoman-Empire/dp/1594604363
Scholarly Articles and Book Chapters
Intellectual Property, Internet Law, and Freedom of Expression
2015
Free Speech Institutions and Copyrighted Work: An Agenda for Reform, --Cardozo Arts and Entertainment Law Journal---- (forthcoming)
2015
Myths of the Internet as the Death of Old Media, 43 American Intellectual
Property Law Association Quarterly Journal 1-54
2014
Patent Alienability and Its Discontents, 17 Tulane Journal of Technology and
Intellectual Property Law 109
2014
WIPO and the American Constitution: Thoughts on a New Treaty Relating to
Actors and Musicians, 16 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology
Law 45-82
2012
YouTube from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: Tyrannize Locally, Censor Globally,
in Transnational Culture in the Internet Age (Sean Pager and Adam Candeub eds.,
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing),
http://books.google.com/books?id=Z14ARCAdoh4C&pg=PA76
2011
The FCC’s New Theory of the First Amendment, 51 Santa Clara Law Review
417-515, http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=1698091
2010
Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright Holders:
Evidence from the Google Book Search Litigation, 57 Journal of the Copyright
Society of the USA 907-49 (peer-reviewed), http://ssrn.com/abstract=1634126
2010
The Principles of the Law of Software Contracts: At Odds with Copyright,
Consumers, and European Law?, 83 Tulane Law Review 1557-94,
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1552882
2009
The Future According to Google: Technology Policy from the Standpoint of
America's Fastest-Growing Technology Company, in Intellectual Property Law Page | 3
Review 2008 (Eagan, MN: Thomson Reuters/West Group), previously published
in 11 Yale J. of L. & Tech. 209-27 (2009) (invited symposium)
2008
Opting Out of the Internet in the United States and European Union: [Copyright,
Safe Harbors, and International Law], in Google et les Nouveaux Services en
Ligne: Impact sur L'Economie du Contenu et Questions de Propriete Intllectuelle
(Alain Strowel & J.P. Trialle eds., Brussels: Editions Larcer, 2008), previously
published in 83 Notre Dame L. Rev. 331-409
2007
Of Blogs, eBooks, and Broadband: Access to Digital Media as a First Amendment
Right, 35 Hofstra Law Review 1519-82 (symposium)
2006
Google Book Search and Fair Use: iTunes for Authors, or Napster for Books?, 61
Miami L. Rev. 87-167
2006
Wi-Fi Everywhere: Universal Broadband Access as Antitrust
Telecommunications Policy, 55 American University L. Rev. 1697-1799
2006
Building Universal Digital Libraries: An Agenda for Copyright Reform, 33
Pepperdine L. Rev. 761-832
2005
The Battle for Mindshare: The Emerging Consensus that the First Amendment
Protects Corporate Criticism and Parody on the Internet, 10 Virginia J. of Law &
Tech. 3-74
2005
Freedom or Theocracy?: Constitutionalism in Afghanistan and Iraq, 3
Northwestern U. J. of International Human Rights 4-52
2000
Pirates of the Information Infrastructure: Blackstonian Copyright and the First
Amendment, 15 Berkeley Tech. L. Journal 777 (winner, Comment Competition)
and
Genocide and International Treaties
2015
Reparations for Mass Atrocities as a Path to Peace, Brooklyn Journal of
International Law, vol. 40 (2015),
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2496089
2014
Ultranationalist Genocides: Failures of Global Justice in Nigeria and Pakistan,
21 International Journal of Minority and Group Rights 414 (peer-reviewed)
2014
Child Soldiers: Children’s Rights in Time of War and/or Genocide, in The Plight
and Fate of Children During and Following Genocide (S. Totten ed., Transaction)
2013
Constructing “The Armenian Genocide”: How Scholars Unremembered the
Assyrian and Greek Genocides in the Ottoman Empire, in Hidden Genocides:
Power, Knowledge, and Memory (A. Hinton & T. LaPointe eds., Newark, NJ:
Rutgers University Press),
http://books.google.com/books?id=ZtcyAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA171
2013
Did the Armenian Genocide Inspire Hitler?, Middle East Quarterly, Winter 2013,
pp. 27-35, http://www.meforum.org/3434/armenian-genocide-hitler
2012
On the Original Understanding of the Crime of Genocide, 6 Genocide Studies and
Prevention: An International Journal 30-55 (peer-reviewed),
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/genocide_studies_and_prevention/v007/7.1.travis.pdf
2012
The International Arms Trade and the Prevention of Genocide: The Law and
Practice of Arming Genocidal Governments, in Impediments to the Prevention
and Intervention of Genocide: A Critical Bibliographic Review (Samuel Totten
ed., Transaction Publishers),
http://books.google.com/books?id=SRpllLf0bqcC&pg=PA195
2012
Wargaming the Arab Spring: Predicting Likely Outcomes and Crafting U.N.
Responses, 46 Cornell International Law Journal 75-143 (forthcoming),
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2062578
2012
On the Existence of National Identity Before “Imagined Communities”: The
Example of the Assyrians of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and Persia, in The Assyrian
Heritage – Threads of Continuity and Influence (Uppsala, Sweden: Univ. of
Uppsala Press/ Acta Upsaliensis), http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/9155483038
2011
The Assyrian Genocide: A Tale of Oblivion and Denial, in Forgotten Genocides:
Oblivion, Denial, and Memory (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press), pp.
123-136, http://books.google.com/books?id=4CEPu00Z-i8C&pg=PA123
2009
The Cultural and Intellectual Property Interests of the Indigenous Peoples of
Turkey and Iraq, 13 Texas Wesleyan L. Rev. 415-94 (invited symposium)
2009
Genocide in Sudan: The Role of Oil Exploration and the Entitlement of the
Victims to Reparations, in Top Ten Global Justice Law Review Articles of 2008
(Oceana Publications, Oxford Univ. Press), 107-161, previously published in 25
Arizona J. of Int’l and Comparative Law 1-73 (2008)
2009
United States Law and Policy Regarding Iraqi Refugees, 2003-2008, 55 Wayne L.
Rev. 1009-1062
2006
“Native Christians Massacred”: The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during
World War I, 1(3) Genocide Studies and Prevention: An Int’l Journal 327-71
(peer-reviewed)
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Shorter Works
2015
Counterinsurgency as/and Genocidal Intent, Netherlands Institute for War
Documentation and the University of Southern California,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbXk-bOtXAw
2015
Patterns of Genocidal Education, Assyrian International New Agency, aina.org
2014
The Failed Policy of Regime Change in Syria, The Hill, Nov. 2014, thehill.com
2014
The Lessons of Late Ottoman Genocides for Contemporary Iraq and Syria,
Armenian Weekly, Oct. 2014,
http://www.armenianweekly.com/2014/10/23/travis
2013
Documents: A Cohesive Strategy to Protect Iraq’s Vulnerable Religious
Minorities, 27 Journal of Assyrian Academic Studies 35-55
2012
The Assyrian Genocide and Middle East Studies, 25 Journal of Assyrian
Academic Studies 4-24, http://www.jaas.org
2012
President Obama’s “Pivot” to Jobs: Lessons from Comparative Law and
America’s Rivals, 3 Poverty and Public Policy No. 3, www.psocommons.org
2012
Book Review, 14 Journal of Genocide Research (reviewing Extremely Violent
Societies: An Alternative to the Concept of Genocide)
2011
Book Review, 13 Journal of Genocide Research (reviewing Urbicide: The Politics
of Urban Destruction)
2010
Book Review, 12 Journal of Genocide Research (reviewing Sorrowful Shores:
Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire)
2010
An Uncomfortable Fit? Intellectual Property Policy and the Administrative
State, 14 Marquette Intellectual Property L. Rev. 441 (invited panel presentation)
2007
Are Issuers of and Dealers in Securities Immune from Lawsuits Arising under
Federal and State Antitrust Laws?, 34 ABA Preview of United States Supreme
Court Cases 296 (case note on Credit Suisse Securities (USA) v. Billing (2007))
2010
Book Review, 10 Journal of Genocide Research (reviewing The Armenian
Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies)
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Presentations
2015
Myths of the Internet as the Death of Old Media, the University of Georgia
School of Law, Association for Law and Property Studies (Athens, GA)
2015
Myths of the Internet as the Death of Old Media, Copyright Society of the USA,
Miami Chapter (Miami, FL)
2015
Counterinsurgency as/and Genocidal Intent, Netherlands Institute for War
Documentation and University of Southern California (The Hague, Neth.)
2015
Cybersecurity Legislation Panel, Florida International University School of
International and Public Affairs (Miami, FL)
2013
WIPO and the American Constitution, Vanderbilt Law School (Nashville, TN)
2013
Does the United Nations Protect All Peoples from Genocide?, Christian
Solidarity International Middle East Minorities Lecture Series, Zurich, Switz.
2012
Are Social Media Undermining Human Rights? St. Thomas University School
of Law, Intercultural Human Rights Law Review Symposium, Broward Cty, FL
2012
Cultural and Symbolic Reparations for the Ottoman Christian
Genocide, Harvard University, Department of Near Eastern Languages and
Civilizations Naby Lecture Series, Cambridge, MA
2012
Wargaming the “Arab Spring”: Predicting Likely Outcomes and Planning U.N.
Responses, Cornell Law School, Ithaca, NY
2012
Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright
Holders: Evidence from the Google Book Search Litigation, Association of
American Law Schools Annual Meeting (Jan.), Washington, DC
2011
Constructing “The Armenian Genocide”: Unremembering the Ottoman Assyrians
and Greeks, Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting (Nov.),
Washington, DC
2011
Constructing “The Armenian Genocide”: How Genocide Scholars
Unremembered the Assyrian and Greek Genocides in the Ottoman
Empire, Rutgers University Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies,
Forgotten Genocides Conference (Mar.), Newark, NJ
2011
The Anticompetitive and Censorial Impact of Corporate-Drafted Norms
Restricting Internet Content, Association of American Law Schools Annual
Meeting,Section on the Computers and the Law (Jan.), San Francisco, CA
2010
Cold War Genocides: Failures of Global Justice in Nigeria and
Pakisan, University of Melbourne, Untold Stories: Hidden Histories of War
Crimes Trials (Oct.), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
2010
Genocide and the Middle East, Florida International U. School of International
and Public Affairs Lecture Series, Books and Books (Sept.), Miami, FL
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2010
Genocide Trials and Resolutions: The Path from Impunity to Recognition, Nova
Southeastern University Institute for Genocide Awareness and Applied
Research, First Annual Conference (Apr.), Ft. Lauderdale, FL
2010
Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright
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Holders, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, Faculty Speaker
Series (Apr.), Sacramento, CA
2010
Journalism in the World of Social Media, Twitter & Facebook, Florida Bar
Media Law Conference (Mar.), Miami, FL
2010
Copyright Basics and the Web, American Bar Association Conference on Legal
Issues in Museum Administration (Mar.), Miami, FL
2009
The Political Struggle for Mosul: Constitutionalism in the Shadow of War and
Ethnosectarian Conflict, Middle East Studies Association (Nov.), Boston, MA
2009
The FCC’s New Theory of the First Amendment, Florida Legal Scholarship
Forum (Nov. 2009), St. Petersburg, FL
2009
The FCC’s Involvement in Copyright-Related Rulemakings: Administrative
Expertise or in Excess of Jurisdiction?, Southeast Association of Law Schools
Annual Meeting (2009), Palm Beach, FL
2009
Opting Out of the Internet in the U.S. and E.U.: Copyright and Safe Harbors,
Oxford University, Dept. of Social Sciences, Oxford Internet Institute (June),
Oxford, United Kingdom
2009
The Bond that Divides: Transitional Justice and Human Rights in the Republic of
Iraq, London School of Economics, “Civil Society and Reconciliation in
Comparative Perspective” (June), London, United Kingdom
2009
Broadcast and Internet Neutrality: Towards a Theory of Constitutional (Digital)
Media Regulation, Univ. of North Carolina School of Law, First Amendment
Law Rev. Symposium on “Cyberspeech” (Feb.), Chapel Hill, NC
2008
U.S. Law and Policy with Respect to Iraqi Refugees, 2003-2008, Middle East
Studies Association 2008 Annual Meeting (Nov.), Washington, DC
2008
The Intellectual Property Interests of the Indigenous Peoples of Turkey and Iraq
Tulane Law School, Works-in-Progress in Intellectual Property Colloquium
(Oct.), New Orleans, LA
2008
Opting Out of the Internet in the U.S. and the European Union: Copyright, Safe
Harbors, and International Law Stanford Law School, Intellectual Property
Scholars Conf. (Aug.), Palo Alto, CA
2008
The Future According to Google: Technology Policy from the Standpoint of
America's Fastest-Growing Technology Company Yale Law School, Computers,
Freedom, and Privacy 2008 Conf. (May), New Haven, CT
2008
Genocide in Sudan: Should Reparations for the Victims Be Administered by the
United Nations, or by U.S. Courts?, Yale Law School, Symposium on
Corporate Social Responsibility in the Extractive Industries (Mar.), New
Haven, CT
2007
Google Book Search, Exceptions to Copyright, and the Freedom of Information,
Catholic University of Brussels, Conference on Google’s Intellectual
Property Issues (Sept.), Brussels, Belgium
2007
Of Blogs, eBooks, and Broadband: Access to Digital Media as a First Amendment
Right, Brennan Center for Justice and Hofstra Law School, Long Island, NY
2007
Hot Topics Panel: Federalism, Autonomy, and National Reconciliation in Iraq,
Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting (Jan.), Washington,
DC
2007
Google Book Search and Fair Use, AALS Mid-Year Meeting on Intellectual
Property (July), Vancouver, Canada
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Service and Memberships
2015-
Expert Witness services in copyright law
2014-
Palgrave Macmillian, Peer Reviewer for Middle East Studies manuscript
2014
Oxford University Press, Peer Reviewer for Genocide Studies manuscript
2013-
Genocide Studies International, a peer-reviewed Genocide Studies journal
• Offices: Editorial Advisory Board Member
Journal of Genocide Research
• Offices: Board of Editorial Advisors
Copyright Society of the USA, Member
Association of American Law Schools, International Law Section
Association of American Law Schools, IP and Computer Law sections
International Association of Genocide Scholars, Member
• Offices: Board of Editorial Advisors, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An
International Journal, 2008-2012
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New York Bar
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California Bar