Research

Selected publications. For the complete list, including op-eds, amicus briefs, and speaking engagements, see the full CV or SSRN author page.

Books & Book Chapters

• Swipe Left: How Dating Apps Betray Users and Protect Predators (under contract with Cambridge University Press).
• "The Complex Landscape of Criminal Sanctions for IP Infringement in the United States," in Criminal Enforcement of Intellectual Property in Asia: Sources, Significance, and Side-Effects 51 (Kung-Chung Liu & Tianxiang He eds., Oxford University Press 2026).
• The Criminal Law of Intellectual Property and Information: Cases and Materials (2d ed. 2015) (with Geraldine Szott Moohr and Jacqueline D. Lipton).

Major Articles

• "Tinder Backgrounds," Georgia Law Review (forthcoming).
• "Can Speech Policy Protect Public Health?," 2026 Utah Law Review 321 (with Cassandra Burke Robertson and Zoe Robinson).
• "Why Jack Daniel's Can't Stop #WestElmCaleb, and What Now?," 33 William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal 653 (2025) (with Kavita D. Balchand).
• "Adopting Nationality," 98 Washington Law Review 483 (2023) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson).
• "Integral Citizenship," 100 Texas Law Review 1325 (2022) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson).
• "Inalienable Citizenship," 99 North Carolina Law Review 1425 (2021) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson). Cited in United States v. Farhane (2d Cir. 2023) (Carney, J., dissenting).
• "Litigating Citizenship," 73 Vanderbilt Law Review 757 (2020) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson).
• "(Un)Civil Denaturalization," 94 New York University Law Review 402 (2019) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson). Cited in United States v. Farhane (2d Cir. 2023) (majority opinion and Carney, J., dissenting) and United States v. Eguilos, 383 F. Supp. 3d 1014 (E.D. Cal. 2019).
• "Tinder Lies," 54 Wake Forest Law Review 207 (2019).
• "Choosing Privacy," 20 N.Y.U. Journal of Legislation & Public Policy 649 (2017).
• "Parallel State," 38 Cardozo Law Review 2083 (2017) (with Gregory Dolin).
• "Secret Jurisdiction," 65 Emory Law Journal 1313 (2016) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson).
• "Branded," 69 SMU Law Review 713 (2016).
• "Taking Patents," 73 Washington and Lee Law Review 719 (2016) (with Gregory Dolin).
• "Hello Barbie: First They Will Monitor You, Then They Will Discriminate Against You. Perfectly.," 67 Alabama Law Review 135 (2015) (with David S. Olson).
• "Intellectual Property and the Presumption of Innocence," 56 William & Mary Law Review 1745 (2015).
• "Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism," 18 Stanford Technology Law Review 331 (2015) (with Robert E. Wagner). Winner, "Intellectual Property and Free Enterprise" national competition.
• "Judging Similarity," 100 Iowa Law Review 267 (2014) (with Shyamkrishna Balganesh and Tess Wilkinson-Ryan).
• "The High Cost of Low Sanctions," 66 Florida Law Review 157 (2014).
• "Hedonic Trademarks," 74 Ohio State Law Journal 241 (2013). Winner, Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publications, 2014.
• "Reasonable Copyright," 53 Boston College Law Review 1303 (2012).
• "The Puzzle of Criminal Sanctions for Intellectual Property Infringement," 24 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 469 (2011). Cited in United States v. Vaulin, 2017 WL 3334861 (N.D. Ill. 2017).
• "Privatizing Trademarks," 51 Arizona Law Review 381 (2009).

Solicited Symposium Articles

• "Public Health Policy as Public Choice Failure," 25 Houston Journal of Health Law & Policy 8 (2025) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson and Zoe Robinson).
• "Keeping IP Real," 57 Houston Law Review 349 (2019).
• "Explaining Criminal Sanctions in Intellectual Property Law," 1 Journal of Law & Innovation 16 (2019).
• "Blunting the Later-Mover Advantage: Intellectual Property and Knowledge Transfer," 52 Akron Law Review 877 (2019) (with Mattias G. Ottervik).
• "Gawking Legally," 40 Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy 117 (2018).
• "Bearing Down on Trademark Bullies," 22 Fordham Intellectual Property, Entertainment & Media Law Journal 853 (2012).