Publications
Books
Wiki Government: How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful, Brookings Press (forthcoming 2009).
Ex Machina: Law, Technology and Society Book Series (Co-Editor, together with Prof. J.M. Balkin) (NYU Press).
The State of Play: Law and Virtual Worlds, Jack M. Balkin and Beth S. Noveck, eds. (NYU Press, 2006).
Architecture, Law and Virtual Worlds, Guest Editor, FIRST MONDAY Special Issue, (January 2, 2006).
Articles and Chapters in Books
In Groups We Trust: Enabling Online Collaboration with Group-Backed Reputation (with David R. Johnson) (forthcoming).
Visual Deliberation, in Online Deliberation, Todd Davies, ed. (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming).
Government by the People, in 21 Century Democracy, Alison Fine, Ed. (Personal Democracy Forum, June 2008, forthcoming).
Open Patent Examination: A One-Year Research Report. Center for Patent Innovations Report on Peer-to-Patent Pilot (forthcoming, June 15, 2008).
Breaking the LogJam: An Environmental Law for the 21st Century, NYU Environ. L. Rev. (Fall 2008) (with David R. Johnson).
Peer-to-Patent: Collaborative Patent Examination. Tokugikon, No. 249 (May 2008) (in Japanese and English).
Wiki Government: How Open-Source Technology Can Make Government Decision-Making More Expert and More Democratic in Democracy Journal (Dec. 2007).
Wikipedia and the Future of Legal Education, 57 J. L. Ed. 1 (2007).
The New Paradigm for Legal Information (with Ethan Katsh) in Law Library Journal (Spring 2007).
Peer to Patent: Collective Intelligence and Intellectual Property Reform, 20 HARV. J. L. TECH. 123 (2006).
Trademark Law and the Social Construction of Trust: Creating the Legal Framework for On-Line Identity, 83 Wash. U. L. Q. 1733 (2006).
A Democracy of Groups, FIRST MONDAY, vol. 10, no. 11, at http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_11/noveck/ (November 7, 2005) (peer reviewed).
Democracy The Videogame: Virtual Worlds and the Future of Collective Action in THE STATE OF PLAY: LAW AND VIRTUAL WORLDS, Jack M. Balkin and Beth S. Noveck, eds. (NYU Press, forthcoming 2006).
Courtroom Applications of Virtual Environments, Immersive Virtual Environments, and Collaborative Virtual Environments. LAW & POLICY, VOL. 28, NO. 2, PP. 249-270. (with Bailenson, J.N., Blascovich, J., Beall, A.C. (2006).
The Future of Citizen Participation in the Electronic State, I/S: A JOURNAL OF LAW AND POLICY FOR THE INFORMATION SOCIETY, Vol. 1, Issue 1 (2005).
Society's Software, 74 FORDHAM L. REV 101 (2005) (with David R. Johnson).
The State of Play: An Introduction, 49 N.Y. L. SCH. L. REV. 1 (2004)
Schoenberg's Moses und Aron: Legitimizing Modernism in Law and Music in Paare und Paarungen: Festschrift Werner Wunderlich, Margarete Springeth and Ulrich Muller, eds., (2004).
Unchat: Democratic Solution for a Wired World in Democracy Online: The Prospects for Democratic Renewal Through the Internet, Peter Shane, ed., (2004).
The Electronic Revolution in Rulemaking. 53 EMORY L. J. 1 (2004).
Designing Deliberative Democracy in Cyberspace: The Role of the Cyber-lawyer. 9 B.U. J. Sci. and Tech. L. 1-71 (2003).
Die Wirkung der Bilder in den USA: Die Reaktion der Medien in einer traumatisierten Gesellschaft in Die Offene Gesellschaft in Zeiten ihrer Bedrohung, Peter Christian Hall, ed. (2003) (The Effect of the Images in the USA: The Reaction of the Media in a Traumatized Society)
El Espacio Transparente: Derecho, Tecnologia y Democracia Deliberativa en la Sociedad de la Informacion, in Journal Frónesis of the Institute of Philosophy of Law of the Universidad del Zulia, Venezuela (2003) (translated into Spanish).
Book Review, Digital Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY, Vol. 117, No. 2 (Summer 2002).
CyberForum: Harmful and Illegal Content Regulation in Europe, (Rapporteur’s Report, Council of Europe, January 2002).
Democracy’s Demise? The Impact of Internet Technology on the Perception of Democratic Legitimacy, in Demokratie: Modus und Telos (Andrei Markovits and Sieglinde Rosenberger, eds., forthcoming, Boehlau Verlag, 2001).
Citizen Participation and New Technology, Elektronische Demokratie: Bürgerbeteiligung per Internet zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis (Verlag C.H. Beck, Information and Law Series, Vol. 24, 2001).
Indian Convergence Legislation Analysis, commissioned by Center for Democracy and Technology, available online at http://www.bethnoveck.com.
The Impact of Internet Technology on Democratic Legitimacy, in the Aventis Foundation Triangle Forum Working Paper Series: How We Want to Live Tomorrow (Spring 2001), 1-29, available at http://www.cap-info.de/triangle/download/noveck_e.pdf.
Paradoxical Partners: Electronic Communication & Electronic Democracy, in The Internet Democracy and Democratization (Peter Ferdinand, ed., Frank Cass, 2000), 18-36.
Rating and Filtering: A Best Practices Model, in Protecting Our Children on the Internet: Towards a New Culture of Responsibility (Bertelsmann Foundation Press, 2000) (with J.M Balkin and K. Roosevelt), 199-263.
Developments in U.S. Direct Broadcast Satellite Regulation, in SatelliteFinance (June 7, 2000) (with O. Kurtin).
Financial Community Fixes Online Data Privacy, in The National Law Journal (January 24, 2000).
Global Navigation Satellite Systems, in Outer Space, Intn’l Bar Assoc. Journal (January 2000) (with O. Kurtin).
The Regulatory Context of Acquisitions and Investment in U.S. Telecommunications, in TelecomFinance (November 24, 1999) (with O. Kurtin), also reprinted in the Journal de l’Union des Avocats Européens.
Transparent Space: Law, Technology and Deliberative Democracy, in Cultural Values, (Catherine Kratz, ed., Blackwell Publishers, October 1999), 472-492.
Accelerating on the Datenautobahn: German Politics and the Regulation of New Media, in Breakdown, Breakup, Breakthrough: Germany's Tortured Path to Modernity (Carl F. Lankowski, ed., Berghahn Books, October 1999), 137-155.
Under Siege: Data Privacy in Hong Kong and Elsewhere, in INFO, (August 1999), 309-313.
Thinking Analogue about Digital Television: Bringing European Content Regulation into the Information Age, in Convergence and European Digital Television Regulation (Christopher Marsden and Stefaan Verhulst eds., Blackstone Press, 1999), 37-65.
Un Internet Public n’est-il qu’un rêve?, in L’Humanité (June 24, 1999).
Third Generation Wireless in New York Law Journal (June 1, 1999) (with O. Kurtin).
FCC Gains Upper Hand Over Local Telephone Companies, in National Law Journal (April 26, 1999) (with O. Kurtin).
FCC Proposes Rules for 2GHz, in Satellite Finance (April 15, 1999) (with O. Kurtin).
Jews in German Society, in The Cambridge Companion to Modern German Culture (Eva Kolinsky & Wilfried Van der Will, Cambridge University Press 1998) (with A. Markovits), 86-109.
Universal Services in the United States: Unjust, unreasonable and unaffordable? The E-Rate Debate, Comment in International Journal of Communications Law and Policy, Nr. 1 (August 1998), available at http://www.digital-law.net/IJCLP.
The Information Economy as Information Society: Training the Business Leaders of a Wired World, in Universität und Praxis (Spoun, Müller-Möhl and Jann, eds., Neue Zürcher Zeitung Press, 1998), 519-535.
Fasten Your Seat Belts: Safe Driving with No Speed Limits on the German Datenbahn, in Intellectual Property Worldwide (November/December 1997) (with F. Maennel).
Hitler’s Willing Bankers, in 15 German Politics and Society 2, 96-112 (1997) (with Laurent Jedermann), 96-113.
Anti-Semitism in Hugo Bettauer’s Vienna, in Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture 1096-1996 (Sander Gilman and Jack Zipes, eds., Yale University Press, 1997), 440-447.
Garbage, the City and Death: The Fassbinder Controversy, in Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture 1096-1996 (Sander Gilman and Jack Zipes, eds., Yale University Press, 1997) (with A. Markovits), 805-811.
West German Reaction to the Holocaust 1945-1990, in The World Reacts to the Holocaust (David Wyman and Charles Rosenzveig, eds., Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996) (with A. Markovits), 391-447.
Der Kampf um Wien: Sexuality and Politics in Hugo Bettauer’s Vienna 1918-1925, in Jura Soyfer and his Time (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture and Thought) (Donald Daviau, ed., Ariadne Press, 1995).
The Political Culture of First Republic Austria, in Austria in the Nineteen Fifties (Gunter Bischof, Anton Pelinka and Rolf Steininger, eds., Transaction Press 1994), 138-171.
RECENT INVITED TALKS
Politics of Creative Communities, Keynote (American Sociological Association, Aug 2009).
Science in the 21st Century, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (September 21, 2008).
Stanford Law School Faculty Seminar (Sept. 17, 2008).
Innovation in Patent Examination, Kauffman Foundation (July 10, 2008).
Collaborative Governance Keynote, Personal Democracy Forum (June 24, 2008).
Democracy: The Videogame, Videogame Executives Summit, (May 21, 2008).
Report on Open Patent Examination (American Intellectual Property Law Association Mid-Year Meeting, Houston, May 14, 2008).
Stanford MediaX Seminar Series (Stanford Univ., May 6, 2008).
Technologies for Collaborative Democracy (Stanford Seminar on Computers, People and Design, HCI Lecture, Stanford University, April 4, 2008), see webcast at http://hci.stanford.edu.
Intellectual Property Innovations, (Brooklyn Law School, March 29, 2008).
Wiki-Government, (Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton Univ., March 28, 2008).
International Implications of Open Patent Review, (International Intellectual Property Bar Association, March 26, 2008).
Internet and Democracy; Patent Reform (Legal Futures, Stanford Law School, March 7-8).
Commentary: Internet and Deliberation, (Ohio State Mortiz School of Law, March 14, 2008).
Collective Intelligence and Expertise, (Collective Intelligence “Foo Camp,” Googleplex, Mountainview, California, Feb. 21, 2008).
Future of Civic Media Seminar, (Center for Civic Media, MIT Media Lab, Feb 13, 2008).
Institutions and Networks, (Packard Foundation, Feb 28, 2008).
Did Yale Lose and the Net Win?: Online Defamation and the Future of the Net, The Digital Age television program with James Goodale (WNYE TV, January 7, 2008).
Women in Licensing, (Licensing Executives Society, Vancouver, Canada, Oct 16, 2007).
What is Civic Media? (Center for Civic Media Launch, Sept. 20, 2007).
Building Networks of Scientific Expertise, Science Foo Camp (Mountainview, CA, Googleplex, Aug 3, 2007).
Patent Innovation and Business Method Patents, (World Research Group, Financial Methods Patents, July 25, 2007).
Peer-to-Patent, Foo Camp (Sebastopol, CA, June 22, 2007).
Virtual Worlds and Law, (MIT Media Lab, June 15, 2007).
Social Networking and Peer Production (Plenary Panel, International Communication Association, May 24, 2007).
Peer-to-Patent and Open Patent Review (EUPACO, Brussels, May 15, 2007).
Peer-to-Patent, (Dorsey and Whitney, Palo Alto, California, May 3, 2007).
U.S. Patent Reform, (European Inventor of the Year Gala, European Patent Office, Munich, April 18, 2007).
Technology and Democracy, (MIT Media Lab, March 29, 2007).
Patent Reform and Innovation, (IITF, Washington, DC, March 26, 2007).
Tech Talk, (Yahoo! Research, March 2, 2007).
Policy Unwiki Presentation and Testing, (Tripoli, Libya, Nov, 30, 2006).
E-Democracy, (Libyan Social Leadership Council, Tripoli, Libya, Nov. 27, 2006).
Freedom of Speech in the Digital Age (Inauguration of the BerlinMediaProfessionalSchool and Congress “Media in the 21st Century” 16. / 17. November 2006).
Patent Peer Review (American Intellectual Property Law Association, Washington, Oct 19, 2006).
Information Deficit and Patent Examination (Partnering in Patents, United States Patent and Trademark Office, Oct 18, 2006).
Peer-to-Patent (Licensing Executives Society, New York, Sept 13, 2006).
Patent Peer Review (Intellectual Property Organization, Chicago, Sept 12, 2006).
“Why Software Patents Suck” (Foo Camp, Aug 26, 2006).
Scientific Expertise, Open Examination and Intellectual Property Reform (Berkeley IP Scholars Conference, August 11, 2006).
The Future of Intellectual Property (SuperNova, San Francisco, CA, June 22, 2006).
Intellectual Property Reform (European Patent Office Conference, The Hague, June 1, 2006).
Peer to Patent: Community Patent Review (Institute for Public Policy Research, London, May 25, 2006).
Designing for Democracy (Human Computer Interaction Seminar, Stanford University, May 5, 2006).
Open Communities (First Monday Conference on Openness, Code, Science and Content, Chicago, May 16, 2006).
Patent Peer Review (United States Patent Office, May 12, 2006)
Peer to Patent (Stanford Law School, May 9, 2006).
The Future of Patents (Intellectual Property as a Strategic Asset, IBM Conference, May 1-2, 2006).
Law, Cyberspace and the Digital Age CLE Panel (New York Law School, April 29, 2006).
Peer to Patent: Collective Intelligence for our Intellectual Property System (Socio-Technical Infrastructure for Electronic Transactions Seminar, University of Michigan, March 23, 2006).
What is the Law of E-Democracy (New York Law School Faculty Presentation Day, March 21, 2006).
The Peer to Patent Workshop (New York Law School, March 17, 2006).
Open Source and Education (Consortium for School Networking, March 8, 2006).
The Peer to Patent Workshop (Harvard Law School, February 28, 2006).
Adapting the Open Source Concept to Principles of Democratic Governance (Open Source Development and Distribution of Digital Information: Economic, Legal, and Social Perspectives Course, Berkeley, California, Profs. Steven Weber, Pam Samuelson and Mitch Kapor, Dec. 5, 2005).
The Social Construction of Online Identity (Cornell Law School Faculty Presentation, November 8, 2005).
Who Owns my Light Saber? (Austin Games Conference, October 28, 2005) http://www.gameconference.com/conference/production.html
Architecture, Law and Virtual Worlds (The State of Play Conference, New York, Oct 8, 2005).
Peer to Patent: Collective Intelligence for our Intellectual Property System (Accelerating Change Conference, Stanford University, September 16-18, 2005) http://www.accelerating.org/ac2005/).
Intellectual Property Law and Open Source Computing (Open Source Student Information Conference, San Rafael, California, August 19, 2005).
E-Rulemaking (Advanced Administrative Law Class, NYU, Prof. Michael Herz, Sep. 29, 2005).
E-Democracy and E-Government course (University of Melbourne Law School, Melbourne, Australia, July 2005).
Internet and Politics (Berkmann Center, Internet Law (I-Law) Program, June 22, 2005).
Democracy: The Videogame (Law and Society, Las Vegas, June 2-5 2005)
Copyright and Virtual Worlds (American Bar Association, Annual Intellectual Property Law Meeting, Washington, DC, April 15, 2005)
The Grid (Fordham Law School, April 9, 2005)
Information, Globalization and Power (Yale Law School, April 1-3, 2005)
A Natural History of Cooperative Structures and Institutions: from DNA to WWW (Harvard Law School/Gruter Institute, March 30, 2005) (panel with E. Donald Elliott and Oliver Goodenough)
Why Bush Won the Election, or Why Kerry Lost It (On the Net)? The Digital Age television program with James Goodale (WNYE TV, January 29, 2005).