Most of my research focuses on the conflicts that arise between First Amendment values and other important constitutional principles such as intellectual property rights and the Sixth Amendment rights of criminal defendants. I am the co-author of Mass Communication Law in Pennsylvania (New Forums Press, 2003) and of the RTNDA project "Hidden Cameras, Hidden Microphones: At the Crossroads of Journalism, Ethics and the Law."

Recent publications

"Preserving the copyright balance: Statutory and constitutional preemption of contract-based claims," in Communication Law & Policy 11:83-132 (Winter 2006)

"Cyberspace as place and the limits of metaphor," in Convergence: The Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 11:10-18 (Spring 2005)

"Homelessness as political theater: The Community for Creative Non-Violence and symbolic speech," in Free Speech Yearbook (2004)

Recent conference papers

"A right to Google:  Search engines and copyright," at the annual convention of the International Communication Association, Dresden, Germany (2006)

"Social norms and the copyright law: An analysis of fan Web sites," at the annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Antonio, Texas (2005)

"Citizens or journalists? Legal and ethical rules governing journalists' personal Web logs," at the International Symposium on Online Journalism, Austin, Texas (2004)