I serve on the Dean's Research Council for the College of Arts and
Sciences and was 2010 chair of the Campbell
Prize committee. I am the clerk/newsletter editor for the law
and policy division of the Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication and frequently review book manuscripts and
papers for journals and conferences affiliated with AEJMC and the
International Communication
Association. I am Webmaster for the journalism
and communication department. I was one of ten recipients of a
grant from the Liberty
Tree Initiative and successfully put on "Lehigh
Celebrates the First!" -- a semester-long celebration of
free speech rights held in the fall of 2009.
Invited presentations
"The Google Settlement:
Implications for Libraries, Authors, and the Public." Sponsored
by Lehigh Friends of the Library and the Department of Journalism
and Communication, Bethlehem, Pa., March 2010.
"Media
Law for Bloggers." Presented to COM 402 Electronic Journalism
class, La Salle University, Philadelphia, Pa., February 2010.
"From
Shrinkwrap to Gagwrap: Licensing and Fair Use Online." Presented
at the annual conference of COMPARCH (Federated Events on Component-Based
Software Engineering and Software Architecture), East Stroudsburg,
Pa., June 2009.
"Let's
Reclaim the Commons: Public Domain and Intellectual Property on the
Electronic High Seas." Panelist at a session sponsored
by the Law division of the Association for Education in Journalism
and Mass Communication at their annual convention, San Francisco,
Calif., August 2006
"The First Amendment's Penumbral
Right: Freedom of Association" and "Anti-Discrimination
Laws and Freedom of Association," presented as part of the First
Amendment Institute, an annual program of the Freedom
of Information Foundation of Texas, Austin, Texas, September 2005