Professor William McGeveran specializes in information law, including intellectual property, data privacy, communications and technology, and free speech. His current research focuses on digital identity and data privacy, disclosure rules and norms in areas such as open records laws, and fair use and the public domain in trademark and copyright law. He teaches courses in these areas as well as civil procedure. He is an affiliated professor at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications and contributes to the "Info/Law" blog, available at blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw.
Professor McGeveran earned a J.D., magna cum laude, from New York University and a B.A., magna cum laude, in political science from Carleton College. Prior to coming to the University of Minnesota, Professor McGeveran was a resident fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. He previously clerked for Judge Sandra Lynch on the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and practiced as an intellectual property litigator at Foley Hoag LLP in Boston. Before law school, Professor McGeveran worked in national politics for seven years, primarily as a policy aide to Democrats in the United States House of Representatives. He grew up in New York City.
The Digital Learning Challenge: Obstacles to Educational Uses of Copyrighted Material in the Digital Age (Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard Law School, 2006) (with William W. Fisher)
