Derek
E. Bambauer
Assistant Professor of Law
Office Address:
Room 3267
Telephone: (313) 577-4048
E-mail: derek.bambauer@wayne.edu
Website:
Blog: Click Here
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EDUCATION:
B.A., Harvard College
J.D., Harvard Law School
PROFILE:
Professor Derek Bambauer specializes in intellectual property (copyright, patent, and trademark) law and Internet law. A former principal systems engineer with Lotus Development Corp. (now part of IBM), Bambauer joined Wayne State after spending two years as a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. At Berkman, he was a member of the OpenNet Initiative, and helped research, test, and document how countries such as China, Iran, and Vietnam censor the Internet. His article on derivative works in copyright will appear later this year in the University of Alabama Law Review. He has published articles in the University of Colorado Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, the Virginia Journal of Law & Technology, Archives of Neurology, Legal Affairs, and Information Technology and International Development. He has also published technical articles on topics such as data recovery and fault tolerance, and on software environment upgrades.
Bambauer has given presentations on issues such as e-mail spam and Internet filtering in both technical and policy settings. These include a paper on various country-level approaches to regulating spam and the possibility of a "model law" at the World Summit on the Information Society Cybersecurity Meeting on Countering Spam in July 2005, and testifying about China's technological system of Internet censorship before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in April 2005.
Bambauer graduated from Harvard College summa cum laude in History and Science and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts. In 2007-2008, he teaches Trademarks and Unfair Competition and a seminar on Current Issues in Intellectual Property in the fall, and will teach Copyright and Contracts in the spring. Along with Professor Tim Armstrong of the University of Cincinnati and Professor Bill McGeveran of the University of Minnesota, he writes a blog, Info/Law, on information law and technology.
