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Joshua Fairfield

Email: fairfieldj@wlu.edu
Office: 4007 Sydney Lewis Hall
Phone: 540-458-8529
Fax: 540-458-8488

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Joshua A.T. Fairfield

Professor of Law

B.A. Swarthmore (with distinction) Phi Beta Kappa; J.D. University of Chicago, magna cum laude; Order of the Coif


Publications

SSRN Publications

W&L Scholarly Commons (Available PDFs)

Book Chapters

Virtual Property and the Overextension of Copyright Licensing Online, in Intellectual Property and Information Wealth (2007).

Law Review Articles and other scholarly publications

Avatar Experimentation: Human Subjects Research in Virtual Worlds, 2 U.C. Irvine L. Rev. 695 (2012). (Available at: http://www.law.uci.edu/lawreview/vol2/no2/fairfield.pdf)

Mixed Reality: How the Laws of Virtual Worlds Govern Everyday Life, 27 Berkely Tech. L. J. 55 (2012).

"Do-Not-Track" as Contract, 14 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 545 (2012).

Nexus Crystals: Crystalizing Limits on Contractual Control of Virtual Worlds, 38 WM. Mitchell L. Rev.43 (2011).

Virtual Parentalism, 66 Washington & Lee Law Review 1215 (2009) (Symposium contribution:Protecting Virtual Playgrounds: Children, Law and Play Online). (Available at: Westlaw, SSRN)

The End of the (Virtual) World, 112 West Virginia Law Review 53 (2009) (Symposium contribution: Digital Entrepreneurship: The Incentives and Legal Risks). (Available at: available at Westlaw)

The Magic Circle, 11 Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law 823 (2009). (Available at: SSRN, Westlaw)

The Cost of Consent: Optimal Standardization in the Law of Contract, 58 Emory Law Journal 1401 (2009). (Available at: SSRN, Westlaw)

The God Paradox, 89 Boston University Law Review 1017 (2009).  (Available at: Boston University Law Review, Westlaw)

Escape into the Panopticon: Virtual Worlds and the Surveillance Society, 118 Yale Law Journal Pocket Part 131 (2009). (Available at: Yale Law Journal)

Anti-social Contracts: The Contractual Governance of Virtual Worlds, 53 McGill Law Journal 427 (2008).   (Available at: SSRN, Westlaw)

The Search Interest in Contract, 92 Iowa Law Review 1237 (2007). (Available at: SSRN, Westlaw)

Virtual Property, 85 Boston University Law Review 1047 (2005).   (Available at: SSRN, Westlaw)

Cracks in the Foundation: The New Internet Legislation's Hidden Threat to Privacy and Commerce, 36 Arizona State Law Journal 1193 (2004). (Available at: SSRN, Westlaw)

To Err Is Human: The Judicial Conundrum of Curing Apprendi Error, 55 Baylor Law Review 889 (2003). (Available at: Westlaw)

Comment. ERISA Preemption and the Case for a Federal Common Law of Agency Governing Employer-Administrators, 68 University of Chicago Law Review 223 (2001). (Available at: Westlaw)

Book Reviews

Castles in the Air: Greg Lastowka's Virtual Justice, 51 Jurimetrics 89 (2010).


For the Media

Professor Fairfield is available to be interviewed on the following subjects:

• e-Commerce 
• Videogame Regulation 
• Virtual Worlds 

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