Hannibal Travis
Associate Professor of Law
305-348-8371 or
305-348-8018 (phone)
travish@fiu.edu
B.A., Washington University
J.D., Harvard Law School
Hannibal Travis teaches and conducts research in the fields of cyberlaw, intellectual property, antitrust, international and comparative law, and human rights. He joined FIU after several years practicing intellectual property and Internet law at O’Melveny & Myers in San Francisco, California, and at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York. He has also served as Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University, and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford. He graduated summa cum laude in philosophy from Washington University, where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as a member of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and the Harvard Human Rights Journal, and as a teaching assistant in Harvard College. After law school, Professor Travis clerked for the United States District Court in Los Angeles, California. Professor Travis has published articles on copyright, trademark, and antitrust law in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Hofstra Law Review, the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, Notre Dame Law Review, Pepperdine Law Review, University of Miami Law Review, Virginia Journal of Law and Technology, and Yale Journal of Law and Technology. He has also published works on antitrust law, telecommunications law, and net neutrality in American University Law Review, Hofstra Law Review, and Santa Clara Law Review.
His works have focused on the intellectual property implications of new technologies and user-generated content, as well as antitrust law as applied to broadband and Wi-Fi Internet access markets. His work on the copyright liability of Internet service providers in the U.S. and the European Union has been published in Europe, and his article on Google and intellectual property was selected by West Group as one of the best articles relating to intellectual property law that was published in 2008. Courts and commentators frequently cite his research, ranging from the U.S. Court of Appeals to the authors of more than 15 books and dozens of law review articles. Professor Travis has book chapters forthcoming from Oxford University Press, the University of Uppsala Press, and Transaction Publishers. He has also published widely on genocide and human rights, including book chapters selected for publication by Oxford University Press and the University of Pennsylvania Press, and is the author of the first comprehensive history of physical and cultural genocide in the Middle East and North Africa, entitled ‘Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan’ (Carolina Academic Press, 2010). He is an editorial board member of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, and a former advisory board member of the Journal of Genocide Research and the Institute for Genocide Awareness and Applied Research. He has coached FIU’s Jessup International Law Moot Court team, which in its first appearance placed fifth in the 2008 Southeast Regional out of a 23-team field.
Cyberlaw and Intellectual Property Publications:
Estimating the Economic Impact of Mass Digitization Projects on Copyright Holders: Evidence from the Google Book Search Litigation, 57 Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA 907 (2011) (peer-reviewed), http://ssrn.com/abstract=1634126
The FCC’s New Theory of the First Amendment, 51 Santa Clara L. Rev. 417 (2011),http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=1698091
President Obama’s “Pivot” to Jobs: Lessons from Comparative Law and America’s Rivals, 3 Poverty and Public Policy No. 2 (2011)
http://www.psocommons.org/ppp/vol3/iss3/art2/
Postmodern Censorship of Pacifist Content on Television and the Internet, 25 Notre Dame J. of Law, Ethics & Public Policy 47 (2011),
The Principles of the Law of Software Contracts: At Odds with Copyright, Consumers, and European Law?, 84 TULANE LAW REV. 1557 (2010) (symposium),
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1552882
The Future According to Google: Technology Policy from the Standpoint of America’s Fastest-Growing Technology Company , 11 YALE JOURNAL OF LAW AND TECHNOLOGY 209 (2009) (symposium essay),
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1337167
Opting Out of the Internet in the United States and European Union: Copyright, Safe Harbors, and International Law, 84 NOTRE DAME LAW REV. 331 (2008),
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1221642
Of Blogs, eBooks, and Broadband: Access to Digital Media as a First Amendment Right, 35 HOFSTRA LAW REV. 1519 (2007)
http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=1025474
Wi-Fi Everywhere: Universal Broadband Access as Antitrust and Telecommunications Policy, 55 AMERICAN UNIVERSITY LAW REV. 1697 (2006)
http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=903425
Google Book Search and Fair Use: iTunes for Authors, or Napster for Books?, 61 MIAMI LAW REV. 87 (2006)
http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=944048
Building Universal Digital Libraries: An Agenda for Copyright Reform, 33 PEPPERDINE LAW REV. 761 (2006)
http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=860784
The Battle for Mindshare: The Emerging Consensus that the First Amendment Protects Corporate Criticism and Parody on the Internet, 10 VIRGINIA J. LAW & TECH. 3 (2005),
http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=980797
Pirates of the Information Infrastructure: Blackstonian Copyright and the First Amendment, 15 BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW J. 777 (2000)
http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=758885
International Law and Human Rights Publications:
The Assyrian Genocide: A Tale of Oblivion and Denial, in Forgotten Genocides: Oblivion, Denial, and Memory (Rene Lémarchand ed., Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), http://tinyurl.com/forgottengenocides
Cold War Genocides: Failures of Global Justice in Nigeria and Pakistan, in Untold Stories of War Crimes Trials (Kevin Jon Heller & Gerry Simpson eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press) (forthcoming 2012)
YouTube from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: Tyrannize Locally, Censor Globally, in Bits without Borders: Law, Communications and Transnational Culture Flow in the Digital Age (Sean Pager and Adam Candeub eds., Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing) (forthcoming 2012)
Constructing “The Armenian Genocide”: How Genocide Scholars Unremembered the Ottoman Assyrians and Greeks, in Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, and Memory
(Alex Hinton and Tom LaPointe eds., forthcoming 2012)
GENOCIDE IN THE MIDDLE EAST: THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, IRAQ, AND SUDAN (Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press, 2010),
http://www.cap-press.com/isbn/9781594604362
The International Arms Trade and the Prevention of Genocide: The Law and Practice of Arming Genocidal Governments, in IMPEDIMENTS TO THE PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION OF GENOCIDE: A CRITICAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC REVIEW (Samuel Totten ed., Transaction Publishers, forthcoming 2010)
United States Law and Policy Regarding Iraqi Refugees, 2003-2008, 55 WAYNE LAW REV. 1007 (2009),
http://orgs.law.wayne.edu/lawreview/index.htm
The Cultural and Intellectual Property Interests of the Indigenous Peoples of Turkey and Iraq, 13 TEXAS WESLEYAN LAW REV. 415 (2009) (symposium),
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1549804
Genocide in Sudan: The Role of Oil Exploration and the Entitlement of the Victims to Reparations, 25 ARIZONA J. OF INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW 1 (2008),
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1285781
Human Rights in Disaster Policy: Improving the Federal Response to Natural Disasters, Disease Pandemics, and Terrorist Attacks (chapter in THROUGH THE EYE OF KATRINA: SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE UNITED STATES, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, July 2007),
http://www.cap-press.com/isbn/9781594602887
“Native Christians Massacred”: The Ottoman Genocide of the Assyrians during World War I, 1.3 GENOCIDE STUDIES AND PREVENTION: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL 327 (2006) (peer-reviewed),
http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=950428
Freedom or Theocracy?: Constitutionalism in Afghanistan and Iraq, 3 NORTHWESTERN U. J. OF INT’L HUMAN RIGHTS 4 (2005),
http://ssrn.com/abstract_id=758904