As I mentioned in an earlier post, and as you can probably see, I’m turning this site into more of a personal blog. If you want to only see legal updates, you can subscribe to this law only RSS feed (or view here).

— nic

[ from the allocation-of-resources dept ]

You may have noticed I haven’t said much around here lately. I’ve been putting most of my energy into my academic writing – first my dissertation, and now a book and some articles. This leaves little time to blog.

Over the next few weeks, I’m going to transition this site to more of a personal homepage and less of a blog. I’ll still have the occasional writeup of particular issues or events I’m interested in, but the rest of the content will become more (explicitly) static and may include a greater mix of my other interests, like photography. Accordingly, if you don’t want to see pictures of kittens, you may want to unsubscribe from the feed.*

* I don’t actually expect to be posting many pictures of kittens. But you get the point – content is likely to be more personal and less academic from here on.

I have arrived in Washington DC, where I’ll be a visiting researcher at Georgetown University Law Center for the 2010 / 11 academic year.

My main project over this time is to write my book on the governance of virtual communities. I’ll also be working on some new material on graduated response schemes in IP and also on open licensing.

If you’re in the area, or know of any great events I should get to, please let me know.

Last week I submitted my PhD thesis (‘Digital Constitutionalism and the role of the rule of law in the governance of virtual communities’) for examination. I hope to hear back in the next six weeks, in time for graduation in July.

I will be taking twelve months leave from my teaching at QUT to spend the 2010/11 academic year in the US. My partner, Kylie, has enrolled in an LLM program at Georgetown University, and I will work on some of my own research there.

This also means I am available for work in the US over the next year; if anyone has anything they would like to collaborate on, or knows of some interesting work I could do, please drop me a line (nic at suzor dot com).

I’ve migrated (somewhat) from dokuwiki to wordpress. I’ve tried to keep the archives, but have broken all old links. Please let me know if you spot any major problems.