Eben Moglen                       voice: 212-854-8382
Professor of Law & Legal History    fax: 212-854-7946    moglen@
Columbia Law School, 435 West 116th Street, NYC 10027  columbia.edu

Hot for the moment:

The Invisible Barbecue [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/barbecue.html ] (also available in PostScript [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/barbecue.ps ])


Current Courses

Computers, Privacy & the Constitution [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/CPC/ ]

Perspectives in Modern Legal Thought [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/persp/ ]

Network RePublications

A Vigil For Thurgood Marshall [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/tm.html ], 93 Colum. L. Rev. 1061 (1993). PostScript [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/tm.ps ]

Judge Weinfeld, A Recollection [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/ew.html ] PostScript [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/ew.ps ]

The Invisible Barbecue [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/barbecue.html ], 97 Colum. L. Rev. 945 (1997). PostScript [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/barbecue.ps ]

Holmes's Legacy and the New Constitutional History [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/fiss.html ], 108 Harv. L. Rev. 2027 (1995). PostScript [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/fiss.ps ]

The Incompleat Burkean: Bruce Ackerman's New Constitutional History [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/burkean.html ], 5 Yale J. Law & Humanities 532 (1993). PostScript [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/burkean.ps ]

The Transformation of Morton Horwitz [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/horwitz.html ], 93 Colum. L. Rev. 1042 (1993). PostScript [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/horwitz.ps ]

Legal Fictions and Common Law Legal Theory: Some Historical Reflections [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/fict.html ], 10 Tel-Aviv Univ. Stud. in L. 35 (1991). PostScript [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/fict.ps ]

Speeches

The Virtual Scholar and Network Liberation [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/nospeech.html ], Association of American Law Schools, New Orleans, 5 January 1995 (undelivered). PostScript [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/aals95.ps ]

American Federalisms: The Structure of 18C North American Law [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/aslh.html ], American Society for Legal History, Atlanta, 9 February 1990. PostScript [ http://old.law.columbia.edu/my_pubs/aslh.ps ]


People You Might Want to Meet

John Perry Barlow [ http://www.eff.org/~barlow ]
Michael Froomkin [ http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/ ]
John Gilmore [ http://www.cygnus.com/~gnu/index.html ]
Philip Greenspun [ http://18.23.0.16/~philg/philg.html ]
Oppedahl & Larson [ http://www.patents.com/oandl.sht ]

Places You Might Want to Go

Legal Resources

Legal Information Institute
Thomas

Other Academic Resources

Directories of Historical Resources
Darwin-L Web Server
English Server
CIA World Factbooks

Electronic Journals

PSYCHE
Hotwired

Encryption

Pretty Good Privacy, Inc.
Rivest Archive
MIT Public Key Server
Anonymous remailer guide

Weather

Weather Forecasts
US Travelers' Forecast

Travel

City-Net
Foreign Exchange
Subway Navigator

Paper Movers

FedEx Airbill Tracking Form
United States Postal Service

Computer Science Reference

UNIX Reference Desk
Perl 5 manual

Finding Aids

Deja News Research Service
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Library Catalogs
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Institutions of Interest

American Historical Association
Columbia University
CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility)
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Exploratorium
NYC Public Advocate

Eben Moglen

Education

1993, Yale University, Ph.D. with Distinction in History

1985, Yale University, J.D.; M.Phil. in History (with honors) Articles Editor, Yale Law Journal, Vol. 93.

1976-80, Swarthmore College. A.B. (High Honors), 1980. Phi Beta Kappa. Philip Hicks Prize, Literary Criticism.

Employment

1994-, Professor of Law and Legal History, Columbia Law School.

1987-94, Associate Professor of Law, Columbia Law School.

1986-87, Law Clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, United States Supreme Court.

1985-86, Law Clerk to Judge Edward Weinfeld, United States District Court, Southern District of New York.

1984, Associate, Cravath Swaine & Moore, New York.

1983, IBM Corporation, Armonk, New York, Associate Corporation Counsel

1979-84, IBM Corporation, San Jose, California, Programmer/Analyst, Programming Language Research & Development.

Bar Admissions

New York, 1988; US Supreme Court, 1993

Visiting Professorships

Harvard Law School, 1994-95
University of Virginia Law School, Fall 1993
Tel-Aviv University Faculty of Law, Spring-Summer 1991

Publications

The Invisible Barbecue, 97 Colum. L. Rev. 945 (1997).

R. Helmholz, C.M. Gray, J.H. Langbein, E. Moglen, et al., The Privilege Against Self-Incrimination: Its Origins and Development (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1997).

Zapf & Moglen, Linguistic Indeterminacy and the Rule of Law: On the Perils of Misunderstanding Wittgenstein, 84 Geo. L. Rev. 485 (1996).

Holmes's Legacy and the New Constitutional History, 108 Harv. L. Rev. 2027 (1995).

Considering Zenger: Partisan Politics and the Legal Profession in Colonial New York, 94 Colum. L. Rev. 1495 (1994).

Taking the Fifth: Reconsidering the History of the Privilege Against Self-Incrimination, 92 Mich. L. Rev. 1086 (1994).

Towards a New Deal Legal History, 80 Va. L. Rev. 263 (1994).

Settling the Law: Legal Development in New York, 1664-1776 (Ph.D. diss., Yale University, 1993).

A Vigil For Thurgood Marshall, 93 Colum. L. Rev. 1061 (1993).

The Incompleat Burkean: Bruce Ackerman's New Constitutional History, 5 Yale J. Law & Humanities 532 (1993).

The Transformation of Morton Horwitz (Book Review), 93 Colum. L. Rev. 1042 (1993).

Legal Fictions and Common Law Legal Theory: Some Historical Reflections, 10 Tel-Aviv Univ. Stud. in L. 35 (1991).

The New Historiography of Colonial Criminal Law (Review Essay), 1 Georgia J. Southern Leg. Hist. 175 (1991).

John Reid's American Revolution (Book Review), 9 Law & Hist. Rev. 389 (1991).

Moglen & Pierce, Sunstein's New Canons: Choosing the Fictions of Statutory Construction, 90 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1203 (1990).

Jewishness and the American Constitutional Tradition: The Cases of Brandeis and Frankfurter (Book Review), 89 Colum. L. Rev. 959 (1989).

Note, Commercial Arbitration in the Eighteenth Century: Looking for the Transformation of American Law, 93 Yale L.J. 135 (1983).


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