Robert Heverly
Visiting Professor of Law
365 Law College Building
Michigan State University College of Law
East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
517/432-6936
rheverly@law.msu.edu
Notes: http://robert.heverly.org
Degrees: LL.M., Yale, 2003; J.D. cum laude 1992, Albany Law School, Union University; B.A., magna cum laude 1989, State University of New York College at Oswego
Curriculum Vitae (PDF)
Biography: Prior to joining MSU College of Law as a visiting professor in January 2009, Professor Heverly was Lecturer in Law and Director of the LL.M. Programme in Information, Technology and Intellectual Property at the Norwich Law School of the University of East Anglia (UEA) in Norwich, England. Preceding his position at the UEA, Professor Heverly was a Fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, where he retains an affiliation as a faculty fellow. With research and teaching interests in property law and theory, and information, technology, networking, and intellectual property, Professor Heverly has published articles on the intersection of property theory and information ownership, on law’s role in regulating communication, and on the pervasive persistence of media creations in the digital age, as well as a host of articles and book chapters on government, administrative law, and land use law earlier in his career. He has recently presented papers or made presentations at Warwick University, the Society of Legal Scholars annual conference in Glasgow, Scotland, and the London School of Economics. Professor Heverly has been active with the New York State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and the New York Planning Federation, and he served on a number of program and standing committees with each organization. He was also a member of the Broadcast Education Association (BEA), serving as Convention Chair for the Association’s 2003 Convention in Las Vegas. He teaches Property Law, Advanced Copyright Law, Cyberspace Law, and Theories of Property Law at the Law College.