Faculty Information

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  • Biography

    B.A., State University of New York at Oswego
    J.D., Albany Law School
    LL.M. Yale Law School

    Professor Robert Heverly's research and teaching interests span property and land use law, intellectual and property and copyright law, and cyberspace and communications law. Most recently a visiting professor of law at Michigan State University College of Law, he was previously 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, and fellow with the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, where he retains an affiliation as a faculty fellow. From 1992-2001, he served as assistant director of Albany Law School's Government Law Center.

  • Publications

    Growing Up Digital: Control and the Pieces of a Digital Life, in THE MACARTHUR FOUNDATION SERIES ON DIGITAL MEDIA AND LEARNING, Volume 6: Innovative Uses and Unexpected Outcomes (edited by Tara MacPherson) (2008)

    Law as Intermediary,
    2006 Michigan St. L. Rev. 107 (2006)

    The Information Semicommons,
    18 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1127 (2003)

    Technology Raises Risk of Tyranny, Op Ed,
    LA Times, Dec. 5 2002 [reprinted, inter alia, in the Chicago Tribune]

    MANUAL FOR ADMINISTRATIVE LAW JUDGES AND HEARING OFFICERS (editor/chapter author), NYS Department of Civil Service (2002)

    Public Deposits and Investments: A Review of Investment and Banking Law as Applied to Local Governments,
    Government Law Center of Albany Law School (2002)

    Technology Property: Instant Messaging for Lawyers,
    Probate and Property (American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section), May/June 2001

    Technology Property: Pitfalls of Exchanging Documents Electronically,
    Probate and Property (American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section), January/February 2001

    Site Development Plan Review, in NEW YORK ZONING LAW AND PRACTICE (Salkin, editor) (West 2000)

    Technology Property: Technofears and Modern Law Practice,
    Probate and Property (American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section), May/June 2000

    Technology Property: Finding and Using Forms on the Internet,
    Probate and Property (American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section), January/February 2000

    Federal Preemption of Local Zoning, Sub-committee Report
    Urban Lawyer (Land Use Regulation Committee, ABA State and Local Government Law Section) (1999)

    Siting of Wireless Telecommunications Facilities, in NEW YORK ZONING LAW AND PRACTICE (Salkin, editor) (West 1999)

    Land Use Law Sites on the World Wide Web,
    ABA State and Local Law Section Land Use Law Update (1999)

    Wireless Facilities Siting: National Protections, Local Control,
    CCH Power and Telecom Law, vol. 2, no. 6 (September/October 1999)

    Ways the legal profession can make use of the Internet,
    The Business Review (Albany), April 26, 1999

    Contributor, HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN RADIO
    Godfrey & Leigh (Greenwood Publ. 1998)

    Section 704 of the Telecommunications Act of 1996: An Update on Zoning and Wireless Facilities,
    Urban Lawyer (Fall 1998), (Co-author with D. Pugh & R. Foster)

    Training helps employees overcome 'technophobia',
    The Business Review (Albany), July 13, 1998

    Technology/Property: Law Practice on the World Wide Web,
    Probate and Property (American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section), May/June 1998

    Web poses potential ethics pitfalls for lawyers,
    The Business Review (Albany), April 25, 1997

    Rights and Freedoms under the State Constitution (symposium participant),
    13 Touro L. Rev. 98 (1996)

    Dealing with Towers, Antennas, and Satellite Dishes,
    48 Land Use L. & Zn. Dg. 3 (Nov. 1996)

    The State Role in Regulating Telecommunications: An Introduction,
    6 Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology 1 (1996)

    The Role of Legislation, and the Legislature, in the Regulatory Reform Process,
    1 Albany Law Environmental Outlook 36 (1995)

    Alcohol Over the Airwaves, Broadcasting and the Law: Volume 1,
    Government Law Center of Albany Law School/New York State Broadcasters Association (1994, revised 2001)

    Lotteries and Games of Chance, Broadcasting and the Law: Volume 2, Government Law Center of Albany Law School/New York State Broadcasters Association (1994, revised 2001)

    Intermunicipal Cooperative Agreements, A Practical Guide, Issues & Options, National League of Cities, 1994
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