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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.

Books

“The Coming Cyborg Challenge: Human Augmentation and Intellectual Property” in THE WORLD OF IP: CAUGHT BETWEEN GLOBALISM AND NATIONALISM (forthcoming) (Josef Drexl, ed.)
Contributor, HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN RADIO Godfrey & Leigh (Greenwood Publ. 1998)

Publications

More is Different: Tort Liability of Compromised Systems in Internet Denial of Service Attacks, 47 Florida State University Law Review 531 (2020)
Revisiting ‘The Information Semicommons,’ 59 IDEA: The Law Review of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property 137 (2018) » Link to Publication
The State Of Drones: State Authority to Regulate Drones, 8 Albany Government Law Review 29 (2015) 8.1.0029-Heverly.pdf
"Growing Up Digital: Control and the Pieces of a Digital Life" in DIGITAL YOUTH, INNOVATION, AND THE UNEXPECTED (The MIT Press, MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning, 2008) (Tara McPherson, ed.) papers.cfm
Law as Intermediary, 2006 Michigan St. L. Rev. 107 (2006)papers.cfm
The Information Semicommons, 18 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1127 (2003)papers.cfm
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
Wireless Facilities Siting: National Protections, Local Control, CCH Power and Telecom Law, vol. 2, no. 6 (September/October 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)
Ways the legal profession can make use of the Internet, The Business Review (Albany), April 26, 1999
Federal Preemption of Local Zoning, Sub-committee Report Urban Lawyer (Land Use Regulation Committee, ABA State and Local Government Law Section) (1999)
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)
Contributor, HISTORICAL DICTIONARY OF AMERICAN RADIO Godfrey & Leigh (Greenwood Publ. 1998)
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
Dealing with Towers, Antennas, and Satellite Dishes, 48 Land Use L. & Zn. Dg. 3 (Nov. 1996)
Rights and Freedoms under the State Constitution (symposium participant), 13 Touro L. Rev. 98 (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

Forthcoming Publications

“The Coming Cyborg Challenge: Human Augmentation and Intellectual Property” in THE WORLD OF IP: CAUGHT BETWEEN GLOBALISM AND NATIONALISM (forthcoming) (Josef Drexl, ed.)

Selected Achievements

Professor Rob Heverly served as reporter on the Uniform Law Commission's Tort Law Relating to Drones Act.
Professor Rob Heverly served as speaker and presented "Cyborg Lives: The Law and Policy of Human Augmentation," Presenter, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany (Law Faculty), January 7, 2020.
Professor Robert Heverly presented at the Albany Law Review Symposium: The Courts Are Alive with the Sound of Music on October 21, 2019.
Professor Rob Heverly served as moderator/presenter, Albany Law Review Symposium, The Courts are Alive with the Sound of Music, October 21, 2019.
Professor Rob Heverly participated on the panel "Media for Democracy: Journalism and Elections in Times of Disinformation" at Niskayuna Town Hall on World Press Freedom Day, May 2, 2019.
Professor Rob Heverly participated on the panel "The Internet of Bodies: Cyborgs and the Law" at the Association of American Law Schools Annual Meeting on January 4, 2019. Read more at Legaltech News.
Professor Robert Heverly was appointed by the president of NYSBA to the Legal Education Committee.
Professor Robert Heverly was appointed as the Associate Reporter for the Drafting Committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws project, "Tort Law Relating to Drones Act."
Professor Robert Heverly presented a “Social Media and Legal Ethics” CLE for the Albany County Bar Association on April 24, 2018.
Professor Robert Heverly presented on "Legal Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Human Augmentation" at the Seton Hall Artificial Intelligence and the Law Conference, April 19-20, 2018.
Professor Robert Heverly presented his paper "The Information Semicommons Redux" at UNH Law School's Intellectual Property Scholarship Redux Conference on April 6, 2018.
Professor Robert Heverly presented his paper "Cyborg Lives: The Law and Policy of Human Augmentation" at the Eighth Annual Internet Law Works-in-Progress Workshop at New York Law School on March 24, 2018.
Professor Robert Heverly presented along with Assemblymember Patricia Fahy on issues relating to the FCC's revocation of net neutrality protections and how local individuals and grass-roots organizations can take steps to try to ensure neutrality in internet operations at Bethlehem Town Hall on March 8, 2018.
Professor Robert Heverly presented “The Coming Cyborg Challenge: Human Augmentation and Intellectual Property Law” at the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center’s 6th Annual Alumni Conference in Munich, Germany, on February 24, 2018.
Professor Rob Heverly moderated the panel "Insurance and Liability Breach Response" at the two-day Cybersecurity and the Law conference at Albany Law School on October 19, 2017.
Professor Robert Heverly presented "Cyborgs: Law and Human Augmentation" at the Yale Law School Information Society Project's 20th Reunion on October 7, 2017.
Professor Robert Heverly presented "Ermahgerd: Lawrs" at the Albany New York Hacking, InfoSec & Cyber Security Conference (ANYCon) on June 16, 2017.
Professor Rob Heverly participated in a roundtable discussion at the forum Cybersecurity: Protecting Your Funders, Your Clients, and Yourselves presented by the University at Albany Institute of Nonprofit Leadership and Community Development on May 12, 2017.
Professor Robert Heverly and Professor Peter Halewood delivered an online training on health, human rights and trade law in collaboration with the UAlbany Global Institute for Health and Human Rights with an audience in Middle East—part of a $1.6 million grant-funded project—on April 28, 2017.
Professor Rob Heverly was a panelist at the forum Endangered Species? The Future of Journalism and the 1st Amendment in Delmar, N.Y. on April 20, 2017.
Professor Robert Heverly discussed issues surrounding drones and small unmanned aircraft on the panel "Federal Preemption of UAS Regulation" at Syracuse University College of Law on March 10, 2017. The event was presented by the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism.
Professor Robert Heverly was a panelist at the event “As Drones Take Flight” at the University at Albany, presented by the UAlbany College of Emergency Preparedness, Homeland Security, and Cybersecurity on November 1, 2016.
Professor Robert Heverly and Professor Peter Halewood participated in an online training on health, human rights and trade law in collaboration with the UAlbany Global Institute for Health and Human Rights with an audience in Middle East on October 28, 2016. This is part of the $1.6 million grant-funded project begun last year. Professor Sarah Rogerson is also participating and has delivered trainings this fall.
Professor Robert Heverly testified before a NYS Assembly committee on the subject of providing affordable and high quality cable, broadband, and telephone service on January 20, 2016.
Professor Robert Heverly presented a talk on "Social Media and its Effect on the Law" to a meeting of judges from the State of New York's Sixth Judicial District held on February 27, 2015 in Watkins Glen.
Professor Robert Heverly was elected chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Internet and Computer Law.
Professor Robert Heverly gave a curated talk and participated in a roundtable at the Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference at NYU in New York City on Oct. 12, 2013.
Professor Robert Heverly presented his paper "Regulating the Cyborg" at George Washington University School of Law as part of the institution's Intellectual Property Law Program Papers Series on April 3, 2013.
Professor Robert Heverly gave a talk on "Tort Liability in Denial of Service Attacks" at St. John's University School of Law as part of a faculty scholarship exchange.
Professor Robert Heverly participated in a workshop on intellectual property at New York University School of Law.
Professor Heverly taught a summer class as part of George Washington University Law School's Munich Intellectual Property Summer Program in Germany in July.
Professor Heverly presented on social media and legal ethics throughout the spring, including a number of CLEs for the Appellate Divisions in the Third and Fourth Department and for the Albany County Bar Association.
Professor Heverly presented a session on social media at Albany Law School's orientation for the class of 2017 in Augus.
Professor Heverly's research on state authority to regulate Unmanned Aviation Systems (also known as drones) is nearing completion, and his larger "Cyborg Project" continues to make good progress.
Professor Robert Heverly will be presenting on cyborgs at the AALS Annual Meeting in New Orleans in January.
Professor Robert Heverly was appointed by the president of NYSBA to the Legal Education Committee.
Professor Robert Heverly was appointed as the Associate Reporter for the Drafting Committee of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws project, "Tort Law Relating to Drones Act."

In the News

Associate Professor Robert Heverly was quoted in the Los Angeles Times article "What if a delivery drone falls on your head? Thorny legal questions loom as services increase" on October 22, 2019.
Professor Rob Heverly was quoted in the Times Union article "World Press Freedom Day in Niskayuna: experts talk fake news and First Amendment" on May 5, 2019.
Professor Rob Heverly was quoted in the Business Review article "The drone economy is buzzing, and these Albany businesses are ready for takeoff" on March 28, 2019.
Professor Rob Heverly was mentioned in the Times Union article "Drones take flight in a basement gymnasium in Albany" on February 27, 2019.
Professor Rob Heverly was quoted in the Legaltech News article "The Internet of Bodies: A Convenient—and, Yes, Creepy—New Platform for Data Discovery" on January 7, 2019.
Professor Rob Heverly was quoted in the story "Juice vs. Water: Saratoga Companies in Trademark Dispute," which aired on WAMC radio on May 25, 2016.
Professor Robert Heverly was quoted in the WAMC.org article "Local Brewery Turns to Social Media During Legal Battle" on November 13, 2015.
Professor Robert Heverly spoke with All Over Albany about the drone debate on October 13, 2015.
Professor Robert Heverly spoke with News 10-TV about legislation that would make geo-fencing mandatory in drones on October 14, 2015.

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