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Michael W. Carroll
Professor of Law
Office: 207 Garey Hall
Phone: 610-519-7088
Fax: 610-519-5672
Email: carroll@law.villanova.edu
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Professor Carroll received his A.B., with general honors, from the University of Chicago and his J.D. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center. He also was elected to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, he was the Editor-in-Chief of the American Criminal Law Review. Following law school, he worked for approximately one year as an associate attorney at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C. and then clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Joyce Hens Green. He later clerked for D.C. Circuit Judge Judith W. Rogers. He returned to Wilmer after completing that clerkship. At Wilmer, he practiced in the intellectual property and e-commerce areas. He also has co-taught a copyright class at Georgetown University Law Center. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Creative Commons, Inc., www.creativecommons.org.

Professor Carroll's publications include: (1) Whose Music Is It Anyway?: How We Came To View Musical Expression As A Form of Property, 72 U. Cin. L. Rev. (forthcoming 2004), available in draft at this link; (2) A Primer on U.S. Intellectual Property Rights Applicable to Music Information Retrieval Systems, U. Ill. J. L. Tech. & Pol'y. (forthcoming Winter 2004), available in draft at this link; (3) Disruptive Technology and Common Law Lawmaking: A Brief Analysis of A&M Records, Inc. v. Napster, Inc., 9 Vill. Sports & Enter. L.J. 5 (2002), available at this link; and (4) Garbage In: Emerging Media and Regulation of Unsolicited Commercial Solicitations, 11 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 233 (1996), available at this link. His current works-in-progress include "The Human Face of Deadweight Loss: Recognizing the Social Costs of Uniform Intellectual Property Rights (work-in-progress)" and "Whose Music Is It Anyway?: From Publishers' Privilege To Composers' Copyright".

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