Contributors Woodrow Barfield served as Professor of Engineering at the University of Washington’s Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering with a courtesy appointment in the Departments of Environmental Health and Civil Engineering. He holds a PhD, a JD, and an LLM; is currently Associate Editor for the Virtual Reality Journal, is a former senior editor of the MIT journal Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments, and was on the editorial board of the Washington Journal of Law Technology & Arts. Further, he was Visiting Professor in computer science at University College, London, and was on the program committee which established the first conference on wearable computers and augmented reality. He also edited the first academic books on the same topics. He is a recipient of the National Science Foundation’s Presidential Young Investigator Award and was an External Fellow for Stanford’s Center for Internet and Society. His writings, which include more than 300 scholarly papers, discuss the law of virtual and augmented reality, and how the law applies to artificial intelligence and to humans enhanced with implanted technologies such as neuroprosthesis and brain-computer interfaces. His most recent books are Cyber Humans: Our Future with Machines and the edited collection Fundamentals of Wearable Computers and Augmented Reality (2nd edition), and he is coediting, with Professor Ugo Parallo, the forthcoming Research Handbook on Law and Artificial Intelligence. In addition, he frequently lectures on systems of the future at Duke University and publishes in engineering journals and law reviews, actively reviews for several journals, serves on various program committees, and gives invited keynote talks and lectures. Paul Schiff Berman is Walter S. Cox Professor of Law, George Washington University. He is one of the world’s foremost theorists on the effect of globalization on the interactions among legal systems and is the author of more than 60 scholarly works, including Global Legal Pluralism: A Jurisprudence of Law beyond Borders, published by Cambridge University Press in 2012. He was also among the first legal scholars to focus on legal issues regarding online activity, and he is coauthor of one of the leading casebooks in the field. In addition to his scholarly work, Professor Berman has extensive experience in university and law school administration, having served as Vice Provost for Online Education and Academic Innovation at The George Washington University, Dean of the George Washington University Law School, and Dean of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University. Professor Berman has previously served as the Jesse Root Professor of Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law and was a Visiting Professor and Visiting Research Scholar at Princeton University in the Program in Law and Public Affairs. Since 2016 he has served as a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Queen Mary University of London. He has served on the Organizing Committee of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities and was cochair of the International Law and Technology Interest Group of the American Society of International Law from 2014 to 2016. Prior to academia, he clerked for Chief Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the District Woodrow viiiBarfield and Marc J. Blitz - 9781786438591 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/01/2021 03:51:28AM via free access BARFIELD PRINT.indd 8 13/11/2018 11:52 Contributors ix of Columbia Circuit and for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the Supreme Court of the United States. Marc Jonathan Blitz is Alan Joseph Bennett Professor of Law at Oklahoma City University School of Law. He is a graduate of Harvard University and has a law degree and a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago. His scholarship focuses on constitutional protection for freedom of thought, freedom of expression, and privacy law—and especially on how each of these areas applies to emerging technologies. He has written articles on how First Amendment free speech doctrine and/or Fourth Amendment doctrine on search and seizure law should apply to government use, or regulation, of, public video surveillance (using fixed CCTV camera systems, or drone-mounted cameras, or policy body cameras), biometric identification methods, and electronic information systems. His articles also include analyses of the First Amendment status of video gameplay and other uses of virtual reality technology, and his recent work has focused on the intersection of constitutional law and neuroscience and psychology. Prior to enter- ing academia, he worked as an attorney at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington DC, where his work focused on telecommunications, privacy law, computer law, intellectual property, constitutional law, and antiterrorism security measures. While working in Washington, he was also one of the reporters for the Constitution Project’s Liberty and Security initiative and was one of the drafters of its Guidelines on Public Video Surveillance. John Danaher is Lecturer at the National University of Ireland School of Law, Galway, Ireland. He holds a BCL from University College Cork (2006), an LLM from Trinity College Dublin (2007), and a PhD from University College Cork (2011). He was lecturer in law at Keele University in the UK from 2011 until 2014. He joined NUI Galway in July 2014. His research interests lie, broadly, in the areas of philosophy of law and emerging technologies and law. In the past, he has published articles on human enhancement, brain-based lie detection, the philosophy of punishment, and artificial intelligence. He maintains a blog called Philosophical Disquisitions, and he also writes for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies. Wian Erlank is Associate Professor of Law, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa. His current and previous lecturing experience takes in the areas of property law, land reform, research methodology, legal skills, and legal writing. He was involved with the creation of the first compulsory three-year language and communica- tion course as part of a legal degree. He is a member of many committees, including Teaching, Re-Curriculation, Research, Ethics (as chairperson), the Student Disciplinary Committee, and the Work Group on Teaching and Learning Technology. He is a board member of the Association of Law Property and Society (ALPS) and an advisory board member of the Young Property Lawyers’ Forum (YPLF), and the South African Literary Awards board (SALA). Additionally, he is a founding member and treasurer of the South African Association of Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology Law Teachers and Researchers (AIPITL). Finally, he is a member of the Academy of Science for South Africa’s Committee on Scholarly Publishing in South Africa (CSPiSA), a member of the Scholarly Publisher Editors’ Forum, and a Fellow of the European Law Institute (ELI). Woodrow Barfield and Marc J. Blitz - 9781786438591 Downloaded from Elgar Online at 10/01/2021 03:51:28AM via free access BARFIELD PRINT.indd 9 13/11/2018 11:52 x Research handbook on the law of virtual and augmented reality Josh A.T. Fairfield is Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University. He is an inter- nationally recognized law and technology scholar of digital property, electronic contract, big data privacy, and virtual communities. He has published articles in top law journals, as well as the New York Times, Forbes, and the Financial Times. He is a Fulbright grant recipient and member of the American Law Institute. S.J. Blodgett-Ford is Member and Chief Privacy Officer, GTC Law Group PC, and Adjunct Professor, Boston College Law School (Privacy Law and Mobile App Development), CIPP/US. Blodgett-Ford focuses on intellectual property strategy and transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and data privacy and security, and was previously General Counsel, Tetris Online, Inc. and Senior Manager, Intellectual Property, Nintendo of America Inc. Blodgett-Ford taught advertising law in the University of Washington IP LLM program. Jon M. Garon is Dean of Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law. He is a nationally recognized authority on technology law and intellectual property, particularly copyright law, entertainment, and information privacy. Prior to joining Nova Southeastern University in 2014, Garon was the inaugural director of the Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Law + Informatics Institute from 2011 to 2014, and has been active in legal education since 1991. He is the author of four books and numerous book chapters and articles, including The Entrepreneur’s Intellectual Property & Business Handbook (Manegiare Publications 2018); Pop Culture Business Handbook for Cons and Festivals (Manegiare Publications 2017); The Independent Filmmaker’s Law & Business Guide to Financing, Shooting, and Distributing Independent and Digital Films (A Cappella Books, 2d Ed. 2009); Own It—The Law & Business Guide to Launching a New Business Through Innovation, Exclusivity and Relevance (Carolina Academic Press 2007); and Entertainment Law & Practice (2nd edition 2014 Carolina Academic Press). Gabriel Hallevy is Full Professor at the Faculty of Law, Ono Academic College, Israel. He lectures in criminal law, criminal justice, evidence law, corporation law, conflict of laws, bankruptcy law, and game theory in law. He has published more than 30 books (as to 2018) in Israel, the US, and Europe, most of which are cited by the Israeli Supreme Court, and a few dozen articles in the US, Australia, Europe, India, and Israel. He earned his LLB and LLM magna cum laude from Tel-Aviv University, and his PhD summa cum laude from Haifa University. The Knesset, the Israeli Parliament, granted him a special honorary prize for research in criminal law. In 2013 he was chosen as one of the 40 most promising Israelis under the age of 40 (“Top 40 under 40”) by Globes magazine in Israel. He is a long-distance runner, holds a pilot’s license, and speaks Hebrew, English, French, and German.