Hannibal Travis

A graduate of Harvard Law School in 1999, Professor Travis is the author of Copyright Class Struggle: Creative Economies in a Social Media Age (Cambridge UP, 2018), and the editor of Cyberspace Law: Censorship and Regulation of the Internet (Routledge, 2013). He is also the author of the first comprehensive history of physical and cultural genocide in the Middle East and North Africa, entitled 'Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan' (Carolina Academic Press, 2010), and a contributor to other academic studies of genocide, including 'Cultural History of Genocide' by Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, 'The United Nations and Genocide' by Mayerson, 'Forgotten Genocides' by Rene Lemarchand, 'Hidden Genocides' by Alex Hinton and Thomas LaPointe, 'The Armenian Genocide Legacy' by Demirdjian, and 'Impediments to the Prevention of Genocide' by Samuel Totten. His studies appear in other books published by Cambridge University Press, the Oceana imprint of Oxford University Press, Hart Publishing, and the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, the American IP Law Association Quarterly Journal (AIPLA Quarterly Journal), Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, the Journal of Genocide Research, and numerous journals of international and comparative law. He has taught at Florida International University in Miami, the University of Florida in Gainesville, and the Villanova University School of Law. He graduated summa cum laude in philosophy from Washington University, where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa, and magna cum laude from Harvard, where he also taught in Harvard College. He has also published widely on the freedom of expression, including in the Notre Dame Law Review, Hofstra Law Review, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, and the book Transnational Culture in the Internet Age edited by Adam Candeub and Sean Pager. He has served as an editorial advisory board member of Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal, and an international advisory board member of the Journal of Genocide Research and the Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Jerusalem. He has given lectures at the London School of Economics, Harvard, Oxford, Stanford, the University of Chicago, the University of Texas, and Yale. His forthcoming work addresses the freedom of expression and initial coin offerings, blockchain technology and competition law, and the economics of digital streaming and of injunctive relief against online intermediaries.