Kristopher Nelson

About Me

I've just graduated from law school after studying in Seattle and San Francisco. Formerly, I was a software developer/systems administrator (and still occasional consultant) for Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle. I used to live in New Orleans (I started law school there first), but a certain hurricane chased me out. As a result, and including summers, I've attended five different law schools (I only consider the last three as "official," though): Tulane, UT Austin, University of Hawai'i, UC Hastings, and just recently, the University of Washington (as a visiting 3L).

Next year I'll be starting in the History of Science PhD program at UCSD, specializing in law and technology (with an initial focus on intellectual property).

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My Profiles

Research and Writing

Publications and Papers

2008 - 2009

The Impact of Government-Mandated Public Access to Biomedical Research: An Analysis of the New NIH Depository Requirements - forthcoming in mid-2009 - Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology.
Transnational Wiretaps and the Fourth Amendment - Volume 36.2 (Winter 2009) - Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly.
Open Source, Open Access, and Open Transfer: Market Approaches to Research Bottlenecks with Professor Robin Feldman - Volume 7.1 (Fall 2008) - Northwestern Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property.
Constitutional Law Quarterly at UC Hastings (Online Content Editor 2008-09; Editor 2007-08).

2007 - 2008

Hidden Disabilities and the Law - April 22, 2008 - research guide and pathfinder.
Electronic Communication Services vs. Remote Computing Services - April 22, 2007 - legal review and summary.

Older Works

Wiretaps in the Internet Age - December 12, 2005 - public policy analysis.
A Pretext for Writing: Prologues, Epilogues, and the Notion of Paratext - June 12, 1998 - textual studies.
But that Speaking Makes it So: The Role of Narrative in the Formation of Community - August 4, 1996 - undergraduate senior thesis for Comparative History of Ideas.
interSections, Spring 1996 (Editor; Author of "On Theory").
interSections, Spring 1994 (Member, Editorial Board).

My current research areas

Notes, discussion, and reference materials related to law school

Scripts

atom2rss.cgi - a quick & dirty little Perl/CGI script I wrote long ago that translates an Atom feed into an RSS 0.91 feed. Requires CGI.pm, XML::Atom, and XML::RSS.