Hi! I’m Blake E. Reid.1 I research, teach, and serve on law, policy, and technology issues—usually in the orbit of telecom, Internet, copyright, disability, and administrative law. How does the law enable and hinder discourse, culture, human flourishing, and democracy in digital spaces? I’m working on it!
I’m an Associate Professor of Law at Colorado Law, where I regularly teach Copyright, Telecom and Platform Law and Policy, and a Digital Civil Rights and Liberties seminar. My scholarly work has or will be published in law reviews including the Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, George Washington Law Review, Pepperdine Law Review, Connecticut Law Review, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal Online, the Seattle University Law Review Online, the Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, and Innovation Law, the Colorado Law Review Forum, and the Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law, as well as other forums including the Green Bag Almanac & Reader, the Disability History Association’s All of Us, the Communications of the ACM, Lawfare, and Feminist Cyberlaw. I’m on the author team for Communications Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, a freely available communications law and policy casebook, with Jerry Kang and Alan Butler. You can find my path-breaking Section 230 Citation Alignment chart and other shorter-form musings on this site’s good old-fashioned blog. I also serve as the Faculty Director of the Telecom and Platforms Initiative at the Silicon Flatirons Center.
From 2013-2023, I directed the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic (TLPC) as an Assistant, Associate, and full Clinical Professor at Colorado Law. TLPC student attorneys and I represented clients and led academic projects before agencies, courts, legislatures, and other law and policymaking bodies, including the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress, and the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization. Before joining the Colorado Law faculty, I was a staff attorney and graduate fellow in First Amendment and media law at the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown Law and a law clerk for Justice Nancy E. Rice on the Colorado Supreme Court.
I earned my LL.M in Advocacy with distinction from Georgetown Law and my J.D. from Colorado Law, where I was the Editor-in-Chief of the JTHTL—now the Colorado Technology Law Journal (CTLJ)—and a student attorney in the TLPC. I earned my B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Colorado School of Engineering.
I unapologetically love ketchup, ska music, and footnotes.2 Come see me play guitar in 12 Cents for Marvin!