Black and white photo of Blake Reid, a white man with short, dark hair and a goatee, wearing jeans, a T-shirt, a pullover, and sunglasses, leaning against a post with grass in the background

Hi! I’m Blake E. Reid.1 I’m a proud “multidisciplinary dilettante” researching, teaching, and serving 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 teach Copyright, Telecom and Platform Law and Policy, and a Digital Civil Rights and Liberties seminar. I also serve as the Faculty Director of the Telecom and Platforms Initiative at the Silicon Flatirons Center. My scholarly work has or will be published in Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, George Washington Law Review, Pepperdine Law Review, Connecticut Law Review, Seattle University Law Review Online and Seattle Journal of Technology, Environmental, and Innovation Law, and (proudly!) the Law and Flowers volume of the Green Bag Almanac & Reader. I’m also on the author team for Communications Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, a freely available telecommunications law casebook, with Jerry Kang and Alan Butler. You can find my foundational Section 230 Citation Alignment chart and other shorter-form musings on this site’s good old-fashioned blog.

From 2013-2023, I directed the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic (TLPC) as an Assistant, Associate, and full Clinical Professor at Colorado Law. My 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 Colorado Law, 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 Journal on Telecommunications and High Technology Law (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’m an unapologetic lover of ketchup, Crocs, and ska music. Come see me play guitar in 12 Cents for Marvin!

  1. The E’s for my mom. She rules! ↩︎