Welcome!
I am a professor at Cardozo Law School in New York City. I am the Director of Cardozo's IP and Information Law Program, an Affiliate Scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, and an Affiliated Faculty Member of The
Vincent and Elinor Ostrom Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University.
In March 2012, I published a book, Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources, with Oxford University Press. It has been many years in the making. On this website you'll find information about the book, reviews, and upcoming book events.
"Faculty
and students across the social sciences and engineering will all find Brett
Frischmann's new book to provide essential guidance for the analysis of diverse
types of infrastructure resources and how policies affect the effectiveness,
efficiency, fairness, and sustainability of outcomes. Rarely can one find such
a broad and useful foundation for digging in and understanding the complexities
of modern infrastructures. An extraordinary book."
Elinor
Ostrom, Indiana University, Co-Recipient, the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in
Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 2009.
"The book provides a new and productive way of analyzing all forms of infrastructure, especially those that are sources of major social value. Frischmann helps us recognize the importance of understanding how different types of policies balance provision and use. With its many fresh ideas, Infrastructure itself is likely to generate social value through additional research and the creation of innovative policies."
Edella Schlager, An Uncommonly Open Approach, Science 337:156 (2012). See Media page for link to the full review.