Vanderbilt University Law School
Steven Hetcher
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Professor of Law
Voice: (615) 343-6131
Fax: (615) 322-6631
Email: steven.hetcher@vanderbilt.edu
Office: Room 290
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Research Interest(s)
Role of social norms in the law; intellectual property; cyberlaw
Education
J.D. Yale University
Ph.D. (Philosophy) University of Illinois
M.A. (Public Policy) University of Chicago
B.A. University of Wisconsin
Biography
Steven A. Hetcher's research focuses on the role of social norms in the law and challenges the economic account of custom and tort law and the norms-based theories of first-generation law and economics. His scholarship also concentrates on the internet, intellectual property and privacy. He joined the Vanderbilt law faculty in 1998 after practicing at Arnold & Porter.
Representative Publications
Books
- Norms in a Wired World (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
- Jules Coleman, The Practice of Principle (Review essay, Philosophy and Economics, 2003)
Articles
- "Intellectual Property," entry for Oxford Companion to American Law (K. Hall, D. Clark, J. Ely, J. Grossman, N. Hull, eds., Oxford U. Press, 2003)
- "The Jury's Out: Social Norms' Misunderstood Role in Negligence Law," 91 Georgetown Law Review 633 (2003)
- "Cyberian Signals" (commentary on E. Posner's Law and Social Norms), 36 University of Richmond Law Review 327 (2002)
- "Changing the Social Meaning of Privacy in Cyberspace," 15 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology (2001)
- "The Emergence of Website Privacy Norms," 7 Michigan Telecommunications & Technology Law Review 97 (2001)
- "The De-Facto Federal Privacy Commission," 19 John Marshall Journal of Computer & Information Law 109 (2000)
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