Hannibal Travis

Hannibal Travis is a lawyer admitted to practice in the State of New York, a teacher of law, and an author of legal publications. He is the editor of Cyberspace Law: Censorship and Regulation of the Internet (Routledge, 2013) and has taught at Florida International University, the University of Florida, and Villanova University.

Professor Travis teaches and conducts research in the fields of cyberlaw, intellectual property, antitrust, international and comparative law, and human rights. He joined Florida International University after several years practicing intellectual property and Internet law at O’Melveny & Myers in San Francisco, California, and at Debevoise & Plimpton in New York.

He has also served as the Irving Cypen Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Florida, a Visiting Associate Professor of Law at Villanova University, and a Visiting Fellow at Oxford. He clerked for the Hon. Wm. Matthew Byrne, Jr. at the United States District Court in Los Angeles, California.

Professor Travis graduated summa cum laude in philosophy from Washington University, where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa, and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as a teaching assistant in philosophy classes at Harvard College and UC Berkeley.

Publications in Cyberlaw and Intellectual Property
Professor Travis is the author of Platform Neutrality Rights: AI Censors and the Future of Freedom (Routledge, forthcoming 2024), Copyright Class Struggle: Creative Economies in a Social Media Age (Cambridge University Press, 2018), and co-editor of Harmonizing Intellectual Property Law for a Trans-Atlantic Knowledge Economy (Brill, forthcoming 2024).

He has published widely on copyright law, patent reform, freedom of expression, antitrust law, net neutrality, and remedies in intellectual property, with articles appearing in:

• American University Law Review

• Berkeley Technology Law Journal

• Notre Dame Law Review

• Tulane Law Review

• Villanova Law Review

• Yale Journal of Law and Technology

• Miami Law Review

• American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal

Several of his works have been recognized by West Group as among the best intellectual property law articles of their year (2010, 2019). He also co-directs the Intellectual Property Certificate Program.

Publications in International Law and Human Rights
Professor Travis has published extensively on genocide, cultural survival, and human rights. His works have appeared in edited volumes from the University of Pennsylvania Press, Rutgers University Press, Routledge, Palgrave, Berghahn, and Bloomsbury, as well as journals such as:

• Cornell International Law Journal

• Washington University Global Studies Law Review

• Brooklyn Journal of International Law

• International Journal of Middle East Studies

• Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal

• Genocide Studies International

He is the editor of The Assyrian Genocide: Cultural and Political Legacies (Routledge, 2018), author of Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations: Exploring the Causes of Mass Killing Since 1945 (Routledge, 2012), and Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan (Carolina Academic Press, 2010).

Professional Service and Recognition
Professor Travis has served on the editorial advisory boards of the American Intellectual Property Law Association Quarterly Journal and Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal (later Genocide Studies International), and on the book review panel of the Journal of Genocide Research.

At FIU, he has coached or co-coached the Jessup International Law Moot Court team, Lefkowitz Trademark Law Moot Court team, BMI Copyright Law Moot Court team, and Cyber 9/12 team.

Education

• J.D., Harvard Law School (magna cum laude)

• B.A., Washington University, Philosophy (summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa)