Jerry Brito

Here is some of my writing. Listed first are my books, then published journal articles, and below that are op-eds and magazine pieces.

Books

• Copyright Unbalanced: From Incentive to Excess
  Mercatus Center at George Mason University (2012).
• Regulation: A Primer
  Mercatus Center at George Mason University (2012). With Susan Dudley.

Journal Articles

• Loving the Cyber Bomb? The Dangers of Threat Inflation in Cybersecurity Policy
  3 Harvard National Security Journal 39 (2011). With Tate Watkins.
• Running for Cover: The BRAC Commission as a Model for Federal Spending Reform
  9 Georgetown Journal of Law & Public Policy 131 (2010).
• Transparency and Performance in Government
  11 North Carolina Journal of Law & Tech. 161 (2010). With Drew Perraut.
• All Your Data Are Belong to Us: Liberating Government Data
  Open Government (Daniel Lathrop & Laurel Ruma, eds., O’Reilly 2010)
• Midnight Regulations and Regulatory Review
  61 Administrative Law Review 163 (2009). With Veronique de Rugy.
• Toward a More Perfect Union: Regulatory Analysis and Performance Management
  8 Florida State Business Law Review 1 (2009).With Jerry Ellig.
• Hack, Mash & Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency
  9 Columbia Science & Technology Law Review 119 (2008).
• A Tale of Two Commissions: Net Neutrality and Regulatory Analysis
  16 CommLaw Conspectus 1 (2007). With Jerry Ellig.
• Growth in Regulation Slows: An Analysis of the U.S. Budget for Fiscal Years 2007 and 2008
  The 29th Annual Regulators’ Budget Report. With Melinda Warren. June 2007.
• Sending out an S.O.S.: Public Safety Communications Interoperability as a Collective Action Problem
  59 Federal Communications Law Journal 3 (2007).
• Video Killed the Franchise Star: The Consumer Cost of Cable Franchising and Policy Alternatives
  5 Journal on Telecomm. & High Tech. Law 199 (2006). With Jerry Ellig.
• The Spectrum Commons in Theory and Practice
  2007 Stanford Technology Law Review 1 (2007).
• An Orphan Works Affirmative Defense to Copyright Infringement Actions
  12 Michigan Telecomm. & Tech. Law Review 75 (2005). With Bridget Dooling.
• Relax, Don’t Do It: Why RFID Privacy Concerns Are Exaggerated and Legislation Is Premature
  2004 UCLA Journal of Law & Technology 5 (2004).
• Much Ado about Nothing: The Effects of the Post-Enactment Acquisition Rule in Palazzolo v. Rhode Island
  14 Federal Circuit Bar Journal 543 (2005).

Popular Writing

• Free WiFi for the masses? Not so fast, Washington Examiner, February 8, 2013.
• Aaron Swartz: The Punishment Did Not Fit the Crime, Reason, January 31, 2013.
• What's Wrong With a Copyright Alert System?, Reason, January 4, 2013.
• Measured Response to a Limited Threat, The New York Times, October 17, 2012.
• Debate: This house believes that a hyperconnected world is more rather than less secure., The Economist, June 26, 2012.
• A Note to Congress: The United Nations Isn’t a Serious Threat to Internet Freedom—But You Are, The Atlantic, June 19, 2012. With Adam Thierer.
• A Shift Toward Digital Currency, New York Times, April 4, 2012.
• Cyberwar Is the New Yellowcake, Wired, February 14, 2012. With Tate M. Watkins.
• The Cybersecurity-Industrial Complex, Reason, August/September 2011. With Tate M. Watkins.
• BRAC the federal budget: Fiscal commission needs real power to cut programs, The Washington Times, May 28, 2010.
• Cyberattacks: Washington is hyping the threat to justify regulating the Internet, Christian Science Monitor, April 29, 2010. With Tate M. Watkins.
• Information Trickles Up, Local Knowledge, September, 2009. With Daniel M. Rotshchild
• Why pay millions of dollars to defense contractor to build Recovery.gov?, The Washington Examiner, July 10, 2009.
• An Accountability Agenda, Regulation, Winter 2008. With Jerry Ellig.
• OIRA at Midnight, Regulation, Fall 2008. With Patrick McLaughlin.
• Can Congress tweet? Should bloggers care?, Ars Technica, July 28, 2008.
• Improving Government Transparency Online, The Public Manager, Spring 2008.
• Put more government data online, The Des Moines Register, January 8, 2008.
• Transparency, Regulation, Winter 2008. With Mark Adams.
• Considering Net Neutrality, Regulation, Fall 2007. With Jerry Ellig.
• Regulators’ Budget, Regulation, Fall 2007. With Melinda Warren.
• Net Neutrality: Where’s the Beef?, Tech Central Station, July 24, 2007.
• Failure to Communicate, The Wall Street Journal, March 27, 2007.
• Think Diffident, The American, January 23, 2007.
• Public Safety Interoperability, Regulation, Fall 2006.
• Will Broadband Kill the Broadcast Star?, Tech Central Station, September 6, 2006.
• Public Nuisance: The Costs of Giving Everyone A Say on Cable Television, Doublethink, Fall 2006.
• Who’s your daddy?, The Wall Street Journal, March 25, 2006. With Bridget Dooling.
• Spectrum commons, Regulation, Spring 2006.
• Orphan works, Regulation, Winter 2005.
• Competing with piracy, Brainwash, October 16, 2005.
• The Castro generation, Doublethink, Winter 2005.
• “Free Culture,” free book, Brainwash, April 11, 2004.