Liam S. O'Melinn

Biography:
Professor O'Melinn joined the College of Law in 2001 and was promoted to full professor in 2007. Prior to joining the law faculty at ONU, Professor O'Melinn was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Justice, Law and Society at American University, where he earned the Award for Outstanding Teaching in the General Education Program. Prior to teaching at American University he was a Lecturer and Instructor in History at Yale University. Professor O'Melinn served as a Law Clerk to the Hon. Leonard I. Garth, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and held a Golieb Fellowship in Legal History at NYU Law School.

Publications:
Neither Contract Nor Concession: The Public Personality of the Corporation, 74 Geo. W. L. Rev. 201 (2006). (For an earlier version of this article see link below under Current Research.)

The New Software Jurisprudence and the Faltering First Amendment, 6 Vand. J. Ent. L. & Prac. 310 (2004) (PDF).

The Sanctity of Association: The Corporation and Individualism in American Law, 37 San Diego L. Rev. 101 (2000).

The Imperial Origins of Federal Indian Law, 31 Arizona St. Law Journal 1207 (1999).

The American Revolution and Constitutionalism in the Seventeenth-Century West Indies, 95 Col. L. Rev. 104 (1995).

CURRENT RESEARCH
Software and Shovels: How the Intellectual Property Revolution is Undermining Traditional Concepts of Property.

Neither Contract nor Concession: The Public Personality of the Corporation.

The Degenerate Founding Fathers, the Origins of the American Revolution, and the Birth of the Ideal of Equality.