Travis, Hannibal
- Professor, College of Law , Academic Affairs

Overview
overview
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Hannibal Travis teaches and conducts research in the fields of cyberlaw, intellectual property, antitrust, international and comparative law, and human rights. He joined FIU 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 graduated summa cum laude in philosophy from Washington University, where he was named to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as a teaching assistant in philosophy classes taught at Harvard College. After law school, Professor Travis clerked for the United States District Court in Los Angeles, California. Professor Travis has published articles on copyright, trademark, and antitrust law in a variety of journals and books. He has also published works on antitrust law, telecommunications law, and net neutrality in American University Law Review, Hofstra Law Review, and Santa Clara Law Review.
His works have focused on the intellectual property implications of new technologies and user-generated content, as well as antitrust law as applied to broadband and Wi-Fi Internet access markets. He has contributed to symposia and edited volumes on the international and comparative law of copyright and performers’ rights, including a piece on software contracts and copyright that was selected by West Group as one of the best articles relating to intellectual property law that was published in 2010. Professor Travis has also published widely on genocide, cultural survival, and human rights. He is currently an editorial advisory board member of Genocide Studies International (University of Toronto Press), and has served as a peer reviewer for manuscripts submitted to Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Routledge, and Genocide Studies and Prevention (the journal of the International Association of Genocide Scholars). He has coached FIU’s Jessup International Law Moot Court team, Lefkowitz Trademark Law Moot Court team, and BMI Copyright Law Moot Court team. He is a member of the Copyright Society of the USA and the American Law and Economics Association.
research interests
- Antitrust; Comparative Law; Entertainment & Sports Law; First Amendment; Intellectual Property; International Human Rights; Internet Law; Media Law
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2019The Long Genocide in Upper Mesopotamia:(1) Minority Population Destruction amidst Nation-Building and "International Security". GENOCIDE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL. 13:92-131.Full Text via DOI: 10.3138/gsi.13.1.06 Web of Science: 000500010200006
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2019The Right of Return in Iraq Conceptualizing Insecurity, State Fragility, and Forced Displacement. TRANSITIONAL JUSTICE AND FORCED MIGRATION: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES FROM THE GLOBAL SOUTH. 158-189.Web of Science: 000524971100009
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2018
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2016The economics of book digitization and the Google Books litigation. RESEARCH HANDBOOK ON ELECTRONIC COMMERCE LAW. 117-136.Web of Science: 000403829400006
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2016Why Was Benghazi "Saved," but Sinjar Allowed to Be Lost? New Failures of Genocide Prevention, 2007-2015. GENOCIDE STUDIES INTERNATIONAL. 10.Full Text via DOI: 10.3138/gsi.10.2.03 Web of Science: 000399037500003
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2014The United Nations and Genocide Prevention: The Problem of Racial and Religious BiasFull Text via DOI: 10.3138/gsi.8.2.02 Web of Science: 000219833600002
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2014Ultranationalist Genocides: Failures of Global Justice in Nigeria and PakistanFull Text via DOI: 10.1163/15718115-02103005 Web of Science: 000212989500005
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2013The International Arms Trade and the Prevention of Genocide: The Law and Practice of Arming Genocidal Governments. IMPEDIMENTS TO THE PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION OF GENOCIDE. 9:195-221.Web of Science: 000337222000010
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2012On the Original Understanding of the Crime of GenocideFull Text via DOI: 10.1353/gsp.2012.0007
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2012YouTube from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: tyrannize locally, censor globally. TRANSNATIONAL CULTURE IN THE INTERNET AGE. 76-106.Web of Science: 000310093600005
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2011President Obama's "Pivot" to Jobs: Lessons from Comparative Law and America's RivalsFull Text via DOI: 10.2202/1944-2858.1188 Web of Science: 000214201100009
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2010ESTIMATING THE ECONOMIC IMPACT OF MASS DIGITIZATION PROJECTS ON COPYRIGHT HOLDERS: EVIDENCE FROM THE GOOGLE BOOK SEARCH LITIGATION. JOURNAL OF THE COPYRIGHT SOCIETY OF THE USA. 57:907-949.Web of Science: 000287280100006
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Book
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2017The Assyrian genocide: Cultural and political legaciesFull Text via DOI: 10.4324/9781315269832
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2013Cyberspace law: Censorship and regulation of the internetFull Text via DOI: 10.4324/9780203384756
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Book Chapter
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201910. “The Law Is Such as It Is”: Reparations, “Historical Reality,” and the Legal Order in the Czech Republic. 193-208.Full Text via DOI: 10.36019/9780813561646-013
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20192. Hidden in Plain Sight: Atrocity Concealment in German Political Culture before the First World War. 52-67.Full Text via DOI: 10.36019/9780813561646-005
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20194. “Simply Bred Out”: Genocide and the Ethical in the Stolen Generations. 83-95.Full Text via DOI: 10.36019/9780813561646-007
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20195. Historical Amnesia: The “Hidden Genocide” and Destruction of the Indigenous Peoples of the United States. 96-108.Full Text via DOI: 10.36019/9780813561646-008
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20196. Circassia: A Small Nation Lost to the Great Game. 109-126.Full Text via DOI: 10.36019/9780813561646-009
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20197. The Great Lakes Genocides: Hidden Histories, Hidden Precedents. 129-148.Full Text via DOI: 10.36019/9780813561646-010
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20198. Genocide and the Politics of Memory in Cambodia. 149-169.Full Text via DOI: 10.36019/9780813561646-011
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2019Introduction: Hidden Genocides: Power, Knowledge, Memory. 1-18.Full Text via DOI: 10.36019/9780813561646-003
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2019Genocide and Other International Crimes by Unincorporated Groups. 285-313.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/9781108525343.011
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2018Authors As Hired Hands. 21-55.Web of Science: 000588395200002
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2018Child soldiers: Children’s rights in the time of war and genocide. 219-244.Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9781351296403
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2018Copyright Class Struggle CREATIVE ECONOMIES IN A SOCIAL MEDIA AGE Conclusion. 213-214.Web of Science: 000588395200008
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2018Hollywood's Copyright Exemptions?. 97-138.Web of Science: 000588395200004
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2018Independent Invention and Its Discontents. 56-93.Web of Science: 000588395200003
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2018On Owning Ideas in Our Time. 1-18.Web of Science: 000588395200001
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2018The Beijing Consensus. 139-163.Web of Science: 000588395200005
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2018The Inquisitorial Internet. 167-194.Web of Science: 000588395200006
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2018Why We Cannot Build Universal Digital Libraries. 195-212.Web of Science: 000588395200007
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2016Chapter 5: The economics of book digitization and the Google Books litigation. 117-136.Full Text via DOI: 10.4337/9781783479924.00018
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2016Counterinsurgency as Genocidal Intent: From the Ottoman Christians to the Bosnian Muslims. 149-164.Full Text via DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-56163-3_10
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2013Policing cyberspace who controls the internet? the second circuit on you tube. 136-141.Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9780203384756
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2013Regulating cyberspace neutralizing the open internet. 209-228.Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9780203384756
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2013Regulating cyberspace the “monster” that ate social networking?. 229-251.Full Text via DOI: 10.4324/9780203384756
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20117. The Assyrian Genocide: A Tale of Oblivion and Denial. 123-136.Full Text via DOI: 10.9783/9780812204384-009
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Book Review
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2012Extremely Violent Societies: Mass Violence in the Twentieth-Century World. Ed. 14.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2012.656903 Web of Science: 000212106300005
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2011Urbicide: The Politics of Urban Destruction. Ed. 13.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2011.595591 Web of Science: 000212102400017
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2010Sorrowful Shores: Violence, Ethnicity, and the End of the Ottoman Empire, 1912-1923. Ed. 12.Full Text via DOI: 10.1080/14623528.2010.483062 Web of Science: 000212096500014
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2008The Armenian Genocide: Cultural and Ethical Legacies. Ed. 10.Web of Science: 000212074000014
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Conference
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2013Wargaming the "Arab Spring": Predicting Likely Outcomes and Planning U.N. Responses. 75-142.Web of Science: 000344195700004
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Preprint
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2019Common Law and Statutory Remedies for Insider Trading in CryptocurrenciesFull Text via DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3409518
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2019Enjoining the Cloud: Equity, Irreparability, and RemediesFull Text via DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3411780
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2016The Economics of Book Digitization and the Google Books LitigationFull Text via DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2791181
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2011YouTube from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe: Tyrannize Locally, Censor GloballyFull Text via DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.1809952
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Review
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2008OPTING OUT OF THE INTERNET IN THE UNITED STATES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION: COPYRIGHT, SAFE HARBORS, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW. NOTRE DAME LAW REVIEW. 331-407.Web of Science: 000262036800006
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Contact
full name
- Hannibal Travis
Identifiers
ORCID iD
- https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8867-8016 (confirmed)
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