Andrew Jankowich is the Director of Business Development of Metaboston Media. He has been a Guberman Fellow in the Legal Studies program at Brandeis University. Beginning January 2006, he will be a Lecturer at Brandeis teaching a course on Law and Technology. He has written articles on aspects of law and virtual worlds and the implications of end user license agreements. His most recent article, "EULAw: The Complex Web of Corporate Rule-Making in Virtual Worlds" is forthcoming from the Tulane Journal of Technology and Intellectual Property. He maintains the weblog, The Law of Blogs.
He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He earned an M.A. at King's College, University of London and a B.A. at Dartmouth College.
He is interested in researching the effect of end user license agreements on virtual communities and particularly virtual worlds. He plans to explore approaches to governance in virtual worlds and speech issues in these communities. He plans to create resources collecting and analyzing regulations in these communities. He will investigate comparisons between virtual world participants and EULAs and attitudes toward extensive regulation in historical self-selecting colonies for insight into ways in which virtual world participation may develop.
He plans to research EULAs and other agreements govern the use of popular blogging tools, particularly as blogging encompasses new mediums and technologies.
He is interested in exploring ways to provide legal resources to bloggers.