Blake E. Reid

Blake E. Reid researches and teaches in the areas of telecommunications, Internet, copyright, and disability law. He also serves as a Faculty Director at the Silicon Flatirons Center. His work has or will be published in the Stanford Law Review, California Law Review, and Indiana Law Journal, and he is on the author team for Communications Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, an open-access telecommunications law casebook, with Jerry Kang and Alan Butler.

From 2013-2023, Prof. Reid directed the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law & Policy Clinic (TLPC) at Colorado Law, working with student attorneys on a wide range of law and policy issues before a wide range of agencies, courts, legislatures, and other bodies, including the Federal Communications Commission, the U.S. Supreme Court and Congress, and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Before joining Colorado Law, Prof. Reid was a staff attorney and graduate fellow in First Amendment and media law at the Institute for Public Representation at Georgetown Law and a law clerk for Justice Nancy E. Rice on the Colorado Supreme Court.

Areas of Specialty

Disability Law, Intellectual Property (including Patents, Copyright, Trademark), Law and Technology, Internet Law, Telecommunications Law, First Amendment

Education

• LLM, Georgetown Law, 2013, Emphasis in Advocacy, with Distinction
• JD, University of Colorado (2010), Order of the Coif, Public Service Pledge
• BS, University of Colorado (2004), Computer Science