Henry H. Perritt, Jr.
Biographical Information
Attorney-at Law
Notary Public, Commonwealth of Virginia
Professor of Law, Emeritus
Formerly: Professor of Law 1997-2020 (Vice Provost, Illinois Institute of Technology, 2003; Dean, Chicago-Kent College of Law and Vice President-Downtown Campus, Illinois Institute of Technology, 1997-2002; on leave 2002 while a candidate for United States Congress)
Democratic Nominee for the U. S. Congress, Tenth District of Illinois, November, 2002
Professor of Law, Villanova University (1981-1997)
Fellow, Center for Business and Government, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (sabbatical semester, Fall, 1990)
General Counsel - Labor and Environmental Affairs
Consolidated Rail Corporation, 1976-81
Deputy Under Secretary of Labor, 1975-76
White House Staff, 1975
Executive Secretary, Cost of Living Council
Executive Office of the President, 1972-74
Applications Engineer, Sales Planner, Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, 1968-71
Education:
S.B., 1966 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
S.M., 1970 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sloan School of Management
J.D., 1975 Georgetown University Law Center
Member of the bar: Virginia
Pennsylvania (inactive)
District of Columbia
Maryland
Illinois (inactive)
United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia
United States Supreme Court
United States Patent and Trademark Office (Regis. No. 82,467)
Bar and professional activities:
Member of the Board, ILAC-USA
Member, Council on Foreign Relations (former Member of the Life Membership Committee and the National Programs Committee)
Chicago Council on Global Affairs (Member of the Board of Directors, 2002-2011; Vice-Chairman, Global Chicago Center)
Secretary, Section on Labor and Employment Law, American Bar Association (2000-2001)
Chairman, ABA Section on Administrative Law, Committee on Regulatory Initiatives and Information Technology (1992-1996)
Vice-President, and Member, Board of Directors, Center for Computer Aided Legal Instruction (1991-1996; Vice-President 1993-1996)
Chairman, Section on Law and Computers, Association of American Law Schools (1991)
Management Co-Chairman, ABA Committee on Railway and Airline Labor Law (1983-86)
Co-Vice-Chairman, ABA Section on Administrative Law, Committee on Dispute Resolution (1985 to 1990)
Board of Editors, The DataLaw Report
Commissions & Consultancies:
Represented Netscape in efforts to persuade the Congress and White House to relax restrictions on export of PC encryption software
Led effort commissioned by the Attorney General of the United States to review the FBI’s “Carnivore” system for court-authorized eavesdropping on Internet communications
Panelist, WIPO domain name dispute resolution service
Member, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences (2000-2003)
Member, Advisory Commission on Internet Privacy, State of Illinois (1999)
Member, Committee on Global Networks and Local Values, National Research Council (1998-2000)
Consultant, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget (1993-94)
Member, Advisory Committee on Internet Dissemination of SEC EDGAR data under NSF Grant to NYU and IMS (1994-1995)
Member, Transition Team for the President-Elect, December, 1992 - Science, Space & Technology Cluster, focusing on the FCC
Vice Chairman, Coal Commission (1990) - advisory commission appointed by the Secretary of Labor to recommend long term solutions to problems of financing health care in the bituminous coal industry
Consultant, Administrative Conference of the United States (1985-1995)
Consultant, Office of the Secretary, United States Department of Labor (1986-88)
Member, Working group to identify barriers to electronic contracting by Federal Government (1989-90)
Member, Working group to develop public policy initiatives for electronic mail and publishing networks (1991)
Consultant, European Commission, Directorate General 13 (1995-2000)
Books: Employee Dismissal Law and Practice (John Wiley & Sons 1984 with supplements every six months until 2018) (465 pages)
Labor Injunctions (John Wiley & Sons 1986 with annual supplements) (730 pages)
Employee Dismissal Law and Practice (2d ed. John Wiley & Sons 1987, with supplements every six months to January 1992) (720 pages)
How to Practice Law With Computers (Practising Law Institute November, 1988) (775 pages)
Employee Benefits Claims: Law and Practice (John Wiley & Sons 1990) (529 pages)
1991 Wiley Employment Law Update (editor, John Wiley & Sons 1991)
Americans with Disabilities Act Handbook (John Wiley & Sons 1990)
Workplace Torts: Rights and Liabilities (John Wiley & Sons 1991)
1992 Wiley Employment Law Update (editor, John Wiley & Sons 1992)
Electronic Contracting, Publishing and EDI Law (1991 John Wiley & Sons; co-author: Michael Baum)
Americans with Disabilities Act Handbook - Second Edition (John Wiley & Sons 1991)
Employee Dismissal Law and Practice (3d ed. John Wiley & Sons 1992, with supplements every six months) (2 volumes)
How to Practice Law With Computers (2d ed Practising Law Institute November, 1992) (1268 pages)
Civil Rights Act of 1991 Special Report (John Wiley & Sons 1992)
1993 Wiley Employment Law Update (editor, John Wiley & Sons 1993)
Your Rights in the Workplace (Practising Law Institute 1993)
1994 Wiley Employment Law Update (editor, John Wiley & Sons 1994)
Americans With Disabilities Act Handbook Forms and Procedures (John Wiley & Sons 1994).
Trade Secrets: A Practitioner’s Guide (Practising Law Institute 1994 with annual supplements)
Civil Rights in the Workplace (John Wiley & Sons 1994 with annual supplements)
1995 Wiley Employment Law Update (editor, John Wiley & Sons 1995)
Everything Solo Practitioners Need to Know About Computers (Practising Law Institute 1995)
Health Care Legislation Update and Analysis (450 pages) (John Wiley & Sons 1995)
Internet Basics for Lawyers (111 pages) (Practising Law Institute 1996)
1996 Wiley Employment Law Update (editor, John Wiley & Sons 1996)
Law and the Information Superhighway (740 pages, John Wiley & Sons 1996)
1997 Wiley Employment Law Update (editor, John Wiley & Sons 1997)
Americans with Disabilities Act Handbook - Third Edition (John Wiley & Sons 1997, with supplements every six months) (3 volumes)
Employee Dismissal Law and Practice (4th ed. John Wiley & Sons 1997, with supplements every six months) (3 volumes)
1998 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 1998)
How to Practice Law With Computers (3d ed. 1998)
1999 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 1999)
2000 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2000)
Civil Rights in the Workplace (3d ed. 2000)
Law and the Information Superhighway (2d ed. 2001)
2001 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2001)
2002 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2002)
2003 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2003)
2004 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2004)
2005 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2005)
2006 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2006)
Employee Dismissal Law and Practice (5th ed. Aspen Law and Business 2006)
2007 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2007)
2008 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2008)
2009 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2009)
2010 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2010)
2011 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2011)
2012 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2012)
2013 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2013)
2014 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2014)
2015 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2015)
2016 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2016)
2017 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2017)
2018 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2018)
2019 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2019)
2020 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2020)
2021 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2021)
2022 Employment Law Update (editor, Aspen Law and Business 2022)
Employee Dismissal Law and Practice (6th ed. John Wiley & Sons 2017, with supplements every six months) (2 volumes)
The Kosovo Liberation Army: Inside Story of an Insurgency (University of Illinois Press August 2008; Albanian language version: Koha Press, Prishtina, Kosovo August 2008)
The Road to Independence for Kosovo: A Chronicle of the Ahtisaari Plan (Cambridge University Press 2009)
Trade Secrets for the Practitioner (Practicing Law Institute 3d ed. 2024)
Arian: A Novel (Amazon 2012)
jovan: A Novel (Amazon 2012)
Laser and the Stork: A Novel (Amazon 2012)
Chad and the Seals: A Novel (Amazon 2013)
Braxton: A Novel (Amazon 2013)
The Murder of Miss Wiggles (Amazon 2013)
Domesticating Drones: The Technology, Law, and Economics of Unmanned Aircraft (Taylor & Francis Ashgate Publishing 2016) (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Small drone guide: Pass the FAA remote pilot test (Amazon 2016) (with Eliot O. Sprague).
Whitetrash Mill-hand (Amazon 2021) (novel)
Selling Dodge city (Amazon 2021) (novel)
Please Call Me Derso (Amazon 2021) (novel)
Bristol’s Brigade (Amazon 2021) (novel)
Josh’s Strike (Amazon 2022) (novel)
Agitators (Amazon 2022) (novel)
Dartmouth (Amazon 2022) (novel)
Snaring Skips (Amazon 2022) (novel)
Buffalo Lick (Amazon 2022) (novel)
Manifest Destiny (Amazon 2023) (novel)
Another Way (Amazon 2023) (novel)
Flying Secrets (Amazon 2023) (novel)
Creative Destruction (Amazon 2023) (novel)
Encrypting Attachments (Amazon 2024) (novel)
Articles: Economic Pressure and Antitrust, 23 Am.U.L.Rev. 521 (1974) (with James A. Wilkinson)
Open Advisory Committees and the Political Process: The Federal Advisory Committee Act After Five Years, 63 Geo.L.J. 725 (1975) (with James A. Wilkinson)
Development of a Railroad Labor Cost Function, 20 Proceedings, Transportation Research Forum (1979)
Am I My Brother's Keeper? Secondary Picketing Under the Norris-LaGuardia Act, 68 Geo.L.J. 1191 (1980)
Ploughshares Into Swords From Buffalo Forge? 12 Transp.L.J. 501 (1982)
Ask and Ye Shall Receive: The Legislative Response to the Northeast Rail Crisis, 28 Vill.L.Rev. 271 (1983)
And the Whole Earth Was of One Language: A Broad View of Dispute Resolution, 29 Vill.L.Rev. 1049 (1984)
Employee Dismissals: An Opportunity for Legal Simplification, 35 Lab.L.J. 407 (1984)
Employee Dismissal Law in Pennsylvania, 55 Pa.B.Q. 212 (1984)
Transportation Labor Regulation: Is the Railway Labor Act or the National Labor Relations Act the Better Statutory Vehicle? 36 Lab.L.J. 145 (1985) (with Dennis Alan Arouca)
Transportation Labor Law and Policy for a Deregulated Industry, 1 Lab.Lawyer 617 (1985) (with Dennis Alan Arouca)
Preclusive Effect of Administrative Decisions in Wrongful Dismissal Suits, 5 J.Nat.Assoc.Ad.L.J. 33 (1985)
Wrongful Dismissal in Virginia, 34 Va.Bar News 21 (1985)
§21.6, Railway Labor Act, and §21.20, National Mediation Board, 1A West's Federal Practice Manual (Rev.2d ed. 1986)
Negotiated Rulemaking in Practice, 5 J.Pol.Anal.Mgt. 482 (1986)
Negotiated Rulemaking and Administrative Law, 38 Ad.L.Rev. 471 (1986).
Negotiated Rulemaking before Federal Agencies: Evaluation of Recommendations by the Administrative Conference of the United States, 74 Geo.L.J. 1625 (1986).
Administrative Alternative Dispute Resolution: The Development of Negotiated Rulemaking and Other Processes, 14 Pepperdine L.Rev. 863 (1987).
Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Evaluating Employee Terminations on a Personal Computer 13 Rutgers Computer & Tech. L. J. 342 (1987).
Wrongful Dismissal Legislation, 35 U.C.L.A. L.Rev. 65 (1987).
Should Some Independent Contractors be Redefined as "Employees" Under Labor Law?, 33 Vill. L. Rev. 989 (1988).
Negotiated Rulemaking as an Approach to Developing Plans Under the Pennsylvania Municipal Waste Planning, Recycling and Waste Reduction Act, 1 V.I.E.W. 1 (Villanova Incorporated Environmental Watch Proceedings 1988).
Aspects of Labor Law Affecting Labor-Management Cooperation in the Railroad and Airline Industries, 16 Pepperdine L. Rev. 501 (1989).
Constitutional, Political and Attitudinal Barriers to Reforming Wrongful Dismissal Law, NYU Proceedings of the 42d Annual Conference on Labor, Chapter 3 (1989).
Electronic Acquisition and Release of Federal Agency Information: Analysis of Recommendations Adopted by the Administrative Conference of the United States, 41 Admin.L.Rev. 253 (1989).
Chap. 36, Federal Administrative Procedure Act, 3 West's Federal Practice Manual (Rev.2d ed. 1989)
The Terrain of Wrongful Dismissal Legislation, C. Osigweh, Managing Employee Rights and Responsibilities 59 (1989)
The Future of Wrongful Dismissal Claims: Where Does Employer Self Interest Lie?, 58 Cincinnati L.Rev. 1001 (1989).
Federal Electronic Information Policy, 63 Temple L.Rev. 201 (1990).
Implied Covenant: Anachronism or Augur, 20 Seton Hall L.Rev. 683 (1990).
Determining the Content and Identifying Suppliers of Public Information in Electronic Form, 17 Gov’t Pub. Rev. 325 (1990).
Health Care Plans and ERISA, 6 The Labor Lawyer 949 (1990)
The Electronic Agency and the Traditional Paradigms of Administrative Law 44 Admin.L.Rev. 79 (1992)
Market Structures for Electronic Publishing and Electronic Contracting in Building Information Infrastructure: Issues in the Development of the National Research and Education Network (Harvard University and McGraw-Hill 1992)
Tort Liability, the First Amendment, and Equal Access to Electronic Networks, 5 Harv.J.Law & Tech. 65 (1992)
Electronic Records Management and Archives, 53 U.Pitt.L.Rev. 963 (1992).
Tort Liability, the First Amendment, Equal Access, and Commercialization of Electronic Networks, 2 Electronic Networking (Meckler) 29 (Fall, 1992)
State Wrongful Dismissal Legislation, 1 J.Indiv.Empl.Rights 185 (1993)
Format and Content Standards for the Electronic Exchange of Legal Information, 33 Jurimetrics J. 265 (1993)
Introduction, The Congress, the Courts and Computer Based Communications Networks: Answering Questions about Access and Content Control, Symposium, 38 Vill.L.Rev. 319 (1993)
Dispute Resolution in Electronic Network Communities, 38 Vill.L.Rev. 349 (1993)
Commercialization of Government Information: Comparisons between the European Community and the United States, 4 Internet Research 7 (Meckler Summer 1994)
Unbundling Value in Electronic Information Products: Intellectual Property Protection for Machine Readable Interfaces, 20 Rutgers Comp. & Tech. L.J. 415 (1994)
President Clinton’s National Information Infrastructure Initiative: Community Regained?, 69 Chi.-Kent L.Rev. 991 (1994) (Charles Green Lecture)
Video Depositions, Transcripts and Trials, 43 Emory L.J. 1071 (1994)
Access to the National Information Infrastructure, 30 Wake Forest L.Rev. 51 (1995)
Sources of Rights to Access Public Information, 4 William & Mary Bill of Rights J. 179 (1995)
Should Local Governments Sell Local Spatial Databases Through State Monopolies?, 35 Jurimetrics J. 449 (1995).
Payment Infrastructures for Open Systems, 3 Data Law Report 1 (No. 1, July, 1995)
The Information Highway: On Ramps, Checkpoints, and Tollbooths, 13 Gov’t Info. Q. 143 (1996).
Mapping the Information Superhighway, 3 Int’l J. Law & Info. Tech. 201 (1996)
Jurisdiction in Cyberspace: the Role of Intermediaries, in Brian Kahin & Charles Nesson, Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure 164 (1997)
Keeping the Government Out of the Way: Project Labor Agreements Under the Supreme Court’s Boston Harbor Decision, 12 The Labor Lawyer 69 (1996)
Legal and Technological Infrastructures for Electronic Payment Systems, 22 Rutgers Comp. & Tech. L. J. 1 (1996)
Jurisdiction in Cyberspace, 41 Vill. L. Rev.1 (1996)
Reassessing Professor Hibbitts's Requiem For Law Reviews, 30 Akron L. Rev. 255 (1996)
Property and Innovation in the Global Information Infrastructure, 1996 U. Chi. Legal F. 261 (1996)
Is the Environmental Movement a Critical Internet Technology?, 8 Vill. Env. L. J. 321 (1997)
Information Access Rights Based on International Human Rights Law, 45 Buff. L. Rev. 899 (1997) (with Christopher J. Lhulier)
Cyberspace Self-Government: Town-Hall Democracy or Rediscovered Royalism?, 12 Berkeley Tech. L. J. 413 (1997)
Electronic Freedom of Information, 50 Admin. L. Rev. 391 (1998)
Cyberspace and State Sovereignty, 3 J. Int'l Legal Stud. 155 (1997)
The Internet as a Threat to Sovereignty? Thoughts on the Internet's Role in Strengthening National and Global Governance, 5 Ind. J. Glob. Leg. Stud. 423 (1998)
Chinese Economic Development, Rule Of Law, And The Internet (with Randolph R. Clarke), 15 Gov't Info. Q. 393 (1998)
Book Review, The Reluctant Sheriff: The United States After the Cold War, by Richard N. Haas, 26 Syracuse J. Int'l
Law & Comm. 95 (1998)
Will the Judgment-proof Own Cyberspace? 32 Int'l Lawyer 1121 (1998)
False Alarm: European Privacy Law and International Jurisdiction, 51 Fed. Comm. L. J. 811 (1999) (with Margaret G. Stewart)
Policing International Peace and Security: International Police Forces, 17 Wisconsin Int'l L. J. 281 (1999)
The Internet is Changing International Law 73 Chi-Kent L. Rev. 997 (1998)
International Administrative Law for the Internet: Mechanisms of Accountability 51 Admin. L. Rev. 871 (1999)
The Internet is Changing the Face of American Law Schools, 33 Ind. L. Rev. 253 (1999)
Dispute Resolution in Cyberspace: Demand for New Forms of ADR, 15 Oh. St. J. Dis. Res. 675 (2000)
Lawrence Lessig, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace , 32 Conn. L. Rev. 1061 (2000) (Book Review)
The Internet is Changing the Public International Legal System, 88 Ky L. Rev. 885 (2000)
The National Labor Relations Act in Cyberspace: Union Organizing in Electronic Workplaces, 49 U. Kan. L. Rev. 1 (2000) (with Martin H. Malin)
Economic and Other Barriers to Electronic Commerce, 21 U.Pa.J.Int’l Econ. Law 563 (2000)
Hybrid International Institutions for Regulating Electronic Commerce and Political Discourse on the Internet, MULTIMEDIA UND RECHT at 1 (7/2000)
Freedom of Information Spreads to Europe, 17 GOV'T INFO. Q. 403 (with Zachary Rustad) (2000)
The 1% Solution: American Judges Must Enter the Internet Age, 2 J.APP.PRAC.& PROC. 463 (2000) (with Ronald W. Staudt)
Klaus W. Grewlich, Governance in Cyberspace: Access and Public Interest in Global Communications, 7 EDI Law Rev. 195 (2000) (Book Review)
Towards a Hybrid Regulatory Scheme for the Internet, 2001 U. Chi. Legal F. 215 (2001)
Analysis of U.S. Supreme Court Employment Law Decisions, 17 Lab. Law. 367 (2001)
Stabilizing Kosovo: Enterprise Formation and Financial Markets, 2 J. Global Fin. Mkts 28 (2001)
Taking Legal Communications Seriously, 33 U. Tol. L. Rev. 137 (2001)
Lessons from the Balkans for American Foreign Policy: Building Civil Society Within a Multilateral Framework, 3 Chi J Intl L 229 (2002)
Kosovo Four Years Later: Nationbuilding but Little Economic Development, J. Glob. Fin. Mkts. 30 (Fall, 2003)
Internet Contracts, 1-2 E Drejta 101 (2003)
Structures and Standards for Political Trusteeships, 8 UCLA J. Int’l Law & For Aff. 385 (2003)
Final Status for Kosovo and Economic Sustainability, 25 U. Pa. J. Int’l Econ. Law 259 (2004)
Iraq and the Future of U.S. Foreign Policy: Failures of Legitimacy, 31 Syracuse J. Int’l Law & Com. 149 (Summer 2004)
Providing Judicial Review for Decisions by Political Trustees, 15 Duke J. Int’l Comp. L. 1 (2005)
Final Status for Kosovo, 80 Chicago Kent L.Rev. 3 (2005)
Resolving Claims When Countries Disintegrate: The Challenge of Kosovo, 80 Chicago Kent L.Rev. 119 (2005)
Would Kosova survive economically as an independent state? in Anna Di Lillio, The Case for Kosova (2006).
New architectures for music: Law Should Get Out of the Way, 29 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L. J. 259 (2007).
Flanking the DRM Maginot Line Against New Music Markets, 16 Mich. St. J. Int’l Law 113 (2007).
Music Markets and Mythologies, 9 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 831 (2010)
New Business Models for Music, 18 Villanova Sports & Ent. L. J. 63 (2010)
Technologies of Storytelling: New Models for Movies, 10 Virginia Sports & Ent. L. J. 106 (2010)
Cut in Tiny Pieces: Ensuring that Fragmented Ownership Does Not Chill Creativity, 14 Vanderbilt J. Ent. & Tech.L.1 (2011)
The Internet at 20: Evolution of a Constitution for Cyberspace, 20 William & Mary Bill of Rights J. 1115 (2012)
Competitive entertainment: Implications of the NFL lockout litigation for sports, theatre, music, and video entertainment, 35 Hastings Communications and Entertainment Law Journal (Comm/Ent) 93 (2012).
Is there a drone in your future? Heliweb, May, 2014 p. 14 (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Drone Dread, Rotor & Wing Magazine, June, 2014, p.34 (with Eliot O. Sprague)
But Who’s Going to Fly Them? Professional Pilot, June, 2014, p.94 (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Sharing Public Safety Helicopters, 79 J. Air Law & Commerce 501 (2014) (with Eliot O. Sprague and Christopher L. Cue)
Leashing Drones, Rotorcraft Pro, Aug., 2014 (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Law and Order in the Skies, The Tech (MIT student newspaper), 13 June 2014 (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Leashing Drones, Rotorcraft Pro, July, 2014 (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Law abiding drones, Rotor & Wing Magazine (Sep. 2014) (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Seeking Law Abiding Drones: What to Tell Clients that Want to Use Drones in Their Business, Business Law Today, Oct., 2014 (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Ready for the microdrone races? Newsletter of the Radio Television Digital News Association, Oct. 29, 2014 (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Reigning in the Renegades, Vertical Magazine, Dec./Jan. 2014-2015, at p.8 (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Drones: Free at Last? Newsletter of the Radio Television Digital News Association, Mar. 26, 2015 (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Drones for hire, Dronesx, May 27, 2015
Bracing for Impact, Vertical, April/May 2015, at p.86 (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Drones gather news - legally, Newsletter of the Radio Television Digital News Association, May 21, 2015
Drones, 17 Vanderbilt J. Ent. & Tech. L. 101 (2015) (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Law Abiding Drones, 16 Colum. Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 385 (2015) (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Developing DROP Discipline: Training and Testing Operators of Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems, 7 Hastings Sci. & Tech. L. J. 143 (2015) (with Eliot O. Sprague)
Squeezed out of the sky: would the Amazon proposal expand or restrict drone newsgathering? RTDNA Newsletter, Aug. 10, 2015
Using the Internet to Make Drones Safe, 19 No. 5 J. Internet L. 1 (2015) (with Albert J. Plawinski)
Making civilian drones safe: performance standards, self-certification, and post-sale data collection, 14 Northwestern J. Tech. & Intel. Prop. 1 (2016) (with Albert J. Plawinski)
One centimeter over my back yard: where does federal preemption of state drone regulation start?, 17 N.C.J.L. & Tech. 307 (2015) (with Albert J. Plawinski)
ENG 'kites': Tethered drones for newsgathering, RTDNA Newsletter, Aug. 10, 2015
Report: FAA exaggerates drone 'close calls,' RTDNA Newsletter, Sep. 23, 2015.
Uber TV: Extending the Internet revolution (further) into local TV, RTDNA Newsletter (Jan. 25, 2016).
Uber Television: Internet-Only Television Stations, 23 UCLA Ent. L. Rev. 65 (2016)
An Arm and a Leg: Paying for helicopter air ambulances, 2016 Univ. of Ill. J. Law, Tech. & Policy 317 (2016).
Medics, Markets, and Medicare: The Air Ambulance Crisis, 43 Rutgers Comp. & Tech. L. J. 38 (2017).
No way to run an “airline:” Surviving an air ambulance ride, 82 J. Air Law & Commerce 83 (2017).
Keeping the Internet invisible: Television takes over, 21 Univ. of Fla. J. Tech. L. & Policy 121 (2017)
Who Pays When Drones Crash?, 21 UCLA J. L. & Tech. 1 (2017)
The Internet Adopts Two-Way Radio, 10 Hastings Sci. & Tech. L. J. 45 (2019)
Don’t Burn the Looms: Regulation of Uber and other gig labor markets, 22 SMU Sci. & Tech. Law Rev. 51 (2019)
Rise and Fall of the Cowboy: Technology, law, and creative destruction in the industrialization of the food industry, 94 N.D. L. Rev. 361 (2019)
The 20th century cowboy: Law’s light touch, 9 American Univ. Bus. L. Rev. 235 (2020).
Job training mythologies, 98 Nebraska L. Rev. 101 (2020).
Taking the Law into Your Own Hands: Private Criminal Complaints in Virginia, 69 Va. Lawyer 30 (June, 2020)
The 21st century cowboy: Robots on the range, 43 Univ. Ark. Little Rock L. Rev. 149 (2020)
Defending Face-Recognition Technology (And Defending Against It), 25 Fla. J. Tech. Law & Pol’y 42 (2020)
Pro-se Prosecution in Virginia, 69 Va. Lawyer 30 (Dec. 2020)
Broken Ties: Private Criminal Complaints, 12 Ala. Civ. Rts & Civ. Lib. L. Rev. 151 (2021)
Helping Law Enforcement Deal with Mental Health Crises, 70 Va. Lawyer 40 (Dec. 2021)
Face Recognition Technology: Authorizing an Important Tool, 70 Va. Lawyer 37 (Apr. 2022)
My Lips Are Sealed: The Duty to Answer Police Questions, 71 Va. Lawyer No. 2 (Aug. 2022)
Opinion: Get Out of Jail Free?, 71 Va. Lawyer 27 (Dec. 2022)
Police Rating Systems: What Lawyers Should Know, 71 Va. Lawyer 32 (Apr. 2023)
Drones: Landing Soon in a Yard Near You, Va. Lawyer (Oct. 2023)
Copyright for Robots? 57 Ind. U. L. Rev. 139 (2023)
Robots as Pirates, 73 Catholic U. L. Rev. 57 (2024)
Robot Slanderers, 46 U.A.L.R. L. Rev. 169 (2023)
Robot Regulations, 75 S.C. L. Rev. 219 (2023)
Robot Job Destroyer, 84 Louisiana L. Rev. 207 (2023)
Law Drones and Drone Laws, The Practical Lawyer, June 2024
AI Aids for Patent Prosecution - Product Review, AIPLA INNOVATE Magazine, July 5, 2024
Literary fantasies as prior art, eclipsing true invention, 104 J. Pat. Trademark Off. Soc’y 453 (2024).
Employee Patents, 63 U. Louisville L. Rev. 37 (2024)
Who Invented It? Streamlining Determination of Patent Inventorship, 79 U. Miami L. Rev. 72 (2024).
Robot inventors, Robot patents, Robot examiners, and Robot patent prosecutors, 76 S.C. L. Rev. 405 (2024).
Drowning in the patent pool: Is statutory invention registration a lifeguard?, 127 W.Va. L. Rev. ___ (2024)
Jerking the rug out from under a trade secret licensee: Is transfer of the patent a remedy? 31 Mich. Tech. L. Rev. ___ (2024)
Undressing AI: Transparency through patents, 33 Texas Intel. Prop. L. J. 137 (2024)
Willful ignorance or embracing AI to find prior art? USPTO misses the mark, ___ SMU Sci and Tech. L. Rev. ___ (2024)
Exposing the Wizard of Oz: Transparency and testing of artificial intelligence systems, 31 Boston Univ. J. Sci. & Tech. L. ____ (2035)
Blocking the Sword of Damocles: mitigating the threat that a trade secret becomes patent infringement, 27 Tulane J. Tech. & Intell. Prop. ___ (2025)
Patenting an AI-generated infringement detector, ___ Ariz. J. Emer. Tech.___ (2025)
Patents:
Patents:
A Autonomous vehicle and method for detecting strays and managing herds, US Patent No. 12,102,060, issued Oct. 1, 2024
System and method for lifting lines over a support using a drone, US Patent No. 12,119,626, issued Oct. 15, 2024
System and method for executing search warrant by aerial vehicle, US Patent No. 12,153,452, issued 11/26/2024
Autonomous vehicle formation system and method for herding animals, US Patent No. 12,153,451, issued 11/26/2024
A system and method for pet recreation and exercise employing an autonomous aerial vehicle, U. S. Patent No. US 12,213,451, issued February 4, 2025
Patents pending:
Smartphone BATNA Calculator for Negotiation Team. filed 12/18/2024, USPTO App. No 18/986,612, CIP of Smartphone BATNA calculator, filed June 19, 2024, USPTO App. No. 18/747,965 – rejected as ineligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101
System and method for capturing aerial imagery with pre-programmed autonomous aerial vehicle, filed Sep. 25, 2024, USPTO App. No. 18/896,443
System and method for newsgathering with an autonomous aerial vehicle, filed Oct. 13, 2024, USPTO App. No. 18/914,217
System and Method for Detecting Patent Infringement, filed Nov. 18, 2024, USPTO App. No. 18/950,464
System and Method for Suspending HF Antennas, filed Nov. 20, 2024 USPTO App. No. 18/954,382
Smartphone BATNA Calculator for Negotiation Team, files Dec. 18, 2024, USPTO App. No. 18/986,612
QRP digital mode radio transceiver, filed Feb. 17, 2025, USPTO App. No. 19/055,200
Solar Energy Jacket, filed Mar. 4, 2025, USPTO App. No. 19/069,577
Reports: Analysis of Four Negotiated Rulemaking Efforts, prepared for the Administrative Conference of the United States, November 15, 1985
Use of Negotiated Rulemaking to Develop a Proposed Health Standard for MDA, Report for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor, May, 1988.
Aspects of Labor Law that Affect Labor Management Cooperation in the Railroad and Airline Industries, Prepared for the Bureau of Labor Management Relations and Cooperation, U. S. Department of Labor, February 15, 1988.
Electronic Acquisition and Release of Federal Agency Information, Report Prepared for the Administrative Conference of the United States, October 1, 1988.
Electronic Public Information and the Public’s Right to Know, proceedings of conference in October, 1989, sponsored by Benton Foundation and Bauman Family Foundation.
Market Structures for Electronic Publishing and Electronic Contracting on a National Research and Education Network, prepared for Conference on Information Infrastructure for the 1990s, November 29 - December 1, 1990, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
Federal Agency Electronic Records Management and Archives, prepared for the Administrative Conference of the United States, December 1, 1990.
The Role of Format and Content Standards and Other Conventions in Facilitating Electronic Exchange of Accounting and Legal Information, Report to the National Center for Automated Information Retrieval ("NCAIR") (February 1, 1991)
Adjudication of Civil Penalties Under the Federal Aviation Act, prepared for the Administrative Conference of the United States, November 1, 1991
Public Information in the National Information Infrastructure, Report to the Regulatory Information Service Center, General Services Administration, and to the Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, May 20, 1994
Electronic Dockets: Use of Information Technology in Rulemaking and Adjudication, prepared for the Administrative Conference of the United States, September 8, 1995
Independent Technical Review of the Carnivore System: Final Report, prepared under contract with United States Department of Justice (2000) (member of team led by IITRI).
Combating Corruption in Kosovo (2006) (85 page report describing anti-corruption strategy)
Musical and theatrical works:
Wind Will Fill the Sails (album released 2007)
They Have to Be Watching You (album released 2008)
You Took Away My Flag: a Musical About Kosovo (Modofac® Productions, LLC YTAMF Chicago 2010 Series) musical play produced in Chicago 2009 and 2010)
You Took Away My Flag: a Movie About Kosovo (screenplay) (trailer completed; seeking funding to shoot feature)
Airline Miles (play) (performed August 2012 at Second Stage Chicago)
Getting Back (movie) (lawyer education video drama written for Chicago-Kent College of Law) (released February 2012)
Giving Ground (play) (produced by The Artistic Home and the Chicago Bar Association (May 2012)
Goal to Go (play) (first reading, Fall, 2012)
Community and Corporate Activities:
Member, Ward Five Republican Committee, Boston, 1968
Member, The Economic Club, Chicago (1997-2010)
Member, Advisory Board, Judicate, Inc. (1981-85)
Member, Advisory Board, Sisters of the Good Shepherd Philadelphia Municipal Court Mediation Program (1982-89)
Member, Advisory Board, Philadelphia Area Repertory Theatre Company (1982-1995)
Member, Cable Task Force, Village of Glencoe, Illinois (2003-2004)
Producer and Managing Member, Modofac Productions, LLC, Chicago, Illinois (2009-) (theatrical and music production)
Vice President, Member of the Board of Directors, The Artistic Home, Chicago, Illinois (2011-2013)
Member, Board of Directors, AIR-ONE Emergency Response Coalition (2014-2016)
President, Mass. Iota-Tau Association, Boston, Massachusetts (alumni corporation SAE fraternity chapter at MIT) (2012-2024)
Election Official, Albemarle County, VA (Oct. 2020 to 2022)
FCC test liaison, Albemarle Amateur Radio Club (May 2021 to present)
Member, Development Committee, Wednesday Music Club (Feb. 2023 Nov. 2023)
Teaching Assignments:
Civil Procedure
Property
Seminar in Regulation of New Technologies
Seminar in Aviation Law
Seminar in Entertainment Law
Seminar in the Law of Nationbuilding
Conflict of Laws
Administrative Law
Interprofessional Project Course in Nationbuilding
Legal, ethical, and political issues in business
Computer Law
Clinic in Information Law
Sources of Law
Torts
Professional Responsibility
Current Research Interests:
AI
Patent law
History of technology
Cost effectiveness of criminal diversion systems
Adaptation of labor markets to disruptive technologies
Digital radio
Criminal law reform
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Helicopter support for law enforcement
Cybersecurity
Economics of the video entertainment industry
Economics of the music industry
Insurgency, including terrorist and guerrilla movements
Nationbuilding
Foreign policy of the United States
International criminal law
Administrative law
Electronic commerce
Telecommunications regulation
Computer crimes
Federal electronic information policy
Born: December 30, 1944
Outside interests: Commercial helicopter, private instrument airplane, and drone pilot, extra class radio amateur (K9KDF), theatre, songwriting, piano, sailing, spinning, weaving, sewing.
Contact: Henry H. Perritt, Jr.
Attorney-at-Law
114 Chestnut Ridge Road
Charlottesville, VA 22911
hperritt@gmail.com
March, 2025
February, 2021
