James Grimmelmann is a professor at Cornell Law School and Cornell Tech, where he directs CTRL-ALT, the Cornell Tech Research Lab in Applied Law and Technology. He studies how laws regulating software affect freedom, wealth, and power, aiming to bridge the gap between lawyers and technologists. His research spans search engines, digital copyright, online governance, content moderation, and other areas of computer and Internet law. Grimmelmann is currently working on a book, CPU, Esq.: How Lawyers and Coders Do Things with Words, which examines the linguistic parallels between software and legal texts.