About Me

William Barnes

I am a 23 year old law student at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. My main legal interests are intellectual property, privacy, and technology law. Beyond law, I am interested in philosophy (I have a degree in philosophy from UofT), languages (I speak French, read Latin, and I’m working on Spanish), baking (I love making cakes and chocolate), and technology (programming: PHP/HTML/JavaScript/Python).

I currently write for the Innovation Law Blog at UofT (for which I was the Editor-in-Chief for 2009-2010). I used to write for IP Osgoode’s IPilogue.

Some likes

TV shows: 3rd Rock From The Sun, Buffy, Californication, Glee, House, Scrubs, and True Blood. Movies: Back to the Future, Big Fish, Contact, Empire Records, Forest Gump, The Great Escape, High Fidelity, Legally Blonde, Star Trek, Star Wars. Musicals: Dr. Horrible, High Fidelity, Jesus Christ Superstar, Les Miserables, Phantom of the Opera. Music: Bad Religion, The Beatles, Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Green Day, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, NOFX, Pink Floyd, R.E.M.

Crypto

  • PGP fingerprint: 056D D593 A135 5960 4554 169B 593C EDD5 E300 A138
  • S/MIME fingerprint: 10:F2:AB:2C:D8:23:8D:E2:1B:CA:79:43:39:7E:7F:0C