Menna’s scholarship critically examines how copyright interacts with contract, antitrust, and other areas of law touching information and entertainment markets. His ongoing research focuses on how digital technologies and centralized platforms are making it harder for libraries, museums, archives, and other memory institutions to do their traditional work collecting and preserving history.
Menna brings a humanist perspective to these issues, informed by his doctoral studies at Stanford University and his interdisciplinary research on literature, theater, music, and the law. He has placed this scholarship in a wide variety of academic journals, including English Literary History, The Political Librarian, and The Journal of Intellectual Property Law.
After clerking for Judge M. Margaret McKeown on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Menna worked on the law and policy team at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. There, he helped draft and promote the Our Future Memory campaign’s “Statement on Digital Rights,” which has since been signed and endorsed by state archives, international advocacy groups, and memory institutions around the world.
