BARTON BEEBE
Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
Barton Beebe is a Professor of Law at New York University School of Law. Prior to joining NYU's faculty in 2009, Mr. Beebe taught at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and was a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. He also clerked for Judge Denise Cote of the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. Mr. Beebe’s publications are numerous, including his recent book Trademark Law, Unfair Competition, and Business Torts (Aspen Publishers, 2011) (with Thomas Cotter, Mark Lemley, Peter Mennell, and Robert Merges). He has also published many shorter works, contributed to symposiums, and is a frequent speaker and presenter.
B.A., 1992, University of Chicago; Ph.D., 1998, Princeton University; J.D., 2001, Yale Law School.
BRETT FRISCHMANN
Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Law Program, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Brett Frischmann is a Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he teaches intellectual property and Internet law and is the Director of Cardozo's IP and Information Law Program. In addition, Mr. Frischmann is an Affiliate Scholar of the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Prior to teaching, he clerked for the Honorable Fred I. Parker of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and practiced communications, E-commerce, and intellectual property law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, DC. Mr. Frischmann’s is a prolific author, whose articles have appeared in various prestigious law reviews and whose books include Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources (Oxford University Press, 2012). He has recently been focusing on the relationships between infrastructural resources, property rights, commons, and spillovers.
B.A., 1995, M.A., 1997, Columbia University; J.D. 2000, Georgetown University.
PETER GOODRICH
Professor of Law and Director of Law and Humanities, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Peter Goodrich is a professor of law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and is the Director of Law and Humanities. His specialties include Contracts, Jurisprudence, Film and Law, and Gender and Law. In addition, Mr. Goodrich is the managing editor of Law and Literature, and on the editorial board of Law and Critique. Prior to joining the Cardozo faculty, Professor Goodrich was the founding dean of the department of law, Birkbeck College, University of London, where he also was the Corporation of London Professor of Law. Mr. Goodrich has written extensively in legal history and theory in the areas of law and literature and semiotics, having authored ten books and numerous articles on the subjects.
LL.B., 1975 University of Sheffield; Ph.D., 1984, University of Edinburgh.
SONIA KATYAL
Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Sonia Katyal is the Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law, where she teaches in the areas of intellectual property, property, and civil rights. Ms. Katyal formerly clerked for the Honorable Carlos Moreno (now a California Supreme Court Justice) in the Central District of California and the Honorable Dorothy Nelson in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Ms. Katyal’s scholarly work focuses on intellectual property, civil rights, and new media. She is currently studying the relationship between copyright enforcement and privacy (as applied to peer-to-peer technology) and the impact of artistic expression and parody on corporate identity, advertising, and brand equity. Additionally, she works on issues relating to intellectual property and indigenous people's rights, focusing on cultural property in the US and abroad.
A.B., 1993, Brown University; J.D., 1998, University of Chicago Law School.
SIVA VAIDHYANATHAN
Robertson Professor in Media Studies and Chair of the Department of Media Studies, University of Virginia
Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor in Media Studies at the University of Virginia and the chair of the Department of Media Studies. Mr. Vaidhyanathan is also a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities and the Institute for the Future of the Book. In addition to authoring and editing numerous books on media, technology, and cultural issues, Mr. Vaidhyanathan frequently contributes to various periodicals and media outlets, including The New York Times Magazine and National Public Radio. His work has led The Chronicle of Higher Education to call him “one of academe’s best-known scholars of intellectual property and its role in contemporary culture.”
B.A., 1994, Ph.D.,1999, University of Texas at Austin.
DEREK KHANNA
Visiting Fellow, Information Society Project at Yale Law School
Derek Khanna is currently a Visiting Fellow at Yale Law School’s Information Society Project and a cyber-security policy adviser to the Department of Defense’s Science Board on Cyber-Security. He is a columnist and policy expert, with experience in the defense and technology areas as well as campaign experience. Previously, he worked for the Republican Study Committee, where he managed homeland security, defense, government oversight, and technology issues. Additionally, Mr. Khanna has worked on both of Governor Mitt Romney’s campaigns, and served as Special Assistant to Senator Scott Brown’s Chief of Staff. His publications include his thesis, Technology and the Coming Democratic Wave in the Middle East (2008), as well as two Republican Study Committee Policy Briefs.
B.A., 2009, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; J.D. Candidate, Georgetown University Law Center.
SHERWIN SIY
Vice President of Legal Affairs, Public Knowledge
Sherwin Siy is Vice President of Legal Affairs at Public Knowledge, where he coordinates the organization's work on copyright issues and analyzes their impact on domestic and international effects on IP and technology policy. Before joining Public Knowledge, he served as Staff Counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, working on consumer and communications issues.
J.D., U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law.
JESSICA LITMAN
John F. Nickoll Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Jessica Litman, the John F. Nickoll Professor of Law, is the author of Digital Copyright and the coauthor, with Jane Ginsburg and Mary Lou Kevlin, of the casebook Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials. Before rejoining the Michigan faculty in 2006, Prof. Litman was a professor of law at Wayne State University in Detroit, a visiting professor at New York University School of Law and at American University Washington College of Law, as well as a professor at the University of Michigan Law School from 1984-1990. In addition, she has taught copyright law at the University of Tokyo as part of the Law Faculty Exchange Program. Prof. Litman is a past trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA and a past chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Intellectual Property. In addition to serving on the advisory board for the Public Knowledge organization, she is a member of the Intellectual Property and Internet Committee of the ACLU, the Advisory Council of the Future of Music Coalition, the advisory board of Cyberspace Law Abstracts, and the American Law Institute. Prof. Litman was a member of the Copyright Principles Project, an international working group of 20 copyright experts led by UC-Berkeley's Pam Samuelson, which met for three years to discuss copyright reform, and published a report in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal advancing proposals for improving the copyright
J.D., Columbia Law School; M.F.A., Southern Methodist University; Reed College.
JOHN TEHRANIAN
Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
John Tehranian the Irwin R. Buchalter Professor of Law at Southwestern Law School. He focuses in the areas of entertainment law, intellectual property, and civil rights. In the past, Mr. Tehranian was a tenured Professor of Law and Director of the Entertainment Law Center at Chapman University School of Law. He is an experienced entertainment and intellectual property litigator, and has represented prominent Hollywood, publishing, new media and technology clients. Additionally, he is a founding partner of One LLP, an intellectual property and entertainment litigation firm. Mr. Tehranian’s publications include his recent Infringement Nation: Copyright 2.0 and You (Oxford University Press, 2011) and his articles have appeared in various publications.
A.B., 1995, Harvard University; J.D., 2000, Yale Law School.
RICK WHITT
Vice President and Global Head of Public Policy and Government Relations, Motorola Mobility, Inc.
Rick Whitt is the Vice President and Global Head of Public Policy and Government Relations at Motorola Mobility, Inc. (“MMI”), where he is responsible for all public policy and government relation’s matters, overseeing all aspects of MMI’s interactions with government policymakers worldwide. Before joining MMI, Mr. Whitt spent over five years at Google as director and managing counsel for federal policy, where he oversaw strategic thinking on a wide range of issues, including intellectual property, privacy, cybersecurity, free expression, and Internet governance issues. He was also Google’s Director and Managing Counsel of Telecom and Media Policy, responsible for developing and implementing strategy and advocacy on all wireline, wireless, and media matters before the FCC, other federal agencies, and the US Congress.
B.S., 1984, James Madison University; J.D., 1988, Georgetown University Law Center.
REBECCA TUSHNET
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Rebecca Tushnet is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. After clerking for Chief Judge Edward R. Becker of the Third Circuit and Associate Justice David H. Souter on the Supreme Court, Ms. Tushnet practiced intellectual property law at Debevoise & Plimpton before beginning teaching. Her publications include “Worth a Thousand Words: The Images of Copyright Law” (Harvard L. Rev. 2011); “Gone in 60 Milliseconds: Trademark Law and Cognitive Science” (Texas L. Rev. 2008); and “Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It” (Yale L.J. 2004). Her work currently focuses on the relationship between the First Amendment and false advertising law. Ms. Tusnet is also the head of the legal committee of the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and promoting fanworks.
B.A., 1995, Harvard University; J.D., 1998, Yale Law School.
MICHAEL BURSTEIN
Assistant Professor of Law, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law
Professor Burstein’s research focuses on the institutional structures - both private and public - that shape innovation. He is interested primarily in the intersections between intellectual property and both corporate law and public law. Professor Burstein has previously written about the administrative structure of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. He is currently working on projects to clarify the law of patent standing, and to develop insights into how private and public sector actors can make effective use of prizes for innovation. Before joining the Cardozo faculty, Professor Burstein was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School. Following law school, Professor Burstein clerked for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, and served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice. He also practiced appellate litigation and telecommunications law at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel in Washington, D.C., and worked as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
B.A. 1999, Yale University;
J.D. 2004, New York University School of Law
VICTORIA EKSTRAND
Assistant Professor, UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Victoria Ekstrand is an assistant professor at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communication. Prior to joining the UNC in 2012, Ms. Ekstrand was an associate professor at Bowling Green State University in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations and an affiliate faculty member of their American Cultural Studies Department. Ms. Ekstrand specializes in media law and First Amendment issues. She is particularly interested in the intersection of intellectual property and free speech.
B.A., 1988, Syracuse University; M.A., 1998, New York University; Ph.D., 2003 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
AELJ Spring Symposium
Critical Legal Studies & the Politicization of
Intellectual Property and Information Law
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Sunday, April 7, 2013