Ann Bartow is Executive Director of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property and Professor of Law at the University of New Hampshire School of Law. She previously held tenured appointments at Pace Law School and the University of South Carolina School of Law. She specializes in intellectual property law, cyberspace law, privacy law, and feminist legal theory. She is an Advisory Board Member of the Electronic Privacy Center (EPIC) and a member of the American Law Institute. She spent the 2011-12 academic year as a Fulbright Scholar at Tongji University in Shanghai, China.
Barton Beebe is the John M. Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law at New York University School of Law. He has been the Anne Urowsky Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. In 2007, Professor Beebe was a Special Master in the case of Louis Vuitton Malletier v. Dooney & Bourke, Inc., No. 04 Civ. 2990 (SAS) (S.D.N.Y.). His published works include Intellectual Property Law and the Sumptuary Code, 123 Harvard Law Review 809 (2010).
Sara T. Bernstein currently teaches film studies at Portland State University. Her research and teaching explore issues of representation, identity and power through fashion and mass media. She has authored and co-authored several articles that situate fashion in relation to other mass-representational forms-mainly film and television-but also novels, magazines, and new media. Sara received her PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of California, Davis, and her M.A. in Visual Culture: Costume Studies from New York University.
Mario Biagioli is Distinguished Professor of STS, Law, and History, and Director of the new Center for Science and Innovation Studies at the University of California at Davis. Prior to joining UCD, he taught history of science at Harvard and UCLA, and held visiting positions at Stanford and EHESS (Paris). He is the author of Galileo Courtier (Chicago, 1993), Galileo's Instruments of Credit (Chicago, 2006)), and the co-editor of The Science Studies Reader (Routledge, 1998), Scientific Authorship (Routledge, 2003), Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property (Chicago, 2011), and Nature Engaged (2013). He is currently completing a book on plagiarism in science.
Irene Calboli is the Deputy Director of the Applied Research Centre for Intellectual Assets and the Law in Asia, School of Law, Singapore Management University where she is also a Lee Kong Chian Fellow and Visiting Professor. She is also a Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law, and a Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow at Stanford Law School. Her research projects currently focus on overlapping intellectual property rights, the principle of intellectual property exhaustion, and the protection of geographical indications of origin. She has published many articles and chapters on intellectual property-related topics in English and Italian in leading journals and collective volumes. Her most recent publications include the books Trademark Protection and Territoriality Challenges in a Global Economy (2014, edited with E. Lee), Diversity in Intellectual Property (2015, edited with S. Ragavan), and The Law and Practice of Trademark Transactions (forthcoming 2016, edited with J. de Werra).
Anupam Chander is Director of the California International Law Center and Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, he has been visiting professor at Yale, Chicago, Stanford, and Cornell. The author of The Electronic Silk Road (Yale University Press), he has published articles in the nation's leading law reviews. He practiced law in New York and Hong Kong with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. He is the recipient of multiple Google Research Awards and serves on the E15 expert group of the World Economic Forum and ICTSD.
Stacey L. Dogan is Professor and Law Alumni Scholar at Boston University School of Law, where she specializes in intellectual property and competition law. Professor Dogan has written numerous articles about IP and competition law, with a special emphasis on the challenges wrought by technology and the Internet. Before joining BU's faculty, she taught at Northeastern University School of Law and practiced with the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, DC. After graduating from Harvard Law School, Professor Dogan clerked with the honorable Judith Rogers on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
Joseph "Joe" H. Hancock, II teaches, publishes, and conducts scholarly activities at Drexel University in the Department of Design. He has twenty-year retailing background having worked for The Gap Corporation, The Limited, Inc., the Target Corporation and continues to do publishing and merchandising consulting work on an international level. Joe earned his PhD from the Ohio State University focusing his research in popular culture as it relates to transnational mass fashion garments and world dress, aspirational fashion branding and experiential retailing, as well as men's fashion and lifestyles. He has published with Bloomsbury Publishers, Intellect Ltd, and University of Chicago Press. He released his book Brand/Story: Ralph, Vera, Johnny, Billy and Other Adventures in Fashion Branding (Bloomsbury, 2009) and the second edition is due out in 2016. He has published two edited books, Fashion in Popular Culture (2013) and Global Fashion Brands (2014) with Intellect Publishing and he is the principal editor of the peer-reviewed journal Fashion, Style and Popular Culture (Intellect Publishers) that debuted in October 2013.
Susan B. Kaiser is Professor of Women and Gender Studies and Textiles and Clothing, and Interim Dean of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Davis. Her research and teaching bridge fashion studies and feminist cultural studies, with current interests in shifting articulations of masculinities; fashion and space/place; and possibilities for critical fashion studies. She is the author of The Social Psychology of Clothing (1997) and Fashion and Cultural Studies (2012), and ca.100 articles and book chapters in the fields of textile/fashion studies, sociology, gender studies, cultural studies, and consumer behavior.
Sonia K. Katyal is Chancellor's Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Previously, Professor Katyal served as Associate Dean for Research and Joseph M. McLaughlin Professor at Fordham University School of Law. Professor Katyal is the author of Property Outlaws (with Eduardo M. Penalver), published by Yale University Press in 2010, and a forthcoming book on advertising and trademarks, also to be published by Yale University Press. Her research focuses on civil rights and intellectual property law, with a special emphasis on gender, sexuality, and race.
Mark A. Lemley is the William H. Neukom Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and the Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science and Technology. He teaches intellectual property, computer and internet law, patent law, trademark law, antitrust, and remedies. He is the author of seven books (most in multiple editions) and 144 articles on these and related subjects, including the two-volume treatise IP and Antitrust. Mark is a founding partner of Durie Tangri LLP. He litigates and counsels clients in all areas of intellectual property, antitrust, and internet law. He has argued 16 federal appellate cases and numerous district court cases, and represented clients including Comcast, Genentech, DISH Network, Google, Grokster, Guidewire, Hummer Winblad, NetFlix, and the University of Colorado Foundation in over 90 cases in his more than two decades as lawyer. Mark is a founder and board member of Lex Machina, Inc., a startup company providing data and analytics around IP disputes to law firms, companies, courts, and policymakers.
David Llewelyn is Professor (practice) & Deputy Dean of the School of Law at Singapore Management University and Professor of Intellectual Property Law at King's College London. Between 1999 and 2010 he was a partner of international law firm White & Case based in its London office. Professor Llewelyn is a co-author of Kerly's Law of Trade Marks and Trade Names (15th ed. 2011; Supplement 2014) and joint author of Cornish, Llewelyn & Aplin on Intellectual Property: Patents, Copyright, Trade Marks and Allied Rights (8th ed. 2013). His business book Invisible Gold in Asia: Creating Wealth through Intellectual Property (2010) explains the field of intellectual property to non-lawyers, using Asian examples throughout. Resident in Singapore since 2010, he is involved in international arbitration work and is consulted by governments and corporations on a range of intellectual property matters.
Yi Qian is Associate Professor of Marketing at the Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia. Professor Qian's research interests shape around marketing strategies in the context of technology advancement and international trade. She applies this knowledge to propose successful business strategies to secure brand values and Intellectual Property Rights against counterfeits, and to suggest reasonable policies in adopting technology and absorbing foreign direct investments. She has also advanced methodology on causal inference and marketing analytics. Prior to joining the Sauder School, she taught courses on Advanced Econometrics and International Trade and Investments at Harvard University and Marketing Research and Applied Econometrics at Kellogg School of Management.
Kal Raustiala is Professor at UCLA Law School and the UCLA International Institute, where he directs the Burkle Center for International Relations. He is co-author, with Chris Sprigman of NYU, of The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (Oxford 2012).
Susan Scafidi is the first professor ever to offer a course in Fashion Law, and she is internationally recognized for her leadership in establishing the field. She has testified regarding the proposed extension of legal protection to fashion designs and continues to work actively with members of Congress and the fashion industry on this and other issues. Her additional areas of expertise encompass property, intellectual property, cultural property, international law, trusts &estates, and legal history. Professor Scafidi founded and directs the nonprofit Fashion Law Institute, which was established with the generous support and advice of the Council of Fashion Designers of America and its president, Diane von Furstenberg, and is located at Fordham Law School. Prior to teaching at Fordham, Professor Scafidi was a tenured member of both the law and history faculties at Southern Methodist University, and she has taught at a number of other schools, including Yale, Georgetown, and Cardozo.
Christopher Jon Sprigman is Professor at the New York University School of Law, and Co-Director of NYU's Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy. He is co-author, with Kal Raustiala (UCLA) of The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Sparks Innovation (Oxford 2012), and he has authored or co-authored many academic and popular press articles on intellectual property and technology issues.
Haochen Sun is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property and property law. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. Professor Sun has organized a few leading international conferences on intellectual property and has taught courses on luxury brand protection. His recent publications include Living Together in One Civilized World: How Luxury Companies and Consumers Can Fulfill Their Ethical Responsibilities to the Poor, 46 UC Davis Law Review 547 (2013).
Madhavi Sunder is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. Her work traverses numerous legal fields, from intellectual property to human rights law and the First Amendment. She has been Visiting Professor of Law at the Yale Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, and Cornell Law School. She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2006. She is the author of From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice (Yale University Press 2012).
Rebecca Tushnet is Professor of Law at Georgetown. She previously clerked for Associate Justice David H. Souter and worked in private practice. Her work focuses on copyright, trademark, and advertising law. With Eric Goldman, she publishes a casebook on advertising and marketing law. She helped found the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and promoting fanworks. Her blog, tushnet.blogspot.com, is one of the top intellectual property blogs, and her writings may be found at tushnet.com. She is also an expert on the law of engagement rings.
Diane Leenheer Zimmerman is Samuel Tilden Professor of Law Emerita at New York University where she has specialized in intellectual property and first amendment law. Professor Zimmerman is co-editor of Expanding the Boundaries of Intellectual Property: Innovation Policy for the Knowledge Society (2001) and Working Within the Boundaries of Intellectual Property: Innovation Policy for the Knowledge Society (2010). She has lectured in the United States and abroad, and written extensively, on topics including copyright, innovation policy and theory, publicity rights, commercial speech regulation, and libel and privacy law.