Jeremy N. Sheff

St. John’s University School of Law, 8000 Utopia Parkway Queens, NY 11439 jeremysheff@gmail.com

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CONTENTS:

• Academic Positions
• Selected Publications
• Works in Progress
• Courses Taught
• Selected Presentations and Conferences
• Media Appearances
• Other Writings
• Other Academic & Professional Activities
• Other Presentations and Conferences
• Awards
• Education
• Judicial Clerkship
• Professional Employment
• Bar Admissions

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ACADEMIC POSITIONS:

• St. John’s University School of Law
  • Professor of Law; Founding Director, Intellectual Property Law Center, September 2014 – Present
  • Associate Professor of Law, September 2011 – August 2014
  • Assistant Professor of Law, July 2008 – August 2011
• New York University School of Law, Adjunct Professor of Law, Fall 2023-Fall 2024
• Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University, Adjunct Professor of Law, Spring 2017, Spring 2019, Fall 2023
• Institute of Intellectual Property (Tokyo, Japan), Invited Overseas Researcher, 2016

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books:

• Open Source Property: A Free Casebook (with Stephen Clowney, James Grimmelmann, Michael Grynberg & Rebecca Tushnet) (2016-Present).

Articles and Essays:

• Dividing Trademark Use, 48 Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts (forthcoming 2025)
• An Empirical Evaluation of the Trademark Modernization Act, 62 Houston L. Rev. (forthcoming 2024)
• Reverse Confusion and the Justification of Trademark Protection, 30 Geo. Mason L. Rev. 123 (2022).
• The Canada Trademarks Dataset, 18 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 908 (2021).
• Jefferson’s Taper, 73 SMU L. Rev. 299 (2020).
• Legal Sets, 40 Cardozo L. Rev. 2029 (2019).
• I Choose, You Decide: Structural Tools for Supreme Court Legitimation, 50 Seton Hall L. Rev. 161 (2019).
  • Selected for republication as I Choose, You Decide: Checking the Judiciary from Within, in Supreme Court Appointment Issue, 42 Cardozo L. Rev. 2869 (2021)
• Values, Questions, and Methods in Intellectual Property: Symposium Introduction, 90 St. John’s L. Rev. 549 (2016) (symposium organizer).
• Dilution at the Patent and Trademark Office, 21 Mich. Telecomm. & Tech. L. Rev. 79 (2014).
  • Selected for inclusion in the inaugural Scholarship Symposium at the ABA 29^th Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference, 2014
• Marks, Morals and Markets, 65 Stan. L. Rev. 761 (2013).
  • Reviewed by Laura Heymann, Trademark as Promise, Jotwell (Nov. 18, 2013), available at http://ip.jotwell.com/trademark-as-promise/
• Self-Replicating Technologies, 16 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 229 (2013).
• Veblen Brands, 96 Minn. L. Rev. 769 (2012).
  • Selected for inclusion in the 2011 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum.
  • Excerpted in Jane C. Ginsburg, Jessica Litman, & Mary L. Kevlin, Trademark and Unfair Competition Law (5^th Ed. 2013).
• Biasing Brands, 32 Cardozo L. Rev. 1245 (2011)
  • Excerpted in Jane C. Ginsburg, Jessica Litman, & Mary L. Kevlin, Trademark and Unfair Competition Law (5^th Ed. 2013).

Book Chapters:

• Philosophical Approaches to Intellectual Property Law Scholarship, in Approaches and Methodologies in Intellectual Property Research (Irene Calboli & Lilla’ Montagnani eds., Oxford University Press 2021)
• Finding Dilution, in Research Handbook on Trademark Law Reform (Graeme Dinwoodie & Mark Janis eds., Edward Elgar Press 2021)
• Academic Brands as Geographical Indications, in Academic Brands: Distinction in Higher Education (Mario Biagioli & Madhavi Sunder, eds., Cambridge University Press 2022)
• Misappropriation-Based Trademark Liability in Comparative Perspective, in Cambridge Handbook on International and Comparative Trademark Law 452 (Jane Ginsburg & Irene Calboli, eds., Cambridge University Press 2020)

Other:

• The Canada Trademarks Dataset, Zenodo (open-access data repository), v.2.0 (Jan. 24, 2023)
• The Well-Intended but Misguided Student-Athlete Equity Act, Harvard Law Review Blog (Sept. 2019)
• Article V, the Senate, and the House of Lords Option, JeremySheff.com (Oct. 7, 2018)
• What If All Proof Is Social Proof?, JeremySheff.com (Feb. 26, 2018)
• The Japan Trademarks Dataset: A First Analysis, Report for the Institute of Intellectual Property [Japan] (2017).

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WORKS IN PROGRESS

Books:

• Valuing Progress: A Pluralist Approach to Knowledge Governance (under contract, Cambridge University Press).

Articles:

• A Heap of IP: On the Essential Indeterminacy of Intellectual Property Rights

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COURSES TAUGHT

• Property
• Introduction to Intellectual Property
• Patent Law
• Trademarks and Unfair Competition
• International Intellectual Property Law
• Intellectual Property Law Colloquium
• First Amendment: Freedom of Expression

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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

• A Heap of IP, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference 2024 (Berkeley Law School, August 9, 2024)
• An Empirical Evaluation of the Trademark Modernization Act, Annual University of Houston Institute for Intellectual Property and Information Law National Conference in Santa Fe (Houston Law School, June 8, 2024)
• A Heap of IP: On the Essential Indeterminacy of Intellectual Property Rights, 21st Annual Works in Progress in Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Colloquium (Santa Clara University School of Law, February 3, 2024).
• Dividing Trademark Use, 2024 Tri-State Region Intellectual Property Workshop (NYU School of Law, January 12, 2024).
• Valuing Progress: Responsibility in Knowledge Governance, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (Cardozo Law School, August 3, 2023).
• Valuing Progress: Knowledge as a Resource, New York City IP Law and Philosophy Workshop (Fordham Law School, March 31, 2023).
• Valuing Progress: Knowledge as a Resource, M3 IP Workshop (Miami Law School, May 20, 2023).
• Valuing Progress: Knowledge as a Resource, Twentieth Annual Works in Progress in Intellectual Property Colloquium (WIPIP) (Suffolk University School of Law, February 3, 2023).
• Reverse Confusion and the Justification for Trademark Protection, 1st Annual Trademark and Unfair Competition Roundtable (University of Pennsylvania Law School, October 7, 2022).
• Reverse Confusion and the Justification for Trademark Protection, New York City Intellectual Property Law and Philosophy Workshop (St. John’s University, May 6, 2022) (conference organizer).
• Reverse Confusion and the Justification for Trademark Protection, 12^th Annual Tri-State Region IP Workshop (NYU School of Law, Jan. 14, 2022).
• Valuing Progress: Reciprocity, M3 Intellectual Property Scholars Workshop (Florida State University/Oklahoma University/University of Miami, Dec. 3, 2021).
• Valuing Progress: Reciprocity, New York City Intellectual Property Law and Philosophy Workshop (St. John’s University, Dec. 2, 2021) (conference organizer).
• The Canada Trademarks Dataset, Intellectual Property Colloquium (Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Sept. 30, 2021).
• Challenging Offensive Trademarks, Panel Moderator (St. John’s University School of Law, Feb. 25, 2021).
• Jefferson’s Taper, 9^th Annual Patent Law Conference (“PatCon”) (Kansas University Law School, April 6, 2019).
• University Brands as Geographical Indications, Mellon Sawyer Seminar: Academic Brands (UC Davis School of Law, March 22, 2019).
•  Jefferson’s Taper, 9^th Annual Tri-State Intellectual Property Workshop (NYU School of Law, January 19, 2019).
• The Use (and Abuse) of Trademarks in Art: Referential Uses, Lazy Art, and Cultural Salience, AALS Annual Meeting Art Law Section Panel (January 5, 2019).
• Panelist, Term, Breadth, and Waivability, Owning Personality: The Expanding Right of Publicity (Kernochan Center, Columbia Law School, October 19, 2018).
• Jefferson’s Taper, 18^th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (UC Berkeley School of Law, August 9, 2018).
• Commentator, A Likelihood Story: The Theory of Legal Fact-Finding by Sean P. Sullivan, Stanford/Yale/Harvard Junior Faculty Forum (Harvard Law School, June 13, 2018).
• Clutter on the Trademark Register: A Natural Experiment, Roundtable on Empirical Methods in Intellectual Property (Northwestern University School of Law, May 5, 2018).
• Moderator & Organizer, Right of Publicity Roundtable, St. John’s Intellectual Property Law Center (St. John’s University School of Law & NYSBA EASL Section, December 8, 2018).
• Valuing Progress, University of Pennsylvania Center for Technology, Innovation, & Competition Workshop (University of Pennsylvania, November 16, 2017).
• A Heap of IP: On the Essential Indeterminacy of IP Rights, 17^th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (Cardozo Law School, August 10, 2017).
• Valuing Progress, 2017 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property (WIPIP) Colloquium (Boston University School of Law, February 10, 2017).
• Babylonian Exile: Remarks on the Executive Order of January 27, 2017 (Cardozo Law School, January 30, 2017).
• Valuing Progress, Seventh Annual Tri-State Region IP Workshop (NYU School of Law, January 13, 2017).
• The Japan Trademarks Dataset: A First Analysis (Institute of Intellectual Property, Tokyo, Japan, August 3, 2016).
• Values, Questions, and Methods in Intellectual Property, Symposium Organizer and Moderator (St. John’s Intellectual Property Law Center/St. John’s Law Review, April 22, 2016).
• Progress for Future Persons, Works-in-Progress in Intellectual Property Colloquium (WIP/IP) (University of Washington School of Law, February 20, 2016).
• Inclulsionary and Exclusionary Definitions in Intellectual Property (presentation of Legal Sets), 15^th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (DePaul University School of Law, August 7, 2015).
• Who Should Pay for Progress?, Loyola IP Theory Colloquium (Loyola Law School, Los Angeles), February 23, 2015.
• Conference Organizer, Moderator: Law For Intelligent Machines (St. John’s Intellectual Property Law Center), November 7, 2014.
• Who Should Pay for Progress?, Opening Plenary Presentation, 14^th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (UC Berkeley School of Law), August 7, 2014.
• Dilution at the Patent and Trademark Office, Inaugural Scholarship Symposium, ABA Intellectual Property Law Section Spring Meeting (Alexandria, Va.), April 2, 2014.
• Dilution at the Patent and Trademark Office, Michigan Intellectual Property Colloquium (University of Michigan School of Law), February 19, 2014.
• Dilution, Trade Mark Theory and Consumer Interests, The Consumer in Trade Mark Law (University of Sydney), August 19, 2013.
• Dilution at the Patent and Trademark Office, 13^th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (Cardozo Law School), August 8, 2013.
• Self-Replicating Technologies, Third Annual Tri-State Region IP Workshop (NYU Law School), January 11, 2013.
• Marks, Morals, and Markets, Intellectual Property Scholarship Seminar (UC Berkeley School of Law), September 24, 2012.
• Veblen Brands, Charting the New Frontiers of Intellectual Property Protection of Luxury Goods (University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law), June 15, 2012.
• Marks, Morals, and Markets, 2^nd Annual Tri-State Region Intellectual Property Workshop (Fordham Law School), January 13, 2012.
• Brand Renegades, IP Innovations Speaker Series (University of Washington School of Law), November 14, 2011.
• Marks, Morals, and Markets, 11^th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (DePaul University School of Law), August 11, 2011.
• Veblen Brands and Invisible Hands in the Market for Social Expression, Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum (Stanford Law School), June 25, 2011.
• Veblen Brands and Invisible Hands: How Trademark Law Creates a Market for Suppressed Speech, First Annual Tri-State Region Intellectual Property Workshop (Fordham Law School), January 14, 2011.
• Veblen Brands and Invisible Hands: How Trademark Law Creates a Market for Suppressed Speech, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (UC Berkeley School of Law), August 12, 2010.
• Search Costs and Brand Equity in Trademark Law, 9^th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (Cardozo School of Law), August 6, 2009.
• Search Costs and Brand Equity in Trademark Law, Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable (Drake Law School), February 27, 2009.

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MEDIA APPEARANCES

• Kyle Jahner, Elvis Inspires First State AI Protections for Musicians’ Voices, Bloomberg Law (April 1, 2024)
• Ipse Dixit Podcast,Jeremy Sheff on Jefferson’s Taper and the Classical Tradition (March 13, 2019)
• James Tarmy, After Public Outcry, a Rewritten Photo Policy for Hudson Yards’ ‘Vessel’, Bloomberg News (March 18, 2019)
• Kyle Jahner, NCAA Tax Status Tied to Athletes’ Image Rights Under New Bill, Bloomberg Law (March 14, 2019)
• Daniel Roberts, From Tiki to Tic Tac, Trump Era Forces Consumer Brands Into Politics, Yahoo! Finance (August 18, 2017)
• Stephen Whyno, Supreme Court pushes R[******]s’ name fight back to society, Associated Press (June 20, 2017)
• Oral Argument Podcast, Choose Your Own Adventure (December 30, 2016).
• R[******]s, rock band battle government in trademark fight, Associated Press (Sept. 19, 2016)
• Richard Sandomir, Ruling Could Help R[******]s’ Case, New York Times (December 23, 2015), at B9.
• Jaime Hamre, With U.S.-Cuba détente, a battle over trademarks looms, Reuters (November 25, 2015)
• Jenée Desmond-Harris, What it means that a judge has ordered the R[******]s’ trademark registration canceled, Vox.com (July 8, 2015)
• Stanley Alcorn, Trademark law: Why Disney is fighting a Canadian DJ, Marketplace Morning Report (November 5, 2014).
• Joseph Stromberg, The R[******]s Just Lost Some Legal Protection of Their Name. Here’s What It Means, Vox.com (June 18, 2014).
• Colin Tansits, Linsanity Stirs (Lin)tellectual Property Rights Confusion, TheLegalBlitz.com (March 19, 2012).

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OTHER WRITINGS

• Scope & Justification of the Right of Publicity, 42 Colum. J.L. & Arts 333 (2019).
• Brand Renegades Redux, 59 IDEA: J. Franklin Pierce Cntr. Intell. Prop. 293 (2018).
• Disclosure as Distribution, 88 Wash. L. Rev. 475 (2013) (invited symposium contribution)
• Accentuate the Normative: A Response to Professor McKenna, 98 Va. L. Rev. In Brief 48 (2012)
• Fear and Loathing in Trademark Enforcement, 22 Fordham Intell. Prop., Arts & Ent. L. J.873 (2012) (invited symposium contribution)
  • Quoted in 2 McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition § 11:91 (5th ed.)
• Brand Renegades, 1 NYU J. Intell. Prop. & Ent. L. 128 (2011)
  • Quoted in 6 McCarthy on Trademarks and Unfair Competition § 31:145 (5th ed.)
• The Ethics of Unbranding, 21 Fordham Intell. Prop., Arts & Ent. L. J. 983(2011) (invited symposium contribution)
• A Tale of Two Cities: The Residential Landlord’s Duty to Mitigate in New York, 25 J. Civ. Rts. & Econ. Dev. 673 (2011) (invited symposium contribution)
• The Myth of the Level Playing Field: Knowledge, Affect, and Repetition in Public Debate, 75 Mo. L. Rev. 143 (2010).
• The (Boundedly) Rational Basis of Trademark Liability, 15 Tex. Intell. Prop. L.J. 331 (2007).
• Note:  Responding to Terrorism:  Crime, Punishment, and War, 115 Harv. L. Rev. 1217 (2002).
• The Supreme Court 2000 Term:  Leading Cases: Clean Air Act — Nondelegation Doctrine – Whitman v. American Trucking Ass’ns, 121 S. Ct. 903 (2001), 115 Harv. L. Rev. 518 (2001).
• Recent Legislation: Domestic Relations–Same-Sex Couples–Vermont Creates System of Civil Unions.–Act Relating to Civil Unions, No. 91, 2000 Vt. Adv. Legis. Serv. 68 (Lexis), 114 Harv. L. Rev. 1421 (2001).
• PrawfsBlawg (www.prawfs.com), Guest Author, April 2012
• Patently-O Blog (www.patentlyo.com): Self-Replicating Technology (cross-posted on PrawfsBlawg)

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OTHER ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

• Founder & Admin, Lawprofs Mastodon Instance
• Peer Reviewer:
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Routledge
  • Harvard Law Review
  • Yale Law Journal
  • Stanford Law Review
  • Columbia Law Review
  • European Journal of Law and Economics
• AALS Intellectual Property Law Section Board Member, 2015-16
• ABA IP Section Committee Member:
  • Trademark Litigation Committee
  • Trademark Legislation Committee
  • Lanham Act Section 2(a) Task Force     

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OTHER PRESENTATIONS AND CONFERENCES

• Discussant: Administrative Agencies & Specialized Courts, Trademark Scholars Roundtable (UNLV Law, February 23, 2024)
• Commentator: Deborah Gerhardt & Jon Lee, Sound Trademarks, 2nd Annual Trademarks & Unfair Competition Roundtable (NYU Law School, October 7, 2023)
• Discussant: Abandonment of Trademark Rights, Trademark Scholars Roundtable (Oxford University, Jun 25, 2022).
• Discussant: Trademark Law and Consumer Expectations: The Current Framework, Trademark Scholars Roundtable (Stanford Law School, February 28, 2020).
• Commentator: Amy Kapczynski & Christopher Morten, The Big Data Regulator, Rebooted:  Why and How the FDA Can and Should Disclose Confidential Data on Prescription Drugs, Tenth Annual NYU Tri-State Region IP Workshop (NYU Law School, January 10, 2020).
• Brand Renegades, IP Scholarship Redux Conference (University of New Hampshire School of Law, April 6, 2018).
• Discussant: The Distinction Between Trademark and Unfair Competition Law, Trademark Scholars Roundtable (Notre Dame University—Chicago Campus, April 13-14, 2018)
• Moderator, Right of Publicity Symposium, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (Cardozo Law School, February 22, 2018)
• Valuing Progress, Cardozo Law School Faculty Workshop (Cardozo Law School, January 31, 2018).
• Valuing Progress, Hofstra IP Colloquium (Hofstra Law School, November 21, 2016).
• A Refresher on Basic Property Law Concepts for Foreclosure Defense Practitioners, (Empire Justice Center, May 25, 2016).
• Invited Discussant, Philosophy of Intellectual Property (George Mason University School of Law, May 19-20, 2016).
• Panelist, Intellectual Property and Public Values, Tenth Law and Information Society Symposium (Fordham Law School, May 13, 2016).
• Basic Property Law Refresher for Foreclosure Prevention Advocates (Legal Services NYC, February 29, 2016).
• Panelist, Native Advertising, Symposium: New Impressions on Advertising Law (Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, February 26, 2016).
• Commentator: Irina Manta, Branded, 5^th Annual Tri-State Region IP Workshop (New York University School of Law, January 15, 2016).
• The Ragged Edge of the Lanham Act, Fordham IP Conference (University of Cambridge/Fordham Law School), April 9, 2015.
• The Ragged Edge of the Lanham Act, 12^th Annual Works-In-Progress in Intellectual Property (WIP/IP) Colloquium (U.S. Patent & Trademark Office/George Washington University School of Law), February 6, 2015.
• Invited Commentator, Workshop on Intellectual Property and Competition (World Intellectual Property Organization, New York City Office), December 10, 2014.
• Panel Moderator, Trademark Dilution, Empirical IP Research Conference (NYU Law School), October 24, 2014.
• Dilution at the Patent and Trademark Office,Fordham IP Conference (Fordham Law School), April 25, 2014.
• Panelist, Opposition Practice Before the U.S. Trademark Trial and Appeal Board,Fordham IP Conference (Fordham Law School), April 25, 2014.
• Discussant, Trademark Scholars Roundtable (University of Texas School of Law), February 28-March1, 2014.
• Commentator, Texas Law Review 2014 Symposium: Steps Toward Evidence-Based IP (University of Texas School of Law), January 24, 2014.
• Dilution at the Patent and Trademark Office, 4^th Annual Tri-State Region IP Workshop (NYU Law School), January 10, 2014.
• Presenter and Commentator, Living Together in One Civilized World: How Luxury Companies and Consumers Can Fulfill Their Ethical Responsibilities to the Poor, by Haochen Sun, 13^th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (Cardozo Law School), August 9, 2013.
• Table Topic Moderator, Is There a Duty to Police?  Advising Clients on Enforcement Strategies, INTA Annual Meeting (International Trademark Association), May 8, 2013.
• Commentator, Scholarship Symposium, INTA Annual Meeting Academic Day (International Trademark Association), May 6, 2013.
• Self-Replicating Technologies, Chicago IP Colloquium (Loyola of Chicago School of Law/Chicago-Kent College of Law), April 23, 2013.
• Discussant, Registration: Research Directions, Fifth Annual Trademark Scholars Roundtable (Indiana University Maurer School of Law), April 13, 2013.
• Already v. Nike and Trademark Enforcement Strategy, Fordham IP Conference (Fordham Law School), April 5, 2013.
• Moderator, EU and US Design Law, Including a Discussion of Apple v. Samsung, Fordham IP Conference (Fordham Law School), April 5, 2013.
• Disclosure as Distribution, Symposium: The Crisis of Mandated Disclosure (University of Washington School of Law), February 28, 2013.
• Discussant, Trademark and Marketing Roundtable (Notre Dame Law School), February 22, 2013.
• Marks, Morals, and Markets, Faculty Colloquium (Brooklyn Law School), November 26, 2012.
• Marks, Morals, and Markets, Faculty Colloquium (Temple University Beasley School of Law), September 12, 2012.
• Selling Information, 12^th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference (Stanford Law School), August 10, 2012.
• Discussant, Trademark Scholars Roundtable (DePaul University School of Law), April 20-21, 2012.
• Panel Moderator, U.S. Trademark Law: Where Has it Been?, Fordham IP Institute 20^th Annual Conference (Fordham Law School), April 13, 2012.
• Replication, Integration, Dedication, Works-In-Progress in Intellectual Property (WIP/IP) Colloquium (University of Houston School of Law), February 11, 2012.
• Fear and Loathing in Trademark Enforcement, Symposium Panel Contribution: IP Bullying or Proactive Enforcement?, hosted by the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal (Fordham Law School), November 11, 2011.
• Brand Renegades, Intellectual Property Academic Conference (Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property, University of New Hampshire School of Law), September 30, 2011.
• Veblen Brands and Invisible Hands: How Trademark Law Creates a Market for Suppressed Speech, Works-In-Progress in Intellectual Property Colloquium (Boston University School of Law), February 11, 2011.
• Post-Sale Confusion in Trademark Law, Intellectual Property Law Committee of the Nassau County Bar Association, January 25, 2011
• The Ethics of Unbranding, Symposium Panel Contribution: Is Silence Golden?  Ethics and Intellectual Property Law, hosted by the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal (Fordham Law School), November 5, 2010.
• Bilski v. Kappos and the Future of Business Method Patents, Intellectual Property Law Society Brown-Bag Series (St. John’s University School of Law), November 1, 2010.
• Veblen Brands and Invisible Hands: How Trademark Law Creates a Market for Suppressed Speech, Junior Faculty Colloquium (Touro Law Center), October 27, 2010.
• Search Costs and Brand Equity in Trademark and Unfair Competition Law, Intellectual Property Law Colloquium (Brooklyn Law School), April 7, 2010.
• The Residential Landlord’s Duty to Mitigate in New York, Symposium Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Ronald H. Brown’s Graduation from St. John’s School of Law (St. John’s University School of Law), November 13, 2009.
• Introduction & Panel Moderator, “Knocked Off:”A Discussion About the Design Piracy Prohibition Act (HR 2196) and the Intellectual Property Issues Facing the American Fashion Design Industry (St. John’s University School of Law), September 23, 2009.
• Knowledge, Affect, and Repetition in Public Debate: The Myth of the Level Playing Field, NYC Junior Faculty Colloquium (Fordham Law School), October 31, 2008.

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AWARDS

• Dean’s Award for Outstanding Scholarship, 2013-14, St. John’s University School of Law
• Best New Professor, 2008-2009, St. John’s University School of Law (Student Bar Association Award)

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EDUCATION

• Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
  • J.D., cum laude, 2002
  • Harvard Law Review
    • Editor at Large, v. 114
    • Symposium Chair, v. 115 (Law, Knowledge, and the Academy, 115 Harv. L. Rev. 1277 (2002))

• Columbia University, New York, NY
  • B.A., summa cum laude, Comparative Literature, 1999
  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • John Jay National Scholar

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JUDICIAL CLERKSHIP

• Hon. Charles P. Sifton, Senior Judge, U.S. District Court, Eastern District Of New York, 2002-2003.

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PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT

• Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, New York, NY
  • Litigation Associate, Sept. 2003 – July 2008
  • Summer Associate, Litigation Department, Summer 2001
• Office of the District Attorney, New York County     
  • Law Intern, Special Investigations Bureau, Office of the Special Narcotics Prosecutor, Summer 2000

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BAR ADMISSIONS

• State of New York, May 2003
• United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, June 2004

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