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Professor of Law Founding Director of the Hofstra Center for Intellectual Property Law Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University 121 Hofstra University Hempstead, NY 11549 516-463-5865 [email protected] SSRN: http://ssrn.com/author=851679
MAJOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
MAURICE A. DEANE SCHOOL OF LAW AT HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY, Hempstead, NY Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, 2018 – 2019 Professor of Law, 2015 – present Founding Director of the Hofstra Center for Intellectual Property Law, 2014 – present John DeWitt Gregory Research Scholar 2017 – 2018 Law School Research Fellow 2016 – 2017 Associate Professor of Law, 2012 – 2015
• Courses: Property, Trademarks, Intellectual Property Survey, Intellectual Property Colloquium (seminar), The Criminal Law of Intellectual Property and Information (seminar)
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, New York, NY Program Affiliate Scholar, 2018 – present
ST. JOHN’S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW , Queens, NY Visiting Professor, 2019 – 2020
• Courses: Torts, Property, Advanced Topics in Intellectual Property (seminar)
WASEDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Tokyo, Japan Visiting Scholar, May 2018
BENJAMIN N. CARDOZO SCHOOL OF LAW, New York, NY Visiting Professor of Law, Spring 2018
• Course: Copyright
FORDHAM LAW SCHOOL, New York, NY Adjunct Professor of Law, Fall 2015
• Course: Intellectual Property Survey
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BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL, Brooklyn, NY Visiting Associate Professor of Law, 2011 – 2012
• Courses: Property, Trademarks, International Intellectual Property
THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL, Washington, D.C. Professorial Lecturer in Law, Summer 2011
• Course: TRIPS, Patents, and Public Health
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Cleveland, OH Assistant Professor, 2009 – 2012
• Courses: Property, Trademarks
BOOKS
THE CRIMINAL LAW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND INFORMATION: CASES AND MATERIALS (2d ed. 2015) (with Geraldine Szott Moohr and Jacqueline D. Lipton). • Reviewed in Asha Puttaiah, 98 J. PAT. & TRADEMARK OFF. SOC’Y 302 (2016).
MAJOR ARTICLES
Inalienable Citizenship, 99 NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW (forthcoming) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson). • Rated as “recommended” on Lawrence Solum’s LEGAL THEORY BLOG and featured as article of the day on the IMMIGRATIONPROF BLOG.
Litigating Citizenship, 73 VANDERBILT LAW REVIEW 757 (2020) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson). • Earned honorarium from the C. Boyden Gray Center for the Study of the Administrative State at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. • Featured as article of the day on the IMMIGRATIONPROF BLOG.
(Un)Civil Denaturalization, 94 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW 402 (2019) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson). • Cited in United States v. Eguilos, 383 F. Supp. 3d 1014 (E.D. Cal. 2019). • Rated as “highly recommended” on Lawrence Solum’s LEGAL THEORY BLOG and featured as article of the day on the IMMIGRATIONPROF BLOG.
Tinder Lies, 54 WAKE FOREST LAW REVIEW 207 (2019). • Reviewed in Robin J. Effron, Lies, Dating Lies, and Small Claims Court, JOTWELL, Sept. 25, 2018. • Featured on the FEMINIST LAW PROFESSORS blog and the INSTAPUNDIT blog.
Choosing Privacy, 20 N.Y.U. JOURNAL OF LEGISLATION & PUBLIC POLICY 649 (2017). • Featured on the INSTAPUNDIT blog.
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Parallel State, 38 CARDOZO LAW REVIEW 2083 (2017) (with Gregory Dolin). • Selected for reprinting in the JOURNAL OF CONSTITUTIONAL RESEARCH (Brazil).
Secret Jurisdiction, 65 EMORY LAW JOURNAL 1313 (2016) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson). • Rated as “recommended” on Lawrence Solum’s LEGAL THEORY BLOG, and featured on PRAWFSBLAWG and the INSTAPUNDIT blog.
Branded, 69 SMU LAW REVIEW 713 (2016).
Taking Patents, 73 WASHINGTON AND LEE LAW REVIEW 719 (2016) (with Gregory Dolin). • Featured on Lawrence Solum’s LEGAL THEORY BLOG, the PATENTLY-O blog, and the WRITTEN DESCRIPTION blog.
Hello Barbie: First They Will Monitor You, Then They Will Discriminate Against You. Perfectly., 67 ALABAMA LAW REVIEW 135 (2015) (with David S. Olson). • Featured on Lawrence Solum’s LEGAL THEORY BLOG and the INSTAPUNDIT blog.
Intellectual Property and the Presumption of Innocence, 56 WILLIAM & MARY LAW REVIEW 1745 (2015). • Featured on THE ORIGINALISM BLOG, the CRIMPROF BLOG, and the INSTAPUNDIT blog.
Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism, 18 STANFORD TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW 331 (2015) (with Robert E. Wagner). • Winner of the “Intellectual Property and Free Enterprise” competition (prize awarded to four papers as part of national contest). • Reprinted in PREVENTING AND COMBATING CYBERCRIME (Ioana Vasiu & Florin Streteanu, eds., 2016). • Featured on THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY blog, the PROPERTYPROF BLOG, the COMPARATIVE PATENT REMEDIES blog, and the INSTAPUNDIT blog.
Judging Similarity, 100 IOWA LAW REVIEW 267 (2014) (with Shyamkrishna Balganesh and Tess- Wilkinson-Ryan). • Reviewed in Rebecca Tushnet, Seeing Like a Copyright Lawyer: Judging Similarity in Copyright Cases, JOTWELL, Sept. 9, 2014. • Rated as “highly recommended” on Lawrence Solum’s LEGAL THEORY BLOG.
The High Cost of Low Sanctions, 66 FLORIDA LAW REVIEW 157 (2014). • Rated as “interesting and recommended” on Lawrence Solum’s LEGAL THEORY BLOG.
Hedonic Trademarks, 74 OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL 241 (2013). • Winner of the Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publications 2014 (awarded to two junior faculty members across all disciplines at Hofstra University). • Rated as “highly recommended” on Lawrence Solum’s LEGAL THEORY BLOG.
Reasonable Copyright, 53 BOSTON COLLEGE LAW REVIEW 1303 (2012). • Rated as “very interesting and recommended” on Lawrence Solum’s LEGAL THEORY BLOG.
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The Puzzle of Criminal Sanctions for Intellectual Property Infringement, 24 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & TECHNOLOGY 469 (2011). • Reprinted in 13 INTERNET LAW & BUSINESS 293 (August 2012), in 56 COMPUTER LAW REPORTER 5 (September 2012), and in INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND DIGITAL CONTENT (Richard S. Gruner, ed., 2013). • Cited in United States v. Vaulin, 2017 WL 3334861 (N.D. Ill. 2017). • Featured on Lawrence Solum’s LEGAL THEORY BLOG.
Privatizing Trademarks, 51 ARIZONA LAW REVIEW 381 (2009). • Featured on THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY blog.
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LAW SCHOOL, Chicago, IL Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law, 2007 – 2009 • Courses: Legal Research & Writing (Bigelow Program), Trademark Law & Policy (seminar)
UNIV. OF ARKANSAS, WILLIAM H. BOWEN SCHOOL OF LAW, Little Rock, AR Adjunct Professor, 2006 – 2007 • Courses: Trademark & Copyright, Law and Social Science (seminar)
HON. MORRIS S. ARNOLD, U.S. COURT OF APPEALS, EIGHTH CIRCUIT, Little Rock, AR Law Clerk, 2006 – 2007
MUNGER, TOLLES & OLSON, Los Angeles, CA Summer Associate, 2005
HOGAN & HARTSON, Washington, D.C. Summer Associate, 2005
PATTERSON, BELKNAP, WEBB & TYLER, New York, NY Summer Associate, 2004
EDUCATION
YALE LAW SCHOOL, J.D., 2006 Grand Prize Winner of the Foley & Lardner LLP Intellectual Property Writing Competition YALE LAW JOURNAL, Tributes Editor and Admissions Committee YALE LAW & POLICY REVIEW, Articles Editor YALE JOURNAL ON REGULATION, Editor
YALE UNIVERSITY, B.A., magna cum laude, Psychology, 2003 Phi Beta Kappa Angier Prize for the Best Senior Essay in Psychology Graduated with Distinction in the major
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SYMPOSIUM PIECES
Keeping IP Real, 57 HOUSTON LAW REVIEW 349 (2019) (solicited symposium contribution). • Rated as “recommended” on Lawrence Solum’s LEGAL THEORY BLOG.
Explaining Criminal Sanctions in Intellectual Property Law, 1 JOURNAL OF LAW & INNOVATION 16 (2019) (solicited symposium contribution for the inaugural issue of the University of Pennsylvania’s intellectual property law journal).
Blunting the Later-Mover Advantage: Intellectual Property and Knowledge Transfer, 52 AKRON LAW REVIEW 877 (2019) (solicited symposium contribution) (with Mattias G. Ottervik).
Gawking Legally, 40 HARVARD JOURNAL OF LAW & PUBLIC POLICY 117 (2018) (solicited symposium contribution).
Bearing Down on Trademark Bullies, 22 FORDHAM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY, ENTERTAINMENT & MEDIA LAW JOURNAL 853 (2012) (solicited symposium contribution).
SELECTED OTHER WORK
Permanent contributor, THE VOLOKH CONSPIRACY, February 2019 – present. Contributions can be found at https://reason.com/people/irina-manta/all
Quoted in As Student, Alumni Demands Increase, YLS Dean Gerken Speaks out Against Capitol Violence— but Not Sen. Hawley, YALE DAILY NEWS (Jan. 12, 2021).
Quoted in How Missouri GOP Senator Josh Hawley Fell from Grace When He Saluted Capitol Rioters, with Book Deal Dropped, State Newspapers Condemning Him and Mentor Saying Endorsing Him Was the ‘Biggest Mistake I’ve Ever Made in My Life’ , DAILY MAIL (Jan. 8, 2021).
Quoted in Fellow Yale Law Alum Questions Sen. Hawley’s Role in Capitol Violence, NEW HAVEN REGISTER (Jan. 7, 2021).
I Lost a Law School Election to Josh Hawley. I Moved on Then, and He Should Now on Trump., USA TODAY (Jan. 5, 2021). • Reprinted in YAHOO! NEWS.
A Long-Running Immigration Problem: The Government Sometimes Detains and Deports US Citizens, CONVERSATION (July 8, 2019) (op-ed) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson). • Reprinted inter alia in CHICAGO TRIBUNE and SALON.
Quoted in LI’s Cop Shop Store Faces New York City Lawsuit, NEWSDAY (May 31, 2019).
Lies, Anger, and False Equivalence in Dating Platform Fraud, LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO DAILY JOURNALS (Apr. 26, 2019) (op-ed).
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Due Process and Denaturalization, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION SECTION OF LITIGATION: CIVIL RIGHTS (2019) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson).
Trump Administration Seeks to Strip More People of Citizenship, CONVERSATION (Dec. 10, 2018) (op-ed) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson). • Reprinted inter alia in CHICAGO TRIBUNE and SALON.
Quoted in AriZona Iced Tea Faces Two Lawsuits Over Labeling, NEWSDAY (Nov. 28, 2018).
Guest, “Ipse Dixit”, Show #36, Nov. 23, 2018.
Quoted in After Being Deceived on Tinder, this UK Woman Wants a Crackdown on Fake Profiles, CBC, Nov. 22, 2018.
Guest, “The Natasha Hall Show” on CJAD 800 (Montreal, Canada), Nov. 22, 2018.
Guest, “As It Happens” on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), Nov. 20, 2018.
Guest, Channel 4 News (United Kingdom), Nov. 19, 2018.
Guest, “Drivetime” on Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) Ireland, Nov. 19, 2018.
The Case for Cracking Down on Tinder Lies, WASHINGTON POST (Nov. 16, 2018) (invited op-ed contribution). • Reprinted inter alia in CHICAGO TRIBUNE and SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.
The Cacophony of Trademarks Is Not Government Speech, SCOTUSBLOG (June 20, 2017) (invited symposium contribution).
Why Banning Laptops from Airport Cabins Doesn’t Make Sense , CONVERSATION (May 16, 2017) (op-ed) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson). • Reprinted inter alia in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, NEWSWEEK, HUFFINGTON POST, and INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES.
Quoted in Giant Indian Company Sues Long Island Firm Infosys Over Its Name, NEWSDAY (Apr. 25, 2017).
Wired for Price Discrimination, LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO DAILY JOURNALS (Apr. 6, 2015) (op-ed) (with David S. Olson).
Listed in A Coalition Condemns the Trump Proposal to Require Noncitizens to Disclose Passwords to Enter the US, NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS (Mar. 23, 2017).
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A Sustainable Music Industry for the 21st Century, 101 CORNELL LAW REVIEW ONLINE 39 (2016) (with Aloe Blacc & David S. Olson). • Selected for publication in the 2016 edition of the ENTERTAINMENT, PUBLISHING AND THE ARTS HANDBOOK by Thomson Reuters (West), an anthology of the best law review articles that appeared in that area over the previous year. • Featured on the INSTAPUNDIT blog.
Challenging the No-Fly List: The Status of Litigation After Five Years, AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION SECTION OF LITIGATION: CIVIL RIGHTS (2015) (with Cassandra Burke Robertson).
Quoted in Pepperidge Farm Unlikely to Succeed in Trader Joe’s Cookie ‘Copying’ Lawsuit, Says Academic, CONFECTIONERY NEWS (Dec. 10, 2015).
Quoted in How to Buy Pope US Visit Souvenirs: Popemania Spreads Despite Francis’ Message of Anti - Capitalism, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES (Sept. 25, 2015).
Guest, TwiL (This Week in Law) on TwiT.tv, Show #306, June 5, 2015.
Theory and Empirics: Where Do Locke and Mossoff Leave Us, LIBERTY FORUM (May 8, 2015) (solicited response).
Guest, “Hearsay Culture” on KZSU Stanford 90.1 FM, Show #235, Apr. 29, 2015 (with David S. Olson).
Music Streaming Demands New Wave of Licensing Rules, CHICAGO TRIBUNE (Apr. 6, 2015) (op-ed) (with Aloe Blacc & David S. Olson).
Guest Contributor, PRAWFSBLAWG, August-September 2014.
Quoted in The Morning Risk Report: Redskins’ Ruling Could Spur Trademark Scrutiny, WALL STREET JOURNAL (June 19, 2014). Thirteen Ways to Steal a Bicycle: Theft Law in the Information Age by Stuart Green, 4 IP LAW BOOK REVIEW 11 (2014) (solicited book review).
Guest Contributor, CONCURRING OPINIONS, August 2013. Contributions can be found at https://concurringopinions.com/archives/author/irina-manta
A Horse is Not Always a Horse, of Course: A Response to Jacqueline Lipton, Law of the Intermediated Information Exchange, 65 FLORIDA LAW REVIEW FORUM 1 (2013) (solicited response).
Improving the Trademark Registration Process Through the Use of Private Actors, IP OSGOODE BLOG (Dec. 22, 2009) (solicited).
A Solution for Trademarks?, 27 IP REVIEW 23 (2009) (solicited).
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In Search of Validity: A New Model for the Content and Procedural Treatment of Trademark Infringement Surveys, 24 CARDOZO ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LAW JOURNAL 1027 (2007).
Missed Opportunities: How the Courts Struck Down the Florida School Voucher Program, 51 ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY LAW JOURNAL 185 (2006).
AMICUS BRIEFS
Celgene v. Peter (2020) (co-signer of Brief of Amici Curiae Intellectual Property Law Professors in Support of Petitioner).
Thryv, Inc. v. Click-to-Call Technologies, LP (2019) (co-signer of Brief of Amici Curiae Professors of Patent and Administrative Law in Support of Respondent).
Trump v. State of Hawaii (2018) (co-signer of Brief of Amici Curiae Constitutional Law Scholars in Support of Respondents).
Converse, Inc. v. International Trade Commission Skechers U.S.A., Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2018) (co-signer of Brief of Amici Curiae Saurabh Vishnubhakat et al.).
Trump v. International Refugee Assistance Project (2017) (co-signer of Brief for Amici Curiae Constituional Law Scholars in Support of Respondents).
Wi-Fi One, LLC v. Broadcom Corporation (Fed. Cir. 2017) (co-signer of Brief of Amici Curiae Ann Bartow et al.).
Trading Technologies International, Inc. v. CQG, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2017) (co-signer of Brief of Amici Curiae Gregory Dolin et al.).
Cascades Projection LLC v. Epson America, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2017) (co-signer of Brief of Amici Curiae Daniel R. Cahoy et al.).
Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) (co-signer of Brief of Amici Curiae Stephen Clark et al.).
SELECTED SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Speaker, Tinder Lies, Content & Platforms Seminar, University of Colorado Law School, March 2021 (virtual).
Speaker, Tinder Lies, Innovation Law Seminar, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, March 2021 (virtual).
Speaker, Tinder Law, Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender Workshop, The University of Chicago Law School, February 2021 (virtual).
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Invited commentator, The Role of Consumer Uncertainty in Trademark Law: An Experimental and Theoretical Investigation by Prof. Barton Beebe et al., Eleventh Annual Tri-State Region Intellectual Property Workshop, New York University School of Law, January 2021 (virtual).
Speaker, Tinder Lies, Colloquium Series Workshop, Emory University School of Law, April 2020 (virtual).
Speaker, Tinder Lies, Faculty Workshop, Washington University School of Law, January 2020.
Invited commentator, “Can the Law Force Lying?” by Prof. Courtney Cox, Tenth Annual Tri-State Region Intellectual Property Workshop, New York University School of Law, January 2020.
Panelist, “Are Intellectual Property Rights Still Torts?”, AALS Annual Meeting, January 2020.
Speaker, Tinder Lies, Faculty Workshop, University of Oklahoma College of Law, November 2019.
Speaker, Tinder Lies, Faculty Workshop, St. John’s University School of Law, October 2019.
Speaker, Keeping IP Real, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, DePaul University College of Law, August 2019.
Invited speaker, Keeping IP Real, “What’s Real? – IP from a Property Theory Perspective” Symposium by the University of Houston Law Center’s Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law, Santa Fe, June 2019.
Invited panelist, “Hate Speech on Social Media: Is There a Way to More Civil Discussion?”, New York University Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute, May 2019.
Invited speaker, Land Use Panel, “Behind the Games: The Effect of the Olympics on Host Cities”, CONNECTICUT JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW Symposium, University of Connecticut School of Law, April 2019.
Speaker, Tinder Lies, Faculty Workshop, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law, March 2019.
Speaker, Tinder Lies, Faculty Workshop, Marquette University Law School, February 2019.
Speaker, Blunting the Later-Mover Advantage: Intellectual Property and Knowledge Transfer, Ninth Annual Tri-State Region Intellectual Property Workshop, New York University School of Law, January 2019. Invited speaker, (Un)Civil Denaturalization, New York City Bar Association, Immigration and Nationality Law Committee, New York City, December 2018.
Invited speaker, Blunting the Later-Mover Advantage: Intellectual Property and Knowledge Transfer, Annual Akron Law IP Scholars Forum, University of Akron School of Law, October 2018.
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Speaker, Explaining Criminal Sanctions in Intellectual Property Law, Midwestern Law & Economics Association Annual Meeting, University of Alabama School of Law, September 2018.
Speaker, Explaining Criminal Sanctions in Intellectual Property Law, Faculty Workshop, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, August 2018.
Speaker, Explaining Criminal Sanctions in Intellectual Property Law, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, UC Berkeley School of Law, August 2018.
Invited commentator, Women in Law Teaching Works-in-Progress Workshop, University of Minnesota Law School, July 2018.
Invited speaker, Explaining Criminal Sanctions in Intellectual Property Law, Waseda University Law School, Tokyo, Japan, May 2018. Speaker, Explaining Criminal Sanctions in Intellectual Property Law, Faculty Workshop, Elon University School of Law, April 2018.
Invited speaker, Explaining Criminal Sanctions in Intellectual Property Law, “The Kinship Between Copyright and Patent Law”, Inaugural LAW & INNOVATION Symposium, University of Pennsylvania Law School, April 2018.
Speaker, Choosing Privacy, Faculty Workshop, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, January 2018.
Invited speaker, Gawking Legally, Nassau County Bar Association, IP Committee, Mineola, January 2018.
Speaker, Explaining Criminal Sanctions in Intellectual Property Law, Eighth Annual Tri-State Region Intellectual Property Workshop, New York University School of Law, January 2018.
Invited speaker, Explaining Criminal Sanctions in Intellectual Property Law, IP in the Trees, Lewis & Clark Law School, October 2017.
Speaker, Trademarks and Rape by Deception, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, August 2017.
Invited speaker, Choosing Privacy, Information Privacy seminar, Columbia Law School, February 2017.
Invited commentator, Seventh Annual Tri-State Region Intellectual Property Workshop, New York University School of Law, January 2017. Invited speaker, Branded, Intellectual Property Workshop Series, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel, November 2016.
Speaker, Branded, Faculty Workshop, Emory University School of Law, October 2016.
Invited speaker, Supreme Court IP Review, Chicago-Kent College of Law, September 2016. 10
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Speaker, Branded, Faculty Workshop, University of Pennsylvania Law School, September 2016.
Speaker, Branded, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School, August 2016.
Commentator, Privacy Law Scholars Conference, The George Washington University Law School, June 2016.
Keynote speaker, Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism, “Preventing and Combating Cybercrime”, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, May 2016.
Speaker, Hello Barbie: First They Will Monitor You, Then They Will Discriminate Against You. Perfectly., Digital Policy Scholars Conference, Law & Economics Center, George Mason University School of Law, April 2016.
Speaker, Taking Patents, PatCon, Boston College Law School, April 2016.
Invited speaker, A Sustainable Music Industry for the 21st Century, 24th Annual Fordham Intellectual Property Law and Policy Conference, April 2016.
Invited speaker, Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism, Lunch & Learn, University of New Hampshire School of Law, March 2016.
Invited speaker, Branded, Nassau County Bar Association, IP Committee, Mineola, February 2016.
Speaker, Branded, Faculty Workshop, Albany Law School, February 2016.
Invited speaker, Branded, IP Speaker Series, The George Washington University Law School, February 2016.
Speaker, Branded, Sixth Annual Tri-State Region Intellectual Property Workshop, New York University School of Law, January 2016.
Speaker, Choosing Privacy, Privacy Fellows Research Roundtable, Law & Economics Center, George Mason University School of Law, December 2015.
Speaker, Secret Jurisdiction, Sixth Annual Constitutional Law Colloquium, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, November 2015.
Conference organizer & speaker, Branded, “Basic Structures of IP” Junior Scholars Workshop, Fordham University School of Law, October 2015.
Speaker, Branded, Inaugural Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Texas A&M University School of Law, October 2015.
Speaker, Hello Barbie: First They Will Monitor You, Then They Will Discriminate Against You. Perfectly., Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, DePaul University College of Law, August 2015. 11
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Panel chair & speaker, Intellectual Property Across Disciplinary Boundaries, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Seattle, May 2015.
Panel organizer & speaker, Intellectual Property and Eminent Domain, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, April 2015.
Invited keynote speaker, “Does IP Crime Merit High Fines and Hard Time?”, NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL ON CRIMINAL AND CIVIL CONFINEMENT Spring 2015 Symposium (in honor of Irina D. Manta’s scholarly work on criminal sanctions in intellectual property), New England Law Boston, April 2015.
Invited speaker, Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism, Intellectual Property Speaker Series, Boston University School of Law, April 2015.
Invited speaker, Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism, Intellectual Property Law Colloquium, St. John’s University School of Law, February 2015.
Speaker, Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism, Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, George Washington University Law School & United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, Virginia, February 2015.
Speaker, Taking Presumptions, Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium, George Washington University Law School & United States Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, Virginia, February 2015.
Invited speaker, Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism, Junior Intellectual Property Scholars Workshop, Florida State University College of Law, December 2014.
Speaker, Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism, “Intellectual Property and Free Enterprise” Colloquium, November 2014.
Invited speaker, Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism, Law and Entrepreneurship Colloquium, Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School, November 2014.
Speaker, Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism, Rocky Mountain Junior Scholars Forum, University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, November 2014.
Invited discussion facilitator, “Trademark Dilution”, Inaugural Empirical IP Research Conference, New York University School of Law, October 2014.
Conference organizer & speaker, Intellectual Property Infringement as Vandalism, “Intangibility in IP” Junior Scholars Workshop, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, October 2014.
Speaker, Unpacking Statutory Damages in Copyright Infringement, Chicago-Kent/USPTO Roundtable on Empirical Studies of Intellectual Property, Chicago-Kent College of Law, September 2014.
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Speaker, Judging Similarity, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, UC Berkeley School of Law, August 2014.
Speaker, Intellectual Property and the Presumption of Innocence, New York Area Junior Faculty Colloquium, Fordham Law School, May 2014.
Invited participant, Faculty Roundtable on Ronald Coase, University of Notre Dame Law School, May 2014.
Speaker, Judging Similarity, American Law and Economics Association (ALEA) Annual Meeting, University of Chicago Law School, May 2014.
Invited speaker, Intellectual Property and the Presumption of Innocence, Inaugural Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Vanderbilt University Law School, April 2014.
Speaker, Intellectual Property and the Presumption of Innocence, Faculty Workshop, University of Baltimore School of Law, March 2014.
Invited inaugural annual speaker, Intellectual Property and the Presumption of Innocence, University of Houston Law Center Institute for Intellectual Property & Information Law (IPIL) Colloquium, February 2014.
Invited speaker, Intellectual Property and the Presumption of Innocence, Yale Information Society Project (ISP) Ideas Lunch, Yale Law School, January 2014.
Speaker, Intellectual Property and the Presumption of Innocence, Fourth Annual Tri-State Region Intellectual Property Workshop, New York University School of Law, January 2014.
Invited speaker, Intellectual Property and the Presumption of Innocence, Junior Intellectual Property Scholars Workshop, Florida State University College of Law, December 2013.
Conference organizer & speaker, Intellectual Property and the Presumption of Innocence, “IP, Meet the Constitution” Junior Scholars Workshop, Columbia Law School, October 2013.
Invited panelist, “The Law and Technology of Robotic Negligence”, Drones & Aerial Robotics Conference, New York University School of Law, October 2013.
Speaker, Are Federal Criminal Sanctions for IP Infringement Unconstitutional?, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, August 2013.
Speaker, The High Cost of Low Sanctions, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Boston, May 2013.
Speaker, The High Cost of Low Sanctions, Faculty Workshop, Suffolk University Law School, May 2013.
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Invited speaker, Hedonic Trademarks, Nassau County Bar Association, IP Committee, Mineola, April 2013.
Invited speaker, The High Cost of Low Sanctions, Chicago Intellectual Property Colloquium, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, March 2013.
Speaker, The High Cost of Low Sanctions, Works in Progress Intellectual Property Conference, Seton Hall University School of Law, February 2013.
Invited speaker, Hedonic Trademarks, Trademark/Marketing Roundtable, Notre Dame Law School, February 2013.
Speaker, The High Cost of Low Sanctions, Third Annual Tri-State Region Intellectual Property Workshop, New York University School of Law, January 2013.
Speaker, Hedonic Trademarks, Faculty Workshop, University of Kentucky College of Law, December 2012.
Invited commentator, Second Annual IP Scholars Roundtable (“Intellectual Property and the Constitution”), University of New Hampshire School of Law, September 2012.
Speaker, Hedonic Trademarks, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School, August 2012.
Invited speaker, Reasonable Copyright, International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) Congress, Chicago-Kent College of Law, July 2012.
Speaker, Hedonic Trademarks, Junior Faculty Workshop, Brooklyn Law School, July 2012.
Invited speaker, Reasonable Copyright, Intellectual Property Law Association, Brooklyn Law School, April 2012.
Invited panelist, Post-Graduate Fellowships Panel, Yale Law School, April 2012.
Invited panelist, Town Hall Meeting on Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), Brooklyn Law School, January 2012.
Invited speaker, Reasonable Copyright, Intellectual Property Speaker Series, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, January 2012.
Speaker, Reasonable Copyright, Second Annual Tri-State Region Intellectual Property Workshop, Fordham Law School, January 2012.
Invited speaker, Bearing Down on Trademark Bullies, 2011 Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal Symposium, Fordham Law School, November 2011.
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Speaker, The Puzzle of Criminal Sanctions for Intellectual Property Infringement, Faculty Workshop, Brooklyn Law School, November 2011.
Invited speaker, Cognitive Calibration for the Reasonably Biased Man: Objective Tests, Jury Effects, and the Copyright Dilemma, University of New Hampshire School of Law Intellectual Property Academic Conference & Opening of Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property, September 2011.
Speaker, Cognitive Calibration for the Reasonably Biased Man: Objective Tests, Jury Effects, and the Copyright Dilemma, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, DePaul University College of Law, August 2011.
Speaker, Cognitive Calibration for the Reasonably Biased Man: Objective Tests, Jury Effects, and the Copyright Dilemma, Junior Faculty Workshop, Brooklyn Law School, August 2011.
Speaker, The Reasonably Biased Man: Objective Tests, Jury Effects, and the Copyright Dilemma, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, June 2011.
Invited conference fellow, “Modest Proposals 4.0”, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, April 2011.
Presenter and discussant, The Reasonably Biased Man: Objective Tests, Jury Effects, and the Copyright Dilemma, New England Junior Faculty Spring 2011 Conference, Boston College Law School, March 2011.
Invited speaker, The Puzzle of Criminal Sanctions for Intellectual Property Infringement, Intellectual Property Workshop Series, The George Washington University Law School, January 2011.
Invited discussion leader, “Teaching Classes With Mixed JD/LLM Enrollments”, Teaching Interest Group, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, February 2010.
Moderator, “Trademarks in Cyberspace”, Law, Technology, and the Arts Symposium, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, November 2009.
Speaker, The Puzzle of Criminal Sanctions for Intellectual Property Infringement, Faculty Workshop, University of Pittsburgh School of Law, October 2009.
Speaker, The Puzzle of Criminal Sanctions for Intellectual Property Infringement, Works in Progress Intellectual Property Conference, Seton Hall University School of Law, October 2009.
Speaker, Privatizing Trademarks, Works in Progress Seminar, University of Chicago Law School, September 2008.
Speaker, Privatizing Trademarks, Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School, August 2008.
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Invited panel discussant, “Biotechnology, Bioethics, and the Law—When Patents and Trademarks Go Bad: Sex, Drugs, and Rock and Roll”, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, May 2008.
Invited speaker, Privatizing Trademarks, Law & Society Association Annual Meeting, Montreal, May 2008.
Speaker, Privatizing Trademarks, Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Drake University Law School, February 2008.
INSTITUTIONAL SERVICE
Founding Director, Hofstra Center for Intellectual Property Law (CIPL) (2014 – present) AALS Section on Intellectual Property Executive Committee (2019 – 2020) Ad Hoc Committee on Distance Education (2020 – 2021) Clerkship Committee (Fall 2018, 2020 – 2021) Interdisciplinary Programming Committee (Fall 2018) Academic Support and Bar Passage Committee (2017 – 2018) Working Group on Learning Outcomes and Assessments (2017 – 2018) Stessin Prize Committee (2016 – 2018) Readmittance Committee (2016 – 2017) Founder & organizer, Hofstra Annual Intellectual Property Lecture (2015 – present) Teaching Excellence Committee (2014 – 2015) Hofstra Employment/Alumni Engagement Working Group (2014 – 2015) Co-founder & co-organizer, Annual New Women in IP Academia Welcome Dinner (2014 – present) HOFSTRA LAW REVIEW Best Note Award Committee (2014, 2016) Founder & organizer, Hofstra Intellectual Property Alumni Mentorship Program (2014 – present) Creator & co-organizer, Hofstra Annual Intellectual Property Alumni Reception (2013 – present) Curriculum and Academic Standards Committee (2013 – 2015; 2016 – 2017) Founder & organizer, Hofstra Intellectual Property Colloquium (2013 – present) Founder & advisor, Hofstra Intellectual Property Law Honors Concentration (2013 – present) Inaugural Coach, Hofstra Teams for INTA Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition (2013 – present) Advisor, Hofstra Intellectual Property Law Association (HIPLA) (2012 – present) Advisor, Student Notes & Independent Research (2009 – present) Judge, Jerome Prince Memorial Moot Court Competition (2012) Advisor, Civil Practice Externship (2012) Admissions Committee (2009 – 2011; 2015) Advisor, Student Intellectual Property Law Association (SIPLA) (2009 – 2011) Advisor, Environmental Law Society (ELS) (2010 – 2011) Peer Reviewer, Journal of Law, Technology & the Internet (JOLTI) (2009 – 2011) Building & Space Needs Committee (2009 – 2010)
CONFERENCE & PANEL ORGANIZATION
Organizer, Second Hofstra Scholars Roundtable, Brooklyn, New York, April 2019 (funded exclusively through external sources secured by organizer). 16
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Organizer, First Hofstra Scholars Roundtable, Brooklyn, New York, January 2019 (funded exclusively through external sources secured by organizer).
Organizer, “IP Unbound” Junior Scholars Workshop, Fordham University School of Law, November 2016 (funded almost exclusively through external sources secured by organizer).
Organizer, “Basic Structures of IP” Junior Scholars Workshop, Fordham University School of Law, October 2015 (funded almost exclusively through external sources secured by organizer).
Organizer, “Intellectual Property and Eminent Domain” Panel, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, April 2015 (funded exclusively through external sources secured by organizer).
Organizer, “Intangibility in IP” Junior Scholars Workshop, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, October 2014 (funded almost exclusively through external sources secured by organizer).
Organizer, “IP, Meet the Constitution” Junior Scholars Workshop, Columbia Law School, October 2013 (funded almost exclusively through external sources secured by organizer).
PEER REVIEW WORK
Member, STANFORD TECHNOLOGY LAW REVIEW Peer Review Board Reviewed book proposals and article manuscripts for Cambridge University Press; YALE LAW JOURNAL; COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW; SUPREME COURT ECONOMIC REVIEW; JOURNAL OF LAW, TECHNOLOGY & THE INTERNET; and EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF LAW AND ECONOMICS.
MEMBERSHIPS & OTHER ACTIVITIES
Volunteer, 2020 Victory Biden/Harris Campaign (2020 – present) Certified FINRA Arbitrator (2020 – present) Affiliated Member, Checks & Balances (2020 – present) Founder & President, 11/9 Coalition (2016 – present) Member, Association of Media & Ent. Counsel (AMEC) Law School Advisory Board Member, American Law and Economics Association Member, Association of American Law Schools (Intellectual Property, Torts and Compensation Systems, Property, and Women in Legal Education Sections) Undergraduate Admissions Interviewer, Yale Alumni Schools Committee (2008 – present) Trustee, Yale Bulldogs on the Cuyahoga Board (2010 – 2011)
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Fluent in and have professionally translated between English, German, French, and Romanian.
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