Rebecca Tushnet

Rebecca Tushnet
Born (1973-04-04) April 4, 1973
Alma mater Harvard University, 1995
Yale Law School, 1998
Occupation Law Professor
Employer Harvard Law School
Website Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log

Rebecca Tushnet (born April 4, 1973) is the inaugural Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard Law School and an American copyright, trademark, First Amendment, and false advertising legal scholar. In addition to her general scholarship, Tushnet is known for her fanfiction-related scholarship[1] and her legal advocacy work for the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit fandom-related project that supports fanworks (such as fanfiction) through preservation and advocacy.[2][3]

Tushnet received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1995, and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School[4] in 1998.[5] Tushnet clerked for Third Circuit judge Edward R. Becker (1998–99)[5] and US Supreme Court Justice David Souter (1999-2000). She practiced at Debevoise & Plimpton. Tushnet then entered teaching, first at NYU School of Law (2002–04),[5] then at Georgetown University Law Center (2004–16),[6] and most recently at Harvard Law School.[7] In practice, Tushnet has represented fans in copyright and trademark disputes with rightsholders.[8]

Her father is Mark Tushnet and her mother is Elizabeth Alexander, who directs the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.[9] Her sister Eve Tushnet is a lesbian Catholic author and blogger.[10]

Selected scholarship and casebooks

Articles
  • "Worth a Thousand Words: The Images of Copyright Law", 125 Harv. L. Rev. 683 (2012)
  • "Gone in 60 Milliseconds: Trademark Law and Cognitive Science", 86 Texas L. Rev. 507 (2008)
  • "Legal Fictions: Copyright, Fan Fiction, and a New Common Law", 17 Loy. L.A. Ent. L.J. 651 (1997)
  • "Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves It", 114 Yale L.J. 535 (2004)
  • "Copyright as a Model for Free Speech Law: What Copyright Has in Common with Anti-Pornography Laws, Campaign Finance Reform, and Telecommunications Regulation" 42 B.C. L. Rev. 1 (2000)
Casebooks

Awards

Notes

  1. ↑ Bob Garfield, "Fan Fiction and the Law" (interview), On the Media, March 8, 2013.
  2. ↑ "Legal Advocacy", Organization for Transformative Works. (Last visited April 28, 2014).
  3. ↑ Nick Gillespie & Joshua Swain, "Fan Fiction vs. Copyright - Q&A with Rebecca Tushnet", Reason Magazine, July 20, 2012.
  4. ↑ "Rebecca L. Tushnet". Georgetown Law. Georgetown University. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 Tushnet CV, University of Chicago (last visited April 28, 2014).
  6. ↑ "Profile Rebecca Tushnet — Georgetown Law". www.law.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  7. ↑ "Rebecca Tushnet joins Harvard Law faculty as Professor of First Amendment Law - Harvard Law Today". Harvard Law Today. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  8. ↑ NPR, "Fan Fiction Writers Face Nonfiction Legal Hurdles", July 16, 2008.
  9. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/05/us/05beliefs.html
  10. ↑ "'Gay and Catholic': An Interview with Author Eve Tushnet". America Magazine. Retrieved 2015-03-21.
  11. ↑ Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials, self-published, July 2012 .
  12. ↑ http://www.csusa.org/news/177866/Rebecca-Tushnet-Named-2014-Seton-Award-Winner.htm
  13. ↑ http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/2013_blawg_100_hall_of_fame

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