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Wendy Gordon
Guy Raymond and Mildred Van Voorhis Jones Visiting Professor




J.D., University of Pennsylvania
B.A. with distinction in all subjects, Cornell University

Professor Gordon's honors include serving as a Fulbright scholar, a visiting senior research fellow at Oxford's St. John's College, a resident at the Rockefeller Foundation retreat in Bellagio, a visiting fellow at Oxford's Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy and as the recipient of a New Jersey Governor's Fellowship in the Humanities. Her scholarship has been cited in three opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court. She recently completed her second term as the Chair of the AALS Section on Intellectual Property.

Professor Gordon's publications include:

  • The Economics of Copyright (co-edited with R. Watt, 2003)
  • "Fair Use as Market Failure" (Columbia Law Review)
  • "Render Copyright Unto Caesar" (University of Chicago Law Review), (currently being translated into Croatian)
  • "On Owning Information" (Virginia Law Review)
  • "A Property Right in Self-Expression" (Yale Law Journal)
  • "An Inquiry into the Merits of Copyright" (Stanford Law Review)
  • The Oxford Handbook on Legal Studies'chapter on intellectual property.

Professor Gordon is currently working on a new book, To Burn or Not to Burn: Copyright and Ethics Pose the Question.




 

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