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Intellectual Property &
Information Law

Cardozo School of Law prepares students for careers in Intellectual Property law, an area that is experiencing massive growth. The school is consistently recognized as a leader in intellectual property and information law.

The Intellectual Property program at Cardozo offers theory and innovative practical training. Our graduates are prepared to meet challenging legal problems including brand protection and biotechnology patents. The school’s focus on emerging technology, data, privacy, fashion and entertainment law demonstrates our commitment to remain at the forefront of legal issues that arise as innovation continues to shape the intellectual property world.

Intellectual Property &
Information Law

Cardozo School of Law is consistently recognized as a leader in intellectual property and information law.

Cardozo Law’s IP program offers theory and practical training to students from all backgrounds, who thrive on developing answers that meet current legal problems. The school’s focus on emerging technology, data, privacy, fashion and entertainment law demonstrates our commitment to remain at the forefront of legal issues that arise as innovation continues to shape the intellectual property world.

Cardozo students may graduate with a concentration in intellectual property by taking at least five courses in the intellectual property curriculum, and at least two of the three core IP courses: copyright law, trademark law and patent law. The concentration will be noted on their official transcript, signaling a measure of expertise in the field.

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Quick Facts

Cardozo’s Intellectual Property & Information Law program is ranked #2 in New York City in U.S. News & World Report.

Cardozo’s Intellectual Property & Information
Law Program gets an A+ by preLaw magazine.

Billboard Magazine named 9 Cardozo alumni as Top Music Lawyers for 2020. 

The Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal ranks #4 in
the nation in the category of Arts, Entertainment and Sports.

—Washington and Lee University School of Law

Programs

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The FAME Center for Fashion, Arts, Media & Entertainment Law 

Cardozo Law provides comprehensive training in fashion law, art law, media law, entertainment law and sports law. The FAME Center offers rigorous academic coursework, externships, clinics and symposia featuring industry leaders and practitioners. Students learn the practical realities of counseling clients—from startups to Fortune 500 companies.

Barbara Kolsun is the director of the FAME Center. A fashion law pioneer, she served as general counsel of Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman and 7 For All Mankind.

Cardozo/Google Patent Diversity Project

Victor Wang ’15 is the director of the Cardozo/Google Patent Diversity Project, which aims to increase patents issued to women, people of color, and underprivileged inventors. The Google-funded project, in collaboration with Cardozo’s Tech Startup Clinic, offers students a unique hands-on experience in patent law.

“There’s a huge innovation gap,” Wang said. “Thanks to this Google-funded program, we can connect those in need of legal service with those who are willing to provide, while allowing students to learn multiple aspects of patent law practice.”

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Criminal Justice and Intellectual Property Law

Assistant Professor Ngozi Okidegbe’s research examines criminal justice through intellectual property law. Specializing in evidence and race theory, she has published papers on topics such as the admissibility of rap lyrics in evidence and disclosing IP addresses in online piracy cases.  

Cardozo Data Law Initiative

The Cardozo Data Law Initiative provides students with substantive law coursework and practical training in e-discovery, data privacy, social media law and cybersecurity. 

Professor Felix Wu is the faculty director of the Cardozo Data Law Initiative.

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The Filmmakers Legal Clinic (Formerly Indie Film Clinic)

To date, Cardozo students have provided pro bono legal services to over 90 independent, documentary and narrative films as part of the Filmmakers Legal Clinic. Many of their clients’ films have been screened at leading U.S. and international film festivals, including Cannes, SXSW, the Tribeca Film Festival and Sundance. Cardozo Indie Film Clinic students recently provided legal services to the Ghetto Film School in the Bronx.

Tech Startup Clinic

The Tech Startup Clinic is a transactional legal clinic providing a range of services to new technology-based companies in New York City. It exposes students to the myriad legal and business strategy challenges that startups face and gives them hands-on experience with intellectual property, corporate, contract, tax, and labor and employment issues.

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Professor Christopher Buccafusco
Director, IP/Information Law Program

In addition to teaching Copyright and Design Law, Professor Christopher Buccafusco has been widely quoted in the media, including in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone. His article on the economics of airplane seat reclining for Slate.com has been covered by dozens of media outlets around the world.

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“The Intellectual Property Program at Cardozo is cognizant of the fact that, although there are different forms of IP, they are all closely related—and it embraces the connections between different facets of the discipline.

As someone who ultimately wants to provide legal support to underrepresented and overexploited artists, I appreciate the opportunity to frame problems that my future clients may face in a legal context.”

Akinyele Jordan ’20

Course

Courses

  • Copyright Law
  • Cybersecurity
  • Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property
  • Design Law
  • IP and Information Law Colloquium
  • International Intellectual Property
  • Patent Law
  • Patent Law Practice
  • Startup Law
  • Taxation of Intellectual Property
  • Trademark Law
  • Copyright Law
  • Cybersecurity
  • Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property
  • Design Law
  • IP and Information Law Colloquium
  • International Intellectual Property
  • Patent Law
  • Patent Law Practice
  • Startup Law
  • Taxation of Intellectual Property
  • Trademark Law
  • Copyright Law
  • Cybersecurity
  • Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property
  • Design Law
  • IP and Information Law Colloquium
  • International Intellectual Property
  • Patent Law
  • Patent Law Practice
  • Startup Law
  • Taxation of Intellectual Property
  • Trademark Law
  • Copyright Law
  • Cybersecurity
  • Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property
  • Design Law
  • IP and Information Law Colloquium
  • International Intellectual Property
  • Patent Law
  • Patent Law Practice
  • Startup Law
  • Taxation of Intellectual Property
  • Trademark Law
  • Copyright Law
  • Cybersecurity
  • Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property
  • Design Law
  • IP and Information Law Colloquium
  • International Intellectual Property
  • Patent Law
  • Patent Law Practice
  • Startup Law
  • Taxation of Intellectual Property
  • Trademark Law
  • Copyright Law
  • Cybersecurity
  • Creativity, Innovation and Intellectual Property
  • Design Law
  • IP and Information Law Colloquium
  • International Intellectual Property
  • Patent Law
  • Patent Law Practice
  • Startup Law
  • Taxation of Intellectual Property
  • Trademark Law
COURSES frequency
Copyright Twice a year
Filmmakers Legal Clinic Twice a year
Tech Startup Clinic Twice a year
Trademark Law Twice a year
Advanced Patent Law Once a year
Art Law Once a year
Cyber-Security: A Practical Approach Once a year
Design Law Once a year 

 

FACULTY

Faculty

FACULTY

Jonathan Ashtor

Visiting Professor of Practice
Expertise: Technology Mergers and Acquisitions transactions, Intellectual Property licensing, patent analytics and portfolio monetization

Professor Ashtor serves as Counsel in the Corporate Department and as a member of the Intellectual Property Group at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

Christopher Buccafusco

Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Faculty Development; Director, Intellectual Property & Information Law Program
Expertise: Art Law, Copyright, Economic Analysis of Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark Law

Professor Buccafusco’s research applies social science methods to the study of legal problems, especially how the law affects creativity, innovation and happiness.

Michael Burstein

Vice Dean, Professor of Law
Expertise: Intellectual Property, Patent Law

Professor Burstein’s research focuses on the ways in which intellectual property law, corporate law and public law facilitate relationships among entrepreneurs, markets and government actors and influence the production and dissemination of innovative ideas.

Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Indie Film Clinic
Expertise: Film and the Law

Professor Greenberg-Kobrin directs the Indie Film Clinic, which provides free legal services to filmmakers in New York City.

Paul Gugliuzza

Visiting Professor of Law
Expertise: Intellectual Property, Patent Litigation, Civil Procedure

Professor Gugliuzza is currently a Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. He has published articles in more than a dozen leading law reviews, and he has testified before both the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic of patent litigation.

Barbara Kolsun

Professor of Practice; Director, Fashion, Arts, Media & Entertainment Law (FAME) Center
Expertise: Intellectual Property, International Business Transactions

Professor Kolsun has served as general counsel of Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman and 7 for All Mankind, and she was assistant general counsel of West Point Stevens and Calvin Klein Jeans.

Ngozi Okidegbe

Harold A. Stevens Visiting Assistant Professor
Expertise: Criminal Procedure, Race Theory, Evidence

Professor Okidegbe’s research explores how race and ideas about race impact procedural and evidentiary outcomes in the criminal justice system.

Janette Payne

Administrator, Intellectual Property and Information Law Program
Expertise: Intellectual Property

Janette Payne worked at the firm of Satterlee Stephens Burke and Burke prior to joining the staff of the Times Mirror Company. She was Vice President and General Counsel of Times Mirror Magazines, Inc., and Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.

Monroe Price

Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law; Director, Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society
Expertise: Art Law, Communications Law, Mass Media Regulation

Professor Price directs Cardozo’s Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society, which focuses on transnational studies and the application of new technologies to media law.

Stewart Sterk

H. Bert and Ruth Mack Professor of Real Estate Law; Director, Center for Real Estate Law & Policy
Expertise: Conflict of Laws, Copyright, Estates, Land Use Regulation, Property Law, Real Estate Law, Trusts

Professor Sterk has received a number of teaching awards from Cardozo students. His scholarly interests span a wide variety of areas such as property, land use regulation, trusts and estates, copyright, and the conflict of laws.

Aaron Wright

Associate Clinical Professor of Law; Founder/Director, Tech Startup Clinic; Co-Director, The Blockchain Project
Expertise: Blockchain Law, Corporate Law, Cybersecurity, Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Trademark Law

Professor Wright has extensive experience in Blockchain, Internet and new technology issues. Before joining the Cardozo faculty, he co-founded and sold a company to Wikia.

Felix Wu

Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI)
Expertise: Cybersecurity, Information Governance, Intellectual Property, International Privacy and Data Protection, Privacy

Professor Wu’s doctorate studies in computer science are foundational to his teachings in information law, which include freedom of speech, privacy law, and intellectual property law.

Charles Yablon

Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI)
Expertise: Cybersecurity, Information Governance, Intellectual Property, International Privacy and Data Protection, Privacy

Expertise: Civil Procedure, Corporate Law, Corporations, Cybersecurity, International Business Transactions Professor Yablon is an expert in corporate mergers and Acquisitions.

Jonathan Ashtor

Visiting Professor of Practice
Expertise: Technology Mergers and Acquisitions transactions, Intellectual Property licensing, patent analytics and portfolio monetization

Christopher Buccafusco

Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Faculty Development; Director, Intellectual Property & Information Law Program
Expertise: Art Law, Copyright, Economic Analysis of Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark Law

Michael Burstein

Vice Dean, Professor of Law
Expertise: Intellectual Property, Patent Law

Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Filmmakers Legal Clinic
Expertise: Film and the Law

Barbara Kolsun

Professor of Practice; Director, Fashion, Arts, Media & Entertainment Law (FAME) Center
Expertise: Intellectual Property, International Business Transactions

Ngozi Okidegbe

Assistant Professor
Expertise: Criminal Procedure, Race Theory, Evidence

Janette Payne

Administrator, Intellectual Property and Information Law Program
Expertise: Intellectual Property

Monroe Price

Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law (Emeritus and Former Dean); Director, Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society
Expertise: Art Law, Communications Law, Mass Media Regulation

Stewart Sterk

H. Bert and Ruth Mack Professor of Real Estate Law; Director, Center for Real Estate Law & Policy
Expertise: Conflict of Laws, Copyright, Estates, Land Use Regulation, Property Law, Real Estate Law, Trusts

Aaron Wright

Associate Clinical Professor of Law; Founder/Director, Tech Startup Clinic; Co-Director, The Blockchain Project
Expertise: Blockchain Law, Corporate Law, Cybersecurity, Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Trademark Law

Felix Wu

Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI)
Expertise: Cybersecurity, Information Governance, Intellectual Property, International Privacy and Data Protection, Privacy

Charles Yablon

Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI)
Expertise: Cybersecurity, Information Governance, Intellectual Property, International Privacy and Data Protection, Privacy
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Jonathan Ashtor

Visiting Professor of Practice
Expertise: Technology Mergers and Acquisitions transactions, Intellectual Property licensing, patent analytics and portfolio monetization
Jonathan Ashtor is a visiting Professor of Practice. He serves as Partner and a member of the Intellectual Property Group at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. His practice focuses on technology M&A transactions, IP licensing, patent analytics and portfolio monetization. His experience has included major, complex and multi-jurisdictional M&A across a variety of industry sectors, including high-tech, biopharma, industrial chemicals and manufacturing. Jonathan’s expertise also includes complex analytics of patent matters through the use of proprietary models and commercial databases, and he develops new analytics tools through his academic research appointments. His work in this area has won significant awards and been published in peer-reviewed empirical and legal journals. Jonathan received his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law, magna cum laude, and his B.S. from the University of Toronto, with honors.
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Christopher Buccafusco

Professor of Law; Associate Dean for Faculty Development; Director, Intellectual Property & Information Law Program
Expertise: Art Law, Copyright, Economic Analysis of Law, Intellectual Property, Trademark Law

Professor Buccafusco's research covers a wide range of topics and methods related to creativity, innovation, and intellectual property law. He uses novel social science experiments to explore the nature of innovation markets, and he writes about evolving issues in copyright, patent, and trademark law, including music copyright litigation, pharmaceutical patents, and protection for industrial design. Professor Buccafusco co-hosts an annual workshop on empirical methods in intellectual property law with the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office and Northwestern University Law School.

Professor Buccafusco is also a co-author of Happiness and the Law and a series of articles that apply recent social science research on well-being to legal issues, including criminal, administrative, tort, and intellectual property laws. Professor Buccafusco has been widely quoted in media, including in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Rolling Stone. His article on the economics of airplane seat reclining for Slate.com has been covered by dozens of media outlets around the world.

Prior to coming to Cardozo, Professor Buccafusco taught at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He won the SBA teaching award in his first year on the faculty, and he later won the university-wide teaching award. At Chicago-Kent, Professor Buccafusco co-founded the Center for Empirical Study of Intellectual Property.

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Michael Burstein

Vice Dean, Professor of Law
Expertise: Intellectual Property, Patent Law

Michael J. Burstein is a Vice Dean and Professor of Law at Cardozo Law, where he teaches and writes about intellectual property, innovation policy, and law and entrepreneurship. Professor Burstein’s research focuses on the ways in which intellectual property law, corporate law and public law facilitate relationships among entrepreneurs, markets, and government actors and influence the production and dissemination of innovative works and ideas. His recent publications include articles about patent markets, innovation prizes, judicial challenges to patent validity, and non-IP strategies for information exchange. He is currently writing about the legal treatment of information as an asset and editing a volume of case studies that explore sharing and commons-based production in entrepreneurial communities. Before joining the Cardozo faculty, Professor Burstein was a Climenko Fellow at Harvard Law School. He was previously an appellate litigator in private practice in Washington, DC, a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General, U.S. Department of Justice, and a law clerk for Judge A. Raymond Randolph of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. He was also a management consultant at McKinsey & Co. Professor Burstein holds a J.D., magna cum laude, from the New York University School of Law and a B.A. in Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry and Ethics, Politics & Economics from Yale University.

 
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Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin

Assistant Clinical Professor of Law; Director, Filmmakers Legal Clinic
Expertise: Film and the Law

Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin is the director of The Filmmakers Legal Clinic at Cardozo School of Law, which is supported by the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund. Professor Greenberg-Kobrin served as the dean of students at Columbia Law School from 2005 to 2016, where she also taught courses in deals, negotiation and leadership. Prior to her work at Columbia Law, she was an associate at the New York office of Arnold & Porter, where her practice focused on international corporate and securities matters, mergers and acquisitions, sovereign debt issuances and financial institutions. Professor Greenberg-Kobrin also serves as senior fellow and director of the Leadership Program at the Heyman Center on Corporate Governance.

The Indie Film Clinic was established in 2011 to provide free legal services to filmmakers in New York City. To date, Cardozo students in the clinic have represented over 90 independent, documentary and student films, many of which have gone on to appear in leading U.S. and international film festivals including Cannes, Sundance, SXSW, the Tribeca Film Festival, the Los Angeles Film Festival, Hot Docs and DOC NYC. The clinic is part of Cardozo’s Intellectual Property and Information Law Program, one of the highest-ranked IP programs in the country. 

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Barbara Kolsun

Professor of Practice; Director, Fashion, Arts, Media & Entertainment Law (FAME) Center
Expertise: Intellectual Property, International Business Transactions

Barbara Kolsun, director of The FAME Center, is a leading fashion industry attorney, an adjunct professor of fashion law at Cardozo Law, and co-editor of Law of Fashion and Retail (Carolina Academic Press), the only law and business school casebook.  She is a consultant to fashion companies and has taught at NYU and Fordham Law Schools.  Kolsun started the legal departments and was the first General Counsel of Kate Spade, Stuart Weitzman and Seven for All Mankind, and was Assistant General Counsel of Westpoint Stevens and Calvin Klein Jeans. While in private practice, her clients included Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger. Kolsun currently consults with fashion companies on various issues, and was honored with lifetime achievement awards in 2015 by both the Luxury Summit in London and the World Trademark Forum at INTA. She has served as Chairman of the Board of the International Anticounterfeiting Coalition and has spoken and been published widely on fashion law around the world. 

She has been the subject of stories in numerous publications, including the New York Times, and was a consultant in intellectual property to USAID's Start Vietnam program in 2002 and 2004.

Kolsun clerked for the Second Circuit after her graduation from Cardozo in 1982. She received her J.D. from Cardozo Law in 1982 and is a member of the Order of the Coif. She received her B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1971 and her experience as a professional singer and actress continues to motivate her fierce efforts to protect artists' and designers' intellectual property rights.

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Ngozi Okidegbe

Assistant Professor
Expertise: Criminal Procedure, Race Theory, Evidence
 
Ngozi Okidegbe is an Assistant Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law, where she first joined as the inaugural holder of the Harold A. Stevens Visiting Assistant Professorship in 2019. She researches and writes in the areas of criminal procedure, evidence, technology, and racial justice. Her recent work explores the ways in which the use of predictive technologies in the criminal justice system impact racially marginalized communities.

                                                                                    Before joining Cardozo, Professor Okidegbe served as a law clerk for Justice Madlanga of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and for the Justices of the Court of Appeal for Ontario. She also practiced at CaleyWray, a labor law boutique in Toronto.

Professor Okidegbe graduated with a B.C.L./LL.B from McGill University’s Faculty of Law, where she was awarded the Edwin Botsford Busteed Scholarship, the Rosa B. Gualtieri Prize, the Daniel Mettarlin Memorial Scholarship, and the Schull Yang Award. She subsequently earned her LL.M from Columbia Law School, where she graduated as a James Kent Scholar.

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Janette Payne

Administrator, Intellectual Property and Information Law Program
Expertise: Intellectual Property

Janette Payne worked at the firm of Satterlee Stephens Burke and Burke prior to joining the staff of the Times Mirror Company. She was Vice President and General Counsel of Times Mirror Magazines, Inc., and Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Atkins Nutritionals, Inc.

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Monroe Price

Joseph and Sadie Danciger Professor of Law (Emeritus and Former Dean); Director, Howard M. Squadron Program in Law, Media and Society
Expertise: Art Law, Communications Law, Mass Media Regulation

Professor Price, who was dean of Cardozo from 1982 to 1991, graduated magna cum laude from Yale, where he was executive editor of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Associate Justice Potter Stewart of the US Supreme Court and was an assistant to Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz. He was founding director of the Program in Comparative Media Law and Policy at Wolfson College, Oxford; a member of the faculty of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; director of the Stanhope Center for Communications Policy Research; and chair of the Center for Media and Communications, Central European University.

Price was a senior fellow of the Media Studies Center in spring 1998. He was deputy director of California Indian Legal Services, one of the founders of the Native American Rights Fund, and author of Law and the American Indian. Among his many books is a treatise on cable television, Media and Sovereignty and Television, The Public Sphere and National Identity. Price is also director, Center for Global Communication Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. 

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Stewart Sterk

H. Bert and Ruth Mack Professor of Real Estate Law; Director, Center for Real Estate Law & Policy
Expertise: Conflict of Laws, Copyright, Estates, Land Use Regulation, Property Law, Real Estate Law, Trusts

Professor Sterk’s publications span a wide variety of areas, ranging from property and land use regulation to trusts and estates, copyright, and the conflict of laws. A member of the American Law Institute, he served as an advisor in the preparation of the Restatement (Third) of Property (Servitudes). He has co–authored casebooks on Trusts and Estates and on Land Use, and he also edits the New York Real Estate Law Reporter, a monthly newsletter published with the assistance of Cardozo students.

The winner of a number of teaching awards at Cardozo, Sterk has taught as a visiting professor at Columbia and at the University of Pennsylvania. While in law school, he served as managing editor of the Columbia Law Review, and he subsequently clerked for Chief Judge Charles D. Breitel of the New York Court of Appeals.

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Aaron Wright

Associate Clinical Professor of Law; Founder/Director, Tech Startup Clinic; Co-Director, The Blockchain Project
Expertise: Blockchain Law, Corporate Law, Cybersecurity, Intellectual Property, Internet Law, Trademark Law

Aaron Wright is an expert in corporate and intellectual property law, with extensive experience in Internet and new technology issues. Before joining Cardozo's faculty, he sold a company to Wikia, the for-profit sister project of Wikipedia, where he ran Wikia’s New York office, served as General Counsel and Vice President of Product and Business Development, and helped build an open source search engine. Wright has clerked for the Honorable William J. Martini of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and worked as an associate at several prominent New York law firms, including Patterson Belknap and Jenner & Block. He received his J.D. from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, where he served as the editor-in-chief of the Cardozo Law Review.  He has a forthcoming book about blockchain technology and the law (co-authored with Primavera De Filippi) that will be published by Harvard University Press.

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Felix Wu

Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI)
Expertise: Cybersecurity, Information Governance, Intellectual Property, International Privacy and Data Protection, Privacy

Professor Wu's doctorate studies in computer science are foundational to his information law scholarship, which spans freedom of speech, privacy law, and intellectual property law. He has previously written on the limits of online intermediary immunity and on understanding the role of data de-identification in law.  His current work explores the relationship between data privacy and theories of free expression.

Wu was previously an associate at Covington & Burling in San Francisco. In 2006-7, he clerked for Judge Sandra L. Lynch of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Immediately prior to coming to Cardozo, he was an intellectual property associate at Fish & Richardson in Boston.

Wu received his undergraduate degree in 1996 in computer science summa cum laude from Harvard. He is a member of the Order of the Coif and Phi Beta Kappa.

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Charles Yablon

Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Cardozo Data Law Initiative (CDLI)
Expertise: Cybersecurity, Information Governance, Intellectual Property, International Privacy and Data Protection, Privacy

Professor Yablon graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University. He was a clerk to Chief Judge Irving R. Kaufman, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Yablon was an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore and then at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.

Yablon is an expert in corporate mergers and acquisitions, specializing in complex deals and hostile takeovers. He has written extensively on corporate restructuring deals involving two and more companies. Professor Yablon is heavily involved in the Cardozo Data Law Initiative as an advisor to faculty and students. 

Recent Student Externships

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FEATURED ALUMNI

FASHION

Courtney Brown ’14 , The Estée Lauder Companies
Melissa Roth ’06 , Burberry
Rachel Waranch ’05 , Chanel

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ART

Monica Dugot ’90, Christie’s
Asya Varshisky Geller ’09, Sotheby’s
Irina Tarsis ’11, Center for Art Law

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MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

Deborah Feinblum ’07, The Walt Disney Company
Rand Levin ’93, Universal Music Group
Amanda Wolfe ’04, Comedy Central

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SPORTS

Kari Cohen ’12, Brooklyn Nets & Barclays Center
Nicholas Eisenman ’05, Major League Baseball
David Fogel ’15, NBA Coaches Association

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LAW FIRMS

Iddo Arad ’00, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Jason Boyarski ’00, Boyarski Fritz
Michael Reinert ’82, Fox Rothschild

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FASHION

Courtney Brown ’14, The Estée Lauder Companies

Melissa Roth ’06, Burberry

Rachel Waranch ’05, Chanel

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SPORTS

Kari Cohen ’12, Brooklyn Nets & Barclays Center

Nicholas Eisenman ’05, Major League Baseball

David Fogel ’15, NBA Coaches Association

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ART

Monica Dugot ’90, Christie’s

Asya Varshisky Geller ’09,Sotheby’s

Irina Tarsis ’11, Center for Art Law

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LAW FIRMS

Iddo Arad ’00, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz

Jason Boyarski ’00, Boyarski Fritz

Michael Reinert ’82, Fox Rothschild

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MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT

Deborah Feinblum ’07, The Walt Disney Company

Rand Levin ’93, Universal Music Group

Amanda Wolfe ’04, Comedy Central

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Daniel Biene ’02, LLM
General Manager,
Continental Europe, Axiom

Kori Clanton ’15
Counsel, Legal & Business Affairs 
AMC Networks

Waleed Diab ’04
– Global Head of Recorded Music Business Development,
YouTube

Deborah Feinblum ’07
Principal Counsel,
The Walt Disney Co.

Vanessa Ignacio ’00
Chair
Lowenstein Sandler's Trademark Prosecution and Enforcement Practice

Jeffrey I.D. Lewis ’86
Partner
Foley Hoag LLP

Rosalind “Roz” Lichter ’82 
Law Firm of Rosalind Lichter

Cathy Perifimos ’09
Vice President
Legal and Business Affairs, Smithsonian Channel

Carol Perry '97
President
IF News (The Montag Group)

Ricardo Yoselevitz ’08 
Vice President
Brand Partnerships & Business Development, IMG / ENDEAVOR

Billboard Recognizes Cardozo in Music Law

The magazine named nine Cardozo alumni on its Top Music Lawyers List for 2020.

In addition, Billboard named Cardozo as one of the top 10 most frequently cited alma maters of the 2020 Top Music Lawyers.  Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School, New York University Law School and the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law also made the list. 

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Michael Reinert '82

Cardozo Alumni Named Billboard’s Top Music Lawyers

Jason Boyarski ’00

PARTNER

Boyarski Fritz

Brad Cohen ’05

SENIOR VP, HEAD OF LITIGATION

Warner Music Group

Matt Greenburg ’86

OF COUNSEL

Ritholz Levy Fields

Grace Kim ’04

Partner

Grubman Shire Meiselas & Sacks

Michael Reinert ’82

Partner

Fox Rothschild

Michael Seltzer ’92

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

Universal Music Group

Julie Swidler ’82

EXECUTIVE VP BUSINESS
AFFAIRS/ GENERAL COUNSEL

Sony Music Entertainment

Monika Tashman ’00

Partner

Manatt Phelps & Phillips

Kenneth Weinrib ’83

Partner

Franklin Weinrib Rudell & Vassallo 

Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (AELJ)

The Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal is consistently recognized as one of the top intellectual property law journals in the nation. The AELJ publishes three student-edited issues annually, and it hosts a symposium that attracts scholars from around the country.

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“I found my home at Cardozo through the Intellectual Property and Information Law program and the FAME Center. The Fashion Law Society and Entertainment Law Society allowed me to immerse myself in the content that drives our programming. I’ve developed strong leadership and communication skills from my experiences in these student organizations and by working closely with the IP faculty and alumni. I am confident that the program has prepared me for a career in the entertainment and fashion industries.”

Simone Dvoskin ’20

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