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	Amy Adler Emily Kempin Professor of Law Amy Adler is a leading scholar on the legal regulation of art, speech, and sexuality. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and cultural theory. Her work draws on an eclectic variety of fields, primarily from the arts and humanities, to explore problems of language, interpretation and sexuality that have particular relevance for First Amendment doctrine and theory.
	Oren Bar-Gill Professor of Law Oren Bar-Gill’s scholarship focuses on the law and economics of contracts. He is working on a book about the interplay between consumer psychology and market forces in consumer markets.
	Barton Beebe Professor of Law Barton Beebe is a specialist in trademark and copyright law. His original scholarship employs a range of analytical methods, and he has published articles in the nation’s leading law reviews and journals. In 2007, he served as a special master, with Daniel J. Capra, in Louis Vuitton Malletier v. Dooney & Bourke, Inc., a significant trademark infringement case in the Southern District of New York.
	Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss Pauline Newman Professor of Law Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss is a specialist in intellectual property law, with research and teaching interests in that area as well as in property, civil procedure, privacy and the relationship between science and law. She currently serves on the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Genetics Health and Society and the National Academies’ Committee on Science, Technology, and Law.
	Harry First Charles L. Denison Professor of Law Director, Competition, Innovation, and Information Law Program Harry First teaches courses in antitrust, regulated industries, business crime and innovation policy. First’s recent scholarship has focused on international and comparative aspects of antitrust.
	Eleanor Fox Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation Eleanor Fox ’61 is an antitrust and comparative competition law scholar. Her work includes articles about the intersection of trade and competition, and the disjuncture between national law and global markets. Fox proposes principles for linking national systems and counting the costs imposed by one nation on another.
	Jeanne Fromer Professor of Law Professor Fromer teaches in the areas of intellectual property and contracts. She specializes in intellectual property and information law, with particular emphasis on unified theories of copyright and patent law. In 2011, Professor Fromer was awarded the American Law Institute's inaugural Young Scholars Medal for her scholarship in intellectual property.
	Stephen Gillers Elihu Root Professor of Law Stephen Gillers '68 has written widely on legal and judicial ethics in law reviews and the legal and popular press. He has taught legal ethics as a visitor at other law schools and has spoken on lawyer regulatory issues in the U.S. and abroad, including at federal and state judicial conferences, law firms and general counsel’s offices, American Bar Association meetings, state bar meetings nationwide, before Congress and in law school lectureships. Gillers is the author of Regulation of Lawyers: Problems of Law and Ethics, a widely used law school casebook. He is currently chair of the Policy Implementation Committee of the ABA’s Center for Professional Responsibility, and regularly teaches on that subject.
	Lewis A. Kornhauser Alfred B. Engelberg Professor of Law The range of subjects to which Lewis Kornhauser has applied microeconomic analysis is incredibly wide, including fundamental aspects of jurisprudence that may never have been looked at from this perspective. His publications include articles about corporate takeovers, divorce, and methods of assigning monetary values to human lives.
	Andreas F. Lowenfeld Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law Emeritus The topics that Andreas Lowenfeld has addressed in five decades of practice and scholarship are so diverse that it is impossible to label their author's "field." A random sampling of his recent writings includes: transborder kidnapping, investor-state dispute settlement, economic sanctions, enforcement of foreign judgments, and the International Monetary System. His books cover aviation law, public international law, international economic law, private international law, and arbitration.
	Florencia Marotta-Wurgler Professor of Law Florencia Marotta-Wurgler ’01 teaches Contracts and Topics in E-Commerce. Her research is centered on commercial law, contracts, e-commerce and economics.
	Katherine Strandburg Professor of Law Katherine Strandburg, an expert in patent law, science and technology policy, and information privacy law, spent the earlier part of her career as a research scientist. An experienced litigator, Strandburg is licensed to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. She currently serves on the Amicus Committee of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and was a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Working Group on Developing a Research Exemption to Intellectual Property Protections.
	Alan O. Sykes Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law A leading expert on the application of economics to legal problems, Sykes has focused his research on international economic relations. His writing and teaching have encompassed international trade, torts, contracts, insurance, antitrust, and economic analysis of law. He currently serves as reporter for the American Law Institute Project on Principles of Trade Law: The World Trade Organization.
	Diane Zimmerman Samuel Tilden Professor of Law Emeritus Diane Zimmerman is a specialist in First Amendment law and copyright law. She teaches courses in these areas, as well as the Colloquium on Innovation Policy, and courses on press and tort law. She is the author of highly influential writings on the right of publicity and privacy. Zimmerman’s most recent scholarship probes the relationship between the First Amendment and the public domain, the originality requirement in copyright, and conflict between copyright and the preservation of cultural artifacts.

AFFILIATED FACULTY
Nick Economides
Helen Nissenbaum
Lawrence White

ADJUNCT FACULTY
Jane Anderson
David Bernstein
Dale Collins
Nicholas Gordon
Nicholas Groombridge
Mary Kevlin
Barbara Kolsun
Day Krolik
Patricia Martone
David McCraw
Ira Rubinstein
Irving Scher
Herbert Schwartz
Rose Schwartz
Liz Weiswasser

RESEARCH SCHOLAR
Michael Levine

VISITING FACULTY
Daniel Rubinfeld
Christopher Sprigman

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