NYU School of Law

Engelberg Faculty and Fellows

Faculty

Amy M. Adler, Professor of Law, 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.

Barton Beebe. Beginning in the fall of 2009, Barton Beebe will be a Professor of Law at NYU. His scholarship focuses on the doctrinal, empirical, and cultural analysis of intellectual property law. Prior to joining NYU's faculty, Professor Beebe taught at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University in New York.

Rochelle C. Dreyfuss, Pauline Newman Professor of Law, is Director of the Engelberg Center and teaches patent law, a survey of intellectual property law course, and innovation policy. Her research interests include intellectual property, civil procedure, privacy, and the relationship between science and law.

Harry First, Charles L. Denison Professor of Law and Director, Trade Regulation LL.M. Program, has been a faculty member at New York University School of Law since 1976, teaching courses in antitrust, regulated industries, business crime, and innovation policy. His scholarship has focused on international and comparative aspects of antitrust, as well as on institutional aspects of antitrust enforcement.

Eleanor M. Fox, (LL.B. '61), Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Trade Regulation, is a prominent antitrust and comparative competition law scholar. Her recent work includes articles on markets, globalization, developing countries and antitrust; the intersection of trade and competition; and the disjuncture between national law and global markets, and the role of networks in harmonization, convergence and bridging differences.

Lewis A. Kornhauser, Alfred B. Engelberg Professor of Law. The range of subjects to which 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. The topics that 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, Associate Professor of Law, graduated cum laude from NYU School of Law in 2001. Her research interests include commercial law, contracts, e-commerce, and law and economics.

Helen Nissenbaum, Professor, Media, Culture and Communication, and Computer Science and Senior Faculty Fellow, Information Law Institute. Her areas of expertise span social, ethical, and political implications of information technology and digital media. 

Katherine J. Strandburg. Beginning in the fall of 2009, Katherine Strandburg will be a Professor of Law at NYU. She concentrates her teaching and research in the areas of intellectual property law, cyberlaw, and information privacy law. She is particularly interested in understanding how the law in these areas might accommodate and reflect the importance of collaborative and emergent collective behavior. Prior to coming to NYU, Prof. Strandburg was Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law.

Diane L. Zimmerman, Samuel Tilden Professor of Law. Issues of civil liberties—particularly women's rights, and freedom of speech and conscience—propelled Zimmerman from journalism into law, and she has taught, lectured, and written extensively on all of these subjects. Her other major area of academic specialization is intellectual property.

Visiting Faculty [2009-2010]

Jonathan B. Baker is visiting NYU from American University's Washington College of Law where he is Professor of Law. From 1995 to 1998, Professor Baker served as the Director of the Bureau of Economics at the Federal Trade Commission. Previously, he worked as a Senior Economist at the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, Special Assistant to the Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics in the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, an Assistant Professor at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business Administration, an Attorney Advisor to the Acting Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, and an antitrust lawyer in private practice. Professor Baker is the co-author of an antitrust casebook, a past Editorial Chair of Antitrust Law Journal, and a past member of the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law. He has published widely in the fields of antitrust law and policy and industrial organization economics. He teaches courses primarily in the areas of antitrust and economic regulation. Professor Baker will teach Antitrust Law during spring 2010.

Michael E. Levine, Distinguished Research Scholar and Senior Lecturer at NYU School of Law. Michael Levine's unusual combination of experiences has involved him in the world of air transportation and its regulation as a senior airline executive, an academic and a government official. As an airline executive, Levine has served at Continental and Northwest as an Executive Vice President and was President and CEO of New York Air, guiding that post-deregulation airline to its first profit. In his most recent industry position at Northwest Airlines, Levine was responsible for all marketing, pricing, sales and route and fleet planning activities, for its international alliances and overseas establishments, and for information technology, reservations and electronic distribution. As a government official, Levine was instrumental in bringing about airline deregulation. Professor Levine will teach Regulation, Deregulation & Reregulation during fall 2009.

Daniel Rubinfeld, Robert L. Bridges Professor of Law and Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Professor Rubinfeld teaches courses in antitrust and law and statistics. He served from June 1997 through December 1998 as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust in the U.S. Department of Justice. Professor Rubinfeld is the author of a variety of articles relating to antitrust and competition policy, law and economics, and public economics, and two textbooks, Microeconomics, and Econometric Models and Economic Forecasts. He has consulted for private parties for a range of public agencies including the Federal Trade Commission, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and the State of California Attorney General’s Office. Professor Rubinfeld will teach Antitrust Law and Economics and Quantitative Methods during fall 2009. 

Visiting Global Faculty [2009-2010]

Niva Elkin-Koren is a professor of law at the University of Haifa Faculty of Law and the Director of the Haifa Center for Law & Technology (HCLT). She is the author of Intellectual Property in the Information Age (2004); coauthor of The Limits of Analysis: Law and Economics of Intellectual Property in the Digital Age (forthcoming 2009) and Law, Economics and Cyberspace: The effects of Cyberspace on the Economic Analysis of Law (2004). She is the coeditor of Law and Information Technology (forthcoming 2009) and The commodification of Information (2002). Her research focuses on the legal institutions that facilitate private and public control over the production and dissemination of information. She has written extensively on copyright law and information policy. While visiting NYU during spring 2010, she will teach Copyright Law in the Digital Era and work on a new book concerning the evolving structures of governances in social networks.

Adjunct Faculty

Nicholas Gordon, Esq., Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo P.C.
Mary L. Kevlin, Partner, Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
Day Krolik, Vice President of Labor Relations, NBC
Patricia A. Martone, Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
Ira Rubinstein, Senior Fellow, Information Law Institute, NYU School of Law
Irving Scher, Senior Counsel, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Herbert F. Schwartz, Partner, Ropes & Gray LLP
Rose H. Schwartz, Esq., Franklin, Weinrib, Rudell & Vassallo P.C.

Visiting/Global Faculty [Past]

Daniel A. Crane, Associate Professor of Law at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, and counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. He received his B.A. from Wheaton College (Illinois) and his J.D. from the University of Chicago. His primary scholarship is in antitrust and regulatory policy. Much of his recent scholarship has focused on pricing and discounting practices by dominant firms and the institutional structure of antitrust enforcement. He is the co-editor (with Eleanor Fox) of Antitrust Stories (Foundation Press, forthcoming 2007), a collection of chapters by leading antitrust authorities on significant antitrust cases. Professor Crane taught U.S. Antitrust and Intellectual Property during Fall 2007.

Josef Drexl, Chair for Private Law and European and International Economic Law at the University of Munich and Co-Director at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law. In addition to serving as a Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Max Planck Institute, Professor Drexl is a member of the Administrative Council of the Association of International Economic Rights (AIDE) and Chair of the Academy Society for Competition Law (ASCOLA).  Professor Drexl has a Ph.D. in law from the University of Munich, a LL.M. from the University of California at Berkeley and completed his German Habilitation in private law, commercial and business law, intellectual property law, European law, comparative law in Munich. In 2005 he served as a Visiting Professor at the Liberà International University of Social Sciences (LUISS) in Rome, Italy. Professor Drexl taught Intellectual Property and Competition Law and co-taught with Professor Fox European Union: Economic Law during fall 2007.

Michal Gal, Senior Lecturer and Director of Law and M.B.A. Program at the University of Haifa School of Law. Her research focuses on competition law and policy. She is the editor of Competition Policy for Small Market Economies (Harvard University Press, 2003), and has also written and spoken extensively about competition law in developing economies, the intersection between antitrust and intellectual property, and the political economy of antitrust. Dr. Gal served as an advisor to the OECD and the UN on competition-related issues and is a non-governmental advisor to the International Competition Network (ICN) since its inception. She won the Zeltner Prize for Young Researcher in 2004. Dr. Gal taught Competition Law and Policy in Emerging Markets during fall 2007.

Annette Kur, Professor and Doctor of Law at the Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law. Professor Kur taught Comparative Trademark and co-taught with Professor Dreyfuss International Intellectual Property Law during spring 2009.

Christopher R. Leslie, Professor of Law at Chicago Kent College of Law, has a degree in economics and political science from UCLA and a master's in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. His research focuses on antitrust and business law. Professor Leslie taught Antitrust Law and Antitrust Law and Intellectual Property during spring 2008.

R. Anthony Reese, Thomas W. Gregory Professor of Law, University of Texas at Austin School of Law. Professor Reese specializes in copyright, trademark, and Internet aspects of intellectual property law. He teaches Copyright; Introduction to Intellectual Property; Trademark; Intellectual Property in Cyberspace; Digital Copyright; and Intellectual Property Theory. Professor Reese taught Copyright Law during spring 2009.

Suzanne Scotchmer, Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. Her graduate degrees are in economics and statistics. She has published on intellectual property law, rules of evidence, tax enforcement, cooperative game theory, club theory, and evolutionary game theory. The Department of Justice Antitrust Division has used her as a consultant on antitrust matters and she has been a scholar in residence at the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Professor Scotchmer taught Innovations during spring 2008.

Howard Shelanski, Professor of Law, Associate Dean for the J.D. Program, and Director for the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology at UC Berkeley School of Law. Professor Shelanski taught Antitrust in High-Tech Industries and Antitrust Law during spring 2009.

Philip Weiser. Since arriving at the University of Colorado Law School and Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program in 1999, Professor Philip J. Weiser helped to establish CU’s strength in telecommunications and technology law, founding the Journal on Telecommunications & High Technology Law and the Silicon Flatirons Center for Law, Technology, and Entrepreneurship. Professor Weiser writes and teaches in the areas of telecommunications and information policy. Prior to joining the CU faculty, Professor Weiser served as senior counsel to the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division at the United States Department of Justice, advising him primarily on telecommunications matters. Before his appointment at the Justice Department, Weiser served as a law clerk to Justices Byron R. White and Ruth Bader Ginsburg at the United States Supreme Court and to Judge David Ebel at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Weiser was the Visiting Faculty Fellow of the Information Law Institute and taught Law & Innovation Seminar and Telecommunication Law during fall 2008.

Fellows

The Engelberg Fellowship Program is handled through The Hauser Global Visitors Program. For more information about the Program and for application instructions go to http://www.law.nyu.edu/global/globalvisitorsorogram/index.htm. Any questions regarding the Program should be directed to globalvisitors@exchange.law.nyu.edu.

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