The Engelberg Organization
Co-Directors
Barton Beebe is a Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. His multifaceted scholarship engages in the cultural, empirical, and doctrinal analysis of intellectual property law. His recent published work includes “Intellectual Property Law and the Sumptuary Code” in the Harvard Law Review, “An Empirical Study of U.S. Copyright Fair Use Opinions, 1978-2005,” in the Pennsylvania Law Review, “An Empirical Study of the Multifactor Tests for Trademark Infringement” in the California Law Review, “Search and Persuasion in Trademark Law” in the Michigan Law Review, and “The Semiotic Analysis of Trademark Law” in the U.C.L.A Law Review. In 2007, Professor Beebe served as a special master in Louis Vuitton Malletier v. Dooney & Bourke, Inc., a significant trademark infringement case in the Southern District of New York. Professor Beebe received his B.A., Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Chicago, his Ph.D. in English from Princeton University, where he was a Whiting Fellow in the Humanities, and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an Articles Editor for the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities and an editor of the Yale Law Journal. In 2002, he clerked for Judge Denise Cote of the Southern District of New York.
Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. Her research and teaching interests include intellectual property, civil procedure, privacy, and the relationship between science and law. She holds B.A. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry and was a research chemist before entering Columbia University School of Law, where she served as Articles and Book Review Editor of the Law Review. She is a member of the American Law Institute and served as a reporter for its Project on Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Trans-national Disputes. She also sits on the National Academies’ Committee on Science, Technology, and Law; the Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services’ Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society; and BNA’s Advisory Board to USPQ. Dreyfuss was a consultant to the Federal Courts Study Committee, to the Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents, and to the Federal Trade Commission. She is a past chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the American Association of Law Schools. In addition to writing articles in her specialty areas, she has co-edited two books on intellectual property and co-authors an intellectual property casebook.
Harry First is the Charles L. Denison Professor of Law and Director of the Trade Regulation LL.M Program at NYU School of Law. He is a specialist in antitrust and business crime. He is the co-author of casebooks on antitrust (with John Flynn and Darren Bush) and regulated industries (with John Flynn). He has twice been a Fulbright Research Fellow in Japan and has taught antitrust as an adjunct professor at the University of Tokyo. First’s recent antitrust scholarly work has focused on various aspects of antitrust enforcement, including “The Case for Antitrust Civil Penalties” (Antitrust Law Journal, 2009) and “Modernizing State Antitrust Enforcement” (Antitrust Bulletin, 2009). Along with Professor Andrew Gavil, First is currently working on a book titled Microsoft and the Globalization of Competition Policy: Antitrust For the Twenty-First Century, to be published by MIT Press. First is also author of a casebook on business crime and of a forthcoming article “Branch Office of the Prosecutor: The New Role of the Corporation in Business Crime Prosecutions” (North Carolina Law Review 2010). First is a contributing editor of Antitrust Law Journal, foreign antitrust editor of the Antitrust Bulletin, a member of the executive committee of the Antitrust Section of the New York State Bar Association, and a member of the advisory board and a Senior Fellow of the American Antitrust Institute.
Katherine Strandburg is a Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. An expert in patent law, science and technology policy, and information privacy law, she spent the earlier part of her career as a research scientist. She did postdoctoral physics research at Carnegie Mellon University and subsequently was part of the Condensed Matter Theory Group at Argonne National Laboratory. An experienced litigator, Strandburg recently has authored several amicus briefs to the Supreme Court and Federal Circuit on issues of patent law. “Constructing Commons in the Cultural Environment,” which proposes a theoretical approach to studying institutions for collaborative innovation, such as Wikipedia and open source software, was the centerpiece of a symposium volume of the Cornell Law Review in 2010. Strandburg received her B.S. with distinction from Stanford University and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She earned a Ph.D. in physics from Cornell University. She received her J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Strandburg clerked for Judge Richard Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
Chair
Judge Pauline Newman of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit chairs the Advisory Council. She is a 1958 graduate of the Law School, and holds a B.A. degree from Vassar College, an M.A. in Pure Science from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. degree in chemistry from Yale University. She has worked as a research scientist, and for many years served as Director of chemical patents, trademarks, and licensing for the FMC Corporation. She held office in several bar associations, and served on several Presidential advisory committees concerning United States and international intellectual property before her appointment to the Federal Circuit in 1984.
Donor
Alfred B. Engelberg graduated cum laude from NYU School of Law in 1965 after receiving a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from Drexel University. During a legal career of more than 30 years, he was an examiner in the Patent and Trademark Office, a patent agent for a major oil company, a patent trial attorney in the Department of Justice, and a partner in a private practice specializing in intellectual property litigation. As counsel to the generic drug industry, he was heavily involved in the negotiations leading to the major pieces of patent legislation enacted by Congress since the early 1980s.