The Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts was established to contribute to a broader understanding of the legal aspects of creative works of authorship, including their dissemination and use.
Deadline Extended: 2025 Annual Phil Cowan-Judith Bresler Memorial Scholarship Writing Competition
Presented by the Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law (EASL) Section of the New
York State Bar Association (NYSBA), the Philip Cowan - Judith Bresler Memorial Scholarship Writing Competition honors past EASL Section Chairs Phillip Cowan and Judith Bresler, who passionately spearheaded EASL’s sponsorship of this important Competition for many years. The Competition offers a wonderful opportunity for students to showcase their writing skills and interest in the entertainment, arts, and sports sectors. Each scholarship candidate will receive a complimentary membership in the Entertainment, Arts & Sports Law Section, and two winners will receive $2,500 annual scholarships. Deadline: April 21, 2025. For more information, please visit the NYSBA website.
Lunch events sponsored by the Horace S. Manges Fund
For more information, please click on the titles of individual events. Current students, staff, and faculty are not required to register for events. Alumni, students of other schools, and other parties without a current law school ID card should email the program coordinator, Samara Weiss, a minimum of 24 hours in advance, to be placed on the guest list.
On March 24, Prof. Peter Menell of UC Berkeley Law School delivered the 37th Annual Horace S. Manges Lecture, "The Devolution of Copyright Scholarship," at 6:15 PM at Columbia Law School. Video should be available shortly.
Peter Menell is the Koret Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, co-founder and Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, and co-founder and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Judicial Institute. He earned his S.B. at MIT, Ph.D. in economics at Stanford University, and J.D. from Harvard Law School before clerking for Judge Jon O. Newman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He joined the Berkeley Law faculty in 1990. Professor Menell’s research and teaching span intellectual property across the technology and entertainment fields, as well as environmental law and policy, property law, law and economics, and judiciary reform. He has authored more than 100 articles and 15 books, including leading casebooks, intellectual property treatises, and research handbooks. Since 1998, Professor Menell has organized more than 60 intellectual property education programs in conjunction with the Federal Judicial Center, including an annual four-day program on “Intellectual Property in the Digital Age.”
The Visual Arts Infringement Database
On Monday, March 3, Megan Noh, partner at Pryor Cashman LLP, introduced the launch of the Visual Arts Infringement Database, a resource that will illuminate issues and cases in visual arts infringement for students, lawyers, and artists alike. The Visual Arts Infringement Database is made possible by the generosity of Arnold D. Burke '55.
Art Law Symposium 2025
On Friday, February 21, the Kernochan Center hosted the 2025 Art Law Symposium — The New Deal in Art: Structuring Agreements for a Billion-Dollar Industry, bringing together artists, collectors, dealers, museum administrators and attorneys to discuss how contracts, once shied away from, are now not only more prevalent but evolving to adapt to a changing art market. The Symposium was an examination of what stakeholders are looking for in these documents, and how (and if) legal agreements are a solution in an industry adapting to the new ways art is created, bought, and sold.
A recording of the event will be made available to the public shortly.