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.
The Kernochan Center invites you to the 2025 Art Law Symposium — The New Deal in Art: Structuring Agreements for a Billion-Dollar Industry. We will bring 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. Please join us at 1:00 PM on Friday, February 21st for 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.
Reception to follow.
Registration is free, but limited by room capacity.
Open Now: Legal Writing Competitions
- The New York Intellectual Property Law Association (NYIPLA) is currently accepting submissions for The Hon. William C. Conner Intellectual Property Writing Competition. The award was established to recognize exceptionally written papers in the field of intellectual property, i.e., patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, unfair trade practices, antitrust, and data security/privacy issues. The competition is open to students enrolled in a J.D. or LL.M. program. Two awards are given, with cash prizes. The deadline is March 7th, 2025. For details, rules and requirements, please visit the competition site.
- The New York State Bar Association Entertainment, Arts and Sport Law (EASL) committee offers The Phil Cowan-Judith Bresler Memorial Scholarship Writing Competition to students in New York and New Jersey law schools. EASL awards two scholarships of $2,500 each for outstanding research & writing in the areas of entertainment law, arts law, sports law and related areas such as fashion law, gaming law and Intellectual property. The deadline is April 1, 2025. For more details, rules and requirements, please visit the competition site.
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, to be placed on the guest list.
Prof. Jane Ginsburg Delivers 2025 Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture
On Thursday, February 13, Prof. Jane Ginsburg gave the 2025 Melville B. Zimmer Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law at UCLA. The lecture can be seen on UCLA Law School's site.
WATCH NOW: 2024 Symposium
The Kernochan Center's 2024 Annual Symposium, The Past, Present and Future of Copyright Licensing, was a full-day symposium with four panels of academics, industry experts, government and non-government officials, and lawyers representing different interests within the world of licensing. Each panel focused on a particular creative industry and examined the different models of licensing that these copyright sectors have employed.
Watch now on our website, or on YouTube.
2024 Awards for Excellence in Intellectual Property Studies
The Carroll G. Harper Prize, awarded to members of the graduating class who have attained the highest standards of achievement in intellectual property studies and writing, is presented to Lily Henderson and Matt Tracy.
The Michael D. Remer Memorial Award, presented by the Kernochan Center to a graduating student whose activities and academic achievements demonstrate an interest in and aptitude for the fields of art and copyright law, is awarded to Anne Diamond.
The Andrew D. Fried Memorial Prize, given annually for the best student essay on a subject in the field of intellectual property and related law published in the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts during the preceding year, is awarded to Margalit Zimand, for "Deconstructing the Blueprint for Infringement: Remedying Flawed Interpretations of the § 120(a) Exception to Architecture Copyrights."
Congratulations to our 2024 prize winners!