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Shyam Balganesh

Sol Goldman Professor of Law, Columbia Law School

Shyam Balganesh writes and teaches in the areas of copyright law, intellectual property, and legal theory. He has written extensively on understanding how intellectual property and innovation policy can benefit from the use of ideas, concepts, and structures from different areas of the common law, especially private law. His recent work explores the interaction between copyright law and key institutional features of the American legal system. He is also working on a series of articles advancing an account of “legal internalism” that explains the shape and trajectory of legal thinking. Balganesh’s work has appeared in leading law journals, including the Columbia Law Review, Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, and Yale Law Journal. He is also a co-author of sections of the leading copyright law treatise Nimmer on Copyright. 

Before joining the Columbia Law School faculty in 2021, Balganesh was a professor of law and co-director of the Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. Prior to that, he was a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School. He received a J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an articles and essays editor of the Yale Law Journal and a student fellow at the Information Society Project. Prior to that, he spent two years as a Rhodes Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, where he received a B.C.L. and M.Phil.

In 2017, he was elected a member of the American Law Institute, and since 2015 he has served as an adviser to the Restatement of the Law, Copyright. Balganesh also has been recognized for his teaching: In 2017, he received the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching and, in 2015, the A. Leo Levin Award for Excellence in an Introductory Course, both at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Valérie-Laure Benabou

University Professor, University of Paris Saclay

Valérie Laure Benabou is professor of Law at the University of Paris-Saclay/UVS, where she is the director of a master's degree in intellectual property law and digital business since 2002. 

Besides her long list of publications and participations in academic conferences in France and in various countries, she is a regular contributor to public discussion bodies. Particularly recognized for her expertise in the copyright sector, at the CSPLA (Superior Council of Literary and Artistic Property), where she is now always active as a "membre d’honneur », she is currently conducting a mission (together with Pr. Séverine Dusollier) for the French Ministry of Culture on the question of the attribution of works, notably covering the quality of meta-data on creative materials, and the respective identification of human and machines in IA-generated outputs. Since 1998, she also has been involved in public commissions relating to the development of information technologies (Falque-Pierrotin Commission on the Internet and digital networks at the Conseil d'Etat, Commission Law and Freedom at the digital age within the French National Assembly, expert at the former audiovisual regulatory body on the application of the law against the manipulation of information...). As a member of several academic organizations, she is taking part in European and international debate on the regulation of digital technology and artificial intelligence. 

Makena Binker Cosen '25 (J.D.)

Associate, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Makena Binker Cosen is an associate at Kirkland & Ellis LLP in New York, where she practices in the firm’s Copyright, Trademark, Internet, and Advertising group. Her work focuses on IP enforcement and litigation, alongside emerging-technology issues at the intersection of digital media and artificial intelligence.

Makena earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she received the Carroll G. Harper Prize for excellence in intellectual property law and the Andrew D. Fried Memorial Prize for the best student publication on intellectual property. She served as Executive Submissions Editor for the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts and as both a teaching and research assistant to Professors Jane Ginsburg and Shyamkrishna Balganesh.

Before joining Kirkland, Makena interned with Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC, the National Advertising Division of the Better Business Bureau, and the Library of Congress, where she researched the early history of the U.S. Copyright Office as a Henry Evans Fellow.

Graeme Dinwoodie '89 (J.S.D.)

Co-Director of the Program in Intellectual Property Law, University Distinguished Professor, Global Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Chicago Kent College of Law

Graeme B. Dinwoodie is a University Distinguished Professor and Global Professor of Intellectual Property Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. He returned to Chicago in 2018 after nine years as the IP Chair at the University of Oxford. Immediately prior to taking up the IP Chair at Oxford, Professor Dinwoodie was for several years a Professor of Law at Chicago-Kent College of Law. During that time, Professor Dinwoodie led Chicago-Kent’s Program in Intellectual Property Law, helping to build the program’s international reputation. Professor Dinwoodie first joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2000 from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he was a three-time recipient of the Goldman Prize for Excellence in Teaching. From 2005 to 2009, he also held a Chair in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary College, University of London.

Professor Dinwoodie has held a number of visiting positions, including as the Yong Shook Lin Visiting Professor of IP Law at the National University of Singapore, a Global Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, a visiting professor of law at Northwestern University School of law, and a visiting professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected as a member of the American Law Institute in 2003. In 2008, INTA awarded Professor Dinwoodie the Pattishall Medal for Teaching Excellence in Trademark Law. Professor Dinwoodie holds law degrees from the University of Glasgow, Harvard Law School (where he was a John F. Kennedy Scholar) and Columbia Law School (where he was the Burton Fellow in residence).

Professor Dinwoodie is the author of many books and casebooks, including A Neofederalist Vision of TRIPS: The Resilience of the International Intellectual Property Regime (Oxford University Press 2012) (with R. Dreyfuss), Trademarks and Unfair Competition: Law and Policy (6th ed. 2022) (with M. Janis), Trade Dress and Design Law (2d ed. 2023) (with M. Janis), and International Intellectual Property Law and Policy (2d ed. 2008) (with W. Hennessey, S. Perlmutter & G. Austin); dozens of articles, book chapters and other substantial works; and numerous essays and shorter works. His scholarship is widely cited by scholars in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. He received the 2008 Ladas Memorial Award from the International Trademark Association for his article Confusion Over Use: Contextualism in Trademark Law (with M. Janis), an article that was recently cited by the US Supreme Court in Jack Daniel’s v VIP Prods. He is considered a leading international authority in trademark law, design law, and international intellectual property law, and is regularly invited to speak at numerous conferences and institutions around the world. Prof. Dinwoodie was elected to the IP Hall of Fame in 2020.

Jane Ginsburg

Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law, Columbia Law School

The faculty director of Columbia’s Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Jane C. Ginsburg is a renowned authority on intellectual property law and a staunch defender of authors’ rights. She teaches and writes about copyright law, international copyright law, legal methods, statutory methods, and trademark law. She is also the author or co-author of casebooks on all five subjects, including International Copyright: U.S. and EU Perspectives (with Edouard Treppoz) and Copyright: Cases and Materials (9th edition) (with Robert A. Gorman and R. Anthony Reese). Ginsburg was a co-reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law, Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes.

Fluent in French and Italian, Ginsburg has been a visiting professor at law schools and universities in France and Italy as well as in Australia, England, Israel, and New Zealand. She is a vice president of the Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale, a Paris-based international organization created to promote and defend authors’ rights, and president of its U.S. chapter. She is an elected member of the American Philosophical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Foreign Fellow of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome), a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge.

Philippa Loengard

Executive Director, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Columbia Law School

Philippa Loengard joined the Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts at Columbia Law School in 2006. 

Her research focuses on issues surrounding the visual arts and entertainment industries. She is particularly interested in issues of taxation as they pertain to the arts and the rights of authors and creators. Loengard is the Chair of the Copyright Division of the ABA.  She also serves as the Chair of the Artists' Rights subcommittee of the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association. She was in private practice at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel before joining the Kernochan Center staff.

An interest in intellectual property issues as they related to her work in documentary film provoked her return to law school. Prior to attending law school, Loengard worked in television production for several years as an assistant director on multiple shows and also as a coordinating producer for A&E Television Networks.

She is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and an article editor for the Journal of Law and the Arts. Loengard holds an LL.M. from New York University School of Law. Loengard graduated with a master’s degree from Stanford University, where she was the 1994 recipient of the Karl A. and Medira Bickel Fellowship, and has a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.

David Louk

Deputy City Attorney, San Francisco City Attorney’s Office

Caitlin McGrail

Fellow, Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Columbia Law School

Caitlin McGrail graduated magna cum laude from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law where she was a recipient of the Best Memorandum Award, served as teaching assistant for legal writing courses, and was inducted into Order of the Coif. She was a student works editor of the Villanova Law Review, received the Volume 67 Law Review Dedication Award, and published a student note on the Visual Artists Rights Act. Prior to joining the Kernochan Center in 2024, she was in private practice at Kirkland & Ellis LLP. Before law school, she worked at non-profit cultural institutions in development and administration. She graduated from Wellesley College with a bachelor’s degree in art history. 

She is Chair of the American Bar Association's Copyright Legislation Committee. She also serves on the American Bar Association's Copyright Reform Task Force and the New York City Bar Association's Art Law Committee.

Jennifer Rothman

Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

Jennifer E. Rothman is the Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a secondary appointment at the Annenberg School for Communication. She is globally recognized for her scholarship in the field of intellectual property and privacy law, and is the leading expert on the right of publicity. Professor Rothman is the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission Study of the Protection of Name, Image, and Likeness Rights, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and an adviser on the Restatement of the Law (Third) of Torts: Defamation and Privacy.

Rothman’s work focuses on conflicts between intellectual property rights and other constitutionally-protected rights, including the freedom of speech, as well as on personality rights. Her book, The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World was published by Harvard University Press and has been described as the “definitive biography of the right of publicity.” Rothman is also the author of numerous essays and articles that regularly appear in top law reviews and journals, including most recently Postmortem Privacy, published in the Michigan Law Review, and Navigating the Identity Thicket: Trademark’s Lost Theory of Personality, the Right of Publicity, and Preemption, published in the Harvard Law Review. Her Donald C. Brace Lecture, Copyrighting People, presented as the 2024 annual lecture for the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. is forthcoming in the Society’s journal in 2025.

Rothman has testified in Congress multiples times, most recently to address issues involving intellectual property, personality rights, and artificial intelligence. Rothman is also the creator of Rothman’s Roadmap to the Right of Publicity, an online resource, located at www.rightofpublicityroadmap.com, that provides expert analysis of right of publicity and related laws, as well as commentary on recent cases and legislation.

Rothman received her A.B. from Princeton University where she received the Asher Hinds Book Prize and the Grace May Tilton Prize. Rothman received an M.F.A. in film production from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she directed an award-winning documentary. Rothman received her J.D. from UCLA, where she graduated first in her class and was awarded the Jerry Pacht Memorial Constitutional Law Award for her scholarship in that field. Rothman served as law clerk to the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.

Rothman has also worked in the film industry, including a position in feature production at Paramount Pictures, and as an entertainment and intellectual property litigator in Los Angeles.

Ben Sheffner

SVP & Associate General Counsel, Law and Policy, Motion Pictures Association

Ben Sheffner is Senior Vice President & Associate General Counsel, Law & Policy, at the Motion Picture Association, where he specializes in copyright, First Amendment, and other legal and policy issues of importance to the MPA’s member studios. With dual appointments in the MPA’s Legal and Government Affairs departments, Ben works closely with attorneys and policy advocates internally and at the MPA’s member studios to formulate and implement strategies to create a favorable environment for the industry to thrive, both economically and creatively. Among his several roles, Ben frequently represents MPA before federal and state government officials and entities; manages the MPA’s amicus brief program; and serves as counsel to the Title Registration Bureau.

Prior to joining the MPA in 2011, Ben held in-house legal positions at NBCUniversal and Twentieth Century Fox, and worked as an associate in the Century City office of O’Melveny & Myers LLP, where he litigated copyright and other cases for major movie studios, television networks, and record labels. In 2008, Ben served as Special Counsel on Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, where, among other responsibilities, he handled the campaign’s copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property issues. Ben served as a law clerk for the Hon. M. Margaret McKeown on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2000-2001.

Ben serves as an Adviser to the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Copyright project and has previously held positions as a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA as well as the Los Angeles Copyright Society, and as a participant on the Uniform Law Commission committee that drafted a uniform anti-SLAPP statute.

Prior to attending law school, Ben worked as a political reporter in Washington, DC for the Cook Political Report and Roll Call newspaper, where he covered congressional elections, the term limits movement, campaign finance reform, and various other issues related to Congress’ internal politics and administration. Ben received an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall).

Olivier Sylvain '10 (Ph.D.)

Professor, Fordham School of Law

Olivier is a Professor of Law at Fordham University and a Senior Policy Research Fellow at Columbia University's Knight First Amendment Institute. His research is on information and communications law and policy. His most recent writing, scholarship, commentary, and congressional testimony are on online intermediary liability, commercial surveillance, and artificial intelligence.

The National Science Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation have awarded him grants to support this work. He was a Senior Advisor to the Chair of the Federal Trade Commission from 2021 to 2023.

Olivier teaches Legislation & Regulation, Administrative Law, Information Law, U.S. Data Protection Law and Privacy, and information technology related courses. 

Before entering academia, Olivier was a Karpatkin Fellow in the National Legal Office of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City and a litigation associate at Jenner & Block, LLC, in Washington, D.C.  He holds a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, and a PhD from Columbia University.

Edouard Treppoz

University Professor, Panthéon Sorbonne Université Paris I

Edouard Treppoz is Professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne where he mainly teaches intellectual property law. His research interests include intellectual property and international and european law with a particular focus on private international intellectual property law. A 2014 visiting professor at Columbia Law School, he co-authored with Professor Jane C. Ginsburg a case book, Copyright Law - US and EU Perspectives. He is the author of numerous articles, as well as a recognized speaker in France and abroad on these issues.

Edouard Treppoz est Professeur à l’Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne où il enseigne principalement la propriété intellectuelle dans ses dimensions internes, européennes et internationales. Ses domaines de recherches portent sur la propriété intellectuelle et le droit international privé avec une attention particulière sur le droit international privé de la propriété intellectuelle. Professeur invité à la Columbia Law School en 2014, il a co-écrit avec le Professeur Jane C. Ginsburg un case book « International Copyright Law – US and EU Perspectives ». Il est l’auteur de très nombreux articles, ainsi qu’un conférencier recherché en France et à l’étranger sur ces problématiques.

Célia Zolynski

University Professor, Panthéon Sorbonne Université Paris I

Célia Zolynski is Professor of Private Law at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, director of the Master 2 program “Law, Creation and Digital” and co-director of the IT and IP Department of the Research center IRJS (DReDIS) and the AI Observatory of Paris 1. As an academic, she is member of various French public institutions : the National Consultative Commission on Human rights (CNCDH), the Prospective committee of the CNIL and the Higher Council of Literacy and Artistic Property (CSPLA) and the National Committee for Digital Ethics (CCNE-N).

Her research and teaching activities focus on Digital law, Intellectual Property law, Market law and Fundamental rights. She is the author of various publications on these topics and leads several research projects about regulation of online platforms and algorithmic systems, in particular a book, with regulation recommendations about attention capture by digital platforms: Broadbent, S., Forestier, F., Khamassi, M., Zolynski, C. “Pour une nouvelle culture de l’attention”, Paris, France: Éditions Odile Jacob, 2024.