Advancing Inclusion in Copyright and Register Barbara Ringer’s Legacy

Victoria Phillips teaches communications and intellectual property law and serves as the director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. Professor Phillips helped found the clinic and the law school’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property in 2001 to introduce students to the public interest dimensions of intellectual property, communications and information law and policy. She serves as faculty advisor to the Communications and Media Law Society. In 2008, she was a visiting associate professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center and served as acting director of the Institute of Public Representation’s First Amendment and Media Law Clinic. In May 2015, she was appointed by the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission to serve a two-year term on the agency’s Consumer Advisory Committee and she co-chairs the Media Working Group. She also serves on the Board of Directors of the Washington Area Lawyers for the Arts. Her scholarship and advocacy explores the dynamic changes taking place in these fields and the challenging public interest issues raised by these developments. She has also published several articles and speaks regularly on the history and public interest goals of the growing IP and technology law school clinical community.

Deidré A. Keller is the dean of the Florida A&M University (FAMU) College of Law in Orlando, Florida. Prior to joining FAMU, she was the associate dean for academic affairs at the Ohio Northern University Claude W. Pettit College of Law, where she taught for ten years. Dean Keller’s teaching experience includes property; intellectual property; law and literature; internet law; legal problem solving and analysi;, estates, wills, and trusts; and the legal history of Montgomery, Alabama. Dean Keller writes at the intersections of intellectual property, personhood theory, critical race theory, and the Constitution. Prior to teaching, Keller practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia, with the firms of Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan, LLP and Seyfarth Shaw, LLP. She specialized in intellectual property counseling and procurement, focusing on trademarks and copyrights.

Professor Sunder is a leading scholar of law and culture. She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2006 and has been a visiting professor of law at the Yale Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, and Cornell Law School. Her work traverses numerous legal fields, from intellectual property to human rights law and the First Amendment. Professor Sunder has published articles in the Yale Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, the California Law Review, the Texas Law Review, and Law and Contemporary Problems, among others. Her book, From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice, was published by Yale University Press in 2012.

Amanda Levendowski is an associate professor of law and the founding director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy Clinic at Georgetown Law. Her scholarship examines how intellectual property law can be used creatively to address challenging social issues that crosscut privacy and technology, including nonconsensual pornography, biased artificial intelligence, secret surveillance technology, and invasive face recognition. She is also working on a biography about Barbara Ringer.