CLS Professor Bios

Columbia Law School Professor Bios - Entertainment and IP

John M.Kernochan '48, Nash Professor Emeritus of Law; Co-Director, Kernochan Center

John M. Kernochan joined the Columbia faculty in 1952. Among other subjects, he has taught an intellectual property survey course and seminars in copyright, intellectual property and law and the theatre. In 1978, in collaboration with Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, where he served as a member of the Board of Directors, he began teaching the Clinical Seminar in Law and the Arts. In 1986, he founded and became Director of what is now the Kernochan Center. His publications include two casebooks and articles on legislation, statutory interpretation, copyright, and clinical law instruction. He received his B.A. from Harvard and L.L.B. from Columbia.

Jane C. Ginsburg, Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law; Co-Director, Kernochan Center

Jane C. Ginsburg joined the Columbia faculty in 1987, after three years in private practice, and has taught copyright law since 1987 and trademarks since 1988. She is a Vice President of ALAI and President of ALAI-USA. Her many publications include three casebooks and numerous articles on domestic and international copyright law. She received her B.A. and M.A. from University of Chicago, J.D. from Harvard, and D.E.A. and Doctor of Law from the Université de Paris II.

June M. Besek, Executive Director and Lecturer in Law, Kernochan Center

June M. Besek joined the Kernochan Center in 1999, where she oversees studies on national and international intellectual property issues. She was formerly Director of Intellectual Property at Reuters America Inc. and, before that, a partner at Schwab Goldberg Price & Dannay in New York. She is an active member of the ABA Intellectual Property Section and the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. She received her B.A. from Yale and J.D. from New York University.

Clarisa Long, Shaye Professor of Intellectual Property Law, Kernochan Center

Clarisa Long joined the Columbia Law School faculty as the Shaye Professor of Intellectual Property Law in 2005. Prior to that, she was a Professor of Law and the Class of 1966 Research Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. Her research interest is at the intersection of intellectual property law and theory, the economics of information, property law, and contract law. Before entering law school, Long conducted molecular biology research in New Zealand and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School, where she received the Mr. and Mrs. Duncan L. Matteson Award for appellate advocacy in Stanford's Kirkwood Moot Court competition, and was the Jane A. Sharp Scholar and the Walter J. Coleman Scholar. After law school, she clerked for Judge Alvin A. Schall of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, worked as an associate with Wiley, Rein & Fielding in Washington, D.C., and was a fellow at Harvard University.

Tim Wu, Professor of Law, Kernochan Center

Tim Wu joined the Columbia Law School faculty in 2006. Mr. Wu's research is at the intersection of international, copyright, and telecommunications law. Wu graduated from McGill University in 1995, and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1998. After a stint at the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel, he clerked for Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and Stephen Breyer of the Supreme Court of the United States. Mr. Wu came to academia from the telecommunications industry, where he worked in international and domestic marketing.

Wu has taught at the United Nations Development Program in Katmandu, Nepal and taught at Kyushu University in Fukoka, Japan. He has also been a visiting professor at Chicago and Stanford Law Schools, and is a term member of the Council of Foreign Relations.

Eben Moglen, Professor of Law & Legal History, General Counsel, Free Software Foundation; Founder, Software Freedom Law Center