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Professor Rutgers School of Law - Camden 217 N. Fifth St. Camden, NJ 08102
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Biography
Professor Lastowka teaches courses in the laws of property and intellectual property. He is an expert on Internet law and his opinions have been quoted in publications such as Nature, The Economist, Scientific American, and the New York Times. He was recently interviewed on NPR's Fresh Air about copyright's fair use doctrine.
Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2004, Professor Lastowka clerked for Judge Walter K. Stapleton on the Third Circuit and practiced intellectual property and technology litigation at Dechert LLP. While at Dechert, he was pro bono co-counsel for Ken Hamidi in the landmark case of Intel Corp. v. Hamidi.
Professor Lastowka earned his B.A. summa cum laude at Yale College in 1991. From 1994-1996, he served with the United States Peace Corps in Turkmenistan, where he was the co-author of the first Turkmen-English dictionary. He earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia in 2000.
In 2009, in recognition of his scholarship, Professor Lastowka was the recipient of a Rutgers Board Of Trustees Research Fellowship for Scholarly Excellence. During Spring 2009, Professor Lastowka was a visiting professor at Columbia University School of Law. In March 2008, he was a visiting artist in residence at the Rutgers-Camden department of Fine Arts. During Spring 2007 he was a visiting professor at the University of Graz, Austria. In 2005-2006, he was a fellow at the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis, where he participated in a working group on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual property.
Publications
Books
Virtual Law (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2009)
Articles
Google's Law
73 Brooklyn L. Rev. 1327 (2008)
Virtual Trademarks (with Prof. Dougherty)
24 Santa Clara Computer & High Tech. L.J. 749 (2008)
User-Generated Content & Virtual Worlds
10 Vand. J. Ent. & Tech. L. 893 (2008)
Against Cyberproperty (with Prof. Carrier)
22 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1485 (2007)
Digital Attribution
87 Boston University Law Review 41 (2007)
Decoding Cyberproperty
40 Indiana L. Rev. 23 (2007)
The Trademark Function of Authorship
85 Boston University Law Review 1117 (2005)
Amateur-to-Amateur (with Dan Hunter)
46 William & Mary Law Review 951 (2004)
Virtual Crimes (with Dan Hunter)
49 New York Law School Law Review 293 (2004)
The Laws of the Virtual Worlds (with Dan Hunter)
92 California Law Review 1 (2004)
Search Engines Under Siege: Do Paid Placement Listings Infringe Trademarks?
13 Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal 6 (2002)
Free Access and the Future of Copyright
27 Rutgers Computer & Technology Law Journal 293-331 (2001)
Search Engines, HTML, and Trademarks: What's the Meta For?
86 Virginia Law Review 835-84 (2000)
Curriculum Vitae available here
Further publications can be found on Professor Lastowka's home page.