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Associate 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, intellectual property, and the regulation of technology. He earned his B.A. summa cum laude at Yale College in 1991. In 1994, he entered the United States Peace Corps, serving for two years in the former Soviet republic of Turkmenistan. He earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 2000, where he was a Hardy Cross Dillard Scholar, a member of the Raven Society, a fellow of the Society of Fellows, and an Article Editor on the Virginia Law Review. Following graduation, he clerked for the Honorable Walter K. Stapleton of the Federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before joining the faculty in 2004, he practiced intellectual property and technology litigation at Dechert LLP.
Professor Lastowka will be a visiting professor at Columbia Law School in Spring 2009. 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, co-leading a working group with Professor Goodman on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual property.
Professor Lastowka has been quoted with regard to internet law issues by publications such as Nature, The Washington Post, USA Today, Wired, and The National Law Journal. His current research projects include articles on computer fraud, trademark law, and online communities.
Publications
Books
Virtual Law (Yale University Press, forthcoming 2009)
Articles
Google's Law
___ Brooklyn Law Review ___ (2008)
Virtual Trademarks (with Prof. Dougherty)
___ Santa Clara Comp. & High Tech. Law J. ___ (2008)
User-Generated Content & Virtual Worlds
___ Vanderbilt J. of Ent. & Tech. Law ___ (2008)
Against Cyberproperty (with Prof. Carrier)
___ Berkeley Journal of Law & Technology ___ (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.