Victoria Phillips
Practitioner in Residence
Office: Room 433
Phone: 202-274-4078
E-mail: vfphillips@wcl.american.edu
Professor Phillips teaches communications and intellectual property law and is the Assistant Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. She also helped found and is a faculty director of the law school’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP). Before joining the WCL faculty in 2001 to help launch these programs, she was Chief of the Legal Branch of the Mass Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission and counsel in the Office of General Counsel. There she worked on a wide range of media policy proceedings including those related to broadcast ownership, broadcast public interest obligations, digital television conversion, children’s television, public television and political programming. Before joining the FCC she served as the Assistant General Counsel of the National Endowment for the Humanities, practiced communications and intellectual property law at Wiley, Rein and Fielding in Washington D.C. and clerked for Edward S. Northrop, U.S. District Judge in Baltimore, Maryland.
Currently Teaching
Areas of Specialization
- Communications Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- Clinical Legal Education
Degrees & Universities
- B.A., Smith College
- J.D., Washington College of Law, American University, cum laude
Selected Publications
- Christine Haight Farley, Peter Jaszi, Victoria Phillips, Joshua Sarnoff, & Ann Shalleck, Clinical Legal Education and the Public Interest in Intellectual Property Law, 52 St. Louis U. L.J. 735 (2008).
- Victoria Phillips, Summing Up the Public Interest: A Review of "Localism and Diversity: Meaning and Metrics" edited by Philip M. Napoli, 60 Fed. Commun. L.J. 157 (2007).
- Victoria Phillips, Commodification, Intellectual Property and the Women of Gee’s Bend, 15 Am. U. J. Gender Soc. Policy & L. 359 (2007).
- Victoria Phillips, On Media Consolidation, the Public Interest and Angels Earning Wings, 55 Am. U. L. Rev. 613 (2004).
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Selected Works in Progress- Victoria Phillips, Building Community in the New Media Landscape, (work in progress).
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Selected Presentations
- Victoria Phillips, Panel Moderator, (Does Red Lion Still Roar? Exploring Public Interest Regulation of Media in Commemoration of the Fortieth Anniversary of Red Lion Broadcasting Co.v. FCC (Sponsored by the American University Administrative Law Review, American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Apr. 2008).
- Victoria Phillips, Closing Remarks, IP/Gender: The Unmapped Connections (Sponsored by Program on IP and the Public Interest, Program on Women and the Law and Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Apr. 2008).
- Victoria Phillips, Presentation, Cracks in Intellectual Property Laws: Top Internet Video Copyright Issues” panelist at The Internet Video Policy Symposium: The Future of a New TV Medium (Sponsored by Reed Business Information and Emerging Media Dynamics, Inc., Wash., D.C., Mar. 18-19, 2008).
- Victoria Phillips, Panelist, FCC Outlook: Who Will Be the Winners and Losers in 2007 (Fourth Annual Digital Media Conference, Sponsored by Digital Media Wire Inc., Silver Spring, Md., June 2007).
- Victoria Phillips, Panelist, Net Neutrality and Media Ownership (Music and Intellectual Property Policy Day, Sponsored by the American Constitution Society and the Future of Music Coalition, Wash., D.C., May 2007).
- Victoria Phillips, Working Group Leader, Collaboration in Clinical Legal Education (AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, N.Y.C., N.Y., May 2006).
- Victoria Phillips, Lecture, Communications Law and Policy (Federal Communications Commission, Wash., D.C., May 2006).
- Victoria Phillips, Presentation, How to Commodify an American Quilt: The Women of Gee’s Bend (IP/Gender: The Unmapped Connections, Sponsored by Program on IP and the Public Interest, Program on Women and the Law and Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Mar. 2006).
- Victoria Phillips, Lecture, Communications Law and Policy (Federal Communications Commission, Wash., D.C., Oct. 2004).
- Victoria Phillips, Presentation, If We Build It They Will Come: Creating the Foundation for an Effective Clinical Structure (Back to the Basics/Back to the Future, AALS Conference on Clinical Legal Education, San Diego, Cal., May 2004).
- Victoria Phillips, Panel Moderator, Few Gatekeepers, Many Views (Regulating Media Competition: The Development and Implications of the FCC's New Broadcast Ownership Rules, Sponsored by the American University Law Review, American University Washington College of Law, Wash., D.C., Nov. 2003) (reprinted in 55 Am. U. L. Rev. 547 (2004)).
