Peter Jaszi, along with WCL Professor Christine Haight Farley, co-founded the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. Professor Jaszi has taught many courses as WCL for over 25 years.  As a classroom instructor, he specializes in domestic and international copyright law.  An experienced copyright litigator and frequent speaker to professional audiences in the United States and abroad, he is widely recognized as an advocate for the public interest in intellectual property law.  With various collaborators, he has written a standard copyright textbook and several articles on copyright history and theory.  In 1994, he was a member of the Librarian of Congress’s Advisory Commission on Copyright Registration and Deposit.  Since 1995 he has been active in the Digital Future Coalition, which he helped to organize.  He is a former trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA and serves on the editorial board of its journal.

Christine Haight Farley joined the faculty in 1999. Previously she practiced copyright and trademark law in New York where she carried out both transactional work (licensing and trademark prosecution) and litigation (federal courts and TTAB).  In addition to her responsibilities at the clinic, she teaches courses on intellectual property and art law.  Her scholarship is concerned with how culture and information are increasingly being converted into private property, and she speaks regularly about the need to safeguard the public’s interest in the IP regime.

Victoria Phillips joined the faculty in 2001 as Assistant Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. Before joining the WCL faculty, Ms. Phillips headed the Legal Branch of the Mass Media Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission and served as counsel in the Office of General Counsel. While at the Commission she worked on a wide range of media policy proceedings including those related to broadcast ownership, broadcast public interest obligations, digital television, children’s television, public television and political programming. Before joining the Commission she served as the Assistant General Counsel of the National Endowment for the Humanities and practiced communications and intellectual property law at Wiley, Rein and Fielding in Washington D.C. In addition to clinic, she also teaches the Communicatons Law survey couse. Her scholarship focuses on media and intellectual property policy and the promotion of the public interest and information justice in these areas.

Joshua Sarnoff joined the faculty in 2001 as Assistant Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic.  He specializes in intellectual property rights acquisition, client counseling, litigation, and lobbying, is a registered patent attorney, and teaches the basic Patent Law class.  From 2003 to 2005, he served as the Chair of the Education Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association.  Professor Sarnoff is a member of various intellectual property advisory boards and committees, a mediator for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and a consultant to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.  His scholarship focuses on current issues in patent law, and he continues to engage in public interest counseling, advocacy, and litigation, including providing testimony to Congress on patent reform legislation and filing amicus briefs in the Supreme Court and the Federal Circuit.  Prior to joining WCL, Professor Sarnoff was in private practice in Washington, DC, was an Assistant Professor at the University of Arizona College of Law, and worked at the US Environmental Protection Agency.