Faculty and Staff

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.

Victoria Phillips joined the faculty in 2001. 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.

Nabila Isa-Odidi (WCL ’05) is a Practitioner-in-Residence in the Gluskho-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. Prior to joining the Washington College of Law, Nabila was a member of the litigation group at Morrison & Foerster LLP, where her practice focused primarily on patent litigation suits before various U.S. District Courts and before the International Trade Commission. She also worked as a patent litigation associate at Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP (now SNR Denton). Upon graduating from the Washington College of Law, Nabila served as a law clerk to Special Master Laura D. Millman of the Federal Vaccine Court within the U.S. Court of Federal Claims. Nabila received her B.Sc. in Human Biology from the University of Toronto.