IP Faculty

Peter Jaszi, co-founded the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. 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. Recently, Professor Jaszi has been working with Professor Patricia Aufderheide of the American University School of Communications on copyright that affect documentary filmmakers. He is a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. and serves on the editorial board of its journal.

Professor Farley teaches courses in Intellectual Property Law, U.S. Trademark Law, International and Comparative Trademark Law, and Law and the Visual Arts. In addition, she serves as Associate Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. Before joining the law faculty at American, Professor Farley was an associate specializing in intellectual property litigation with Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman in New York. Professor Farley's scholarly work is in the areas of on intellectual property, international law, and art law. Her current projects study the intersection of art and IP; and the unstable basis of rights in the development of trademark law.

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 Communications Law survey course. 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.

Michael Carroll is a visiting professor of law whose research and teaching specialties are Intellectual Property Law and Cyberspace. He is a founding member of the board of directors of Creative Commons, Inc., a global nonporfit organization dedicated to providing legal and technical tools to facilitate information sharing by authors, educators, scientists, and all other creative individuals. Carroll also is a leading advocate for open access on the Internet to scientific and scholarly literature. He joins WCL from the faculty at the Villanova University School of Law, which he joined in 2001. Prior to entering law teaching, Carroll practiced law at Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington, D.C., and served as a law clerk to Jedge Judith W. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Jedge Joyce Hens Green, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.