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.

Robert Kasunic
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

Mr. Kasunic is a Visiting Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law where he is in his fifth year teaching a seminar on Advanced Copyright Law and Policy. Prior to moving to the Washington College of Law, he taught the basic Copyright course at the University of Baltimore School of Law for eight years.

In addition, Rob Kasunic is a Principal Legal Advisor in the General Counsel's Office at the United States Copyright Office. At the Copyright Office, he has been involved with most domestic Internet, technology, and Digital Millennium Copyright Act issues before the Office, is the attorney charge of the triennial Anticircumvention Rulemaking proceedings and assisted with the Office's Orphan Works Report recently submitted to Congress as well as the Section 104 Report mandated by the DMCA. He has been involved with numerous litigation and appellate issues before the Office, including the Government's involvement in MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, Ltd before the Supreme Court. He has also handled most trademark, domain name, and antitrust issues that have arisen before the Office since his arrival, including work on the Office's adoption of a new seal and logo.

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.

Sean M. Flynn is the Associate Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) at American University’s Washington College of Law.  His primary research focus is on legal frameworks governing access to essential goods and services, including constitutional and human rights law, intellectual property law, utility regulation, antitrust and consumer protection law.

He currently teaches an advanced legal seminar on Intellectual Property and Human Rights.  Previously, Mr. Flynn taught South African Constitutional Law and Legal Reasoning and Argument at the University of Witwaterstrand, South Africa, and Harvard Law School, respectively.  He is author of numerous published articles and book chapters on rights to access to medicines, water and other essential goods and services. 

Prior to joining American University, Mr. Flynn completed clerkships with Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson on the South African Constitutional Court and with Judge Raymond Fisher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.  Mr. Flynn has represented consumers and local governments in private practice and as Senior Attorney for the Consumer Project on Technology in Washington D.C.