PIJIP Faculty

Peter Jaszi

Co-Director
JD Harvard Law School
AB Harvard College

Peter Jaszi directs the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic, teaches domestic and international copyright, and writes about copyright history and theory. Co-author of a standard textbook, Copyright Law (Lexis, 7th ed., 2006), he also helped edit The Construction of Authorship (Duke, 1994); the University of Chicago Press will publish a follow-up volume, (Con)texts of Invention, in 2008. In recognition of his advocacy for the public interest, Jaszi received the American Library Association’s 2007 L. Ray Patterson Copyright Award.

Christine Haight Farley

Co-Director
JSD, LLM Columbia Law School
JD Buffalo Law School
BA Binghamton University

Christine Farley joined the law faculty at WCL in 1999 and was appointed associate dean for academic affairs in 2007. Farley teaches courses in Intellectual Property Law, U.S. Trademark Law, International and Comparative Trademark Law, and Law and the Visual Arts. Before joining the faculty, Farley was an associate specializing in intellectual property litigation with Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman in New York. Farley’s scholarly work is in the areas of 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.

Sean M. Flynn

Associate Director
JD Harvard Law School
BA Pitzer College

Sean Flynn manages PIJIP’s operations and teaches courses on the intersection of intellectual property, trade law, and human rights. His research examines legal frameworks promoting access to essential goods and services and he serves as counsel for several advocacy organizations and state legislatures. Prior to joining WCL, he completed clerkships with Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson on the South African Constitutional Court and Judge Raymond Fisher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He also represented consumers and local governments with Spiegel & McDiarmid and as senior attorney for the Consumer Project on Technology, served on the policy team advising then Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Deval Patrick, and taught Constitutional Law at the University of Witwaterstrand, South Africa.

Victoria F. Phillips

Practitioner-in-Residence
JD Washington College of Law
BA Smith College

Victoria Phillips teaches Communications Law and serves as an assistant director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. Before coming to WCL she headed the mass media legal policy office at the Federal Communications Commission and served as counsel in the FCC’s Office of General Counsel. Previously, 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 U.S. District Judge Edward S. Northrop, in Baltimore, Maryland. Her scholarship explores the dynamic changes taking place in communications and IP, and the effects of these changes on our society and democratic culture.

Joshua D. Sarnoff

Practitioner-in-Residence
JD Stanford Law School
BS Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Joshua Sarnoff teaches Patent Law and serves as an Assistant Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and of various non-profit organization advisory boards and committees. He has served as chair of the Education Committee of the American Intellectual Property Law Association, and has been 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. Before coming to WCL, he was in private practice in Washington, D.C., taught at the University of Arizona College of Law, and worked at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. His current scholarship focuses on the history and theory of patent laws, and their relationship to moral and scientific conceptions.

Michael W. Carroll

Visiting Professor of Law
JD Georgetown University Law Center
AB University of Chicago

Michael Carroll is a visiting professor of law whose research and teaching specialties are Intellectual Property Law and Cyberlaw. He is a founding member of the board of directors of Creative Commons, Inc., a global nonprofit 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 Judge Judith W. Rogers, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Judge Joyce Hens Green, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Carroll recently accepted a full-time position as a professor with the Washington College of Law and will take over as director of PIJIP in Summer 2009. 

Wendy Seltzer

Practitioner-in-Residence
JD Harvard Law School
AB Harvard College

Wendy Seltzer is visiting WCL to teach Information Privacy and Intellectual Property and to work with the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. As a fellow with Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, she founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats. She has previously taught at Northeastern University School of Law, Brooklyn Law School, and Oxford University’s Said Business School. She was a staff attorney with the online civil liberties group Electronic Frontier Foundation and a litigator with Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of law and technology, particularly legal regulation of the Internet’s new technologies of communication and self-expression.

PIJIP Staff

Mike Palmedo
BA Mary Washington College

Mike Palmedo serves as PIJIP’s Assistant Director. He previously worked on policy research and web communications for the Consumer Project on Technology (now Knowledge Ecology International), concentrating on issues of access to medicines and international trade policy.

Stacey Jackson-Roberts
GAC Georgetown University
BS Utah State University

Stacey Jackson-Roberts serves as PIJIP’s senior staff assistant. Previously, she worked on intellectual property matters for Senator Edward M. Kennedy as a staff assistant for the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.