IPLC Faculty Director Professor Jeremy Sheff has inaugurated a new workshop series: The New York City Intellectual Property Law and Philosophy Workshop. The workshop provides an opportunity for scholars who bring philosophical methods and literatures to bear on the study of intellectual property law to share and receive critiques of their work. The first two sessions of the workshop, held in December 2021 and May 2022, included papers by Professor Sheff, Professor Shyamkrishna Balganesh of Columbia Law School, Professor Courtney Cox of Fordham Law School, and Furman Fellow Mala Chatterjee of NYU Law School.
Papers presented at the workshop include Professor Sheff’s Reverse Confusion and the Justification of Trademark Protection, 30 Geo. Mason L. Rev (forthcoming); Professor Balganesh’s Of Autonomy, Sacred Rights, and Personal Marks, 135 Harv. L. Rev. Forum 343 (2022); Professor Cox’s Confronting Normative Uncertainty: Deciding Cases When You Don’t Know How to Decide, U. Chi. L. Rev. (forthcoming); and Professor Chatterjee’s Lockean Copyright versus Lockean Property, 12 J. Legal Analysis 136 (2020).
