Prof. Hugh Hansen – Director
Hugh C. Hansen teaches courses in U.S. and EU intellectual property law. For 25 years he also taught U.S. constitutional law.
Professor Hansen is the founder and director of the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute and the Fordham Annual Conference on Intellectual Property Law and Policy, now in its nineteenth year. Managing Intellectual Property magazine has denominated him as one of the 50 most influential people in IP in the world.
After graduation from Georgetown Law School where he was a member of the Law Journal, Prof. Hansen clerked for Judge Inzer B. Wyatt in the Southern District of New York and Judge Murray I. Gurfein in the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He was also a litigation associate with Dewey Ballantine and an Assistant United States Attorney in the criminal division of the Southern District of New York. Since coming to Fordham, Prof. Hansen has served numerous times as a consultant or expert witness in intellectual property litigations in U.S., Europe and the European Commission. He has also been the lead counsel in copyright and trademark actions.
Prof. Hansen speaks frequently on U.S. and international intellectual property law in the United States, Europe and Asia. He delivered the 30th Annual Brace Lecture of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. entitled “Copyright and the Culture of the Public Domain: A Critical Analysis.” He delivered the Herchel Smith Public Lecture in Intellectual Property Law at Queen Mary, University of London entitled “A Legal Realist Analysis of U.S. Trademark Law with Comparisons to Recent Developments in the European Union.”
Under the auspices of the Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA), Prof. Hansen gave a series of addresses on aspects of intellectual property law at universities in Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Sydney. In Japan he addressed U.S. and international Intellectual property law issues in addresses in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Fukuoka and Nagoya in academic, governmental and think-tank settings. He was a visiting professor at Melbourne University and a visiting professorial fellow at Queen Mary Research Institute in London.
Prof. Hansen been quoted often in the media including The Economist, New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, and appeared on 20/20 (ABC), CNN, WABC, WNBC and On the Media (NPR).
Prof. Hansen is the author of New York Intellectual Property Law (LexisNexis 2010), the editor of International Intellectual Property Law and Policy, Volumes 1-7 (Juris Publications) Volumes 10 & 11 (Hart Publishing), and U.S. Intellectual Property Law and Policy (2006)(Edward Elgar Publishing, UK).
Dr. Sandra Sherman – Assistant Director
Sandra is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and completed an LL.M cum laude in Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology at Fordham in December, 2008. She also holds a Ph.D. in English from Penn. Sandra was an attorney for several years in the U.S. Department of Energy, where she specialized in international and administrative law, and has held legal positions in the Justice Department and Department of State. Before joining the Institute, she was a professor at the University of Arkansas and Georgia State University, where she specialized in 18th century British literature and culture. She was President of the South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Sandra is the author of four books, including Finance and Fictionality in the Early Eighteenth Century: Accounting for Defoe (Cambridge U.P., 1996), Imagining Poverty: Quantification and the Decline of Paternalism (Ohio State U.P., 2001), and Inventing the Modern Cookbook (Greenwood, 2010). She is also author of over 60 articles on literature, economics, and culinary history, and has lectured around the world. She is an Adjunct Professor of English at Fordham, teaching courses on literary history and Advanced Composition, and an Adjunct Professor at the Law School, where she is teaching a course on the development of Copyright theory.
Sandra has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. She was a Visiting Fellow of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University, and the Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison. She was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard.
Daryl Lim – Microsoft Research & Teaching Fellow
Daryl Lim is the inaugural Microsoft Teaching and Research Fellow at the Fordham Law School Intellectual Property (“IP”) Law Institute. His teaching at the Law School includes courses on U.S. patent and copyright law, the interface between IP and antitrust law and European IP law. He is a frequent speaker in the U.S. and abroad on the intellectual property and antitrust laws in the United States, European Union, Japan, China, India and Singapore.
His first book, Patent Misuse: An Empirical Study, will be published by Edward Elgar in early 2011. His articles have been published in leading IP law reviews and books in the U.S, Europe and Asia. His forthcoming publications include a book chapter, ‘’A Critical Assessment of the Legal and Economic Framework of IP-Competition Interface in Singapore” (with Ashish Lall) (Hart Publishing), an essay, “Post-eBay: A Brave New World?” (European Intellectual Property Law Review), and an article, “Misconduct in Standard Setting: The Case for Patent Misuse” (IDEA: The Intellectual Property Law Review). The latter article won the grand prize in the 2009 International Essay Writing Competition of the International Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (“ATRIP”). Daryl delivered the paper at ATRIP’s annual meeting in Stockholm this summer.
Daryl has graduate law degrees from Stanford University and the National University of Singapore (“NUS”). He also has undergraduate degrees in law from NUS as well as another in economics and management from the London School of Economics. Previously, Daryl was in private IP practice at Allen & Gledhill LLP, Singapore’s largest law firm. He also served as an intern in Subordinate Courts and the Legal Policy Department of the Ministry of Law there. While in Europe, Daryl was a residential scholar at the Max Planck Institute for IP, Competition and Tax Law and later at the Queen Mary IP Research Institute.
Daryl is a non-governmental advisor at the International Competition Network. He has served as an intern on the personal staff of Commissioner William E Kovacic at the Federal Trade Commission and in the chambers of Chief Judge Randall R. Rader of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Jason Lunardi – Editorial & Conference Fellow
Jason Lunardi is an Editorial & Conference Fellow at the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute. At the Institute, Jason has worked on editing and preparing books and articles for publication including acting as Lead Editor for the forthcoming 2010 and 2011 editions of Fordham International Intellectual Property Law & Policy (Hart Publishing).
Jason is a 2009 graduate of Fordham Law School where he served as the Managing Editor of the Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal. He was awarded the First Prize in the 2009 Nathan Burkan Memorial Writing Competition at Fordham for his paper “Comparing EU and U.S. Approaches to Internet Piracy & “‘Graduated Response’”, and was the first runner up in the 2009 Grammy Foundation Entertainment Law Initiative for his essay “Navigating the Clouds: Exploring Revenue Sources for Creators in a Networked World” (20 No. 2 NYSBA Ent., Arts & Sports L.J. 87 (Summer 2009)). He also published a student note entitled “Guerrilla Video: Potential Copyright Liability for Websites That Index Links to Infringing Content,” (19 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 1077 (2009)).
Jason holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Business from the Berklee College of Music, and has worked at several music industry companies including legal internships at ASCAP and music publisher & royalty auditing firm H/B Webman.
Zach Slates – Research & Conference Fellow
Zach Slates is a Research & Conference Fellow at the Fordham Intellectual Property Law Institute. Before joining the Intellectual Property Institute, Zach was a Dean’s Fellow at the Fordham Corporate Law Center where his research focused on corporate governance and the regulation of financial markets. Zach was a Big Four accountant specializing in the insurance industry. Zach holds a JD from Fordham Law School, MAcc from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and BA in Classical Civilization from the University of Michigan.
Anderson Duff – Research & Conference Fellow
Anderson studied mass media and anthropology at the University of Florida before attending law school at the Michigan State University College of Law. After graduating with a J.D., he earned an LL.M. in Intellectual Property & Information Technology Law from the Fordham University School of Law where he received the Emily C. and John E. Hansen Award. He is a Fellow of the Fordham IP Institute and also works as the Media Law Clerk in the Media Law Group at NBC Universal. Prior to seeking his LL.M., Anderson worked for Prison Legal Services of Michigan and the Hong Kong Intellectual Property Office.
Tiffany Mahmood – Research & Conference Fellow
Tiffany Mahmood is a Research & Conference Fellow for the Fordham Intellectual Property Institute. Tiffany studied chemistry at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London before studying law at the College of Law, London. Tiffany also holds an LL.M. in Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law from Fordham Law School.
Ashley Graham – Research & Conference Fellow
Ashley Graham is a Research & Conference Fellow for the Fordham Intellectual Property Institute. Ashley holds a J.D. from Fordham Law School. Prior to her J.D., Ashley studied history and holds a B.A. with high honors from Dartmouth College.
Theresa McKenzie – Conference Administrator
Theresa McKenzie is our Conference Administrator.
Theresa has an extensive background in many areas of legal practice, including intellectual property. She has been an Administrative Assistant and Legal Secretary for a number of law firms and corporations including Sullivan & Cromwell, Cravath Swaine & Moore, PriceWaterhouse Coopers and Colgate Palmolive Co.
Theresa is a big fan of thoroughbred horse racing and has strong interest in the industry from business deals to breeding and pedigrees. Theresa spent three years in Lexington, Kentucky working in the equine law firm of Wyatt Tarrant & Combs and at the breeding farm, Taylor Made Farm. While in Kentucky, she pursued equine studies at both Midway College and University of Kentucky. Theresa also assists the New York Racing Association in managing logistics at both their Belmont and Saratoga racing meets.
Theresa holds an Associate’s Degree Berkeley College and also attended Fordham University.
