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Rebecca Tushnet

Rebecca Tushnet
Tushnet at a U.S. Copyright Office Section 512 Study Roundtable in 2019
Born (1973-04-04) April 4, 1973 (age 51)
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Yale University (JD)
OccupationLaw professor
EmployerHarvard Law School
FatherMark Tushnet
RelativesEve Tushnet (sister)
WebsiteRebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log

Rebecca Tushnet (born April 4, 1973) is an American legal scholar. She serves as the Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard Law School. Her scholarship focuses on copyright, trademark, First Amendment, and false advertising.

In addition to her general scholarship, Tushnet is known for her fanfiction-related scholarship[1] and her legal advocacy work for the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit fandom-related project that supports fanworks (such as fanfiction) through preservation and advocacy.[2][3]

Biography

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Education

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Tushnet was a policy debater at Harvard, getting to finals of the National Debate Tournament in 1992 and 1995,[4] she received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1995, and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School[5] in 1998.[6]

Career

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Tushnet served as a law clerk to Judge Edward R. Becker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and later for Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court. She practiced at Debevoise & Plimpton. Tushnet then entered teaching, first at NYU School of Law (2002–04),[6] then at Georgetown University Law Center (2004–16),[5] and most recently at Harvard Law School.[7] In practice, Tushnet has represented fans in copyright and trademark disputes with rightsholders.[8]

Personal life

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Her father is Mark Tushnet and her mother is Elizabeth Alexander, who directs the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.[9]

Her sister Eve Tushnet is a lesbian Catholic author and blogger.[10]

Selected scholarship and casebooks

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Articles
Casebooks

Awards

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Bob Garfield (March 7, 2013). Fan Fiction and the Law. On the Media. WNYC. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  2. ^ "Legal Advocacy", Organization for Transformative Works. (Last visited April 28, 2014).
  3. ^ Nick Gillespie & Joshua Swain, "Fan Fiction vs. Copyright - Q&A with Rebecca Tushnet", Reason Magazine, July 20, 2012.
  4. ^ "Champions, Runners-Up, and Semi-Finalists 1947-2012". West Point National Tournament. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Rebecca L. Tushnet". Georgetown Law. Georgetown University. Archived from the original on June 20, 2017. Retrieved July 30, 2017.
  6. ^ a b Tushnet CV Archived 2021-12-27 at the Wayback Machine, University of Chicago. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  7. ^ "Rebecca Tushnet joins Harvard Law faculty as Professor of First Amendment Law - Harvard Law Today". Harvard Law Today. November 14, 2016. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  8. ^ "Fan Fiction Writers Face Nonfiction Legal Hurdles". NPR. July 16, 2008. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  9. ^ Oppenheimer, Mark (June 4, 2010). "A Gay Catholic Voice Against Same-Sex Marriage". The New York Times. p. A14.
  10. ^ Sean Salai, S.J. (July 3, 2014). "'Gay and Catholic': An Interview with Author Eve Tushnet". America Magazine.
  11. ^ Advertising & Marketing Law: Cases & Materials, self-published, July 2012
  12. ^ Hinde, Rebecca (June 16, 2014). "Rebecca Tushnet Named 2014 Seton Award Winner". Archived from the original on November 23, 2021. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  13. ^ "12th Annual IP3 Award". Public Knowledge. 26 October 2006. Retrieved November 24, 2019.
  14. ^ Mui, Sarah; McDonough, Molly; Rawles, Lee (December 1, 2018). "Blawg 100 Hall of Fame". ABA Journal.

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