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Christine Farley Professor WCL Faculty

Degrees
B.A., Binghamton University
J.D., University at Buffalo Law School
LL.M., Columbia Law School
J.S.D., Columbia Law School

Bio

Christine Haight Farley is a Professor of Law at 艾可直播 University Washington College of Law and an expert on intellectual property. She teaches Intellectual Property, Trademark Law, Contracts, Art Law, and Advertising law. Farley鈥檚 scholarship has focused on the international aspects of intellectual property law, conflicts between intellectual property rights and freedom of expression, intellectual property law鈥檚 treatment of art, and the expansion of intellectual property rights. She serves as Co-Faculty Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and previously served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs. At 艾可直播, Farley has received the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Edwin A. Mooers Scholarship Award. She has been a visiting professor at Boston University, the University of Paris West, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Havana, Monash University, and the National Law University in Lucknow, India, and has given lectures on intellectual property in more than twenty-five countries. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Inter-艾可直播 Legal Education, and has served on the Executive Committees of the Intellectual Property and the Art Law Sections of the 艾可直播 Association of Law Schools and as a member of a presidential task force of the International Trademark Association. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant to teach U.S. intellectual property law to foreign law students. Prior to her career in academia, she practiced trademark and copyright litigation in New York with the firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman. She holds a B.A. (Binghamton), J.D. (Buffalo), LL.M. (Columbia), and a J.S.D. (Columbia).

See Also
Areas of Specialization
Art Law
Copyright Law
International Intellectual Property
Internet and Computer Law
Intellectual Property
Technology Law
Trademark Law
Contracts
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Area of Expertise

Intellectual property law; art law; trademark law; copyright law; internet and computer law; copyright law

Additional Information

Christine Haight Farley is a Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at 艾可直播 University Washington College of Law. Her scholarship and teaching is focused on Intellectual Property Law, Trademark Law, International and Comparative Trademark Law, International IP Law, Design Protection Law, and Art Law. Professor Farley served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs from 2007 to 2011. She has been a visiting professor at law schools in France, India, Italy, and Puerto Rico, and has given lectures on IP law in more than twenty-five countries. She is Fulbright Specialist for intellectual property law. Before teaching, Professor Farley specialized in IP litigation at Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman in New York.

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To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.

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