Rebecca Tushnet Explained

Rebecca Tushnet
Birth Date:4 April 1973
Alma Mater:Harvard University (AB)
Yale University (JD)
Occupation:Law professor
Employer:Harvard Law School
Father:Mark Tushnet
Relatives:Eve Tushnet (sister)
Website:Rebecca 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

Education

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

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), then at Georgetown University Law Center (2004–16), and most recently at Harvard Law School.[7] In practice, Tushnet has represented fans in copyright and trademark disputes with rightsholders.[8]

Personal life

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

Articles
Casebooks

Awards

See also

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Fan Fiction and the Law. On the Media. Bob Garfield. March 7, 2013. WNYC. November 24, 2019.
  2. http://transformativeworks.org/projects/legal "Legal Advocacy"
  3. [Nick Gillespie]
  4. Web site: Champions, Runners-Up, and Semi-Finalists 1947-2012. West Point National Tournament. November 24, 2019.
  5. Web site: Rebecca L. Tushnet. Georgetown Law. Georgetown University. July 30, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170620003032/https://www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/tushnet-rebecca-l.cfm. June 20, 2017. dead.
  6. https://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/cv/tushnet%20cv.pdf Tushnet CV
  7. News: Rebecca Tushnet joins Harvard Law faculty as Professor of First Amendment Law - Harvard Law Today. Harvard Law Today. November 14, 2016. November 24, 2019.
  8. News: NPR. July 16, 2008. Fan Fiction Writers Face Nonfiction Legal Hurdles. November 24, 2019.
  9. News: Oppenheimer, Mark. A Gay Catholic Voice Against Same-Sex Marriage. The New York Times . June 4, 2010. A14.
  10. Web site: 'Gay and Catholic': An Interview with Author Eve Tushnet. Sean Salai, S.J.. America Magazine. July 3, 2014.
  11. News: Rebecca Tushnet Named 2014 Seton Award Winner. Hinde, Rebecca. June 16, 2014. November 24, 2019. November 23, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20211123124243/https://www.csusa.org/news/177866/Rebecca-Tushnet-Named-2014-Seton-Award-Winner.htm. dead.
  12. Web site: 12th Annual IP3 Award. 26 October 2006. Public Knowledge. November 24, 2019.
  13. Mui, Sarah. McDonough, Molly. Rawles, Lee. ABA Journal. Blawg 100 Hall of Fame. December 1, 2018.

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