Jane C. 
GINSBURG

 
Kwa Geok Choo Distinguished Visitor

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In Residence

30 January 2023 to 17 February 2023

Current Courses

US Copyright: International and Comparative Perspectives

Jane C. Ginsburg is Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary & Artistic Property Law at the Columbia Law School. The faculty director of Columbia’s Kernochan Center for Law, Media, and the Arts, Jane Ginsburg is a renowned authority on intellectual property law and a staunch defender of authors’ rights. She teaches and writes about copyright law, international copyright law, legal methods, statutory interpretation and trademark law; she is the author or co-author of casebooks on all five subjects  including International Copyright and Neighbouring Rights: The Berne Convention and Beyond (3d edition) (with Sam Ricketson);  International Copyright: U.S. and EU Perspectives (with Edouard Treppoz) and Copyright: Cases and Materials (9th edition) (with Robert A. Gorman and R. Anthony Reese). Ginsburg was a co-reporter for the American Law Institute’s Principles of the Law, Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes.