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Julie E. Cohen

Professor of Law

A.B., Harvard-Radcliffe; J.D., Harvard

Areas of Expertise:

Copyright, Intellectual Property, Privacy

Professor Cohen teaches and writes about intellectual property law and information privacy law, with particular focus on digital works and on the intersection of copyright...

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Professor Cohen teaches and writes about intellectual property law and information privacy law, with particular focus on digital works and on the intersection of copyright and privacy rights.  She is a co-author of Copyright in a Global Information Economy (Aspen Law & Business, 3d ed. 2010), and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Advisory Board of Public Knowledge.  Prior to joining the Law Center faculty in 1999, Professor Cohen was Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.  She previously practiced with the San Francisco firm of McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, where she specialized in intellectual property litigation.  She was law clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
 

Recent Scholarship

Books

  • Julie E. Cohen, Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 2012).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Julie E. Cohen, What Privacy Is For, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 1904-1933 (2013).   
  • Julie E. Cohen, Introduction: Intellectual Property (and Markets): An Enduring Concern, 100 Geo. L.J. 2051-2053 (2012).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Irrational Privacy?, 10 J. Telecomm. & High Tech. L. 241-249 (2012).    [L] [W] [WWW]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Julie E. Cohen, Configuring the Networked Citizen, in Imagining New Legalities: Privacy and Its Possibilities in the 21st Century 129-153 (Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas & Martha Merrill Umphrey eds., Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press 2012).    [BOOK]

All Scholarship 2000 - Present

Books

  • Julie E. Cohen, Configuring the Networked Self: Law, Code, and the Play of Everyday Practice (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press 2012).    [BOOK]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Lydia Pallas Loren, Ruth L. Okediji & Maureen A. O'Rourke, Copyright in a Global Information Economy (New York: Aspen Publishers 3d ed. 2010 & Supp. 2010-2012).    [BOOK]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Lydia Pallas Loren, Ruth Gana Okediji & Maureen O'Rourke, Copyright in a Global Information Economy (New York: Aspen Law & Business 2d ed. 2006 & Supp. 2008).    [BOOK]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Lydia Pallas Loren, Ruth Gana Okediji & Maureen O'Rourke, Copyright in a Global Information Economy (New York: Aspen Law & Business 2002 & Supp. 2003).    [BOOK]

Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals

  • Julie E. Cohen, What Privacy Is For, 126 Harv. L. Rev. 1904-1933 (2013).   
  • Julie E. Cohen, Introduction: Intellectual Property (and Markets): An Enduring Concern, 100 Geo. L.J. 2051-2053 (2012).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Irrational Privacy?, 10 J. Telecomm. & High Tech. L. 241-249 (2012).    [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Power/play: Discussion of Configuring the Networked Self, 6 Jerusalem Rev. Legal Stud. 137-149 (2012).    [WWW]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Copyright as Property in the Post-Industrial Economy: A Research Agenda, 2011 Wis. L. Rev. 141-165.    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Julie E. Cohen, The Inverse Relationship Between Secrecy and Privacy, 77 Soc. Res. 883-898 (2010).    [W]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Privacy, Visibility, Transparency, and Exposure, 75 U. Chi. L. Rev. 181-201 (2008).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Creativity and Culture in Copyright Theory, 40 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 1151-1205 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Cyberspace As/And Space, 107 Colum. L. Rev. 210-256 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Network Stories, 70:2 Law & Contemp. Probs. 91-95 (2007).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Pervasively Distributed Copyright Enforcement, 95 Geo. L.J. 1-48 (2006).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Julie E. Cohen, The Place of the User in Copyright Law, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 347-374 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
  • Julie E. Cohen, The Place of the User in Copyright Law, 74 Fordham L. Rev. 347-374 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [WWW]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Comment: Copyright's Public-Private Distinction, 55 Case W. Res. L. Rev. 963-970 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Julie E. Cohen, David E. Sorkin & Peter P. Swire, Copyright & Privacy--Through the Privacy Lens, 4 J. Marshall Rev. Intell. Prop. L. 273-284 (2005).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Julie E. Cohen, DRM and Privacy, 18 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 575-617 (2003).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Overcoming Property: Does Copyright Trump Privacy?, 2002 U. Ill. J.L. Tech. & Pol'y 375-383.    [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Privacy, Ideology, and Technology: A Response to Jeffrey Rosen, 89 Geo. L.J. 2029-2045 (2001) (reviewing Jeffrey Rosen, The Unwanted Gaze (2000)).    [HEIN] [L] [W]
  • Julie E. Cohen & Dan L. Burk, Fair Use Infrastructure for Rights Management Systems, 15 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 41-83 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Julie E. Cohen & Mark A. Lemley, Patent Scope and Innovation in the Software Industry, 89 Cal. L. Rev. 1-57 (2001).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Examined Lives: Informational Privacy and the Subject as Object , 52 Stan. L. Rev. 1373-1438 (2000).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Copyright and the Perfect Curve, 53 Vand. L. Rev. 1799-1819 (2000).    [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]

Book Chapters and Collected Works

  • Julie E. Cohen, Configuring the Networked Citizen, in Imagining New Legalities: Privacy and Its Possibilities in the 21st Century 129-153 (Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas & Martha Merrill Umphrey eds., Stanford, Cal.: Stanford University Press 2012).    [BOOK]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Copyright and Creativity, in Copyright Future: Copyright Freedom 147-160 (Brian Fitzgerald & Benedict Atkinson eds., Sydney, Austl.: Sydney University Press 2011).   
  • Julie E. Cohen, Examined Lives: Informational Privacy and the Subject as Object, in Law and Society Approaches to Cyberspace 473-538 (Paul Schiff Berman ed., Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate 2007).    [BOOK]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Copyright, Commodification, and Culture: Locating the Public Domain, in The Future of the Public Domain: Identifying the Commons in Information Law 121-166 (P. Brent Hugenholtz & Lucie M.C.R. Guibault eds., Frederick, Md.: Kluwer Law International 2006).    [BOOK]
  • Julie E. Cohen, The Challenge of Digital Rights Management Technologies, in The Role of Scientific and Technical Data and Information in the Public Domain: Proceedings of a Symposium 109-116 (Wash., D.C.: The National Academies Press 2003).    [WWW] [BOOK]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Intellectual Property and the Information Economy, in Cyber Policy and Economics in an Internet Age 95-112 (William Lehr & Lorenzo M. Pupillo eds., Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers 2002).    [BOOK]
  • Julie E. Cohen, Information Rights and Intellectual Freedom, in Ethics and the Internet 11-32 (Anton Vedder ed., Antwerp, Belg.: Intersentia 2001).   
  • Julie E. Cohen & William M. Martin, Intellectual Property Rights in Data, in Information Systems and the Environment 45-55 (Deanna J. Richards, Braden R. Allenby & W. Dale Compton eds., Wash., D.C.: National Academic Press 2001).   
  • Julie E. Cohen, WIPO Treaty Implementation in the United States: Will Fair Use Survive?, in Copyright Elettronico e Licenze Digitali: Dov’è l'Inganno? [Electronic Copyright and Digital Licensing: Where Are the Pitfalls?] 48-57 (Maria Teresa Natale ed., Rome, Italy: ICCU/AIB [Italian Library Association] 2000).   

Selected Contributions to Other Publications

  • Julie E. Cohen, DRM and Privacy, Comm. ACM, Apr. 2003, at 47-49.    [SSRN] [Gtown Law] [WWW]

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