Alfred C. Yen

Boston College Law School

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Director of the Emerging Enterprises and Business Law Program
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Books

Copyright Law: Essential Cases and Materials, 2nd ed. (with Joseph P. Liu) (2011)

Statutory Supplement to Copyright Law: Essential Cases and Materials (with Joseph P. Liu) (2011)

Statutory Supplement to Copyright Law: Essential Cases and Materials (with Joseph P. Liu) (2009)

Copyright Law: Essential Cases and Materials (with Joseph P. Liu) (2008)

Articles

Early Scholarship Offers and the NCAA, Boston College Law Review (2011)

A Preliminary First Amendment Analysis of Leglisation Treating News Aggregation as Copyright Infringement, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law (2010)

A First Amendment Perspective on the Construction of Third Party Copyright Liability, Boston College Law Review (2009)

Torts and the Construction of Inducement and Contributory Liability in Amazon and Visa, Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts (2009)

Commercial Speech Jurisprudence and Copyright in Commercial Information Works, South Carolina Law Review (2007)

Third Party Copyright After Grokster, Minnesota Law Review (2006)

Sony, Tort Doctrines, and the Puzzle of Peer-To-Peer, Case Western Law Review (2005)

Eldred, the First Amendment, and Aggressive Copyright Claims, Houston Law Review (2003)

What Federal Gun Control Can Teach Us About the DMCA's Anti-Trafficking Provisions, Wisconsin Law Review (2003)

Western Frontier or Feudal Society? Metaphors and Perceptions of Cyberspace, Berkeley Technology Law Journal (2002)

A Personal Injury Law Perspective on Copyright in an Internet Age, Hastings Law Journal (2001)

A Preliminary Economic Analysis of Napster: Internet Technology, Copyright Liability, and the Possibility of Coasean Bargaining, University of Dayton Law Review (2001)

Internet Service Provider Liability for Subscriber Copyright Infringement, Enterprise Liability, and the First Amendment, Georgetown Law Journal (2000)

Praising with Faint Damnation--The Troubling Rehabilitation of Korematsu, Boston College Law Review (1998)

The Danger of Bootstrap Formalism in Copyright, Journal of Intellectual Property Law (1998)

Copyright Opinions and Aesthetic Theory, Southern California Law Review (1998)

Foreword: Making Us Possible, Asian Law Journal (1997)

Unhelpful, Iowa Law Review (1996)

A Statistical Analysis of Asian Americans and the Affirmative Action Hiring of Law School Faculty, Asian Law Journal (1996)

Entrepreneurship, Copyright, and Personal Home Pages, Oregon Law Review (1996)

Advice for the Beginning Legal Scholar, Loyola Law Review (1992)

The Interdisciplinary Future of Copyright Theory, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (1992)

The Art and Craft of Teaching: Art Resting on Craft, Saint Louis University Public Law Review (1991)

The Legacy of Feist: The Consequences of a Weak Connection between Copyright and the Economics of Public Goods, Ohio State Law Journal (1991)

When Authors Won't Sell: Parody, Fair Use, and Efficiency in Copyright Law, University of Colorado Law Review (1991)

Restoring the Natural Law: Copyright as Labor and Possession, Ohio State Law Journal (1990)

A First Amendment Perspective on the Idea/Expression Dichotomy and Copyright in a Work's "Total Concept and Feel", Emory Law Journal (1989)

It's Not That Simple: An Unnecessary Elimination of Strict Liability and Presumed Damage in Libel Law, Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review (1988)

Judicial Review of the Zoning of Adult Entertainment: A Search for the Purposeful Suppression of Protected Speech, Pepperdine Law Review (1985)

Selected Professional Activities

Trademark and the Dynamic Construction of the Consumer, Notre Dame Law School (2013)

Visting Scholar, University of Arizona Law School, James E Rodgers College of Law, University of Arizona (2013)

Asian Americans in the Legal Academy: Past, Present, and Future?, Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (2013)

Intent and Trademark Infringement, Stanford Law School (2012)

The Theoretical Consequences of Trademark's Effect on Consumers (2012)

Panel Participant, Perspectives on the Substantial Similarity in Copyright Infringement, Cardozo Law School (2011)

Recent Developments in Copyright Law, Suffolk Law School (2011)

Panel II: NCAA and Students (with Maureen Weston and Petrina Long), The NCAA at 100 (2010)

Early Scholarship Offers and the NCAA, Boston College Law School (2010)

Trademark and the Dynamic Construction of the Consumer (2010)

Panel Participant, Comments on the Theory of Derivative Work Rights, Suffolk Law School (2010)

The Dynamic Construction of the Consumer in Trademark, University of Arizona Faculty Collquium Presentation (2010)

Remarks about the history of the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty, University of Denver College of Law (2008)

Third Party Copyright Liability (2008)

Beneficial Illegality and Copyright, Drexel Law School (2008)

Chair, Association of American Law Schools Committee on Professional Development (2008)

Beneficial Illegality and Copyright, DePaul Law School (2007)

Appointed Hosier Distinguished Scholar, DePaul Law School (2007)

Appointed Inaugural Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Drexel Law School (2007-2008) (2007)

Appointed Chair of the Planning Committee and session moderator, Association of American Law Schools Workshop in Intellectual Property (2006)