Christine Haight Farley is a Professor of Law at American University Washington College of Law. She teaches Intellectual Property Law, Trademark Law, International and Comparative Trademark Law, International Intellectual Property Law and Art Law. Professor Farley served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs from 2007 to 2011 and as Co-Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property from 2005 to 2009. She is the author of numerous articles on intellectual property law and her casebook on international trademark law will be published this year. Professor Farley has taught at the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Paris Ouest, and at Monash University in Prato, Italy. In addition, she has lectured on intellectual property law in Australia, Canada, Columbia, Cuba, France, Italy, Jordan, Korea, Mongolia, Namibia, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Scotland, Switzerland and Turkey. She frequently appears in the media as an expert on intellectual property and has appeared on or been quoted in the Washington Times, NBC Nightly News, The Today Show, MSNBC, CNBC, CNN, the New York Times, the Legal Times, New York Law Journal, and NPR, among other media outlets. Before teaching, Professor Farley was an associate specializing in intellectual property litigation with Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman in New York. She received a B.A. from Binghamton University, a J.D. from University at Buffalo Law School, and an LL.M. and J.S.D. from Columbia Law School.
Computers and Internet
Convergence and Incongruence: Trademark Law and ICANN’s Introduction of New Generic Top-Level Domains, Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals (2009)
This paper demonstrates how problematic convergences between Internet technology, the demands of a burgeoning e-market...
Trademark Law
Brief of Law Professors as Amici Curiae in Support of the Petitioners, Harjo v. Pro-Football Inc. (with Victoria Phillips), Amicus Briefs (2009)
Amici are scholars at U.S. law schools whose research and teaching focus is intellectual property...
The Feminine Mystique of the Brand in Trademark Law Today, Working Papers (2008)
Just as we have been witness to a steady expansion of trademark protection, we have...
Trademark, Trademark Dilution Law, Confusion test,
Why We Are Confused about the Trademark Dilution Law, Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal (2006)
Trademark, Trademark Dilution Revision Act, Standard of Proof for dilution
Panel II: Trademark Dilution Revision Act Implications (with William G. Barber, Barton Beebe, and Michael Heltzer), Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal (2006)
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The Forgotten Pan-American Trademark Convention of 1929: A Bold Vision of Extraterritorial Meets Current Realities, Working Papers (2013)
This paper argues that the 1929 General Inter-American Convention for Trade Mark and Commercial Protection...
Imagining the Law, Contributions to Books (2010)
Law’s relations to art--to its creation, its production, and dissemination, its restriction as well as...
Clinical Legal Education and the Public Interest in Intellectual Property Law (with Peter A. Jaszi, Joshua D. Sarnoff, Ann Shalleck, and Victoria F. Phillips), PIJIP Faculty Scholarship (2008)
Clinical legal education provides a powerful methodology for students to learn about the relationships among...
Review of the 2006 Trademark Decisions of the Federal Circuit (with Geri L. Haight), Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals (2007)
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit delivered only seven precedential trademark...