Professor Buccafusco joined the Chicago-Kent faculty in 2009 and teaches in the areas of torts and copyright law. His research interests include evidence, intellectual property law, behavioral law and economics, law and psychology, and legal history. His recent work focuses on psychological challenges to legal notions of rationality and on the application of happiness research to the law. His published articles have appeared in the Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, and the University of Miami Law Review. Professor Buccafusco is a Ph.D. candidate in legal history at the University of Chicago. He graduated from the University of Georgia School of Law in 2004 and earned a B.S. degree from Georgia Tech in 2001. Before coming to Chicago-Kent, Professor Buccafusco taught for a year as a visiting faculty member at the University of Illinois College
Evidence
Gaining/Losing Perspective on the Law, or Keeping Visual Evidence in Perspective, Popular Culture and Law (2006)
Gaining/Losing Perspective on the Law, or Keeping Visual Evidence in Perspective, University of Miami Law Review (2004)
Intellectual Property
On the Legal Consequences of Sauces: Should Thomas Keller's Recipes Be Per Se Copyrightable?, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (2007)
The restaurant industry now takes in over $500 billion a year, but recent courts have...
Law & Psychology
Happiness and Punishment (with J. Bronsteen & J. Masur), University of Chicago Law Review (2009)
This article continues our project to apply groundbreaking new literature on the behavioral psychology of...
Hedonic Adaptation and the Settlement of Civil Lawsuits (with J. Bronsteen & J. Masur), Columbia Law Review (2008)
This paper examines the burgeoning psychological literature on happiness and hedonic adaptation (a person's capacity...