Speakers
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
Professor & Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology
DePaul University
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall is the Raymond P. Niro Professor of Intellectual Property Law at DePaul University College of Law in Chicago, Illinois, and the Director of the DePaul Center for Intellectual Property Law and Information Technology ("CIPLIT"). The courses she teaches include Copyrights & Trademarks, a seminar on Moral and Publicity Rights, a seminar on Advanced Copyright Law, and Property. Prior to teaching at DePaul, she practiced Intellectual Property law at Sidley & Austin in Chicago, and clerked for Judge Leonard I. Garth, of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Kwall earned her J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she served as the Comment Editor of the Law Review. She received her A.B. magna cum laude from Brown University, where she was Phi Beta Kappa. She is admitted to the bars of Pennsylvania and Illinois.
Professor Kwall has written many articles on numerous facets of Intellectual Property (IP) and Property which have been published in law reviews such as Texas, Southern California, Vanderbilt, Notre Dame and Illinois. She is the co-author of leading casebooks in both IP and Real Property, both of which are part of the University Casebook Series of Foundation Press. Currently, Professor Kwall is working on an academic press book entitled: Beneath the Author’s Voice: Authorship, Ownership and Safeguarding Textual Integrity. Professor Kwall has served in an advisory capacity to the Office of the General Counsel on the federal Visual Artists Rights Act, as well as to the Screen Actors Guild and the Young Lawyers Division of the Chicago Bar Association regarding the right of publicity. She is active in the IP Section of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) and is a member of the AALS Planning Committee for the 2006 IP Workshop. She has also served as Chair of the IP Section and was a member of the AALS IP Executive Committee for several years. Professor Kwall is a frequent invited panelist for symposia and AALS conferences and in 2006, served as the Sesquicentennial IP Scholar in Residence at Michigan State University.
Professor Kwall has received numerous awards at DePaul for her outstanding scholarship, teaching and service, including the 2005 Alumni Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement for her work in connection with DePaul’s nationally ranked IP program; the 2002 Spirit of Inquiry Award for Outstanding Scholarship; the 1999 Law School Faculty Achievement Award; and the 1996 University Excellence in Teaching Award. In addition, in 2006, she was designated as one of the Ten Best Law Professors in Illinois by Chicago Lawyer Magazine.Register for the Summit
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The Summit on Intellectual Property and Digital Media is proud to host speakers from all sides of the featured issues. Cable programmers, legal experts, systems operators, and academics come together to inform our discussions and generate new understanding.
Sessions at the Summit will include: Consumer Behavior in a Digital World, Current Legal and Regulatory Landscape, Technological Change and New Business Models, and Digital Rights Management.
