Jeanne C. Fromer

Spring Term 2013

Visiting Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Intellectual Property Law
• Copyright Law
• Patent Law

Education

• Barnard College, Columbia University B.A. 1992, Computer Science
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology S.M. 1999, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Harvard Law School J.D. 2002

Appointments

• Professor of Law, New York University School of Law

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Fromer will teach the course Intellectual Property Law, and the reading group Incentives in Intellectual Property in the Spring 2013 term.

Biographical Statement

Professor Jeanne Fromer teaches in the areas of intellectual property and contracts. She specializes in intellectual property and information law, with particular emphasis on unified theories of copyright and patent law. In 2011, Professor Fromer was awarded the American Law Institute's inaugural Young Scholars Medal for her scholarship in intellectual property. Her work has also been selected for presentation twice (in 2009 and 2011) at the Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum and for inclusion twice (in 2009 and 2012) in West/Thomson's annual Intellectual Property Law Review. Professor Fromer is visiting from New York University School of Law. Before coming to NYU, Professor Fromer served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court and to Judge Robert D. Sack of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She also worked at Hale and Dorr LLP (now WilmerHale) in the area of intellectual property. In addition, she was an Alexander Fellow with the New York University School of Law and a Resident Fellow with Yale Law School's Information Society Project. She also served as an Associate Professor at Fordham University School of Law. Professor Fromer earned her B.A., summa cum laude, in Computer Science from Barnard College, Columbia University. She received her S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research work in artificial intelligence and computational linguistics and worked at AT&T (Bell) Laboratories in those same areas. As a graduate student, Professor Fromer was both a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and an AT&T Laboratories Graduate Research Fellow. Professor Fromer received her J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, serving as Articles and Commentaries Editor of the Harvard Law Review and as Editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology.

Representative Publications

• Fromer, Jeanne C. "Expressive Incentives in Intellectual Property," 98 Virginia Law Review (forthcoming 2012).
  
• Fromer, Jeanne C. "Patentography," 85 NYU Law Review 1444 (2010).
  Full text: SSRN
  
• Fromer, Jeanne C. "Claiming Intellectual Property," 76 University Chicago Law Review 719 (2009).
  Full text: SSRN