Jennifer Rothman
Professor of Law
Contact Information
Phone: (213) 736-2776
Fax: (213) 380-3769
E-mail: Jennifer.Rothman@lls.edu
919 Albany St.
Los Angeles, CA 90015-1211
Educational and Professional Background
A.B., Princeton University
M.F.A., University of Southern California
J.D., University of California, Los Angeles
Prior to joining the faculty of Loyola Law School, Rothman was an Associate Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis. Rothman writes in the areas of intellectual property and constitutional law, focusing on issues related to freedom of speech, expression and association. Among her diverse research areas are copyright law, trademark law, the right of publicity, the First Amendment, same-sex marriage, laws regulating sexual conduct, and the treatment of threats.
Rothman is the author of a number of articles, including the forthcoming, "Copyright Beyond Free Speech," (Cornell Law Review); "The Questionable Use of Custom in Intellectual Property," (Virginia Law Review); “Freedom of Speech and True Threats” (Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy); “Copyright Preemption and the Right of Publicity” (U.C. Davis Law Review); and “Initial Interest Confusion: Standing at the Crossroads of Trademark Law” (Cardozo Law Review).
Rothman attended Princeton University, earning an A.B. degree cum laude in English and American Studies. She received the Asher Hinds Book Prize and the Grace May Tilton Prize for her senior thesis. After college, Rothman attended the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television, where she received an M.F.A and directed an award-winning documentary, Wanderlust, about long-distance women truck drivers.
After working in the film industry for a number of years, including positions at Paramount Pictures and Castle Rock Entertainment, Rothman attended law school. She graduated first in her class from the UCLA School of Law, receiving the Jerry Pacht Memorial Constitutional Law Award for her scholarship in that field. While in law school, she was a two-time recipient of the Lawrence E. Irell prize, an articles editor of the UCLA Law Review, and a teaching fellow for civil procedure.
Following law school, Rothman served as law clerk to the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She then practiced law in Los Angeles with Irell & Manella in the firm’s appellate litigation, intellectual property, and entertainment practices.
"Copyright Beyond Free Speech", 95 Cornell Law Review __ (forthcoming 2010)
"Sex In and Out of Intimacy," 59 Emory Law Journal __ (forthcoming2009) (co-authored with Laura A. Rosenbury)
"Custom, Comedy and the Value of Dissent," 95 Virginia Law Review In Brief 19 (April 2009)
"Why Custom Cannot Save Copyright's Fair Use Defense," 93 Virginia Law Review In Brief 243 (2008)
"The Questionable Use of Custom in Intellectual Property," 93 Virginia Law Review 1899 (2007)
"Initial Interest Confusion: The Diversion of Trademark Law," in Intellectual Property and Information Wealth (ed. Peter Yu, Praeger 2006).
"Initial Interest Confusion: Standing at the Crossroads of Trademark Law," 27 Cardozo Law Review 105 (2005).
"Copyright Preemption and the Right of Publicity," 36 UC Davis Law Review 199 (2002).
"Freedom of Speech and True Threats," 25 Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy 283 (2001).
Trademarks & Unfair Competition; Torts; First Amendment; The Right of Publicity; Legal Issues in Reality and Non-Fiction Works;