Short Biography:
Greg Lastowka is a Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law-Camden and a co-director of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law. He teaches in the areas of intellectual property (copyrights, trademarks, and patents), Internet law, and property law. He is the author of Virtual Justice (Yale University Press 2010), which is available online as a free PDF download offered under a Creative Commons license.
Longer Biography:
Greg Lastowka is a Professor of Law at Rutgers School of Law-Camden and a co-director of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law. He teaches in the areas of intellectual property (copyrights, trademarks, and patents), Internet law, and property law. He is the author of Virtual Justice (Yale University Press 2010), which is available online as a free PDF download offered under a Creative Commons license.
Greg earned his B.A. in English summa cum laude at Yale College in 1991, where he also won the Veech Prize for creative writing. He then studied fine art and education at the University of Arizona. From 1994-1996, he served with the United States Peace Corps in Turkmenistan, where he taught English to teachers and students and was the co-author of the first Turkmen-English dictionary. He earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2000, where he was an Articles Editor on the Virginia Law Review and a member of the Society of Fellows and the Raven Society.
Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2004, Greg clerked for Judge Walter K. Stapleton on the Third Circuit and practiced intellectual property and technology litigation at Dechert LLP in Philadelphia. While at Dechert, he was pro bono co-counsel for Ken Hamidi in the landmark case of Intel Corp. v. Hamidi.
In Spring of 2009, Greg was a Visiting Professor at Columbia School of Law, where he taught classes on trademark and virtual law. In Spring of 2007, he was a Visiting Professor at the University of Graz, Austria, where he taught Internet law. During the 2005-06 academic year, he was a fellow at the Rutgers Center for Cultural Analysis, where he participated in a working group on the interdisciplinary study of intellectual property.
Greg was born in the Philadelphia region and currently lives in the borough of Swarthmore, home of Swarthmore College. He occasionally blogs on Terra Nova, an interdisciplinary blog about video games and virtual worlds that he co-founded, and Madisonian.net, a legal blog that discusses developments in intellectual property and technology law. He tweets (rarely) as greglas.
The full text of most of his articles can be found by following the links on this site.
His contact information is available at his faculty web page.
