Programs

Arts Law Colloquium

Beginning Fall Semester 2007, The Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology (CIPLIT®) will sponsor the Arts Law Colloquium. The colloquium will be facilitated by Professors Patty Gerstenblith and Margit Livingston and will feature monthly lunchtime presentations by attorneys who practice in the areas of art, museum, music, theater, film, and media law.

Professor Gerstenblith is director of the College of Law's Program in Cultural Heritage Law and faculty advisor to its Journal of Art, Technology and Intellectual Property Law. She is founding president of the Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation and served as Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Cultural Property (1995-2002) and was a member of the United States Cultural Property Advisory Committee from 2000-2003. Professor Gerstenblith received a Ph.D. in Art History and Anthropology from Harvard University and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.

Professor Livingston is a graduate of Chicago's renowned Second City Conservatory Program in Improvisational Comedy, where she studied with legendary instructors Don DePollo and Martin de Maat. Professor Livingston received her J.D. and an M.A. in Theater Arts from the University of Minnesota. She also received an LL.M from the University of Illinois. She is currently doing research on the copyrightability of a director's staging of a play, and she is co-director of the LL.M. Program in Intellectual Property.

If you wish to participate, please let us know of your interest by responding to CIPLIT's Assistant Director, Vadim Shifrin at vshifrin@depaul.edu.

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For more information please visit the CIPLIT Arts Law Colloquium website

To view the video of this discussion, please click here.