Paul Goldstein
Born	(1943-01-14) January 14, 1943 (age 81) Mount Vernon, New York
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Brandeis University, Columbia University
Occupation(s)	professor, author, lawyer
Employer	Stanford University
Website	http://paulgoldstein.net/

Paul Goldstein (born January 14, 1943) is a law professor at Stanford Law School.

A globally recognized expert on intellectual property law, Goldstein is the author of an influential four-volume treatise on U.S. copyright law and a five-volume treatise on international copyright law, as well as leading casebooks on intellectual property and international intellectual property. He has authored nine books including five novels, Errors and Omissions, A Patent Lie, Secret Justice, Legal Asylum and Havana Requiem, which won the 2013 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.^[1] Some of his other works include Copyright’s Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, a widely acclaimed book on the history and future of copyright, and Intellectual Property: The Tough New Realities That Could Make or Break Your Business.

Goldstein has been regularly included in Best Lawyers in America.^[2] He has served as chairman of the United States Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information, has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright, and Competition Law, and was a founding faculty member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. In addition, before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1975, he was a professor of law at the University at Buffalo Law School.

Recent publications

• Paul Goldstein, Goldstein On Copyright, 3rd ed., New York: Aspen, 2013.
• Paul Goldstein and P. Bernt Hugenholtz, International Copyright: Principles, Law and Practice 4th ed., New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.^[3]
• Paul Goldstein and Marketa Trimble, International Intellectual Property Law: Cases and Materials, 3rd edition, New York: Foundation Press, 2012.
• Paul Goldstein and R. Anthony Reese, Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines: Cases and Materials on Intellectual Property Law, 7th edition, New York, NY: Foundation Press, 2012.
• Paul Goldstein, Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, Rev. ed., Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003.