Rebecca Tushnet | |
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 Tushnet at a U.S. Copyright Office Section 512 Study Roundtable in 2019 | |
| Born | April 4, 1973 |
| Alma mater | Harvard University (AB) Yale University (JD) |
| Occupation | Law professor |
| Employer | Harvard Law School |
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| Relatives | Eve Tushnet (sister) |
| Website | Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log |
Rebecca Tushnet (born April 4, 1973) is an American legal scholar. She serves as the Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard Law School. Her scholarship focuses on copyright, trademark, First Amendment, and false advertising.
In addition to her general scholarship, Tushnet is known for her fanfiction-related scholarship[1] and her legal advocacy work for the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit fandom-related project that supports fanworks (such as fanfiction) through preservation and advocacy.[2][3]
Tushnet was a policy debater at Harvard, getting to finals of the National Debate Tournament in 1992 and 1995,[4] she received an A.B. from Harvard University in 1995, and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School[5] in 1998.[6]
Tushnet served as a law clerk to Judge Edward R. Becker of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and later for Justice David Souter of the United States Supreme Court. She practiced at Debevoise & Plimpton. Tushnet then entered teaching, first at NYU School of Law (2002–04),[6] then at Georgetown University Law Center (2004–16),[5] and most recently at Harvard Law School.[7] In practice, Tushnet has represented fans in copyright and trademark disputes with rightsholders.[8]
Her father is Mark Tushnet and her mother is Elizabeth Alexander, who directs the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.[9]
Her sister Eve Tushnet is a lesbian Catholic author and blogger.[10]
