Biography
Jennifer E. Rothman is the Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute and an affiliated fellow at the Yale Information Society Project at Yale Law School.
Professor Rothman is nationally recognized for her scholarship in the intellectual property field and is the leading expert on the right of publicity. She created Rothman’s Roadmap to the Right of Publicity, www.rightofpublicityroadmap.com, the go-to-website for right-of-publicity questions and news. Professor Rothman is author of the book The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World, published by Harvard University Press in 2018.
Her most recent article, The First Amendment and the Right(s) of Publicity, appears in the Yale Law Journal (co-authored with Robert Post). Her latest project, Navigating the Identity Thicket: Trademark's Lost Theory of Personality, the Right of Publicity, and Preemption, is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review (Spring 2022).
Rothman received her A.B. from Princeton University where she received the Asher Hinds Book Prize and the Grace May Tilton Prize. Rothman received her J.D. from UCLA, where she graduated first in her class and won the Jerry Pacht Memorial Constitutional Law Award for her scholarship in that field. Rothman served as law clerk to the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced as an entertainment and intellectual property litigator in Los Angeles at Irell & Manella before entering teaching. Rothman also has an M.F.A. in film production from the University of Southern California and worked in the film industry before embarking on her legal career.