Professor Jane C. Ginsburg

Morton L. Janklow Professor of Literary and Artistic Property Law Supervisor,
International Intellectual Property Program

B.A., Chicago, 1976; M.A., 1977, J.D., Harvard, 1980; D.E.A., Université de Paris II, 1985 (Fulbright grantee); Doctor of Law, Université de Paris II, 1995. Editor and note editor, Harvard Law Review. Law clerk to Judge John J. Gibbons, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1980-81. Spent three years in private practice before teaching. Publications include three casesbooks: Legal Methods: Cases and Materials (1996); Copyright: Cases and Materials (with Gorman, 5th ed., 1999) and Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law (with Litman, Goldberg and Greenbaum, 2d ed., 1996) as well as a variety of Law review articles. Has taught French and U.S. intellectual property and contracts law at several French universities and in the Columbia-Leiden program. Serves on the editorial boards of The Michie Co., law school publishers, and of several intellectual property journals in the United States and abroad.



 

June M. Besek

Director, International Intellectual Property Program

B.A., Yale 1976; J.D., New York University, 1981. Law clerk to Judge Charles H. Tenney, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 1981-83. Was in private practice with Kramer, Levin, Nessen, Kamin & Frankel as a litigation associate (1983-85), and with Schwab Goldberg Price & Dannay as an associate (1985-90) and a partner (1990-97), specializing in copyright issues related to new technologies, trademarks and unfair competition. Immediately prior to coming to Columbia, was Director of Intellectual Property at Reuters America Inc. (1998-99). Serves on the editorial board of the Journal of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A. Member, American Bar Association Intellectual Property Section (Copyright Division Chair, 1998-99; co-chair of Committee on Long-Range Planning, 1999-2001; past chair of Committees on International Copyright Treaties and Laws, 1993-95, Copyright Office Affairs, 1995-97, and Government Relations to Copyrights, 1997-98); member, Copyright Society of the U.S.A. (trustee, 1994-97); member, Association of the Bar of the City of New York (member, Committee on Copyright and Literary Property, 1997-2000; Committee on Trademarks and Unfair Competition, 1993-96; Committee on Computer Law, 1986-89, 1990-93).