Deven Desai

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Deven Desai
Deven Desai
Associate Professor of Law
J.D., Yale Law School;
B.A., University of California, Berkeley,
summa cum laude
Phone: (619) 961-4243
E-mail: ddesai@tjsl.edu

After Professor Desai graduated from law school, where he was co-editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, he practiced law with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges in Los Angeles. His litigation practice focused on intellectual property, Internet-related disputes, employment law and general business disputes. After leaving Quinn Emanuel, he worked as in-house counsel with technology incubation companies and Mattel, Inc., as a policy and finance consultant for the Cory Booker for Mayor campaign and for Jumpstart for Young Children, Inc., and as the sole contributing editor on the primer Law of Internet Disputes. Professor Desai’s scholarship is in the areas of intellectual property, information theory, Internet-related law, business associations, international business transactions and corporate governance.

 

Courses include:

Business Associations, Information Privacy Law, International Business Transactions, Trademark & Unfair Competition Law.

Scholarships

EDITORSHIPS

Contributing Editor (1999-2003), Law of Internet Disputes (Aspen)

ARTICLES, BOOK CHAPTERS, AND ARTICLE-LENGTH WORKS

Individual Branding: How the Rise of Individual Creation and Distribution of Cultural Products Confuses the Intellectual Property System in Creativity, Law, and Entrepreneurship (Shubha Ghosh & Robin P. Malloy eds., forthcoming May 2011)

Privacy? Property?: Reflections on the Implications of a Post-Human World, 18 Kan. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 174 (2009)

Property, Persona, Preservation, 81 Temp. L. Rev. 67 (2008)

Confronting the Genercism Conundrum, 28 Cardozo L. Rev. 1789 (with Sandra L. Rierson) (2007)

Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: A Proposal For A Layered Approach to Regulating Private Military Companies, 39 U.S.F. L. Rev. 825 (2005)