SCHOOL OF LAW

R A Reese

Arnold, White & Durkee Centennial Professor

JD 1995, Stanford
BA 1986, Yale

A specialist in copyright, intellectual property, and cyberspace aspects of intellectual property, Professor Reese came to Texas in 1999 from Stanford Law School, where he was a Research Fellow in the Program in Law, Science and Technology. He will be a visiting professor at New York University School of Law for the Spring 2008 semester.

Prior to his fellowship, he clerked for the Hon. Betty Fletcher on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and practiced intellectual property law with Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco.

His publications include "Reducing Digital Copyright Infringement Without Restricting Innovation" (Stanford Law Review, 2004) (with Mark A. Lemley). He has also written about liability of technology developers for copyright infringement by technology users (Case Western Reserve Law Review, 2005), copyright's first-sale doctrine (Boston College Law Review, 2003), technological protection measures for copyrighted works in digital format (Berkeley Technology Law Journal, 2003), the public display right in copyright law (University of Illinois Law Review, 2001), copyright and Internet music transmissions (University of Miami Law Review, 2001), and state sovereign immunity and intellectual property law (Texas Law Review, 2001) (co-author).

Professor Reese has recently become a co-author on new editions of two casebooks: Internet Commerce (with Margaret Jane Radin and John Rothchild, 2006) and Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines (with Paul Goldstein, forthcoming).

Professor Reese was a Visiting Professor at Stanford Law School in 2004–2005 and at NYU School of Law in 2006-2007. He regularly teaches in international programs organized by the University of Victoria (British Columbia); St. Peter's College, Oxford University; and the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.