Betsy Rosenblatt (221Betsy) has practiced and taught intellectual property law for over 15 years. She is an Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law at Whittier Law School. Before making the jump to academia, she practiced law at the firm of Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, where she worked for entertainment and high-tech clients.

Prof. Rosenblatt has been active in fandom of one sort or another for most of her life, and in addition to more traditional scholarship, she often writes and speaks about the relationship between intellectual property law and fan creativity. She is the Legal Chair of the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit that focuses on protecting and advocating for fans and fanworks, and is an Advisory Chair for the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. In her spare time, she crochets, games, blogs about television, makes homemade cheese, hikes, and is Of Counsel to the firm of Kesselman, Brantly & Stockinger.

Lateef Mtima Biographical Sketch

Lateef Mtima is a Professor of Law at the Howard University School of Law. After graduating with honors from Amherst College, Professor Mtima received his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School, where he was the co-founder and later editor-in-chief of the Harvard BlackLetter Journal. He is admitted to the New York and Pennsylvania bars and has practiced intellectual property, bankruptcy, and commercial law, including a decade in private practice with the international law firm of Coudert Brothers. Currently a member of the Advisory Council for the United States Court of Federal Claims and the BNA Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal Advisory Board, Professor Mtima has held the post of Distinguished Libra Visiting Scholar in Residence at the University of Maine School of Law, is a past President of the Giles S. Rich Inn of Court for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and was a member of the founding Editorial Board for the American Bar Association intellectual property periodical Landslide. Professor Mtima is the Founder and Director of the Institute for Intellectual Property and Social Justice, an accredited Non-governmental Organization Member of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO).

Professor Mtima is the editor/contributing author of Intellectual Property, Social Justice, and Entrepreneurship: From Swords to Ploughshares (Edward Elgar 2015) and the co-author of Transnational Intellectual Property Law (West Academic 2015).