Reminder: TM scholarship roundtable
Rebecca Tushnet's 43(B)log 2025-05-21
The Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable co-hosted by Harvard, NYU, and the University of Pennsylvania will take place this year at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. The Roundtable is designed to be a forum for the discussion of current trademark, false advertising, right of publicity, and related unfair competition and IP scholarship, covering a range of methodologies, topics, and perspectives. Five to six papers will be chosen for discussion over the course of the Roundtable, with each paper allocated an entire hour for discussion and assigned a commentator.
The Roundtable will be held on Friday, October 10, 2025. If there is a critical mass of papers, we may also extend the Roundtable through Saturday morning, October 11th. Participation at the Roundtable will be limited and invitation-only. We expect all participants to have read the papers in advance. The Roundtable will cover the travel and lodging expenses for invited authors. We invite submissions from scholars working on any aspect of trademark, false advertising, marketing, right of publicity, unfair competition, or related areas of the law. Priority will be given to those who can attend the entire event (including Saturday) and a dinner the night of Friday, October 10th. Submissions must be of full drafts in Microsoft word or PDF format. The deadline for submission is May 27th.
To submit a draft paper, please fill out the form here: https://cvent.me/RXxbZ0 and upload an anonymized version of your draft. Please note that the maximum file size that may be uploaded is 10MB. Appendices or other supporting material or larger files can be emailed separately to ctic@law.upenn.edu; please do not submit a CV or cover letter.
For further information about the Roundtable, please email: Jennifer Rothman (Penn): rothmj@law.upenn.edu; Barton Beebe (NYU): barton.beebe@nyu.edu; or Rebecca Tushnet (Harvard): rtushnet@law.harvard.edu.
We look forward to reading your submissions!
Jennifer (Barton & Rebecca)