Justin Hughes
Associate Professor of Law and Director, Intellectual Property Law Program
Yeshiva University
Professor Hughes was formerly attorney-advisor at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where he was at the center of a wide variety of national and international policy debates. His areas of expertise in intellectual property include the Internet, WIPO copyright treaties, database protection, geographic indications, and audiovisual performers' rights. Professor Hughes is a frequent witness at congressional hearings and has written extensively on Internet, copyright, and patent law.
Professor Hughes has also been active in democracy development projects, working on elections in El Salvador, Haiti, Mali, Bosnia, and Albania. In 1998, he spent his summer as the deputy producer of the first televised presidential debates in Bosnia since the Dayton Peace Accords.
A magna cum laude graduate of both Oberlin College and Harvard Law School, he was articles editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. Immediately after law school, he worked at Coudert Frères in Paris, concentrating on international commercial arbitration, and from 1991 to 1996 he was at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in Los Angeles where he concentrated on intellectual property litigation and transaction work, civil litigation, and international arbitrations. As a Henry Luce Scholar, he clerked for the Lord President of the Supreme Court of Malaysia. Professor Hughes has been a visiting professor at UCLA and the Hosier Distinguished Visiting Professor at DePaul University.