Albany Law School

B.A., LL.B., Cornell University

Prof. Halpern joined Albany Law School in the fall of 2005 as the Hon. Harold R. Tyler Jr. Chair in Law & Technology. In 2007, he was appointed Visiting Fellow at the Department of Law of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy.

Halpern received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and graduated first in his class at Cornell Law School. He had been a professor at The Ohio State University since 1984 and the C. William O'Neill Professor of Law and Judicial Administration since 2001. He has authored several books and publications and directed a series of interdisciplinary conferences exploring the impact of technology on law. Before joining academia, Prof. Halpern practiced law in New York and Minnesota.

INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (United States Volume) rev., (part of Kluwer's INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF LAW) (Kluwer Law International) (with Nard and Port) (forthcoming)

Halpern, Seymore, & Port, Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law: Copyright, Patent, and Trademark (Kluwer Law International, Fourth Edition) (forthcoming 2012)

HALPERN & JOHNSON, INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT LAW: THE PATH TO HARMONIZING THE COPYRIGHT LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE EUROPEAN UNION (Edward Elgar Publishing, Ltd.) (forthcoming 2013)

Trademark Rights, Publicity Rights and Property Rights a Chapter in Overlapping Intellectual Property Rights, Wilkof &Basheer, eds. (Oxford University Press, 2012).

FUNDAMENTALS OF UNITED STATES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: COPYRIGHT, PATENT, AND TRADEMARK, 3rd ed. (Kluwer Law International (with Nard and Port) (2010)

Trafficking in Trademarks: Setting Boundaries for the Uneasy Relationship Between "Property" Rights and Trademark and Publicity Rights,
58 DePaul Law Review 4 (2008)

FUNDAMENTALS OF UNITED STATES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: COPYRIGHT, PATENT, AND TRADEMARK, 2^nd ed. (Aspen, 2006) (with Nard and Port)

INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (United States Volume) rev., (part of Kluwer's INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF LAW) (Kluwer Law International, 2006) (with Nard and Port)

A High Likelihood of Confusion: Walmart, TrafFix, Moseley, and Dastar-The Supreme Court's New Trademark Jurisprudence,
61 New York University Annual Survey of American Law 237 (2005)

The Art of Compromise and Compromising Art: Copyright, Technology, and the Arts,
50 Journal of the Copyright Society of the United States 273 (2003)

Book Review: reviewing Huw, Beverly-Smith, THE COMMERCIAL APPROPRIATION OF PERSONALITY (Cambridge University Press, 2002),
13 Duke Journal of Comparative and International Law 381 (2003)

Copyright Law and the Challenge of Digital Technology in IMAGE ETHICS IN THE DIGITAL AGE, Gross, Katz and Ruby (eds.) (University of Minnesota Press, 2003)

COPYRIGHT LAW: PROTECTION OF ORIGINAL EXPRESSION (Carolina Academic Press, 2002) Supplement 2007-continuing

The Digital Threat to the Normative Role of Copyright Law,
62 Ohio State Law Journal 569 (2001)

THE LAW OF DEFAMATION, PRIVACY AND MORAL RIGHT: CASES AND MATERIALS ON PROTECTION OF PERSONALITY INTERESTS, 4th ed. (JPM Books, 2000)

Copyright Law in the Digital Age: Malum in Se and Malum Prohibitum,
4 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 1 (2000)

FUNDAMENTALS OF UNITED STATES INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAW: COPYRIGHT, PATENT, AND TRADEMARK (part of INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LAW) (Kluwer Law International, 1999) (with Craig Nard and Kenneth Port)

Of Moral Right and Moral Righteousness,
1 Marquette Intellectual Property Law Review 65 (1997)

The Traffic in Souls: Privacy Interests and the Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems,
11 Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Law Journal 45 (1995)

The Right of Publicity: Maturation of an Independent Right Protecting the Associative Value of Personality,
46 Hastings Law Journal 853 (1995)

Rethinking the Right of Privacy: Dignity, Decency, and the Laws's Limitations,
43 Rutgers Law Review 539 (1991)

"The Inviolate Personality," Warren & Brandeis After One Hundred Years: Introduction to a Symposium on the Right of Privacy,
10 Northern Illinois University Law Review 387 (1991)

Of Libel, Language and Law: New York Times v. Sullivan at Twenty-Five,
68 North Carolina Law Review 273 (1990)

Values and Value: An Essay on Libel Reform,
47 Washington & Lee Law Review 227 (1990)

THE LAW OF DEFAMATION, PRIVACY AND" MORAL RIGHTS": CASES AND MATERIALS ON PROTECTION OF PERSONALITY INTERESTS, (Anderson Publishing, 1988)

Application of the Doctrine of Commercial Impracticability: Searching for "The Wisdom of Solomon,
135 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 1123 (1987)

The Right of Publicity: Commercial Exploitation of the Associative Value of Personality,
39 Vanderbilt Law Review 1199 (1986)

Inhibitions on Independence: The Multi-Function Role of "Inside" Counsel,
40 Ohio Bar Journal 6 (1984)

Comment: "Civil Insanity": The New York Treatment of the Issue of Mental Incapacity in Non-Criminal Cases,
44 Cornell Law Quarterly 76 (1958)