Assistant Professor Christopher M. Newman graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School in 1999, where he served as book review editor for the Michigan Law Review and received Michigan's highest law school award, the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship. He also holds a BA in classical liberal arts awarded by St. John's College in Annapolis, Maryland.
Following law school, Professor Newman was a clerk for the Honorable Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, with whom he co-published What's So Fair About Fair Use?, 46 J. Copyright Soc'y 513 (1999). From 2000-2007, he was a litigation associate with Irell & Manella LLP in Los Angeles, where he represented clients in disputes involving contracts, business torts, intellectual property, corporate and securities litigation, and appellate matters, as well as pro bono family and criminal law matters. Professor Newman left practice at the beginning of 2007 to serve an Olin/Searle Fellowship in Law at the UCLA School of Law, where he focused on his research and writing in the areas of property theory and intellectual property, and from January 2008 until his arrival at Mason Law served as a research fellow of UCLA's Intellectual Property Project.
- J.D., University of Michigan, 1999
- B.A., St. John's College in Annapolis, MD
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Copyright Originalism
Teleforum
Copyright and Commercialization after Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons
Intellectual Property Practice Group and George Mason University School of Law's Center for Protection of Intellectual Property Teleforum
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Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons - Post-Decision SCOTUScast
SCOTUScast 7-28-16 featuring Christopher Newman
On June 16, 2016, the Supreme Court decided Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons. Academic...
Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons - Post-Argument SCOTUScast
SCOTUScast 5-12-16 featuring Christopher Newman
On April 25, 2016, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley...
Young Legal Scholars Paper Presentations - Event Audio/Video
17th Annual Faculty Conference
This panel was part of the 17th Annual Federalist Society Faculty Conference held on January...
Copyright Originalism - Podcast
Intellectual Property Practice Group Podcast
Professor Tom W. Bell, Chapman University, Fowler School of Law, participated in a Teleforum conference call...
Copyright and Commercialization after Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley & Sons - Podcast
Intellectual Property Practice Group and George Mason University School of Law's Center for Protection of Intellectual Property Podcast
On March 19th, the Supreme Court virtually eliminated the ability of copyright owners to stop the...