Professor Manta teaches intellectual property law subjects. Her research examines the intersection between intellectual property law and social science, with a focus on psychology. She has most recently written about the hedonic value of trademarks and its legal implications, the problem of cognitive bias in copyright infringement litigation, price discrimination through software licensing in the age of the Internet of Things, and the role of criminal sanctions in intellectual property. Professor Manta has published or has forthcoming work in the Emory Law Journal, William & Mary Law Review, Iowa Law Review, Alabama Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Ohio State Law Journal, Washington and Lee Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Stanford Technology Law Review, Florida Law Review, Arizona Law Review, and Cornell Law Review Online, among others. She is also a co-author for a forthcoming textbook on criminal law issues in intellectual property. Professor Manta has further been a guest blogger for PrawfsBlawg and for Concurring Opinions. In 2014, she received the Lawrence A. Stessin Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publications, which is awarded to two junior faculty members across all disciplines at Hofstra University.
Before joining the law school faculty in 2012, Professor Manta was an Assistant Professor of Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law. She was a Bigelow Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at the University of Chicago Law School from 2007 to 2009. Professor Manta has also served on the faculties of Brooklyn Law School, The George Washington University School of Law, and the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law. She clerked for Judge Morris S. Arnold on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit for the 2006-2007 term.
While earning her J.D. at Yale Law School, Professor Manta was the grand prize winner of the Foley & Lardner LLP Intellectual Property Writing Competition. She also served as tributes editor of the Yale Law Journal, articles editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review, and editor of the Yale Journal on Regulation. She graduated magna cum laude from Yale University with a B.A. in psychology.
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Dating App Legal Issues
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Tinder Lies: Why and How to Punish Sexual Fraud in the Dating App Era
Syracuse Student Chapter
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Intellectual Property and the U.S. - China Race for the Future
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Tinder Lies
Montana Student Chapter
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Introduction to Intellectual Property and What Constitutes Fair Use
Florida Coastal Student Chapter
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Privacy v. Freedom of the Press
Short video featuring Irina Manta
What is the proper balance between the right to privacy and freedom of speech? Prof....
Panel 1: Privacy and Freedom of the Press
2017 National Student Symposium
The Internet has made information not only much more accessible, it has allowed almost anyone...
Panel 1: Privacy and Freedom of the Press
2017 National Student Symposium
The Internet has made information not only much more accessible, it has allowed almost anyone...
Panel I: Is IP Property or Government-Conferred Monopoly?
16th Annual Faculty Conference
The Federalist Society's Faculty Division hosted a panel discussion that asked "Is IP Property or...
Panel I: Is IP Property or Government-Conferred Monopoly?
16th Annual Faculty Conference
The Federalist Society's Faculty Division hosted a panel discussion that asked "Is IP Property or...