Professor of Law. Professor Lastowka earned his B.A. summa cum laude
in English at Yale College in 1991. He received a teaching
certification in English from the University of Arizona in 1994 while
working as a graphic artist. In 1994, he entered the United States
Peace Corps, serving for two years in the former Soviet republic of
Turkmenistan. In Turkmenistan, he trained local English teachers in
pedagogy and coauthored the first Turkmen-English dictionary. He earned
a J.D. from the University of Virginia Law School in 2000, where he was
a Hardy Cross Dillard Scholar, a member of the Raven Society, a fellow
of the Society of Fellows, and an article editor on the Virginia Law Review. Following
graduation, he clerked for the Honorable Walter K. Stapleton of the
Federal Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Before joining the
faculty in 2004, he practiced intellectual property and technology
litigation at Dechert LLP. His publications have included: "The
Trademark Function of Authorship" (Boston University Law Review), "Amateur-to-Amateur" (William and Mary Law Review), "The Law of the Virtual Worlds" (California Law Review), and "Search Engines, HTML, and Trademarks: What's the Meta For?" (Virginia Law Review). His research focuses on the regulation of information, technology, and intellectual property.
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