Jennifer E. Rothman is a Professor of Law and the Joseph Scott Fellow at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She is an elected member of the American Law Institute, and an affiliated fellow at the Yale Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Professor Rothman is nationally recognized for her scholarship in the intellectual property and constitutional law fields, and is the leading expert on the right of publicity. She created Rothman’s Roadmap to the Right of Publicity, www.rightofpublicityroadmap.com, the go-to-website for right-of-publicity questions and news. Her 2018 book, The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World, was published by Harvard University Press.
Rothman received her A.B. from Princeton where she received the Asher Hinds Book Prize and the Grace May Tilton Prize. She received her J.D. from UCLA where she graduated first in her class, and won the Jerry Pacht Constitutional Law Award for her scholarship in that field. Rothman served as law clerk to the Honorable Marsha S. Berzon of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Rothman also has an M.F.A. in film production from the University of Southern California.