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Christine Haight Farley is a Professor of Law at Â鶹´«Ã½ Washington College of Law and an expert on intellectual property. She teaches Intellectual Property, Trademark Law, Contracts, Art Law, and Advertising law. Farley’s scholarship has focused on the international aspects of intellectual property law, conflicts between intellectual property rights and freedom of expression, intellectual property law’s treatment of art, and the expansion of intellectual property rights. She serves as Co-Faculty Director of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property and previously served as Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs. At Â鶹´«Ã½, Farley has received the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Edwin A. Mooers Scholarship Award. She has been a visiting professor at Boston University, the University of Paris West, the University of Puerto Rico, the University of Havana, Monash University, and the National Law University in Lucknow, India, and has given lectures on intellectual property in more than twenty-five countries. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Center for Inter-Â鶹´«Ã½ Legal Education, and has served on the Executive Committees of the Intellectual Property and the Art Law Sections of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Association of Law Schools and as a member of a presidential task force of the International Trademark Association. She is the recipient of a Fulbright Senior Specialist grant to teach U.S. intellectual property law to foreign law students. Prior to her career in academia, she practiced trademark and copyright litigation in New York with the firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman. She holds a B.A. (Binghamton), J.D. (Buffalo), LL.M. (Columbia), and a J.S.D. (Columbia).