Ann Bartow

Ann Bartow joined the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law in 2015. She previously held tenured faculty appointments at Pace Law School and the University of South Carolina School of Law. During the 2011-2012 academic year, Professor Bartow was a Fulbright Scholar at Tongji University in Shanghai, China. She teaches Copyright Law, Trademark Law, Survey of Intellectual Property Law, Art Law and Torts. She is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her scholarship focuses on the intersection between intellectual property laws and public policy concerns, privacy and technology law, and feminist legal theory, and she has published numerous articles and book chapters on these subjects.  

Professor Bartow has served as chair and a past advisory board member of the American Association of Law Schools Executive Committee of the Defamation and Privacy Section, and also a past chair and past advisory board member the Intellectual Property Law Section. She  is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and also a member of the American Law Institute.

Prior to entering the academy in 1995, Professor Bartow practiced law at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen (later known as Bingham McCutchen LLP and now merged with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius) in San Francisco. She began her teaching career as an Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Teaching Fellow at Temple University School of Law, where she also received an LL.M. in Legal Education and later served as a visiting professor. Professor Bartow has also taught as a visitor at the University of Florida School of Law, American University Washington College of Law, the University of Dayton School of Law and the University of Idaho College of Law.