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Zvi Rosen

Associate Professor of Law
Faculty Director of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property
Phone: (603) 513-5154
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Zvi S. Rosen is an Associate Professor at UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law and the Faculty Director of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property. He has served as an Assistant Professor at the Southern Illinois University School of Law, as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University, and as a Visiting Scholar and Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University School of Law.

 

In 2015-2016, he was the Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in Residence at the U.S. Copyright Office. Prof. Rosen received his J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law in 2005. He has practiced at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP as well as smaller firms and his own practice, and clerked for the Hon. Thomas B. Bennett of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama. He has written extensively on the development of modern copyright and trademark law, as well as on bankruptcy law.  He is a member of the Copyright Alliance Academic Advisory Board, the Peer Review Board of the Journal of the Copyright Society, and a Fellow at the IP Policy Institute.

Courses Taught

  • LGP 952: Property
  • LIP 912: Copyright Law
  • LIP 944: Fund of Intellectual Property
  • LIP 977: Trademarks &Deceptive Practices
  • LSK 960: Law Journal Staff
  • LSK 961: Law Journal Editorial Board

Research Interests

  • Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks
  • American legal history
  • Bankruptcy

Selected Publications

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2025). AI Authorship: A Case of History Repeating Itself?. Indiana Law Review, Forthcoming.

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2025). The Steamboat Willie Smokescreen. Journal of the Copyright Society, 72.

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2024). Who Framed Mickey Mouse?. University of Kansas Law Review, 73.

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2023). Examining Copyright. Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, 69.

  • Sheley, E. L., & Rosen, Z. S. (2023). The Purloined Debtor: Edgar Allan Poe’s Bankruptcy in Law and Letters. Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, 34.

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2022). Early American Federal Trademark Law and the Law of Nations. Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–1920.

  • Rosen, Z. S., & Frye, B. L. (2022). Amicus Brief in Valancourt v. Garland (D.C. Cir. 2022). Unpublished Brief.

  • Rosen, Z. S., & Schwinn, R. (2020). An Empirical Study of 225 Years of Copyright Registrations. Tulane Law Review, 94.

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2020). In the Shadow of the Trade-Mark Cases: The 1881 Trademark Act and the Supreme Court. Forgotten Comparative Intellectual Property Law.

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2018). Common-Law Copyright. University of Cincinnati Law Review, 85.

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