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Featured Annotators
Bingham McCutchen LLP is a global law firm with more than 850 lawyers in nine US offices, including San Francisco, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, New York and Washington D.C., and five international offices, including Tokyo, Beijing and London. The firm represents clients in intellectual property, high stakes litigation, corporate and technology transactions, financing and securities, structured finance and capital markets, and government affairs.
Ruthann Robson is Professor of Law & University Distinguished Professor. She is the author of Dressing Constitutionally: Hierarchy, Sexuality, and Democracy (2013), as well as the books Sappho Goes to Law School (1998); Gay Men, Lesbians, and the Law (1996); and Lesbian (Out)Law: Survival Under the Rule of Law (1992), and the editor of the three volume set, International Library of Essays in Sexuality & Law (2011). She is a frequent commentator on constitutional and sexuality issues and the co-editor of the Constitutional Law Professors Blog. She is one of the 26 professors selected for inclusion in What the Best Law Teachers Do (Harvard University Press, 2013).
Professor Clark Asay's research focuses on legal issues relating to the Internet and arising from technological change. His specific interests include intellectual property law, open models of innovation, and information privacy law.
Prior to joining Penn State, Professor Asay served as corporate counsel for Lab126, an Amazon company that develops and designs consumer electronic products such as the Kindle Fire. As an associate in the Technology Transactions Group at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, he worked on agreements relating to the transfer, licensing, and development of technology as well as following intellectual property law developments on behalf of clients.
Professor Reinert conducts research in the areas of constitutional law, civil procedure, and criminal law. His articles have appeared in the Indiana Law Journal, Law and Contemporary Problems, Northwestern University Law Review, Stanford Law Review, the University of Illinois Law Review, and William and Mary Law Review, among other journals. Professor Reinert argued before the Supreme Court in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, and has appeared on behalf of parties and amicus curiae in many significant civil rights cases.