Professor Tehranian joined Chapman in 2008 as a Professor of Law and Director of the law school's Entertainment Law Program. Before joining Chapman, he was a Professor of Law at the University of Utah, S.J. Quinney College of Law. He received his A.B. magna cum laude from Harvard University, where he was awarded the Palfrey Exhibition Prize for the most distinguished scholar in the senior class and the John Harvard Scholarship and Detur Prize for academic performance of the highest distinction, and his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and Humanities and a senior editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. He is also an experienced entertainment and intellectual property litigator, having represented prominent Hollywood, publishing, new media and technology clients at O’Melveny & Myers LLP and Turner Green Afrasiabi & Arledge LLP. Tehranian’s scholarship focuses on the interface between law and culture, with a particular focus on issues of intellectual property, entertainment and race. He is the author of the book Whitewashed (New York University Press, 2008), an analysis of the social and legal construction of race and the malleable concept of whiteness through history, and the forthcoming book Infringement Nation (2010), an examination of copyright pervasiveness and reform in the digital age. His articles have appeared in such publications as the Yale Law Journal, U.C. Davis Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Journal of Intellectual Property Law, B.Y.U. Law Review, Indiana Law Journal, Utah Law Review, University of Cincinnati Law Review, University of Hawai'i Law Review and Legal Times. A frequent commentator on legal issues for the broadcast and print media, Tehranian has appeared on such television programs as ABC's Nightline and has been quoted as an expert on legal issues in such publications as The New York Times, Harper's Magazine, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Hollywood Reporter and Christian Science Monitor. He has also served as an expert witness in numerous intellectual property and civil rights infringement suits. Professor Tehranian remains actively involved in pro bono legal work, with a particular focus on cases involving immigrants, civil rights plaintiffs, and indigent criminal defendants. He has successfully handled numerous appeals in the federal circuit courts on behalf of political asylum seekers from such countries as Columbia, Romania, and Iraq. He has litigated constitutional cases related to free speech, religious establishment, free assembly, due process, race discrimination, gender discrimination, and privacy rights. He has also has served as a court-appointed public defender in numerous criminal appeals. Courses Taught: Entertainment Law, Intellectual Property, Constitutional Law, Cyberlaw, and Law & Literature |
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