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Steven Wilf

A scholar whose research focuses upon intellectual property law, historical jurisprudence, and legal history, Steven Wilf seeks to explore the fundamental ways that the origins of legal processes effect normative outcomes. Among his recent writings are The Law Before the Law (Littlefield & Rowman, 2008), "The Making of the Post-War Paradigm in American Intellectual Property Law," 31 Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts (2008), and "The Invention of Legal Primitivism," 10 Theoretical Inquiries in the Law (2008). He has been a visiting professor at Hebrew University, Jerusalem and DADD guest professor at the Freie Universitiät, Berlin. He also has held fellowships as John Carter Brown Fellow at Brown University, Fellow in Comparative Legal History at the University of Chicago, Golieb Fellow at the New York University Law School, and, most recently, at The Institute for Advanced Studies (Jerusalem). Professor Wilf's current scholarship addresses the historical development of United States intellectual property law. He teaches Criminal Law, Development of the Regulatory State, and a variety of advanced seminars in the area of Intellectual Property, including Legal Regulation of Art and Public Culture and Intellectual Property Policy. After completing a dissertation focusing upon legal historical issues, he graduated with a Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 1995. Also in 1995, Professor Wilf received his law degree from Yale Law School. Prior to coming to Connecticut, where he was one of the founders of the Intellectual Property Program, Professor Wilf was a law clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and taught at Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Recent Courses

• Criminal Law (Spring 2009)
• Intellectual Property (Spring 2009)
• Dev of the Regulatory State (Fall 2008)
• International Copyright (Spring 2008)
• IP, Historical Perspectives (Spring 2008)
• Canon of American Lgl Thought (Fall 2007)