Biography

A globally recognized expert on intellectual property law, Paul Goldstein is the author of an influential four-volume treatise on U.S. copyright law and a one-volume treatise on international copyright law, as well as leading casebooks on intellectual property and international intellectual property. He has authored eight other books including two novels devoted to intellectual property themes, Errors and Omissions and A Patent Lie. Some of his other works include Copyright’s Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, a widely acclaimed book on the history and future of copyright, and Intellectual Property: The Tough New Realities That Could Make or Break Your Business. His next novel, Havana Requiem, is forthcoming in April 2012.

Professor Goldstein currently serves as of counsel at Morrison & Foerster in their intellectual property group and has been regularly included in Best Lawyers in America. He has served as chairman of the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Panel on Intellectual Property Rights in an Age of Electronics and Information, has been a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Patent, Copyright, and Competition Law in Munich, Germany, and was a founding faculty member of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center. In addition, before joining the Stanford Law School faculty in 1975, he was a professor of law at the State University of New York at Buffalo Law School.

Key Works

• Paul Goldstein, Goldstein On Copyright, 3rd ed., New York: Aspen, 2005.
• Paul Goldstein, Copyright's Highway: From Gutenberg to the Celestial Jukebox, Rev. ed., Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2003. 238 pages.
• Paul Goldstein, Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines: Cases and Materials on Intellectual Property Law, Revised 5th edition, New York, NY: Foundation Press, 2002. 1025 pages.
• Paul Goldstein, International Copyright: Principles, Law and Practice, New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. 618 pages.
• Paul Goldstein, International Intellectual Property Law : Cases and Materials, New York, NY: Foundation Press, 2001. 580 pages.

Courses & Programs

Courses

• Intellectual Property: Copyright
• International Intellectual Property

Programs

• John M. Olin Program in Law and Economics, Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law
• Stanford Program in Law, Science & Technology, Stella W. and Ira S. Lillick Professor of Law

Publications & Cases

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• Paul Goldstein, Havana Requiem: A Legal Thriller, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (forthcoming 2012).
• Paul Goldstein, Congress Should Fix the Copyright Mess, Center for Internet and Society (CIS) at Stanford Law School blog, February 8, 2012.
• Paul Goldstein, Marketa Trimble, International Legal Materials on Intellectual Property, 2011 edition, New York: Foundation Press, 2011.
• Paul Goldstein, What Is a Copyrighted Work? Why Does It Matter?, Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture, UCLA School of Law, 18 November 2010, 58 UCLA Law Review 1175 (2011).
• Paul Goldstein, P. Bernt Hugenholtz, International Copyright: Principles, Law, and Practice, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.
• Paul Goldstein, R. Anthony Reese, Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Related State Doctrines, Revised 6th ed., New York: Foundation Press, 2010..
• Paul Goldstein, Goldstein on Copyright, 2010 Updates, New York: Aspen Publishers, 2010.
• Gerald Korngold and Paul Goldstein, Real Estate Transactions: Cases and Materials on Land Transfer, Development and Finance. Statute, Form, and Problem Supplement, 5th ed. Westbury, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 2009.
• Gerald Korngold and Paul Goldstein, Real Estate Transactions: Cases and Materials on Land Transfer, Development and Finance, 5th ed. Westbury, N.Y.: Foundation Press, 2009.
• Paul Goldstein and Joseph Straus, eds., Intellectual Property in Asia: Law, Economics, History and Politics, Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2009.

Affiliations & Honors

Honors and Awards

• Recipient, John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching, Stanford, 1978, 1983