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Lecture Notice—2015 17thAnniversary Annual F.Y. Chang Lecture

Theme: Intellectual Property and the Future of Entertainment

Guest Speaker: Prof. William W. Fisher

Time: 15:30, Nov19th, 2015

Venue: Lecture Hall, Koguan Building, Peking University

Guests:
Julia Chang Bloch, Founder and Chairwoman ofUS-China Education Trust (F.Y. Chang Foundation)
William P. Alford, Deputy Dean of Harvard Law School, renowned expert on Chinese Law
Zhang Shouwen,Dean of PKULS
Wang Xixin. Deputy Dean of PKULS
Zhang Ping, Prof. from PKULS
Zhang Qi,Prof. from PKULS
Liu Yinliang, Prof. from PKULS

Introduction of the Speaker:

Professor Fisher received his undergraduate degree (in American Studies) from Amherst College and his graduate degrees (J.D. and Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization) from Harvard University. Between 1982 and 1984, he served as a law clerk to Judge Harry T. Edwards of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and then to Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Since 1984, he has taught at Harvard Law School, where he is currently the Wilmer Hale Professor of Intellectual Property Law and the Director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. His academic honors include a Danforth Postbaccalaureate Fellowship (1978-1982) and a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Stanford, California (1992-1993).
Publications: (1) Fisher, William W. "Texts and Contexts: The Application to American Legal History of the Methodologies of Intellectual History," 49 Stanford Law Review 1065 (1997). (2)Fisher, William W. "Reconstructing the Fair Use Doctrine," 101 Harvard Law Review 1659 (1988).


Translated by: Zhuang Muping

Edited by: Xia Jing