On April 22, 2016, the St. John’s Intellectual Property Law Center, in collaboration with the St. John’s Law Review, hosted a Symposium entitled Values, Questions, and Methods in Intellectual Property. The Symposium brought together diverse viewpoints on questions of means and ends in IP research: What do we think IP law is for, and how would we know (or find out) if it were achieving the ends we set for it? This one-day event was devoted to finding areas of consensus, sharpening disagreements, and identifying research targets and appropriate methodologies for pursuing these targets at a time when the discipline seems to be in a particularly introspective mood. Videos from the event are embedded below; the Symposium Issue is forthcoming in the St. John's Law Review.

Panel 1: Values

Ann Bartow, University of New Hampshire School of Law
Amy Kapczynski, Yale Law School
Mark Lemley, Stanford Law School
Rob Merges, UC Berkeley School of Law

Panel 2: Questions

Funmi Arewa, UC Irvine School of Law
Oskar Liivak, Cornell Law School
Greg Mandel, Temple University School of Law
Jan Osei-Tutu, Florida International University College of Law

Featured Speaker: Hon. Pierre N. Leval, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Moderator: Eva Subotnik, St. John’s School of Law

Panel 3: Methods

Christopher Buccafusco, Cardozo Law School
Irene Calboli, Texas A&M School of Law
Brett Frischmann, Cardozo Law School
Jeanne Fromer, NYU School of Law
Jessica Silbey, Northeastern University School of Law
Christopher Sprigman, NYU School of Law