Ellen Goodman - Rapporteur, Participant

Professor Ellen P. Goodman, Rutgers University School of Law, is a public media and media policy expert. She co-directs and co-founded the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law and teaches media law, copyright, intellectual property law, advertising law, animal law, and property law. Professor Goodman has published extensively on media and spectrum policy, regulation through disclosure, and advertising law in the Cornell Law Review, Texas Law Review, Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, Berkeley Journal of Law & Technology among other journals and books. In 2013-2014, she was a Senior Visiting Scholar at the London School of Economics and recently served as Distinguished Visiting Scholar with the Federal Communications Commission, responsible for the nonprofit media section of the landmark 2011 Information Needs of Communities Report. She has had visiting appointments at the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School of Communications, as well as Penn’s Wharton School of Business and Law School, and Bar Ilan University. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty, Professor Goodman was a partner at Covington & Burling LLP, where she practiced in the information technology area. A graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, Professor Goodman was a law clerk for Judge Norma Shapiro on the federal court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. She lives near Philadelphia with her husband and three children.