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Zvi Rosen

Associate Professor of Law
Faculty Director of the Franklin Pierce Center for Intellectual Property
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Zvi S. Rosen is an Associate Professor at UNH Franklin Pierce µÚÒ»³Ô¹Ï and the Faculty Director of the Franklin Pierce Society for Intellectual Property. He has served as an Assistant Professor at the Southern Illinois University µÚÒ»³Ô¹Ï, as a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Maurice A. Deane µÚÒ»³Ô¹Ï at Hofstra University, and as a Visiting Scholar and Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University µÚÒ»³Ô¹Ï.

In 2015-2016, he was the Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in Residence at the U.S. Copyright Office. Mr. Rosen received his J.D. from Northwestern University µÚÒ»³Ô¹Ï in 2005. He has practiced at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP as well as smaller firms and his own practice, and clerked for the Hon. Thomas B. Bennett of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Alabama. He has written extensively on the development of modern copyright and trademark law, as well as on bankruptcy law.

Research Interests

  • Patents, Copyrights, Trademarks
  • American legal history
  • Bankruptcy

Selected Publications

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2025). The Steamboat Willie Smokescreen. Journal of the Copyright Society, 72.

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2025). AI Authorship: A Case of History Repeating Itself?. Indiana Law Review, Forthcoming.

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2024). Who Framed Mickey Mouse?. University of Kansas Law Review, 73.

  • Sheley, E. L., & Rosen, Z. S. (2023). The Purloined Debtor: Edgar Allan Poe’s Bankruptcy in Law and Letters. Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, 34.

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2023). Examining Copyright. Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, 69.

  • Rosen, Z. S., & Frye, B. L. (2022). Amicus Brief in Valancourt v. Garland (D.C. Cir. 2022). Unpublished Brief.

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2022). Early American Federal Trademark Law and the Law of Nations. Intellectual Property and the Law of Nations, 1860–1920.

  • Rosen, Z. S., & Schwinn, R. (2020). An Empirical Study of 225 Years of Copyright Registrations. Tulane Law Review, 94.

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2020). In the Shadow of the Trade-Mark Cases: The 1881 Trademark Act and the Supreme Court. Forgotten Comparative Intellectual Property Law.

  • Rosen, Z. S. (2018). Common-Law Copyright. University of Cincinnati Law Review, 85.