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Clinical Professor of Law at Duke University, Jennifer Jenkins specializes in intellectual property, copyright law, and public domain advocacy. She directs the Center for the Study of the Public Domain and co-authored landmark works such as Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture (2025) and Intellectual Property: Cases and Materials (2024). Her research bridges legal scholarship with cultural analysis, focusing on how technology and copyright shape artistic creation and cultural access.
Education: B.A. in English (Rice University), J.D. (Duke Law School), M.A. in English (Duke University).
Research interests include music copyright's evolution, AI's impact on creative industries, and public domain policy. She frequently appears in media outlets like The New York Times, Rolling Stone, and NPR, discussing legal challenges in digital creativity.
Her work with the Center for the Study of the Public Domain includes annual Public Domain Day reports, analyzing cultural and legal shifts around copyright expiration. Jenkins also pioneered legal education through comic books, such as Theft! A History of Music and Bound By Law?.
