Jessica Silbey

Jessica Silbey
Occupations
  • Legal scholar
  • lawyer
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2018)
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisThe subjects of trial films (1999[1])
Academic work
Sub-discipline
  • Constitutional law
  • intellectual property law
  • technology law
Institutions

Jessica Margaret Silbey[1] is an American legal scholar. Originally a lawyer for Foley Hoag, she has worked as a law professor at Suffolk University Law School, Northeastern University School of Law, and Boston University School of Law, where she is also Frank R. Kenison Distinguished Scholar in Law.[2] She is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow, and is author of The Eureka Myth (2015) and Against Progress (2022).

Biography

Silbey obtained a BA from Stanford University and a PhD in comparative literature from the University of Michigan.[2] Her doctoral dissertation was The subjects of trial films.[1] She also obtained a JD from University of Michigan Law School and served as a law clerk for district judge Robert Keeton and circuit judge Levin H. Campbell.[2] She worked as a lawyer for Foley Hoag's Boston office, with her fields being in bankruptcy, intellectual property, and reproductive rights.[2]

Silbey became an assistant professor of law at Suffolk University Law School in 2004, before being promoted to associate professor in 2007 and full professor in 2011.[3] She moved to Northeastern University School of Law in 2015 and Boston University School of Law in 2020, serving as a law professor in both institutions.[3] She chaired the Association of American Law Schools' intellectual property section and, from 2015 to 2018, co-chaired the Copyright Society's New England chapter.[2]

Silbey specializes in constitutional law, intellectual property law, and technology law.[2] She is author of The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators and Everyday Intellectual Property (2015) and Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values (2022), and has co-edited numerous volumes.[2] She is the co-editor of several books, with many of them being within the field of law in popular culture.[2] In 2018, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in Law.[4]

Works

  • (ed. with Peter Robson) Law and Justice on the Small Screen (2012)[2]
  • The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property (2015)[a]
  • (ed. with Austin Sarat and Martha Umphrey) Trial Films on Trial (2019)[2]
  • (ed. with Michael Asimow) Law and Popular Culture: A Course Book (2020)[2]
  • Against Progress: Intellectual Property and Fundamental Values (2022)[2]
  • (ed. with Tom Burke and Lief Carter) Reason in Law (2026)[2]

Notes

  1. ↑ Reviews of this book:[5][6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Silbey, Jessica Margaret (1999). The subjects of trial films (PhD thesis). University of Michigan. OCLC 48575661.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Jessica Silbey". Boston University School of Law. Retrieved July 12, 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Curriculum vitae of Jessica M. Silbey" (PDF). Boston University School of Law. Retrieved July 12, 2026.
  4. ↑ "Jessica Silbey". Guggenheim Fellowships. Retrieved July 11, 2026.
  5. ↑ Chien, Colleen (2016). "Beyond Eureka: What Creators Want (freedom, Credit, and Audiences) and How Intellectual Property Can Better Give It to Them (by Supporting, Sharing, Licensing, and Attribution)". Michigan Law Review. 114 (6): 1081–1107. ISSN 0026-2234. JSTOR 24770897.
  6. ↑ Mercelis, Joris (2017). "Review of The Eureka Myth: Creators, Innovators, and Everyday Intellectual Property". Technology and Culture. 58 (2): 615–616. ISSN 0040-165X. JSTOR 26406211.
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