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Michael Goodyear is an Associate Professor at New York Law School. Professor Goodyear’s research explores how copyright, trademark, the right of publicity, and related rights and liabilities evolve in response to technological and cultural change, including online platforms, generative AI, deepfakes, and traditional knowledge. He also studies how intellectual property law can empower historically underrepresented populations, especially LGBTQ+ and Indigenous communities. His work has been published or is forthcoming in over a dozen law reviews, including the UC Davis Law Review, Arizona State Law Journal, University of Illinois Law Review, and Harvard Journal of Law & Technology, as well as popular press and scientific publications such as Slate and Issues in Science and Technology.

Professor Goodyear regularly presents his research at academic conferences, practitioner events, and student discussions. His work has been accepted to the Junior Faculty Forum on Law and STEM, the ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law, the Legal Scholars Roundtable on Artificial Intelligence, the Freedom of Expression Scholars Conference, and the Intellectual Property Emerging Scholars Panel at the AALS Annual Meeting, among other venues. He has spoken at law school events at NYU, Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Berkeley, Fordham, and Emory, as well as internationally at University College London, the Technical University of Munich, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has also been invited to present before the International Trademark Association (INTA) and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

Before joining NYLS, Professor Goodyear was an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering and a Fellow at the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at New York University School of Law. Professor Goodyear started his legal career as an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP in the Complex Commercial Litigation and Intellectual Property & Media groups, where he litigated intellectual property cases and counseled clients in the tech industry such as Meta, Alibaba, Samsung, eBay, and Pinterest. Professor Goodyear received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Michigan Law School and his B.A. from the University of Chicago in History and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Phi Beta Kappa, with honors, where he studied Byzantine history.