Education
Harvard University; Yale Law School.
Harvard University; Yale Law School.
In addition to her general scholarship, Tushnet is known for her fanfiction-related scholarship and her legal advocacy work for the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit fandom-related project that supports fanworks (such as fanfiction) through preservation and advocacy. Her blog has been named to the American Bar Association "Blawg 100" for several years in a row. Tushnet received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1995, and earned her Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1998.
Tushnet clerked for Third Circuit judge Edward R. Becker (1998-1999) and United States Supreme Court Justice David Souter (1999-2000).
She practiced at Debevoise & Plimpton. Tushnet then entered teaching, first at New York University School of Law (2002-2005) and then moving to Georgetown.
In practice, Tushnet has represented fans in copyright and trademark disputes with rightsholders. Her father is Mark Tushnet and her mother is Elizabeth Alexander, who directs the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Her sister Eve Tushnet is a lesbian Catholic author and blogger.
L. "Copy This Essay: How Fair Use Doctrine Harms Free Speech and How Copying Serves lieutenant", 114 Yale L. Christina Spiesel, "More Than a Thousand Words in Response to Rebecca Tushnet" (Responding to Rebecca Tushnet, Worth a Thousand Words: Images of Copyright, 125 Harvard L. 683 (2011)), 125 Harvard L. F. 40 (February 22, 2012).
Lauren Davis, "Are Fan Fiction and Fan Art Legal?" (interview with Rebecca Tushnet), io9.com, August