Distinguished Professor of Law
B.A., Brandeis University
J.D., UCLA School of Law
E-mail:
aegarfield@widener.eduPhone: 302.477.2140
Alan E. Garfield is a distinguished professor of law on Widener’s Delaware campus. He received his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Brandeis University, and his Juris Doctorate from UCLA School of Law, where he was a member of the UCLA Law Review and the Order of the Coif (top 10%). Prior to joining the Widener faculty, Professor Garfield worked for three years in the litigation department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges in New York City. He is licensed to practice in California and New York.
Professor Garfield has been teaching at Widener since 1986. He was the recipient of the 2004 Outstanding Teaching Award and the 2006 Douglas E. Ray Excellence in Faculty Scholarship Award. He served as the 2005-2007 H. Albert Young Fellow in Constitutional Law and currently holds a three-year appointment as a distinguished professor. Professor Garfield has also been a visiting professor at American University Washington College of Law and Bryn Mawr College.
Professor Garfield writes and teaches in the areas of Constitutional Law, Copyright and Contracts. His articles have appeared in numerous journals including the Cornell Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, and the Florida Law Review. Professor Garfield has also contributed Op-Eds to the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Wilmington News Journal and currently writes a monthly column for The News Journal, Bench Press, for which he has received a Delaware Press Association award.
Professor Garfield is a past chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Mass Communication Law and is currently on the Section’s Executive Committee. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the Delaware ACLU since 2006.
Professor Garfield can be reached at e-mail address:
aegarfield@widener.edu.
Selected Recent Publications
Articles
- “Reasoning-Lite” in the Violent Video Game Case, ___ WAKE FOREST L. REV. ONLINE ___ (2011) (forthcoming)
- Calibrating Copyright Statutory Damages to Promote Speech, 38 FLA. ST. U. L. REV. 1 (2010).
- What Should We Celebrate on Constitution Day?, 41 GA. L. REV. 453 (2007).
- The Case for First Amendment Limits on Copyright Law, 35 HOFSTRA L. REV. 1169 (2007) in Reclaiming the First Amendment: Constitutional Theories of Media Reform Symposium.
- Protecting Children from Speech, 57 FLA. L. REV. 565 (2005), reprinted in FIRST AMENDMENT LAW HANDBOOK (Rodney Smolla, ed., 2005-2006 ed.)
- Basic Assumption (A Poem Based on Sherwood v. Walker), 57 SMU L. REV. 137 (2004), reprinted in HOGG ET AL., CONTRACTS: CASES AND THEORY OF CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATION 688 (2008)
- The Mischief of Cohen v. Cowles Media Co., 35 GA. L. REV. 1087 (2001).
- Promises of Silence: Contract Law and Freedom of Speech, 83 CORNELL L. REV. 261 (1998).