Jennifer E. Rothman

Jennifer E. Rothman is the Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a secondary appointment at the Annenberg School for Communication. She is globally recognized for her scholarship in the field of intellectual property and privacy law, and is the leading expert on the right of publicity and personality rights. Professor Rothman is the Reporter for the Uniform Law Commission Study of the Protection of Name, Image, and Likeness Rights, an elected member of the American Law Institute, and an adviser on the Restatement of the Law (Third) of Torts: Defamation and Privacy.

Rothman’s book, The Right of Publicity: Privacy Reimagined for a Public World was published by Harvard University Press and has been described as the “definitive biography of the right of publicity.” Rothman is the author of numerous essays and articles, including most recently Postmortem Privacy, published in the Michigan Law Review, and Navigating the Identity Thicket: Trademark’s Lost Theory of Personality, the Right of Publicity, and Preemption, published in the Harvard Law Review. Her 2024 Donald C. Brace Lecture, Copyrighting People, appears in the 2025 Journal of the Copyright Society, and her recent lecture given at Columbia, Reframing Deepfakes, is forthcoming in its Law & Arts Journal.

Rothman has testified in Congress multiples times, most recently on intellectual property, personality rights, and artificial intelligence. Rothman is also the creator of Rothman’s Roadmap to the Right of Publicity.