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Robert F. Brauneis is a professor of
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Biography

Brauneis received a
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from the
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in 1982,The George Washington University Law School, ''2013–2014 Law School Bulletin'' (August 7, 2013), p. 150. and a J.D., magna cum laude from
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in 1989. He then served as a
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to Judge
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, and then to Justice
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from 1992 to 1993. Between his clerkships, he worked as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the city of
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. In August 1994, he joined the faculty of George Washington University Law School. He is most noted for his article, ''Copyright and the World's Most Popular Song'', which provided the evidence used to determine that the longstanding claim to
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ownership of the song, ''
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'', was invalid. Brauneis has also published many other articles, and contributed to the authorship of several books.


See also

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References


Selected publications

* Brauneis, Robert; Schechter, Roger (2012). ''Copyright: A Contemporary Approach''. Interactive Casebook Series. St. Paul, MN: West Academic Publishing * Brauneis, Robert (1996). "The Foundation of our 'Regulatory Takings' Jurisprudence: The Myth and Meaning of Justice Holmes' Opinion in ''Pennsylvania Coal v. Mahon''.
''Yale Law Journal''
106: 613–702. (JSTOR access).


External links


Biography
at the George Washington University Law School
Blog posts
at
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Statement of Robert Brauneis
Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, February 26, 2015 {{DEFAULTSORT:Brauneis, Robert Living people Place of birth missing (living people) Year of birth missing (living people) Harvard Law School alumni University of California, Santa Cruz alumni George Washington University Law School faculty Law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States 20th-century American lawyers 21st-century American lawyers Lawyers from Washington, D.C. Copyright scholars American legal scholars