The Luxury Economy and Intellectual Property

Haochen Sun is Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of intellectual property and property law. He has been a Visiting Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. Professor Sun has organized a few leading international conferences on intellectual property and has taught courses on luxury brand protection. His recent publications include Living Together in One Civilized World: How Luxury Companies and Consumers Can Fulfill Their Ethical Responsibilities to the Poor, 46 UC Davis Law Review 547 (2013). Barton Beebe is the John M. Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law at New York University School of Law. He has been the Anne Urowsky Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School and a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. In 2007, Professor Beebe was a Special Master in the case of Louis Vuitton Malletier v. Dooney & Bourke, Inc., No. 04 Civ. 2990 (SAS) (S.D.N.Y.). His published works include Intellectual Property Law and the Sumptuary Code, 123 Harvard Law Review 809 (2010). Madhavi Sunder is Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis, School of Law. Her work traverses numerous legal fields, from intellectual property to human rights law and the First Amendment. She has been Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School, the University of Chicago Law School, and Cornell Law School. She was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2006. She is the author of From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice (2012).