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Yolanda King
NIU College of Law Professor Yolanda M. King presented her book chapter, “Pushing the Body Beyond its Limits: Copyright Protection of Body Art” at the 10th annual Lutie A. Lytle Black Women Law Faculty Writing Workshop. The workshop took place from July 6 to July 12 at the University of Iowa College of Law in...
Yolanda King
NIU College of Law Professor Yolanda King, who teaches property law, intellectual property law and entertainment law, recently wrote an opinion piece for Law360 on a pending court trial over copyright infringement. Licensing company Solid Oak Sketches LLC filed a complaint Feb. 1 of this year against Visual Concepts LLC, 2K Games Inc. and Take-Two...
The first in NIU’s series of Diversity Dialogues began, appropriately, with the First Amendment. Students, faculty and area community members gathered Wednesday in the Carl Sandburg Auditorium for “The First Amendment, Free Speech and Lawful Assembly.” The panel discussion kicked off the series designed to give the university community to place to talk openly and...
Diversity Dialogues
Yale Law School Senior Research Scholar Frederick M. Lawrence will help NIU kick off a new series of Diversity Dialogues that will provide a space for members of the university community to talk openly and honestly on complex and important matters. Sponsored by NIU, the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost and the City...
Russell Slifer
Northern Illinois University College of Law alumnus Russell Slifer (’94) returned Feb. 24 to Swen Parson Hall for the first time in more than 20 years to address NIU Law students. Slifer is the deputy under secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and deputy director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. He attended...
Yolanda M. King
An article by NIU College of Law Associate Professor Yolanda M. King has been cited in a case against a video game manufacturer that claims tattoos displayed on several NBA players portrayed in a video game infringes on a company’s copyrights. Solid Oak Sketches, the exclusive licensor of copyrighted tattoos which appear on some of...
Yolanda King
Yolanda M. King, an associate professor in the NIU College of Law, will speak Friday, Oct. 2, as a panelist during a copyright symposium at Columbia Law School. Called “Copyright: Outside the Box,” the symposium is part of an annual series of copyright symposia hosted by the Columbia Law School’s Kernochan Center for Law, Media...
Third-year NIU Law students Samantha Brown and Daniel Kalina are pictured with their coach Professor Yolanda King. Brown and Kalina placed third in the American Bar Association's Regional Client Counseling Competition.
The Northern Illinois University College of Law team of Samantha Brown and Daniel Kalina placed third in the American Bar Association’s Regional Client Counseling Competition. The competition took place Feb. 15 at the University of Illinois College of Law. Brown and Kalina, both third-year students, advanced to the final round out of 12 teams from various...