Katharina de la Durantaye
Visiting Professor of Law (Fall 2011)
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435 West 116th Street
Jerome Greene Hall, Room 508
New York NY 10027
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212-854-0288 |
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kdelad1@law.columbia.edu |
Education- Humboldt University Law School, J.D., with honors
- Yale Law School, LL.M.
- Humboldt University Law School, Ph.D., summa cum laude
BiographyKatharina de la Durantaye is a Professor of Private Law at Humboldt University Berlin. Prior to joining Humboldt, she was an Assistant Professor of Law at St. John's University School of Law. Before joining the faculty at St. John's, she was a Visiting Assistant Professor at Boston University School of Law and an Associate-in-Law at Columbia Law School. Professor de la Durantaye’s scholarship focuses on copyright law, comparative law, and legal history. Her book The Protection of Literary Authorship in Ancient Rome was named a “Legal Book of the Year” by one of the leading German law journals. She has published articles on the history of intellectual property law in the Boston University International Law Journal and in Forum Historiae Iuris, one of the premier European journals of legal history.
