Ned Snow
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Associate Professor of Law

B.A., J.D.

Email: nsnow@uark.edu
Phone: (479) 575-7959
 

Ned Snow

Ned Snow teaches First Year Property, Law and the Internet, and Decedents' Estates.  As an undergraduate, he studied philosophy and economics at Brigham Young University, graduating summa cum laude.  He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was a member of the Journal on Legislation.

Following law school, Professor Snow clerked for Judge Edith Brown Clement of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.  He then practiced law at Baker Botts in its appellate and complex litigation sections, representing clients in matters of intellectual property, Internet trespass, and international real estate.

Professor Snow received the School of Law award for outstanding teaching during the years of 2008 and 2009.  He is the faculty advisor to the Arkansas Law Review and the J. Reuben Clark Law Society.  He serves on the Arkansas Supreme Court Committee on Automation.  He is conversant in Laotian.

Professor Snow's scholarship focuses on intellectual property issues dealing with copyright, trademark, and Internet law.  He regularly presents papers at the Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, the Works in Progress Intellectual Property Conference, and the Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable.  He also writes essays for Arkansas Law Notes.

 

Representative Publications

Proving Fair Use: Burden of Proof as Burden of Speech, Cardozo Law Review (forthcoming 2010) 

Copytraps, 84 Indiana Law Journal 285-330 (2009)

For a list of other publications, see Ned Snow’s SSRN Page

 

Teaching Awards

2008 Lewis E. Epley, Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching Law

2009 Lewis E. Epley, Jr. Award for Excellence in Teaching Law

 

Blog Entries

Anti-Cybersquatting: The Problem of an Eminent Domain Name, Sept 15, 2008.

Should AuctionSniper be Illegal?, Sept 10, 2008.

For a list of other blog entries, see Ned Snow's posts on The Conglomerate

 

News Commentary

CNET News, Legal Liability for Youtube Viewers, May 14, 2008.

CNN Money.com, Forwarding emails can be illegal, May 2, 2007.