It's my pleasure to say that Brian Frye of the University of Kentucky's law school is stepping into the faculty lounge to sit with us for a spell. Professor Frye was educated at U.C. Berkeley, and NYU Law School and also holds an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. Cribbing a little from his webpage:
Frye joined the faculty of the College of Law in 2012. He teaches classes in civil procedure, intellectual property, copyright, and nonprofit organizations, as well as a seminar on law and popular culture. Previously, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at Hofstra University School of Law, and a litigation associate at Sullivan & Cromwell LLP. He clerked for Judge Andrew J. Kleinfeld of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Justice Richard B. Sanders of the Washington Supreme Court. He received a J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 2005, an M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1997, and a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995. His research focuses on intellectual property and charity law, especially in relation to artists and arts organizations.
Professor Frye is also a filmmaker. He produced the documentary Our Nixon (2013), which was broadcast by CNN and opened theatrically nationwide. His short films and videos have shown in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, the New York Film Festival, and the San Francisco International Film Festival, among other venues, and are in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. His critical writing on film and art has appeared in October, The New Republic, Film Comment, Cineaste, Senses of Cinema, and Incite! among other journals.
Among his many exciting articles are "A Revealed-Preferences Ranking of Law Schools," (forthcoming in the Alabama Law Review), Art and the Public Trust in Bankruptcy, and "Invention of a Slave." I'm looking forward to hearing about all this and more.