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Lionel Sobel
Visiting Professor of Law
Lionel (“Lon”) Sobel was a professor at Southwestern Law School from 2005 to 2011, where he taught courses on tax and aviation law and was the director of its summer abroad program in London, in which he taught International Entertainment Law. He was the chair of the American Bar Association’s Forum Committee on the Entertainment & Sports Industries from 2007 to 2009. He is the author of Taxation of Entertainers, Athletes, and Artists, published by the ABA in 2015, and the “Law of Ideas” chapter for Nimmer on Copyright. He also is the author of: International Copyright Law; International Entertainment Law (written with the late Donald Biederman); Professional Sports and the Law; and co-editor of the third edition of Law and Business of the Entertainment Industries. He has written chapters for several other books, including the “Entertainment Law” article in The Oxford Companion to American Law, the chapters on royalty accounting and soundtrack music for the music volume of Entertainment Industry Contracts and the chapter on the regulation of player agents in The Law of Professional and Amateur Sports. He has written many articles—some of which have been cited by the United States Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court, and by federal circuit and district courts—on a wide variety of entertainment law topics, including idea protection, domestic and international copyright and labor and antitrust law. Professor Sobel received a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963 and a J.D. degree from UCLA School of Law in 1969. From 1969 to 1982, he was in private law practice in Los Angeles, first as an associate with Loeb & Loeb and then as a partner in his own firm. In 1982 he joined the faculty of Loyola Law School, where he taught courses on copyright, trademark, entertainment law and other subjects until 1997. He has been a visiting professor at UCLA School of Law, a lecturer at Berkeley Law School and a distinguished scholar at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. He was also the editor and publisher of the Entertainment Law Reporter.
John Villasenor
Visiting Professor of Law
John Villasenor is a professor of electrical engineering, public policy and management at UCLA and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is also National Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Cybersecurity, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford. His work addresses the intersection of technology, policy, law and business. Professor Villasenor’s research considers the broader impacts of key technology trends, including the move to the cloud, the globalization of technology product design and manufacturing, advances in digital communications and electronics, and the increasing complexity of today’s networks and systems. He writes frequently on these topics and on their implications with respect to cybersecurity, digital media policy, intellectual property and digital privacy. He has published in The Atlantic, Billboard, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Fast Company, Forbes, the Huffington Post, the Los Angeles Times, Scientific American, Slate, The Washington Post and many academic journals. He also has provided congressional testimony on multiple occasions on topics including drones, digital privacy and intellectual property. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, Professor Villasenor was with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where he developed methods of imaging the earth from space. He holds a B.S. degree from the University of Virginia, and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. William Wood
Visiting Professor of Law
William Wood is a visiting associate professor of law at Southwestern Law School. An expert in federal Indian law and policy, he was previously the inaugural Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg law review fellow at UCLA School of Law, and he taught Advanced Topics in Federal Indian Law and a seminar on Indian gaming law, policy and politics. He has taught Federal Indian Law at Southwestern as a member of the adjunct faculty, and a graduate and undergraduate course on the history of Native Americans in California at UCLA. FALL 2015 | UCLA LAW MAGAZINE 25