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Zahr S. Stauffer

Visiting Professor of Law
J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 2008
Ph.D., Harvard University, 2003
B.A., University of California at Berkeley, 1996

A graduate of Columbia University School of Law, Zahr Stauffer teaches Law and Literature and Advertising Law at the Law School. Zahr briefly practiced in the corporate department at Ropes and Gray in Boston before joining the Law School in 2008. In law school, Zahr served as Articles Editor for the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, and was a Kent Scholar. Her note on the tensions between legal and literary concepts in intellectual property received the Andrew D. Fried prize. As a first-year, she was awarded the Young B. Smith prize for excellence in torts. Her research areas include law and literature, copyright, trademarks, postcolonialism, immigrant narratives, and Arab and African literature.

Prior to law school, Zahr graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Berkeley in 1996 with a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature. She was awarded a Fulbright grant to Morocco in 1997. In 2003, Zahr earned her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard University, where her dissertation focused on appropriations of Shakespeare by Arab authors. At Harvard, she won the university-wide Joseph R. Levenson Memorial Prize as a graduate student and the John Clive Teaching Prize as a lecturer in the History and Literature field.

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