Mississippi College School of Law

Alina Ng
Assistant Professor of Law

Email: ng@mc.edu

PH: (601) 925-7176

Education:

Areas of Legal Expertise:

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Scholarships and Academic awards :

Fulbright Scholarship (2000-2004)
Lieberman Fellowship, Stanford University (2000-2001)
Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarship (1995-1996)
Director's Prize for First Class Honors in Jurisprudence and Legal Theory (1995)

other affiliations and certifications :

Publications:

The Author's Rights in Literary and Artistic Works, forthcoming in John Marshall Intellectual Property Law Review (Fall 2009).
The Social Contract and Authorship: Allocating Entitlements in the Copyright System, 19 Fordham Intell. Prop. Media & Ent. L.J. 413 (2009).
Authors and Readers: Conceptualizing Authorship in Copyright Law, 30 Hastings Comm. & Ent. L.J. 377 (2008).
Copyright's Empire: Why the Law Matters, 11 Marq. Intell. Prop. L. Rev. 337 (2007).
Malaysia: On the Road to the Information Age with Vincent Lowe (Asian Media Information and Communication Center and School of Communication Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 1999)

Professional experience:

Assistant Professor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law (August 2007-present)
Senior Executive, Multimedia Development Corporation, Cyberjaya, Malaysia (August 2004-June 2007)
Research Assistant to Professors Deborah Rhode and Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School (May 2003-September 2003)
Senior Executive, Multimedia Development Corporation, Cyberjaya, Malaysia (June 1997- September 2000)
Tax Assistant, Arthur Andersen, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (November 1996 - May 1997)

Thesis and dissertation:

Commercializing Motion Pictures and Sound Recording through the Internet: Copyright Law and Technological Change (on file with Stanford Robert Crown Law Library and Stanford University Library Special Collections and University Archives, 3781 2004 N)
The Economics of Intellectual Property Rights, Competition and Technology Transfer in the Software Industry (on file with Stanford Robert Crown Law Library, 3781 2001 N)

works in progress:

Access and Progress: Copyright and the Commercialization of Sound Recordings and Motion Pictures (revision of JSD dissertation for book publication)
Owning Literary and Artistic Works
Property Rights, Economic Incentives and Access to Information
Social Norms and Creativity during the Renaissance Period
Artistic Norms, Property Rights and Copyright
The Ethics of Authorship
When Users are Authors: Authorship in the Age of Digital Media
Taking Copyright Seriously: When Abridging Rights is Wrong

presentations and conferences:

"Owning Literary and Artistic Works," 2nd Conference on Innovation and Communication Law, University of Louisville, Aug. 21-22, 2009
"The Author's Rights in Literary and Artistic Works," Midwestern Political Science Association Annual Conference, Chicago, Apr. 2-5, 2009
"Property Rights and Access to Information," Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Drake Law School, Feb. 27-29, 2009
"Authorial Rights in the Copyright System," Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property Conference, Tulane Law School, Oct. 3-4, 2008
"The Social Contract and Authorship," Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School, Aug. 7-8, 2008
"Property and Access in Copyright," Southeastern Association of Law Schools New Scholars Conference, Ritz Carlton, Palm Beach, Jul. 28-Aug. 1, 2008
"The Social Contract and Authorship," Intellectual Property Scholars Roundtable, Drake University Law School, Feb. 22-23, 2008
"Inalienability of Property in Literary and Artistic Works," Junior Property Scholar Workshop, Widener Law School, Feb. 8-9, 2008
"Authorship in the Commons," Asia and Commons in the Information Age, Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 19-20, 2008

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