Director, Center for the Study of the Public Domain
Jennifer Jenkins is a Lecturing Fellow teaching intellectual property and Director of Duke's Center for the Study of the Public Domain. She is co-author of Bound By Law, a “graphic novel” about the effects of intellectual property on documentary film, and several short pieces on intellectual property issues.
Jenkins received her B.A. in English from Rice University, her J.D. from Duke Law School, and her M.A. in English from Duke University. After graduation from Duke, she joined the firm of Kilpatrick Stockton in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was a member of the team that defended the copyright infringement suit against the publisher of the novel "The Wind Done Gone" (a parodic rejoinder to “Gone with the Wind”) in Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin. While in Atlanta, she also guest-lectured on copyright law at the Emory University School of Law and Kennesaw State University. At Duke, she co-authored, filmed, and edited "Nuestra Hernandez," a fictional documentary addressing copyright and appropriation. (This video was shown at the New York University Law School conference "A Free Information Ecology in the Digital Environment" and at the Duke University Conference on the Public Domain.)