Reminder: Penn/NYU/Harvard Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable 2026: submit by June 1

Penn/NYU/Harvard Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable 2026

The Trademark and Unfair Competition Scholarship Roundtable co-hosted by Harvard, NYU, and the University of Pennsylvania will take place this year at NYU. Now in its fifth year, the Roundtable is designed to be a forum for the discussion of current trademark, unfair competition, and right of publicity scholarship, covering a range of methodologies, topics, and perspectives. Five to six papers will be chosen for discussion over the course of the Roundtable, with each paper allocated an hour for discussion and assigned a commentator.

The Roundtable will be held on Friday, October 16, 2026. If there is a critical mass of papers, we may also extend the Roundtable through Saturday morning, October 17. Participation at the Roundtable will be limited and invitation-only and we expect all participants to have read the papers in advance. We will ask participants to rely if possible on research accounts to cover travel and accommodation, but if that is not possible we will have funds to cover costs.

We invite submissions from academics working on any aspect of trademark, false advertising, marketing, right of publicity, or related areas of the law. Priority will be given to those who can attend the entire event and a dinner the night of Friday, October 16. Submissions must be of full drafts in Microsoft word format. The deadline for submission is June 1, 2026. Decisions on participation will be made by June 15, 2026.

Submissions should be made by means of this Google form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_forms_d_e_1FAIpQLSfpHCiFmcHZ6SCKp4oWYC1TDTVXC8MNxWlaw2XpMc4IF3GtHQ_viewform-3Fusp-3Dpublish-2Deditor&d=DwMGaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=JCtF1L1KFZQA400a-MfN1LbbUwey4sno6RJztdDSMVk&m=frYEnTCmkzL5dabxDGK2I-SaTfGMF9qSkTH-tqc6v8_eRDuLE2XZ1o1PydGPHvx0&s=PUCAH7B4foFMqAuRCNa6K1oA1S63rzSVKgCgIrUKF8I&e=>. If you have any questions, please contact Barton Beebe at barton.beebe@nyu.edu<mailto:barton.beebe@nyu.edu>.