John Rothchild
Associate Dean,
Associate Professor of Law
Office: Room 3217
Telephone: (313) 577-3953
E-Mail: jrothchild@wayne.edu
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EDUCATION
A.B., Princeton University, 1979, Cum Laude (Politics).
J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1986, Magna Cum Laude, Order of the Coif.
PROFILE:
Professor Rothchild has been an Associate Professor at Wayne State Law School since 2001. He teaches courses in Electronic Commerce Law, Copyright Law, International Intellectual Property Law, and Constitutional Law. Professor Rothchild is co-author (with Margaret Jane Radin and Gregory M. Silverman) of “Internet Commerce,” a law school casebook published by Foundation Press, which has been adopted for classroom teaching at more than 30 law schools.
From 1991 to 2001, Professor Rothchild was an attorney at the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, specializing in law enforcement efforts addressing Internet-based fraud and online compliance issues. For several years he led the Commission’s international consumer protection program. He served as Chairperson of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Consumer Protection Guidelines Project, which developed guidelines for controlling fraudulent and misleading conduct in electronic commerce. He also served as a member of the U.S. delegation to the OECD’s Committee on Consumer Policy, and of the U.S. delegation to the International Marketing Supervision Network. From 1998 to 1999, he was engaged in research and writing as a Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, where he received the Victor H. Kramer Foundation fellowship. From 1987 to 1991, he was an associate in the Washington, D.C., law firm of Bredhoff & Kaiser, representing labor unions and pension plans. He was a law clerk for the Hon. Arlin M. Adams, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, from 1986 to 1987. Professor Rothchild is a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
