Megan M. Carpenter

Megan Carpenter (born 1972) is an American lawyer, legal educator, and dean of the University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law.
== Career ==
Carpenter is the first female dean of the UNH Franklin Pierce School of Law, where she has served as dean since 2017. During Carpenter's tenure, the law school launched a first-in-the-nation Hybrid JD in Intellectual Property, Technology, & Information Law, recruited its largest class in the law school's history, saw its highest-credentialed class in the law school's history, experienced its highest rate of alumni giving in the law school's history, and welcomed its most diverse class in nearly two decades. In 2018 Carpenter was listed on New Hampshire Magazine's "It List."
Carpenter founded and served as co-director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University School of Law. She also served as Professor of Law and Faculty Director for several intellectual property and entrepreneurship-related clinical programs. At Texas A&M Carpenter received multiple awards including the Texas A&M University System Distinguished Achievement Award, the President’s Grand Challenge Award, the Judith Kuhn & Stephen R. Alton Service Award, and the United States Association for Small Business & Entrepreneurship (USASBE) Best Workshop Award. 
She writes and publishes in the area of intellectual property and innovation, including the book, Evolving Economies: The Role of Law in Entrepreneurship and Innovation. Carpenter's academic publications include the Hastings Law Journal, Fordham Law Review, Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment and Technology Law, and the Yale Journal of Human Rights and Development.. 
She is active in leadership with the International Trademark Association (INTA):
* Programming Advisory Council, 2021-present
* Incoming Chair, Subcommittee for North America, Unreal Campaign Committee, 2022 
* Presidential Task Force under President Joe Ferretti, 2017
In 2003 Carpenter earned an LLM in International Human Rights from The National University of Ireland, Galway, where she graduated first in her class.
Carpenter practiced law in Pittsburgh, PA at Kirkpatrick & Lockhart (now K&L Gates) where she represented clients on intellectual property and technology-related issues. She is currently a member of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania bar, and Western District of Pennsylvania bar. She is an honorary fellow of the New Hampshire bar.
== Published works ==
Transforming Higher Education
* Secure Online High-Stakes Testing: A Serious Alternative as Legal Education Moves Online, with Sara Berman, Gregory Brandes, Andrew Strauss (2020)
*To Educate Lawyers Who Change the World, We Cannot Let This Crisis Go to Waste, IAM Media (Oct. 24, 2020)
* Legal Education: A Call to Action, American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property, 13(1) Landslide 26 (Sept/Oct 2020)
* Why the Traditional Model of Educating US Lawyers Must Change, IAM Media (Jan. 2, 2020)
* Legal Education Unbundled (and Rebundled), 50 Toledo L. Rev 265 (2019)
* Featured on Paul Caron’s TaxProf blog, in “How Law Schools Are Like Comcast and Charter Spectrum: They Persist in Bundling Legal Education in a World that Demands Unbundling,” (Mar. 9, 2019)
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
* ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND INNOVATION IN TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012
* ‘Will Work’: Exploring the Role of Intellectual Property in a Creative Economy, in LAW, CREATIVITY, AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP (Shubha Ghosh & Robin Paul Malloy, eds), Edward Elgar Publishing (2011)
* Trademarks and Human Rights: Oil and Water? Or Chocolate and Peanut Butter?, 99(4) Trademark Reporter (July-Aug. 2009)
* Intellectual Property and Indigenous Peoples: Conforming Copyright Law to the Needs of a Global Community, 7 Yale J. Hum. Rts. & Dev. L. J. 51 (2004)
*Intellectual Property: A Human (Not Corporate) Right, in FORGOTTEN RIGHTS, FORGOTTEN CONCEPTS, Edward Elgar Publishing (2012)
*Space Age Love Song: The Mix Tape in a Digital Universe, 11 Nevada Law Journal 44, Fall (2010)
Intellectual Property Law
*How the Escalator Forever Changed our Sense of Space, Smithsonian Magazine (Jun. 27, 2019)
* Escalator, in A History of Intellectual Property in 50 Objects, by Claudy Op den Kamp and Dan Hunter, Cambridge Univ. Press (2019)
*Trademark scholar says FUCT’s victory at the Supreme Court is a win for free speech. This article was published in a variety of news outlets, including the Houston Chronicle and the Chicago Tribune (Jun. 26, 2019)
* FUCT gets day in court as SCOTUS considers dropping slippery moral standard when granting trademarks, Salon (Apr. 23, 2019)
* Invited author, SCOTUSblog, Iancu v. Brunetti, a Supreme Court case focused on the constitutionality of banning trademark registration for marks deemed “scandalous” or “immoral.” 
** Argument preview: Justices to consider constitutionality of banning trademark registration for immoral and scandalous marks, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 8, 2019)
**Argument analysis: Justices grapple with immoral and scandalous trademarks, SCOTUSblog (Apr. 16, 2019)
**Opinion analysis: Long-time prohibition on registration of scandalous and immoral trademarks is struck down, SCOTUSblog (Jun. 24, 2019)
*Contextual Healing: What to Do About Scandalous Trademarks, Hastings L. J. (2017)
* NSFW: An Empirical Study of Scandalous Trademarks, with Mary Garner, 33 Cardozo Arts & Ent L. J. 321 (2016)
* Trademark Law Promotes Fair Competition, Not Morality, N.Y. Times (May 4, 2016)
* If It’s Broke, Fix It: Updating Fixation for the Modern Era, 39 Colum. J. L. & Arts 355 (2016)
* Fixing Fixation: Copyright Law and Contemporary Art, with Steven Hetcher, 82 Fordham L. Rev 2221 (2014)
* Drawing a Line in the Sand: When a Curator Becomes a Creator, in ENTERTAINMENT, PUBLISHING AND THE ARTS HANDBOOK, Thomson Reuters (West), (2013). Originally published in 13(3) Vanderbilt J. Entertainment & Tech. L. 463 (Spring 2011)
* Calling Bulls**t on the Lanham Act: The 2(a) Bar for Immoral, Scandalous, and Disparaging Marks, with Kathryn Murphy, 49(4) Louisville L. Rev. 465 (Summer 2011)
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