Prior to joining New England Law, Associate Dean Karol was a partner at a prominent intellectual property law firm in Boston, MA. In addition to teaching, Dean Karol also directs the school’s Intellectual Property certificate program. He focuses his scholarship on intellectual property matters generally, and art, museum, copyright, and trademark law in particular.
Dean Karol has recently published articles exploring the challenges of collecting and exhibiting contemporary and conceptual art in an age of reproducibility, trademark owners’ entitlement to injunctive relief, the requirements for federal service mark protection, the use of theft rhetoric in civil copyright trials, and constitutional limitations on federal trademark law. His current scholarship focuses on the legal, ethical and market implications of the posthumous creation and exhibition of visual art.
Dean Karol currently sits on the board of November, a non-profit online arts magazine.