Mission
The Tulane Journal of Technology & Intellectual Property (JTIP) is a student-edited, subscription-based, scholarly publication of Tulane University Law School. The purpose of JTIP is twofold: (1) to advance the theory, research, education, and practice in the burgeoning field of technology and intellectual property law and (2) to give its student members intensive experience in legal research and writing. Past publications have included topics such as patents, copyrights, trademarks, and trade secrets, as well as antitrust, information privacy, computer law, constitutional law, biotechnology, international medicine, contracts, torts, and other policy implications of law and technology in our society.
JTIP is conveniently available in print; on Westlaw, LexisNexis, and Hein Online; and through our online journal store. The journal publishes in print annually in the spring. Our online publications are comprised solely of student-authored pieces that focus on current developments affecting the law of technology and intellectual property.
Membership
JTIP's editorial members are second- and third-year Tulane law students who work under the guidance of faculty advisors. Members write-on as rising 2Ls, learn what it takes to publish critical legal scholarship, and then manage and edit the journals in their second year of membership as 3Ls.
History
We trace our history back to 1996, when eight concerned students, under the direction of Professor Glynn S. Lunney, published a four-page bulletin titled “newsTIPS: The Bulletin of the Technology and Intellectual Property Society at Tulane University School of Law.” The bulletin was an effort to highlight the legal challenges created by new technologies in the computer, biotechnology, and genetic engineering industries.
As Prof. Lunney noted in that bulletin, intellectual property "is one of the fastest growing sectors of the legal market." The purpose of the bulletin was to give “interested students a critical opportunity to explore the way in which technology affects our lives, and to consider how the law should address and, if necessary, adapt to emerging technologies.”
By 1999, that bulletin became Tulane’s first online journal, offering scholarly articles, student comments and notes, and current development sections focusing on international intellectual property issues. In 2001, for the third volume, student members (led by then Editor in Chief, Jeffrey K. Dorso) and the publication staff transitioned the journal to its current print version.
Today, JTIP has over one hundred subscribers across three countries. It is currently ranked 24th among science, technology, and computing print journals and is also growing in its number of citations. JTIP is currently in its 27th year of publication.
Submissions
JTIP accepts articles, essays, comments, and case notes from legal scholars and practitioners as well as from students. For more information, please see our submissions guidelines.
Subscriptions
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Our Vision and Goals
Become a Leading IP Publication: JTIP's goal is to become a leading publication in the IP field. To do this we have made a concerted effort to attract renowned authors to publish with our journal. By obtaining articles from the most knowledgeable authors, JTIP hopes to increase its visibility, subscriptions, and citations on Westlaw and LexisNexis.
Discuss Timely Legal Issues in Technology: JTIP seeks to highlight and analyze issues that are timely and on the cutting edge of technology interface with the law. The law and lawyers must adapt to the myriad ways that advancing technology impacts commerce, intellectual property, and society as a whole. To that end, JTIP will present articles that increase understanding of the most current issues in the fields of technology and intellectual property.
Attract High-Profiled Authors: JTIP is committed to finding and publishing articles from the most prominent legal scholars and practitioners. To that end, JTIP collaborates with Tulane's Center for Intellectual Property and Culture Center in sponsoring symposiums and events in all areas of intellectual property; then, in addition to the speaking engagement, JTIP offers each speaker an opportunity to write for the journal. So far, this arrangement has been very successful. In 2009, the journal co-sponsored the first “Future of Copyright” speaker series, which featured lectures from James Boyle, Graeme Dinwoodie, Peter Jaszi, Mark Rose, Pamela Samuelson, and Diane Zimmerman. And most recently, Volume 14 of JTIP featured articles and interviews from the second “Future of Copyright” speaker series, which included conversations with renowned professors and practitioners: Jane Ginsburg, Jule Sigall, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Kenneth D. Crews, Nina Paley and David Carson.
Recruit Committed Student Leaders: JTIP’s goal is to attract student leaders who are vested in furthering the study of intellectual property law. Each year, the Executive Board invites a few exceptional students from the 2L and 3L classes to play a significant role in editing articles, comments, and notes. New members are taught to lead the journal in their second year of membership. We build strong relationships and many former JTIP members subscribe to the journal and support JTIP activities well after graduation.
Make Our Website More Informative: At JTIP, we work hard to provide an informative—but yet user-friendly—website. We recently redesigned and revamped the entire website, adding several new features, which we hope will enable us to be more accessible to the academic audience. Our newest development is the addition of student publications on recent events in the areas of technology and intellectual property.
