Olufunmilayo Arewa

Associate Professor of Law

Phone: (312) 503-2824
E-mail: o-arewa@law.northwestern.edu

SSRN Author Page | Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

Funmi Arewa joined the Northwestern faculty in 2006 as an associate professor. Her primary research interests are in the law school as organization, the empirical study of legal scholarship, intellectual property, law and technology, law and anthropology, accounting, corporate and securities law, private equity, entrepreneurship, and technological capacity and development.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Corporate Law
Law and Anthropology
Venture Capital
Private Equity

Contracts
Securities Regulation
Business Associations
Intellectual Property

COURSES

PUBLICATIONS

Representative Publications

From J.C. Bach to Hip Hop: Musical Borrowing, Copyright and Cultural Context, 84 NORTH CAROLINA LAW REVIEW 547 (2006)
Measuring and Representing the Knowledge Economy: Accounting for Economic Reality under the Intangibles Paradigm, 54 BUFFALO LAW REVIEW 1 (2006)
Copyright on Catfish Row: Musical Borrowing, Porgy and Bess and Unfair Use, RUTGERS LAW JOURNAL, Volume 37, Spring 2006
Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw and the Law School, LEWIS & CLARK LAW REVIEW, Volume 10, Fall 2006 (Open Access Legal Scholarship Symposium)

Recent Publications

Trading Places: Securities Regulation, Market Crisis, and Network Risk
Vultures, Hyenas, and African Debt: Private Equity and Zambia, 29 NORTHWESTERN JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW & BUSINESS 643-673 , 2009
Vultures, Hyenas, and African Debt: Private Equity and Zambia
Borrowing the Blues: Copyright and the Contexts of Robert Johnson
Open Access in a Closed Universe: Lexis, Westlaw, Law Schools, and THE Legal Information Market , 10 LEWIS & CLARK LAW REVIEW 797-839, 2006

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EDUCATION

AB, Harvard University
MA, University of California, Berkeley
PhD, University of California, Berkeley
AM, University of Michigan
JD, Harvard University

PRIOR APPOINTMENTS

Assistant Professor of Law and Assistant Director, Center for Law, Technology and the Arts, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 2003-2006
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Georgia School of Law, Fall 2005
General Counsel, InternetCash Corporation, 1999-2000
Associate, Gunderson Dettmer, 1996-1998
Associate, Sullivan & Cromwell, 1994-1995
Foreign Service Officer, U.S. Department of State, 1990-1991
Visiting Lecturer, Center for Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan, 1989

RECENT CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

Consultant, The Nelson Mandela Institution for Knowledge Building and the Advancement of Science in Sub-Saharan Africa, Inc.
Consultant, The World Bank Institute