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Cecelia Chang is the director of litigation at Asian Americans Advancing Justice—AAJC. Daniel Kornstein is a partner at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady LLP. The debate over trademark rights and free speech has a long history.
Megan Carpenter is a professor of law, and founder and co-director of the Center of Law and Intellectual Property, at Texas A&M University School of Law. The British comedy troupe Monty Python tells us to “always look on the bright side of life.” Should the same apply to trademark law?
Dwayne Sam is an associate and Megan Brown a partner at Wiley Rein LLP. Representing the Rutherford Institute, they filed an amicus brief in this case in the Federal Circuit and a brief in Pro-Football, Inc. v. Blackhorse in the 4th Circuit. Some First Amendment cases are hard.
Robert S. Chang is professor of law and executive director of the Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality at Seattle University School of Law I grew up in Ohio and I have vivid memories of being called the S-word.
Rebecca Tushnet is Professor of Law at Georgetown Law.
Ilya Shapiro is a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute and editor-in-chief of the Cato Supreme Court Review. This essay is adapted from a brief he filed in support of Simon Shiao Tam’s quest to register “The Slants” as a trademark.
Simon Tam describes himself as an “Asian-American musician, lecturer, and political activist.” In 2006, he formed a rock band that he named The Slants, to bring attention to discrimination against Asian-Americans.