Welcome New Faculty
Gideon
Parchomovsky joins Penn Law School as Assistant Professor of Law from
Fordham Law School where he was an associate professor teaching property
law and copyright law. Parchomovsky earned a J.S.D. from Yale (1998),
an LL.M. from Boalt Hall, U.C. Berkeley (1995), and an LL.B. from Hebrew
University, Jerusalem (1993). Parchomovsky clerked for the Honorable Eliahu
Mazza on the Supreme Court of Israel. He is a scholar in the fields of
intellectual property, cyber law, property law, and information law. Recent
publications include “Takings Reassessed,” cowritten with Abraham Bell,
Virginia Law Review (2001); “On Trademarks, Domain Names and Internal
Auctions,” University of Illinois Law Review (2000); and “The Integration
Game,” co-written with Abraham Bell, 100 Columbia Law Review (2000).
He will teach Copyright, and The Law and Policy of the Internet.
Wendell E. Pritchett joins Penn Law School as an Assistant Professor
of Law. Pritchett was a Visiting Professor at the Law School throughout
last academic year teaching Urban Policy Past and Present and Introduction
to Property Law. Pritchett was formerly an Assistant Professor of History
at Baruch College of CUNY. He earned a Ph.D. in History from the University
of Pennsylvania (1997), a JD from Yale (1991), and a BA from Brown (1986).
His book Brownsville, Brooklyn: Blacks, Jews and the Changing Face
of the Ghetto was published by the University of Chicago Press in
2002.