Professor Rosenblatt joined the Whittier faculty in 2009. Following law school, she practiced intellectual property litigation with Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, where she specialized in the areas of patent, trademark, copyright, and entertainment law. Following practice, she was a Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at UCLA School of Law and an Adjunct Professor of Trademark Law at USC Gould School of Law. She was selected for inclusion in Los Angeles Magazine’s Southern California “Rising Stars” in 2007 and 2008.

Professor Rosenblatt’s research interests include intellectual property law (including copyright, patent, and trademark), entertainment law, and gender/sexuality law.

• Intellectual Property’s Negative Space: Beyond the Utilitarian, FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW (forthcoming Spring 2013)
• A Theory of IP’s Negative Space, Columbia Journal of Law & The Arts, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2011.
• Rethinking the Parameters of Trademark Use in Entertainment , 61 Florida L.R. 1011 (Dec. 2009).
• Deborah A. Widiss, Elizabeth L. Rosenblatt, and Douglas NeJaime, Exposing Sex Stereotypes in Recent Same-Sex Marriage Jurisprudence, Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, Vol. 30:2 (Summer 2007). Reprinted in The Dukeminier Awards: Best Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law Review Articles of 2007 (2008) (nationwide award).
• Book Review of Intellectual Property In The Information Age: The Politics Of Expanding Ownership Rights by Debora J. Halbert, Communications and the Law, June 2000.
• New York State’s Role in the Creation and Adoption of the Bill of Rights, 72 New York History; Quarterly Journal Of The New York State Historical Association (October 1991).

• Response to “Confusion Isn’t Everything: Limiting Doctrines in Trademark Law” by Mark McKenna and Bill McGeveran, Southern California IP Professors’ and UCLA Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property Colloquium Workshop, November 4, 2012
• “Sherlock Holmes Adaptation and Intellectual Property Law,” Sherlock Holmes: Behind the Canonical Screen, UCLA School of Film and Television, September 1, 2012
• “Fear and Loathing: Shame, Shaming, and Intellectual Property,” Intellectual Property Scholars’ Conference, Stanford Law School, August 9, 2012
• “Past is Prologue: How Copyright Developments in 2011 Will Shape the Issues We Face in 2012,” March 26, 2012
• “Copyright and Media Law Year in Review,” Los Angeles Copyright Society, December 14, 2011
• “IP’s Negative Space: Beyond the Utilitarian,” Southern California Junior Law Faculty Workshop, October 22, 2011
• “IP’s Negative Space: Beyond the Utilitarian,” Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, DePaul University Law School, August 11, 2011
• “A Theory of IP’s Negative Space,” Whittier Law School Intellectual Property Colloquium, November 4, 2011
• “Toward a Unified Theory of IP’s Negative Space”, Southern California Junior Law Faculty Workshop, October 16, 2010
• “Trademark Law for Engineers: The Two-Hour Crash Course”, University of Southern California, April 29, 2010
• Response to “Intellectual Property as a Law of Organization” by Jonathan Barnett, Southern California IP Professors’ and UCLA Entertainment, Media, and Intellectual Property Colloquium Workshop, November 8, 2009
• “Intersections between science and law regarding ethical standards of behavior,” Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Duke University Seminar guest lecturer, December 4, 2007

• Los Angeles Copyright Society, member (Board of Trustees, 2006-2008)
• Organization for Transformative Works, member, Legal Committee (2010-)
• Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Advisory Chair for Outreach and Education (2010-)
• Lambda Legal Los Angeles Leadership Committee, member (2005-)

Bar Admissions

• California State Courts
• U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit