Jessica Litman is the John F. Nickoll Professor of Law at the University of Michigan. She is the author of Digital Copyright and the co-author, with Jane Ginsburg, Mary Lou Kevlin, and Rebecca Tushnet, of the casebook Trademarks and Unfair Competition Law: Cases and Materials.

Before rejoining the Michigan Law faculty in 2006, Litman was a professor of law at Wayne State University, a visiting professor at New York University School of Law and at American University Washington College of Law, and a professor at Michigan Law from 1984 to 1990. In addition, she has taught copyright law at the University of Tokyo as part of the Law Faculty Exchange Program.

Litman has been a trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA, chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Intellectual Property, and an adviser for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of Copyright. She has also served on the Future of Music Coalition’s advisory council and the advisory board for Public Knowledge.