# Jessica Litman

jessica litman is an American expert on copyright law and author of Digital Copyright:Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet (2001), which traces the history of lobbying that led to the passage of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. It has been called a "classic text". Litman has been called a "leading intellectual property scholar"; she has been ranked as one of the five most-cited U.S. law professors in the field of intellectual property/cyberlaw.Litman was raised in Pittsburgh and graduated from Reed College, received an MFA from Southern Methodist University, and received a JD from Columbia Law School.She is currently John F. Nickoll Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, after having been professor of law at Wayne State University Law School from 1990 to 2006 and University of Michigan Law from 1984 to 1990.