Nathaniel T. Noda

Education

• BA, summa cum laude, Santa Clara University, 2005
• JD, cum laude, William S. Richardson School of Law, 2009

Biography

A 2009 graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law, Nathaniel T. Noda is a Post-Juris Doctor Research Fellow with Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. He has revised several chapters of the forthcoming second edition of the Native Hawaiian Rights Handbook, and assists other Center-related research projects. His areas of interest and scholarship include intellectual property law—with particular focus on copyright and fan-based activities—Native Hawaiian law, environmental protection, and legal writing.

While in law school, Nathaniel served as casenote editor and writer for the University of Hawaiʻi Law Review; an extern for the Honorable Michael D. Wilson of the First Circuit Court of Hawaiʻi; a research assistant for the Environmental Law Program, Ka Huli Ao Center, and Professors Denise E. Antolini and D. Kapua‘ala Sproat; a teaching assistant for Legal Practice I and II; and a senior writing associate for the Writing Center. He received a CALI Excellence for the Future Award for Legal Practice in 2006, and for Intellectual Property in 2008. He published his second-year seminar paper, “When Holding On Means Letting Go: Why Fair Use Should Extend to Fan-Based Activities,” in the Fall 2008 volume of the University of Denver Sports and Entertainment Law Journal. Another article, “Copyrights Retold: How Interpretive Rights Foster Creativity and Justify Fan-Based Activities,” was awarded First Prize at the local level of the 2009 ASCAP Nathan Burkan Memorial Competition, and is under consideration for the national awards. It will be published in the twentieth volume of the Seton Hall Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law.

After three years of collegiate study, Nathaniel received a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Santa Clara University, and completed the rough draft of a science fiction novel before entering law school. He wrote the first 50,000 words of a sequel as a participant in the 2008 National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo). He continues to work on both novels and, this November, will begin drafting a third as a contribution to NaNoWriMo 2009.
 

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