Zahr K. Said

Peer Reviewed Journals & Law Reviews

• Zahr K. Said, Jury-Related Errors in Copyright, 98 Ind. L. J. 749-813 (2023).
• Zahr K. Said, Attitudes Towards IP Present Among Seattle Craft Breweries, 52 U. Pac. L. Rev. 763-782 (2021).
• Zahr K. Said, Craft Beer and the Rising Tide Effect: An Empirical Study of Sharing and Collaboration among Seattle’s Craft Breweries, 23 Lewis & Clark L. Rev. 355-423 (2019).
• Zahr K. Said & Jessica Silbey, Narrative Topoi in the Digital Age, 68 J. Legal Educ. 103-14 (2018).
• Zahr K. Said, A Transactional Theory of the Reader in Copyright Law, 102 Iowa L. Rev. 605-50 (2017).
• Zahr K. Said, Copyright's Illogical Exclusion of Conceptual Art That Changes Over Time, 39 Colum. J. L. & Arts 335-54 (2016).
• Zahr K. Said, Foreword: Fair Use in the Digital Age, and Campbell v. Acuff-Rose at 21, 90 Wash. L. Rev. 579-96 (2015).
• Zahr K. Said, Defending Deference: A Reply to Professor Sylvain’s Disruption and Deference, 74 Md. L. Rev. 777-84 (2015).
• Zahr K. Said, Reforming Copyright Interpretation, 28 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 469-524 (2015).
• Zahr K. Said, Mandated Disclosure in Literary Hybrid Speech, 88 Wash. L. Rev. 419-74 (2013).
• Zahr K. Said, Only Part of the Picture: A Response to Professor Tushnet's Worth a Thousand Words, 16 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 349-68 (2013)
• Zahr Said, Fixing Copyright in Characters: Literary Perspectives on a Legal Problem, 35 Cardozo L. Rev. 769-829 (2013).
• Zahr K. Said, Incorporating Literary Methods and Texts in the Teaching of Tort Law, 3 Calif. L. Rev. Circuit 170-81 (2012).
• Zahr Said, Embedded Advertising and the Venture Consumer, 89 N. C. L. Rev. 99-170 (2010).
• Zahr Said Stauffer, Note, ‘Po-mo Karaoke’ or Postcolonial Pastiche? What Fair Use Analysis Could Draw from Literary Criticism, 31 Colum. J.L. & Arts 43-90 (2007).

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Books or Treatises

• Zahr K. Said, Tort Law: A 21st-Century Approach (CALI eLangdell casebook series) (2d ed. July 2022). 740 pages.
• Zahr K. Said, Tort Law: A 21st Century Approach (CALI eLangdell casebook series) (July 2021).

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Book Chapters

• Zahr K. Said, Fables of Scarcity in IP, in Scarcity, Abundance, and Regulation (Deven Desai & Mark Lemley eds., Frontier Publishing 2023).
• Zahr K. Said, Collegiality Costs: Trademark Scarcity and Beer Name Norms in Seattle’s Craft Brewing, in The Law and Economics of Trademark Law (Glynn Lunney ed., Elgar Press, forthcoming 2023).
• Zahr K. Said, Law and Literature Methodologies in Intellectual Property, Ch. 23, pp. 361-372, in Handbook of Intellectual Property Research: Lenses, Methods, and Perspectives (Irene Calboli & Lilla Montagnani eds., Oxford University Press 2021).
• Zahr K. Said, Hollering to Be Heard: Copyright and the Aesthetics of Voice, in Hamilton and the Law: Reading Today's Most Contentious Legal Issues through the Hit Musical (Lisa A. Tucker ed., Cornell University Press, 2020).
• Zahr Said Stauffer, Rethinking the Arab-African Novel: A Case for Thematization, in Teaching the African Novel (Gaurav Gajanan Desai ed., Modern Language Association 2009). (MLA Options for Teaching no. 24)

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Book Reviews

• Zahr K. Said, Marta Iljadica’s Owning Ideas: Copyright Beyond Law: Regulating Creativity in the Graffiti Subculture, 8 IP Law Book Review 8-19 (Nov. 2017)
• Zahr K. Said, Coming of Age in IP: What Goods, Infrastructures, and Property Theory Suggest about the Flourishing of Intellectual Property Scholarship, 49 Tulsa L. Rev. 515-25 (2013) (reviewing Ronald A. Cass & Keith N. Hylton, Laws of Creation: Property Rights in the World of Ideas (2013); Madhavi Sunder, From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice (2012); Brett M. Frischmann, Infrastructure: The Social Value of Shared Resources (2012)).

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Professional Publications

• Zahr Said, A Response to Madhavi Sunder’s From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice, Concurring Opinions (Sep. 11, 2012).

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Other Publications

• Zahr Said Stauffer, The Politicisation of Shakespeare in Arabic in Youssef Chahine’s Film Trilogy, 47 Eng. Stud. Afr. 41-55 (2004).
• Zahr Kassim Sallam Said, The Arab Takes on Shakespeare: Adaptation, Allusion, and the Struggle for Artistic Identity in Egypt (May 23, 2003) (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University) (available in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global, doc. ID 305333245).

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• Panelist, "Publishing Equity Through a CRTIP Lens", with Suresh Ariaratnam, Elias Wondimu, Race + IP '23" The Imperial Scholar Revisited, University or Pittsburgh School of Law (April 15, 2023)
• Speaker, The Coase of Copyright Oral Argument (podcast) (May 26, 2017)
• Moderator, "The Values and Ethics of Deals", The Art and Science of the IP Deal, University of Washington School of Law (April 7, 2017)
• Speaker, "Interpretive Complexity in Copyright and Trademark: Comparing Substantial Similarity and Likelihood of Confusion", 2014 Works-in-Progress Intellectual Property, Santa Clara School of Law (February 7, 2014)
• Speaker, "Comparing Substantial Similarity and Likelihood of Confusion: A Metacritical Analysis of Copyright and Trademark", 2013 IP Scholars Conference, Cardozo School of Law (August 9, 2013)
• Speaker, "Comparing Methodological Transparency in Copyright and Trademark: A Metacritical Analysis", Annual Meeting, Law and Society Association (May 30, 2013)
• Panelist, "Disclosure in Speech", 2013 Symposium: The Disclosure Crisis, Washington Law Review (February 28, 2013)
• Speaker, "Reverse Engineering Textual Meaning", 12th Annual IP Scholars Conference, Stanford Law School (August 9, 2012)
• Speaker, "Copyright Law and the Ethics of Nonfiction", Annual Meeting and 2012 International Conference on Law and Society, Law and Society Association (June 8, 2012)
• Panelist, "A Response to Robert P. Merges’s", Justifying Intellectual Property, Notre Dame Law School, Symposium, (April 27, 2012)
• Speaker, "Copyright in Characters: A Literary Perspective", IP in the Trees Series, Lewis & Clark Law School (April 4, 2012)
• Speaker, "Copyright in Characters: A Literary Perspective", Center for Intellectual Property Law, Whittier College of Law (March 20, 2012)
• Speaker, "Incorporating Literary Methods and Texts in Teaching Tort Law", Panel on Pedagogical Approaches to the Humanities in Law Schools, Association of American Law Schools (January 6, 2012)
• Speaker, "Teaching Advertising in the Context of Tort Law", Workshop on Advertising Law, University of Tulsa Law School (September 16, 2011)
• Speaker, "Copyright and the Ethics of Nonfiction", 11th Annual Intellectual Property Scholars Conference, De Paul Law School (August 11, 2011)