Biography

Professor Goodman specializes in information policy law.  Her research interests include media policy, spectrum policy, the use of information as a policy tool, advertising law, and the informational aspects of sustainability policy. She is an animal law expert and pioneered the teaching of animal law at the law school.  She is Co-Director and co-founder of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law (RIIPL).

Professor Goodman recently served as Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the FCC and helped in the production of a pathbreaking report on the Information Needs of Communities.  She is a Ford Foundation grantee, conducting research on media policy principles for a networked age.  Professor Goodman has served as an expert before the National Academies of Science and Technology, the Brookings Institution, and the Aspen Institute.    

Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2003, Professor Goodman was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Covington & Burling LLP and served as Of Counsel with the firm until 2009. Professor Goodman has visited at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School of Communications, Wharton School of Business, and Law School, and has been involved with Penn’s Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership on green marketing issues.  She has also been a Fellow at the Rutgers University Center for Cultural Analysis.  Professor Goodman clerked for Judge Norma L. Shapiro on the U.S. Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, after graduating from Harvard Law School and Harvard College.  She lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband and three children, and enjoys running, swimming, biking, and the odd reality show.

Publications

Articles

• Modeling Policy for Public Media, 24 HARV. J. OF LAW & TECH. 112 (2010) (with Anne H. Chen) 
• Digital Public Service Media Networks to Advance Broadband and Enrich Connected Communities,  9 J. TELECOM & HIGH TECH. L. 82 (2010) (with Anne H. Chen)
• Spectrum Auctions and the Public Interest, 7 J. TELECOM & HIGH TECH. L. 343(2009)
• No Time for Equal Time, 76 GEO. WASH. L. REV.897 (2008) (symposium issue)   
• Free Speech and Media Policy:  The First Amendment at War With Itself, 35 HOFSTRA L. REV. 1211 (2007) (symposium issue)
• Peer Promotions and False Advertising Law, 58 S. CAR. L. REV. 683 (2007) (symposium issue)
• Stealth Marketing and Editorial Integrity, 85 TEX. L. REV. 83 (2006)
• Spectrum Equity, 41 J. TELECOM. & HIGH TECH. L. 101(2005)
• Media Policy Out of the Box: Content Abundance, Attention Scarcity, and the Failures of Digital Markets, 19 BERKELEY TECH. L. J. 1389 (2004)
• Spectrum Rights in the Telecosm to Come, 41 SAN DIEGO L. REV. 269 (2004) 
• Tender Justice: Judge Shapiro's Hard-Headed Humanity, 152 U. PA. L. REV. 25 (2003)
• Bargains in the Information Marketplace: The Use of Government Subsidies to Regulate New Media, 1 J. TELECOM. & HIGH TECH. L. 217 (2002)
• Digital Television and the Allure of Auctions: The Birth and Stillbirth of DTV Legislation, 49 FED. COMM. L.J. 517 (1997)

Monographs

• Public Media Policy Reform and Digital Age Realities in Communications Law and Policy in the Digital Age: The Next Five Years (Randolph May ed.) (Carolina Academic 2012)
• Public Service Media Narratives in Handbook of Media Law and Policy: A Socio-Legal Exploration (Monroe E. Price & Stefaan G. Verhulst, ed.)(Routledge 2012)
• FCC, Information Needs of Communities (2011) (principal author of 50 page nonprofit media section)
• Spectrum Policy and the Public Interest in Television Goes Digital (Darcy Gerbarg ed., 2009)
• Public Service Media 2.0 in … And Communications for All:  A Policy Agenda for a New Administration (Amit M. Schejter ed., 2009)
• Public Television and Pluralistic Ideals in The Future of Public Service Broadcasting (Tim Gardam & David Levy ed., 2008)
• Spectrum Sharing and Spectrum Efficiency in A Framework for a National Broadband Policy (Aspen Institute 2008)
• Proactive Media Policy in an Age of Content Abundance in Media Diversity and Localism:  Meanings and Metrics (Philip M. Napoli ed., 2006)

Abstracts and electronic copies of some of Ellen Goodman's papers are available on her author page at the SSRN Electronic Library at:
http://ssrn.com/author=333377