Susan Scafidi
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| Residence | New York, NY |
| Education | Yale Law School |
| Occupation | President, Fashion Law Institute Professor, Fordham University School of Law |
| Website | CounterfeitChic.com |
Susan Scafidi is an American lawyer, legal scholar, advocate, nonprofit executive, and commentator. The first professor to offer a formal course on fashion law at a U.S. law school, she is the founder and president of the Fashion Law Institute, a nonprofit organization located at the Fordham Law School in New York City.
Scafidi is a frequent commenter on fashion and fashion law, with appearances in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal,Women's Wear Daily,ForbesTime,Newsweek,Crain's New York Business, the Chicago Tribune, National Public Radio,Today,CBS This Morning, 20/20,The Tyra Banks Show, and other media outlets in the U.S. and abroad. She is also known for her work on cultural appropriation.
Scafidi is credited with being the "pioneer," "innovator" and "senior stateswoman" of fashion law as a distinct legal field.
In 2005, Scafidi launched CounterfeitChic.com. In addition to discussing examples of originality and copying in fashion, Scafidi used the site to call for a cultural analysis of fashion design protection. Scafidi's work in Counterfeit Chic has been cited as the inspiration for subsequent fashion law sites. The American Bar Association has recognized Counterfeit Chic as a top 100 law blog, and Counterfeit Chic has also received attention in multiple media outlets, including the New York Times, ABC News, and The Tyra Banks Show.
Scafidi was the first law professor to advocate for recognizing fashion law as a distinct legal field. Besides writing and speaking on the subject, she offered the first course on fashion law.
In 2010, with the support of Diane von Furstenberg and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, Scafidi founded the Fashion Law Institute, the world's first academic center dedicated to legal and business issues pertaining to the fashion industry. In 2015, Diane von Furstenberg and Scafidi announced the launch of the world's first master's degrees in fashion law: a Master of Laws for attorneys and a Master of Science in Law for designers, executives, and other non-attorney members of the fashion community.
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