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Dr. Fayer, distinguished professor in the English Department of the College of Humanities, obtained her M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania where she studied sociolinguistics with illustrious professors like William Labov, Dell Hymes, and Shirley Brice Heath, among others.
Gregory A. Fayer specializes in entertainment and intellectual property litigation and other entertainment and IP related matters. Mr. Fayer received his J.D. degree in 2004 from Columbia Law School. At Columbia, Mr. Fayer was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and editor of the Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts. Mr. Fayer also served as extern for the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor (then on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and now an Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court).
Prior to law school, Mr. Fayer studied philosophy at the University of Chicago and University of Pittsburgh, and studied comparative religion at Harvard Divinity School. Mr. Fayer has taught numerous courses in ethics, social philosophy, aesthetics, film theory and other subjects. Prior to law school Mr. Fayer also toured extensively throughout the northeastern U.S. as guitarist and songwriter for rock band, the Sydneys, releasing a number of CDs. Mr. Fayer was an associate at Irell e Manella LLP before joining GHP in 2009.
Mr. Fayer also devotes significant time to pro bono activities, including his representation of the Natural Resources Defense Council and a coalition of environmental organizations challenging the U.S. Navy’s use of sonar off the California coast. In March 2008, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the preliminary injunction that Mr. Fayer argued before the U.S. District Court. In November 2008, a 5-4 majority of the U.S. Supreme Court reversed two of the six mitigation measures mandated by the injunction, but left the remainder of the injunction in place. See Winter v. Natural Resources Def. Council, 129 S.Ct. 365 (2008).
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