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Kevin Jerome Greene (born in New York City, New York) is an American lawyer and professor of contract music law and entertainment lawatSouthwestern Law SchoolinLos Angeles, California. Professor Greene was among the first legal scholars to examine the treatment of African-American art forms, such as the blues, under intellectual property law.
Greene began his undergraduate studies at Morehouse CollegeinAtlanta, then left to join the U.S. Marines, where he was assigned to an F-4 Phantom jet squadron in the Far East. After completing his Marine Corps service with honors, he received his B.A. at the State University of New York at Old Westbury, and his J.D. at Yale Law School and then clerked for James H. Brickley of the Michigan Supreme Court.[citation needed]
While at the Wall Street law firm of Cravath, Swaine and Moore, he represented Time-Warner/HBO and subsequently practiced entertainment law in New York City at Frankfurt, Garbus, Klein & Selz. Representative clients included film director Spike Lee, singer Bobby Brown, and the rap group Public Enemy.[1]
In 2014, Greene served as an expert witness for the legal team of funk legend George Clinton in a copyright case in the Federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.[2] In 2016, Professor Greene was selected as the winner in the academics category of the Vanguard Award for Innovation in Intellectual Property by the Intellectual Property Institute of the State Bar of California. In 2018, Greene was selected as a Fellow of the American Bar Association. In 2019, Greene served as the lead IP expert in a landmark right of publicity case in California state court between the heirs of the Hansen Juice company and Coca-Cola Corporation.
In 2020, Greene was hired as a tenured professor at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles where he is the John J. Schumacher Chair Professor.[2]
