Tomás Gómez-Arostegui

Kay Kitagawa and Andy Johnson-Laird IP Faculty Scholar and Professor of Law

LRC 238
Legal Assistant:

Biography

Tomás Gómez-Arostegui joined our faculty Fall 2006. He regularly teaches a course on the History of the Common Law, Civil Procedure, Torts, and Remedies. His research interests lie primarily in English legal history before the year 1800, civil procedure, and remedies. In 2015, the American Society for Legal History awarded him the Sutherland Prize for the best article or book chapter on English legal history published in the prior year.

After graduating from law school, Tomás clerked for Judge Edward Rafeedie of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California in Los Angeles, and Judge John C. Porfilio of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit in Denver. He then practiced as a litigator for several years at O’Melveny & Myers in Century City and Hogan & Hartson in Denver.

Specialty Areas and Course Descriptions

Academic Credentials

  • BA History 1993 University of Southern California
  • JD 1997 University of Southern California Law School, Order of the Coif
  • LLM 2004 University of Oslo, Faculty of Law

Bibliography

  • Statute of Anne, in Elgar Encyclopedia of Intellectual Property Law (Paul Torremans et al. eds., 2024) [invited entry]
  • Patent-Infringement Suits and the Right to a Jury Trial, 72 Am. U. L. Rev. 1293 (2023) (with Sean Bottomley) Link
  • The Traditional Burdens for Final Injunctions in Patent Cases c.1789 and Some Modern Implications (with Sean Bottomley), 71 Case W. Rsrv. L. Rev. 403 (2020) [invited symposium contribution] Link
  • Privy Council and Scire Facias 1700-1883 (with Sean Bottomley, 2017) Link
  • Patent and Copyright Exhaustion in England circa 1800 (2017) Link
  • Stationers v Seymour (1677), in Landmark Cases in Intellectual Property Law (Jose Bellido ed., 2017) [invited contribution] Link
  • Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law (Isabella Alexander & H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui eds., 2016) Link
  • A Reply to my Colleagues Regarding Donaldson v Becket, in What is the Point of Copyright History? Reflections on Copyright at Common Law in 1774 by H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui (Elena Cooper & Ronan Deazley eds., 2016) [invited symposium contribution] Link
  • Equitable Infringement Remedies before 1800, in Research Handbook on the History of Copyright Law (Isabella Alexander & H. Tomás Gómez-Arostegui eds., 2016) Link
  • Copyright at Common Law in 1774, 47 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (2014) Link
  • What History Teaches Us About U.S. Copyright Law and Statutory Damages, 5 WIPO Journal 76 (2013) [invited symposium contribution] Link
  • Copyright Law and the Public Interest in the Nineteenth Century by Isabella Alexander, Hart Publishing, 2010. Pp. xxiv + 320. Cloth $110, 2 IP Law Book Rev. 11 (2011) [solicited book review]
  • The Piracy Loop, Adrian Johns: Piracy: The Intellectual Property Wars From Gutenberg to Gates (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Pp.640. $35.00), 73 The Review of Politics 172 (2011) [solicited book review]
  • The Untold Story of the First Copyright Suit under the Statute of Anne in 1710, 25 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 1247 (2010) [invited symposium contribution] Link
  • Prospective Compensation in Lieu of a Final Injunction in Patent and Copyright Cases, 78 Fordham L. Rev. 1661 (2010). Link
  • What History Teaches Us About Copyright Injunctions and the Inadequate-Remedy-At-Law Requirement, 81 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1197 (2008). Link
  • Harald Welte, Linux, and the GPL, 7 Oregon Intell. Prop. Newsletter 19 (Winter 2006).
  • Defining Private Life Under the European Convention on Human Rights by Referring to Reasonable Expectations, 35 Cal. W. Int’l L. J. 153 (2005). Link
  • Know-How, Intellectual Property, and Confidentiality Issues, in Report on Legal Issues in SME Clusters (Pinsent Masons ed., Legal-IST 2005).
  • A Comparative Fault Framework for Rule 10b-5 Direct Misrepresentation Actions, 70 S. Cal. L. Rev. 1407 (1997).