Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, where she teaches and directs the Filmmakers Film Clinic, which provides pro bono legal services to filmmakers and video journalists as well as training on legal issues to filmmakers in the United States and around the world. She is also the director of the Center for Visual Advocacy and the Founding Director of the Program on Leadership at the Heyman Center for Corporate Governance. Previously, Professor Greenberg-Kobrin served as Dean of Students and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School. Michelle teaches in the areas of intellectual property, transactional law, corporations, negotiation, and leadership. Prior to her appointment at Columbia Law School, Professor Greenberg-Kobrin was a corporate and securities lawyer at Arnold & Porter, LLP. As a leading film lawyer, Professor Greenberg-Kobrin has lectured at film festivals around the world on issues related to copyright, production, distribution and licensing. She received both her BA and JD from Columbia University.

Liza Schaeffer is the Clinical Fellow of the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law’s Filmmakers Legal Clinic. She was formerly Senior Counsel for Broadway Technology (now a part of Bloomberg) where she oversaw all commercial contracting, information security and internal compliance matters. Before going in-house, Liza was a member of the Salans/Dentons intellectual property team and advised clients in the luxury, fashion, beauty, e-commerce and start-up sectors. A native French speaker, Liza was also an active member of Dentons’ French desk, a special cross-border practice group composed of bilingual, French-speaking lawyers. She has taught international trade courses at the Fashion Institute of Technology, is active in her local community school board. Her areas of professional expertise include copyright, trademark, licensing and distribution deals, privacy and cybersecurity. She studied politics and French at the University of Virginia before earning her law degree from Cardozo.