FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 22, 1999 CONTACT: Lisa Lacher, (515) 271-3119 LAW PROF TO DISCUSS IMAGE AND THE WORLD WIDE WEB Rosemary J. Coombe, professor of law at the University of Toronto and an expert on cultural and intellectual property, will speak at Drake University at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 6, in the Honors Lounge of Medbury Hall, 1317 28th St. Her talk, which is free and open to the public, is titled "Image is Everything: Consumer Politics and the Corporate Persona on the World Wide Web." Following the presentation, audience members will have the opportunity to ask questions. Coombe is the author of "The Cultural Life of Intellectual Properties: Authorship, Appropriation and the Law," which was published by Duke University Press in 1998. Her work on critical legal studies and cultural and intellectual property has appeared in numerous journals, including Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, Cultural Anthropology: Journal of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, Stanford Law Review and POLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review. Coombe's appearance at Drake is sponsored by the Cultural Studies Program and the Drake Center for the Humanities. For more information, call (515) 271-2853.