Judith Prowda
Stropheus Art Law, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
Brief Introduction
Judith is an attorney, mediator and arbitrator focused on art law, copyright, entertainment and commercial law. She is Senior Faculty member of the Art Business Program at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, and author of Visual Arts and the Law: A Handbook for Professionals (Lund Humphries 2013).
She is a founding member of Stropheus Art Law, a collective of art law and business specialists who offer unbundled services to the art community. She is Past Chair of the New York State Bar Association’s Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law (EASL) Section and the long-standing Chair of EASL’s Committee on Fine Arts, and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution.
In addition, she is a member of the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association, and has served on the Copyright and Literary Property and Entertainment Law Committees. She received her J.D. from Fordham Law School and her LL.M. from New York University School of Law. She is a frequent speaker and has published extensively on issues related to art law and business.