Recorded Music
 | David Wienir
Instructor, Recorded Music |
Courses
Legal Issues in Recorded Music
Capstone Project: Senior Colloquium
Biography
David Wienir is an entertainment lawyer in New York City with Grubman Indursky & Shire, P.C., where he represents many prominent clients in the music, television, film, publishing, fashion and theater industries. He began his legal career as an entertainment litigator at the international law firm Coudert Brothers LLP, where he specialized in music and publishing law. He earned a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall School of Law), an M.Sc. (Econ) from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. (cum laude and departmental honors) while studying as an Oxford-Cambridge Scholar at Columbia College, Columbia University. Additionally, he earned a certificate from the faculty of law at the Vrije University in Amsterdam, and was a visiting scholar at the University of Oxford (Harris-Manchester College) and an Eesti Fellow at the University of Tartu in the former Soviet Republic of Estonia. In 2005, he received the Outstanding Volunteer of the Year Award from Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. Before joining the faculty at NYU, he was an adjunct professor at the New York Institute of Technology and taught their graduate school course "Media and the Law." He is the co-author of
Making It on Broadway: Actors’ Tales of Climbing to the Top (New York: Allworth Press, 2004); co-editor of
The Diversity Hoax: Law Students Report from Berkeley (New York: Foundation for Academic Standards and Tradition, 1999, afterword by Dennis Prager); and coauthor of
Last Time: Labour’s Lessons from the Sixties (London: Bellew Press, 1997) with Austin Mitchell, Member of British Parliament. Prior to moving to New York City, David was the host of the talk radio show Estonia Today on Estonia National Radio in the former Soviet Union, a researcher both within the British House of Commons and for Steven Spielberg’s Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, and a professional whitewater river rafting guide in California and Oregon. He is the founder and former musical director of the
Oxford Alternotives, Oxford University’s first rock a cappella close harmony group.
