Ralph S. Brown

Ralph Sharp Brown (1913–1998) was a law professor at Yale Law School from 1946 to 1983 and an expert on competition, copyright law, government security and individual rights. After his 1983 retirement to emeritus status he taught at New York Law School until 1998. He was co-author, with Benjamin Kaplan of the Harvard Law School, of one of the first casebooks on copyright and unfair competition law. Brown was also a recognized expert in legal rights and issues relating to defamation, privacy, and publicity.