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Established in 2010 with the support of Diane von Furstenberg and the Council of Fashion Designers of America, the Fashion Law Institute is the world's first academic center dedicated to legal and business issues pertaining to the fashion industry. The Fashion Law Institute’s founder and academic director is Professor Susan Scafidi, who teaches at Fordham Law School. The Fashion Law Institute is a nonprofit organization recognized as a tax-exempt educational organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Programs
The Fashion Law Institute offers a range of programs aimed at assisting fashion lawyers, law students, design students, and members of the fashion community.
 * The Fashion Law Pop-Up Clinic, which offers free legal consultations to emerging and independent designers, as well as other fashion professionals,
 * The annual Fashion Law Institute symposium,
 * Public educational events,
 * Information on legal issues affecting the fashion industry, and
 * A fashion law curriculum including such courses as Fashion Law, Fashion Modeling Law, Fashion Law & Finance, Fashion Law Practicum, Fashion Retail Law, and Fashion Ethics, Sustainability, & Development.

Degree Programs
In June 2015, the Fashion Law Institute announced the launch of the world’s first academic degrees in fashion law:
 * LLM in Fashion Law and
 * MSL (Master of Studies in Law) in Fashion Law, which is designed for non-lawyers and industry professionals who want to learn more about laws pertaining to fashion and retail.

Fashion Law Bootcamp
The Fashion Law Institute’s Fashion Law Bootcamp is an annual summer intensive course of fashion law and business. Fashion Law Bootcamp has been held in New York since 2011. The first West Coast version of Fashion Law Bootcamp was held in San Francisco in 2014.

Fashion Law Bootcamp has attracted fashion law influencers from around the world, including Brazil, the U.K., and Puerto Rico. Other Bootcamp alumni include Lara Miller, Bogdan Enica, Sarah Feingold, former counsel for Etsy, and supermodel Brittany Mason.

Fashion Shows
The Fashion Law Institute held fashion shows at the tents at Lincoln Center during the S/S 2013 and S/S 2014 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Weeks in New York City. The shows featured emerging designers and highlighted the Institute's Fashion Law Pop-Up Clinic. The Fashion Law Institute's S/S 2014 show featured the first plus-size designer to show at the Fashion Week tents in Lincoln Center. In September 2015, the Fashion Law Institute celebrated its fifth anniversary with a fashion show in the Magic Room at LVMH Tower featuring designer Mimi Plange, an alumna of the Fashion Law Bootcamp program and a past participant in the Fashion Law Pop-Up Clinics.

Model Alliance
In 2012, the Fashion Law Institute assisted with the launch of the Model Alliance. Professor Scafidi was a founding member of the Model Alliance's Advisory Board and served on it from 2012-2014. Attorney Doreen Small, who teaches the Fashion Law Institute's Fashion Modeling Law course, was also a member of the Model Alliance's Advisory Board.

In 2013, the Fashion Law Institute prepared the Council of Fashion Designers of America's guide to New York's newly enacted law giving models under the age of 18 the same legal protections as child performers.

Star Athletica, LLC v. Varsity Brands, Inc.
On October 31, 2016, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments for Star Athletica, LLC v. Varsity Brands, Inc., which concerns the the clothing worn by cheerleaders. In September 2016, the Fashion Law Institute filed an amicus brief in the case in support of Varsity Brands, along with Narciso Rodriguez, Jack McCollough & Lazaro Hernandez of Proenza Schouler, Jeffrey Banks, Maria Cornejo & Marysia Woroniecka of Zero + Maria Cornejo, Barry Kieselstein-Cord, Keanan Duffty, Melissa Joy Manning, and Nathalie Doucet of the Arts of Fashion Foundation.