Roberta Rosenthal Kwall is the Raymond P. Niro Professor at DePaul University College of Law.
[1] In 2006, Chicago Magazine highlighted Kwall as one of the Ten Best Law Professors in Illinois.
[1] Roberta Rosenthal Kwall is an American law professor, author, and lecturer.
Professor Kwall is the author of over thirty-five academic articles and book chapters on these topics.
One of Kwall's seminal law review articles, "Inspiration and Innovation: The Intrinsic Dimension of the Artistic Soul," asserts that U.S. copyright law relies solely on the theory of economic incentive as motivation for creativity, resulting in a flawed system of legal protection for authors' works as compared to other legal systems that incorporate moral rights based on internal motivations for human creativity that have nothing to do with money.