About

 Amanda Levendowski is an Associate Professor of Law and the founding Director of the Intellectual Property and Information Policy (iPIP) Clinic at Georgetown Law. Her clinical projects and research focus on developing practical approaches to novel legal problems by promoting social justice. She has been researching intellectual property and technology for more than a decade.

Her inaugural research series, the iPIP x Social Justice Quintet, used intellectual property laws creatively to promote social justice for cutting-edge technologies. To complement this work, she pursued the Technology Pedagogy Duo, which provides fresh pedagogical approaches to issues at the intersection of law and technology. Most recently, her research has focused on building out the Feminist Cyberlaw Series, consisting of several articles, an edited volume, and a book chapter that use an intersectional feminist lens to see how cyberlaws contribute to the oppression and liberation of marginalized people. She is also working on a biography of Barbara Ringer, the lead architect of the 1976 Copyright Act.

Before joining Georgetown, she co-taught the NYU Technology Law & Policy Clinic, where she was an Engelberg Center Fellow and affiliate researcher with the Information Law Institute. She previously worked in the New York offices of Cooley and Kirkland & Ellis. She received her J.D. from New York University, where she received the Walter J. Derenberg Prize for copyright law, and her B.A. from New York University, where she developed a concentration in Publishing, Copyright, and Technology.

TLDR: Amanda Levendowski is an Associate Professor at Georgetown Law, where her scholarship develops practical approaches to novel legal problems by promoting social justice. She lives in Washington DC with her husband and cat, Waffles.