Our People

The Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy provides a unique environment where scholars can examine the key drivers of innovation as well as the law and policy that best support innovation. By fostering interdisciplinary and collaborative research on innovation law and policy, the Engelberg Center attracts legal scholars and practitioners, technologists, economists, social scientists, physical scientists, historians, innovators, and industry experts who study the incentives that motivate innovators, how those incentives vary among creative endeavors, and the laws and policies that help or hinder them.

Here are some of the people who make up the Engelverse.

Faculty Co-Directors

Barton Beebe Image

Barton Beebe John M. Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law

Rochelle C. Dreyfuss Image

Rochelle C. Dreyfuss Pauline Newman Professor of Law Emerita

Jeanne Fromer Image

Jeanne Fromer Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Intellectual Property Law; Vice Dean

Scott Hemphill Image

Scott Hemphill Moses H. Grossman Professor of Law

Jason M. Schultz Image

Jason M. Schultz Professor of Clinical Law

Chris Sprigman Image

Chris Sprigman Murray and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law

Katherine J. Strandburg Image

Katherine J. Strandburg Alfred Engelberg Professor of Law

Affiliated Faculty

Amy Adler Image

Amy Adler Emily Kempin Professor of Law

Richard Epstein Image

Richard Epstein Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law

Daniel Hemel Image

Daniel Hemel Professor of Law

Florencia Marotta-Wurgler Image

Florencia Marotta-Wurgler Boxer Family Professor of Law

Staff

Nicole Arzt Image

Nicole Arzt Operations Staff

Laura Crossett Image

Laura Crossett Communications Manager, Library Futures

Jennie Rose Halperin Image

Jennie Rose Halperin Director, Library Futures

Michelle Reed Image

Michelle Reed Research Manager, Library Futures

Michael Weinberg Image

Michael Weinberg Executive Director

Program Fellows

Jane Anderson Image

Jane Anderson Global Fellow

Christo Buschek Image

Christo Buschek Knowing Machines Fellow

Kyle K. Courtney Image

Kyle K. Courtney Library Futures Fellow

Michael Goodyear Image

Michael Goodyear Fellow

Māui Hudson (Whakatōhea) Image

Māui Hudson (Whakatōhea) Global Fellow

Jake Karr Image

Jake Karr Knowing Machines Fellow

Bhaven N. Sampat Image

Bhaven N. Sampat Fellow

Visiting Scholars

Saurabh Vishnubhakat Visiting Scholar

Advisory Board

Erich Andersen Special Counsel ByteDance/TikTok

Judge Raymond T. Chen ('94) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Stephen Coates Founding Partner Coates IP

Judge Denise L. Cote U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York

Greg Cram Associate Director of Copyright and Information Policy The New York Public Library

John Desmarais ('88) Founding Partner Desmarais LLP

Ayala Deutsch ('89) Executive Vice President & Deputy General Counsel NBA Properties, Inc.

Vladimir Elgort Chief IP Counsel American Express

Alfred Engelberg ('65) Trustee The Engelberg Foundation

Henry Hadad Senior Vice President and Deputy General Counsel Bristol-Myers Squibb

Judge Pierre N. Leval U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

Benjamin Marks (’97) Partner Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Erin Mehta Senior Corporate Counsel, Intellectual Property & Technology Northrop Grumman

Donna Meuth Associate General Counsel Intellectual Property Eisai

Judge Pauline Newman ('58) U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit

Douglas Norman Vice President and General Patent Counsel Eli Lilly and Company

Christopher R. Noyes Partner WilmerHale

Benjamin R. Yrun Ostapuk Vice President, Head of Technology & Innovation Intel Corporation

Steven Purdy Associate General Counsel IBM

Melanie Rupert ('01) Partner Paul Hastings LLP

Judit Rius Sanjuan International Governmental Organization

Laura Sheridan Head of Patent Policy Google

Jule Sigall Associate General Counsel, Open Innovation, IP Group Microsoft Corporation

Gigi Sohn Distinguished Fellow Georgetown Law Institute for Technology Law & Policy

Bruce Wexler ('92) Partner Paul Hastings LLP

Engelberg Center Community Alumni

Joe Adamczyk Student Fellow 2020-22

Jonathan Ashtor Fellow 2021-22

Zach Bass Student Fellow 2020-21

Jonathan Bi Student Fellow 2020-22

Edmund (Ned) Brose Student Fellow 2021-22

Mario Cabral Student Fellow 2021-22

Albert Fox Cahn Fellow 2019-2021

Cassi Carley Student Fellow 2020-21

Doug Cawley Advisory Board Member 2018-23

Mala Chatterjee Fellow 2018-22

Aaron Chow Student Fellow 2021-22

Jessica Cruz Fino Student Fellow 2021-22

Navya Dasari Student Fellow 2020-22

Melodi Dincer Knowing Machines Fellow 2022-23

Sarah Feingold Affiliate Fellow 2019-23

Mark E. Ferguson Advisory Board Member 2018-23

MC Forelle Fellow 2021-22

Kat Geddes Fellow 2019-21

Christophe Geiger University of Strasbourg (Visiting Faculty 2021)

Juyoun Han Fellow 2021-22

Xanthia Hargreaves Student Fellow 2022-23

Lindsay Harris Student Fellow 2023

Camilla Hrdy Visiting Scholar 2021-23

Keith Hummel Advisory Board Member 2018-23

Santana Jackson Student Fellow 2019-20

Amba Kak Fellow 2019-21

Batya Kemper Student Fellow 2022-23

Noreen Krall Advisory Board Member 2018-23

Sam Krystal Fellow 2021-22

Sarah Lamdan Fellow 2020-23

Jennifer Lan Student Fellow 2020-22

Svitlana Lebedenko Fellow 2023-24

Matthias Leistner Visiting Scholar 2023

Ethan Lin Student Fellow 2020-21

Cade Mallett Student Fellow 2021-22

Patricia Martone Affiliate Fellow 2021-23

Varoon Mathur Fellow 2020-21

Neha Mehta Student Fellow 2020-22

Christopher Morten Fellow

Gabriel Nicholas Fellow 2019-21

Aslesha Parchure Student Fellow 2021-22

Joseph Petersen Advisory Board Member 2018-23

Linnea Pittman Student Fellow 2019-20

Joe Rabinovitsj Student Fellow 2020-21

Mark Rachlin Advisory Board Member 2018-23

Ashok Ramani Advisory Board Member 2018-23

Claudia Ray ('92) Advisory Board Member 2018-23

Clarissa Redwine Fellow 2020-21

Holly Ritson Student Fellow 2020-21

Yeseul Song Joint Fellow with the NYU ITP Program 2020-21

Katrina Southerland Program Manager 2021-24

David Stein Student Fellow 2021-22

Neal Stimler Fellow 2019-20

Kathryn Taylor Student Fellow 2020-22

Lee Tusman Fellow 2021-22

Chanique Vassell Student Fellow 2021-22

Jacob Victor Fellow 2018-20

Talya Whyte Student Fellow 2022-23

Claire Woodcock Digital Ownership Fellow 2022-23

Sam Yu Student Fellow 2021-22

Juliana Zhang Student Fellow 2019-22

Kathy Zhang Fellow 2021-22

Lauren van Haaften-Schick Fellow 2021-22

Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy

139 MacDougal Street Room 408, New York, NY 10012

engelberg.center@nyu.edu