Jennifer M. Urban
Clinical Associate Professor of Law; Director, Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
B.A., Cornell University, 1997; J.D., University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), 2000.
Jennifer M. Urban teaches Intellectual Property; Technology Law and Policy; Licensing; and directs the USC Intellectual Property and Technology Law Clinic, where students learn intellectual property law through hands-on work with cutting-edge, real-world projects, at USC’s Gould School of Law. She is a fellow of the USC Annenberg Center for Communication and a faculty member of the USC Center for Communication Law and Policy. Urban studies the relationship between law, policy and technology, particularly as related to rapid technological change, and how intellectual property law regulates expression, cultural production and innovation.
Her recent scholarly work includes “Efficient Process or ‘Chilling Effects’? Takedown Notices Under Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act,” forthcoming in the Santa Clara Computer and High Technology Journal; and “Legal Uncertainty in Free and Open Source Software and the Political Response,” a chapter in The Politics of Open Source Adoption published by Social Science Research Council in an innovative collaborative format.
Prior to joining the USC Gould School of Law faculty in 2004, Professor Urban was a lecturer and visiting professor at the Samuelson Law, Technology and Public Policy Clinic at UC-Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law; prior to that she was an attorney with the Venture Law Group in Silicon Valley. She graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in Biological Science (concentration Neurobiology and Behavior) and from UC-Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law with a J.D (Intellectual Property Certificate). She received the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003.
