Pauline Newman

We are privileged to have JUDGE PAULINE NEWMAN serve as a distinguished adjunct professor of law at George Mason. Before her appointment to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in 1984, she was director of patents and licensing at FMC Corporation in Philadelphia.

Judge Newman also worked as a science policy specialist at UNESCO in Paris from 1961 to 1962, and as a research chemist at American Cyanamid Company from 1951 to 1954. She earned her B.A. from Vassar College (1947), M.A. in Pure Science from Columbia University (1948), Ph.D. in Chemistry from Yale University (1952), and LL.B. from New York University (1958).

Judge Newman teaches Legal and Economic Theory of Intellectual Property.