Students who wish to gain an understanding of intellectual property law and possibly pursue a practice in patent, trademark, or copyright law, may wish to pursue courses in the Intellectual Property Focus Area.
For latest information, see Course Schedules and Syllabi page.
For more information, including course descriptions, please visit the University Catalog.
- WIPO-C-IP2 Summer School on Intellectual Property (Law 021)
- Administrative Law (Law 116)
- Copyrights (Law 191)
- Entertainment Law (Law 209)
- Music Law (Law 216)
- Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Clinic (Law 224)
- Legal and Economic Theory of Intellectual Property (Law 264)
- Patent Law I (Law 284)
- Patent Law II (Law 292)
- Patent Prosecution (Law 294)
- Patent Office Litigation (Law 306)
- Patent Law (Law 338)
- Trade Secrets Law (Law 347)
- Patent Litigation at ITC (Law 349)
- Patent Writing Theory and Practice (Law 351)
- Intellectual Property (Law 367)
- Intellectual Property & Antitrust Seminar (Law 432)
- Federal Circuit Practice Seminar (Law 437)
- Patent Litigation and Dispute Resolution Seminar (Law 438)
- Computer Crime Seminar (Law 493)
- FTC Seminar (Law 612)
Other Opportunities
Scalia Law’s IP program also offers numerous co-curricular and extracurricular opportunities, even for students who don’t choose IP as a Focus Area
- Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Law Clinic
- Externships
- Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2)
- Intellectual Property Law Society
- Giles Rich Moot Court Competition
- George Mason American Inn of Court
Meet the IP Faculty
Full Time Faculty
- Aistars, Sandra Clinical Professor; Director, Arts & Entertainment Advocacy Clinic; Sr. Fellow for Copyright Research and Policy & Sr. Scholar, C-IP2
- Chiang, Tun-Jen Professor of Law
- Claeys, Eric R. Professor of Law
- Ginsburg, Douglas H. Professor of Law
- Kobayashi, Bruce Paige V. and Henry N. Butler Chair in Law and Economics
- Kresh, Joshua A. Interim Executive Director Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy
- Mossoff, Adam Professor of Law
- Newman, Christopher Associate Professor of Law
- O’Connor, Seán M. Professor of Law; Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Policy (C-IP2)
Adjuncts & Affiliate Faculty
- Banner, Brian
- Bezos, Salvador M.
- Christou, Evi
- Covert, John M.
- Dowty, Lauren
- Ezrielev, Jay
- Kim, Carla
- Lazar, Dale
- Lilley, Jaynie
- Lipsky, Tad Director of the Competition Advocacy Program at the Global Antitrust Institute
- Love, James
- Meeker, Frederic
- Modi, Naveen
- Officer, Kassi
- Rybnicek, Jan
- Shier, Vincent
- Silfen, Molly
- Trask, Andrew