Janet Freilich

Biography

Professor Janet Freilich writes and teaches in the areas of patent law, intellectual property, information law, and civil procedure. She has published or has articles forthcoming in peer reviewed journals including Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, JAMA, and the Review of Statistics and Economics and law reviews including the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and others. Freilich was previously a professor at Fordham Law School where she received the Fordham Law Dean’s Distinguished Research Award. She has also received the Samsung-Stanford Patent Prize, the Irving Oberman Memorial Award in Intellectual Property, and the Cloud Based Research Computing Project Award.

Professor Freilich has spent time as a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management; Harvard Medical School’s Program on Regulation, Therapeutics, and Law; and at Boston University School of Law. She was Harvard Law School’s inaugural postdoctoral fellow in private law and intellectual property with the Program on the Foundations of Private Law. Prior to joining the academy, Freilich practiced law at Covington & Burling LLP. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and summa cum laude from Cornell University with a bachelor’s degree in molecular biology.