Hugham Chan

Professorial Lecturer in Law


2000 H Street, NW Washington DC 20052

Hugham received a BS in Biochemistry from Rice University in 2006. Following college, he taught at YES Prep Public School – North Central, a charter school in Houston, Texas, dedicated to serving students from low-income neighborhoods. He graduated with High Honors from The George Washington University Law School, where he served as an editor on The George Washington Law Review, a Writing Fellow in the school’s Writing Center, and a Dean’s Fellow for the school’s Legal Research and Writing Program.  Upon graduating from law school in 2011, he joined the Washington, DC office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP as an intellectual property litigation associate and worked on commercial matters spanning many different types of technology.  After a few years at the firm, he left to clerk for the Honorable Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.  Shortly after the conclusion of his clerkship with Judge Walton, Hugham will begin another clerkship with the Honorable Raymond T. Chen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

BS, Rice University; JD, George Washington University