IP Speaker Series - Jordana Goodman

Please join us—in person or virtually—as we welcome our first speaker of the academic year: Jordana Goodman (Boston University) presenting her talk MS. ATTRIBUTION at 12 PM on Wednesday, September 21, 2022.

“Ms. Attribution” (forthcoming, Yale Journal of Law & Technology) offers a quantitative and theoretical analysis of gendered disparate impact resulting from authorship omission norms in law. Examination of data from patent applications and office action responses provides persuasive evidence that women do not actively claim credit to the same extent as male peers at equivalent levels of seniority. When combined with known sociological phenomena such as competence-based perception, accent bias, and perceived status differentiation, the practice of authorship omission exacerbates the gender gap in the legal profession, creating false implications that women do less work, are more junior, and do not deserve as much credit as male colleagues. Remedying the damage created by this flawed professional practice requires both cultural change and regulatory action to ensure proper and equitable attribution in scholarship and industry. Ms. Goodman is a Lecturer in the Boston University BU/MIT Technology Law Clinic and an Innovator in Residence at MIT. 
 
This event will be in a hybrid format. For those who can join us in person, we will be offering a box lunch in the Jacob Burns Moot Court Room at the Law School. The George Washington University Law School, 2000 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20052.

Visitors are asked to keep up-to-date on GW’s current COVID-19 policies.

To participate remotely, please register HERE for a Zoom link.