Associate Professors Mary Catherine Amerine and Christina Lee, current fellows in the Bernard Center for Law and Technology, will move on to tenure-track positions at other law schools after completing their fellowships at GW Law this semester.
GW Law faculty celebrated Professors Amerine and Lee’s accomplishments at a reception on April 13. Professor Amerine, the Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Law Fellow, will go on to a tenure track position at the Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, while Professor Lee, the Privacy and Technology Law Fellow, will teach at the University of San Diego School of Law.
The two-year Bernard Center fellowships are designed to assist attorneys who are interested in pursuing full-time legal academic careers in intellectual property, privacy, and technology law. The Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Law Fellowship has been operating for 20 years and has had 12 fellows, 11 of whom have gone on to tenure track positions at other law schools, while the Privacy and Technology Law Fellowship was established with the creation of the Bernard Center in 2024.
Throughout their time at GW Law, Professors Amerine and Lee have made great strides in their scholarly careers.
Professor Amerine’s copyright and trademark teaching and research focus on trademark history and courts’ understanding and assumptions about consumer behavior, and copyright questions of substantial similarity, look and feel, and derivative work in the age of AI. While at GW Law, she completed her most recent article, “Grocery Shopping with Trademark Judges,” forthcoming in The Iowa Law Review. The Article identifies an overlooked and deeply flawed presumption courts make in analyzing consumer purchasing for inexpensive grocery goods, traces the history of this presumption through case law and developments in modern shopping, and argues for its abandonment.
“The Marks Fellowship was instrumental to my transition from private practice to the academy, and I am honored to follow in the footsteps of the former Marks Fellows, particularly my own law school Professors Laura Heymann and Sarah Rajec. It’s a privilege to be part of the first generation of Marks Fellows who were themselves educated by former Marks Fellows, and a testament to the Fellowship’s strength and longevity.”
Professor Lee, the inaugural Privacy and Technology Law Fellow, researches how the law should address the harms of emerging technology, such as AI, particularly in light of the complex ecosystem in which these technologies exist. Her recent article “Beyond Algorithmic Disgorgement: Remedying Algorithmic Harms,” forthcoming in the University of California Irvine Law Review, received the Future of Privacy Forum’s Privacy Papers for Policymakers Award earlier this year. The article traces the emergence and expansion of the remedy of “algorithmic disgorgement” — the mandated destruction of AI models — and assesses its effectiveness in light of the complex supply chain of algorithmic systems.
“I’m grateful to have had the opportunity to start my journey into legal academia with the Privacy and Technology Law Fellowship,” Professor Lee said. “The mentorship and support I received from GW’s top-notch technology law faculty is simply unparalleled; for an aspiring tech law scholar, I can’t think of a better launchpad.”
Applications are now open for both fellowships, which will begin in August 2026. Learn more about the Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Law fellowship here and the Privacy and Technology Law Fellowship here.
