Robert Brauneis

Robert Brauneis is the Michael J. McKeon Professor of Intellectual Property Law and a Faculty Co-Director of the GW Barnard Center for Law and Technology at The George Washington University Law School. After earning his Juris Doctor magna cum laude at Harvard Law School, he served as a law clerk to Judge Stephen G. Breyer of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (later Justice Breyer), and to Justice David H. Souter. He has also served as an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the city of Chicago.

Professor Brauneis’ teaching and scholarly interests include copyright, trademark, artificial intelligence, property, and constitutional law. He is the co-author of a leading casebook on copyright law, and of numerous articles on copyright, trademark, constitutional law and other topics. He founded and directs DAIL – The Database of AI Litigation. He is a member of the Project Board of the Munich Intellectual Property Law Center and has served as a Trustee of the Copyright Society of the USA, as President of the Giles S. Rich American Inn of Court, and as the inaugural Abraham L. Kaminstein Scholar in Residence at the United States Copyright Office.

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