Camilla Hrdy

Camilla A. Hrdy is an Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers Law, Co-Director of the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy and Law, an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, and a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Trade Secrets. She is a recipient of a Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity at Rutgers University and a five-time recipient of the Outstanding Faculty Publication Award at Akron Law, where she was previously Professor of Intellectual Property Law.

Professor Hrdy’s primary teaching areas are Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, Patents, Contracts, and Civil Procedure. Professor Hrdy’s research focuses on intellectual property, trade secrets, non-competes, confidentiality agreements, terms of use, patents, artificial intelligence, technological unemployment, innovation clusters, federalism, science fiction and future studies, innovation policy, and the relationship between innovation and human well-being. Her articles have appeared in over thirty law reviews, including Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, and Berkeley Technology Law Journal.

Professor Hrdy is a regular blogger on “Written Description,” where she blogs on intellectual property law scholarship and numerous other topics.

Professor Hrdy holds a B.A. from Harvard University, an M.Phil. from the University of Cambridge, and a J.D. from Berkeley Law. At Harvard University, she received a Hoopes Prize for her undergraduate senior thesis, The Weight of the World. At the University of Cambridge, she received the Jennifer Redhead Prize from the Department of History & Philosophy of Science and Medicine for best performance in the essay component of the M.Phil.

She clerked for U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack in the Southern District of Texas.