Camilla Hrdy

Camilla A. Hrdy is an Associate Professor of Law at Rutgers Law, an Affiliated Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project, and a member of the Sedona Conference Working Group on Trade Secrets. Before joining Rutgers Law, Professor Hrdy was Professor of Intellectual Property Law at University of Akron School of Law. At Akron Law, she was a five-time recipient of the Akron Law Thomas G. Byers Outstanding Faculty Publication Award.

Professor Hrdy’s primary teaching areas are Intellectual Property Law, Trademark Law, Trade Secret Law, Patent Law, Contract Law, and Civil Procedure. Professor Hrdy’s research focuses on IP law, trade secrets, non-competes, confidentiality agreements and terms of use, patents, innovation, artificial intelligence, technological unemployment, innovation clusters, federalism, science fiction and future studies, and the relationship between innovation and human well-being. Her articles have appeared in law reviews such as Yale Law Journal, Stanford Law Review, Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Fordham Law Review, American Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Florida Law Review, Colorado Law Review, Wisconsin Law Review, Lewis & Clark Law Review, Columbia Journal of Law & The Arts, and Michigan Technology Law Review.

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.