Sandra L. Rierson
Assistant Professor of Law
Director, Center for Law, Technology & Communications
J.D., Yale Law School;
B.A., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, summa cum laude
Telephone: 619.374.6935
Email: srierson@tjsl.edu
Professor Rierson joined the Thomas Jefferson faculty in the fall of 2002. After graduating from law school, where she was the symposium editor of the Yale Law Journal, she clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Gadbois, in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Professor Rierson subsequently practiced law with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, also in Los Angeles, where she became a partner in 1998. Her litigation practice focused on intellectual property and employment law, government contracts and general business disputes. She also has taught at the University of San Diego School of Law. Professor Rierson’s scholarship is in the areas of legal history and women’s history, intellectual property law, civil procedure, and legal writing and composition.
Recent Scholarship
IP Remedies after Ebay: Assessing the Impact on Trademark Law, 2 Akron Intell. Prop. J. 163 (2008)
Confronting the Genericism Conundrum, 28 Cardozo L. Rev. 1789 (2007) (with Deven R. Desai)
Comstock Act (1873), in 1 Major Acts of Congress 166 (Brian K. Landsberg, ed. Macmillan Reference USA 2004)
Race and Gender Discrimination: A Historical Case For Equal Treatment Under the Fourteenth Amendment, 1 Duke J. Gender L. & Pol'y 89 (1994)
Subjects include:
Advanced Trademark Seminar, Civil Procedure, Intellectual Property, Legal Writing, Trademark & Unfair Competition Law.