Biographical Information
Nadine Farid joined the Gonzaga faculty in 2006 as an Assistant Professor, after spending nearly three years as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School.
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At Harvard, she taught in the First-Year Legal Research and Writing Program and established and served as a principal advisor to an international intellectual property and trade-related clinical advocacy project with Harvard’s Human Rights Program, in collaboration with Harvard Medical School and Partners in Health.
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Prior to entering academia, she was in private practice in New York with the intellectual property boutique Darby & Darby, representing a range of clients in the litigation of patent, copyright, new media and Lanham Act claims and the rendering of opinions on patent validity and infringement.
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Her pro bono work has included handling issues in cybercrime and assisting in capital case appeals; she has also practiced general commercial litigation and immigration/refugee law and is an alumna of the U.S. Department of Justice Honors Program.
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She is co-founder of two non-profits, one concerning the Middle East conflict and another, formed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, directed to rehabilitative housing in New Orleans.
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She has spoken at the United Nations on the conflicts in East Timor and the Middle East, and speaks and writes on trademark rights, pharmaceutical patents, international intellectual property, copyright expansion, and perceptions of Islam in the courts.
Publications
- Guest Blogger on PrawfsBlawg.blogs.com, October 2007
Presentations
- Rethinking the Moratorium on Non-Violation Complaints under TRIPS, at the 5th Annual Works in Progress Intellectual Property Colloquium sponsored by the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at the Washington College of Law, American University, Washington, D.C. (2007)
