Jeanne Fromer

Jeanne Fromer is Vice Dean and Walter J. Derenberg Professor of Intellectual Property Law at New York University School of Law. She is also a faculty co-director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy. She has testified before Congress and has assisted Congress in drafting trademark legislation. She has been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court for her intellectual property scholarship. Her scholarship has been published in the flagship law reviews at Harvard, Stanford, NYU, Columbia, University of Chicago, as well as many other flagship, specialty, and peer-reviewed journals. Fromer is the co-author, with Chris Sprigman, of a free copyright textbook, Copyright Law: Cases and Materials, which is in use at over 105 schools around the world. In 2023, she was awarded the Podell Distinguished Teaching Award. In 2011, she was awarded the American Law Institute’s inaugural Young Scholars Medal for her scholarship in intellectual property. Before coming to NYU, Fromer served as a law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the US Supreme Court and to Judge Robert D. Sack of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She also worked at Hale and Dorr (now WilmerHale) in the area of intellectual property. Fromer received her JD magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, serving as articles and commentaries editor of the Harvard Law Review and as editor of the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology. Fromer earned her BA summa cum laude in computer science from Barnard College, Columbia University. She received her SM in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for research work in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing and worked at AT&T (Bell) Laboratories in those same areas. Fromer was a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School, and she also previously taught at Fordham Law School.