Amy Landers, an accomplished legal scholar and practitioner, will join the law school faculty in August.  

Currently a Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law, Landers will direct Drexel Law’s Intellectual Property Law Program.

Landers is an expert on patents and intellectual property law, and she is the author of “Understanding Patent Law,” now in its second edition, and co-author of “Global Issues in Intellectual Property Law” and “Global Issues in Patent Law.”

Previously, Landers was a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, where she specialized in IP litigation, antitrust, fraud, trade secret and trademark cases.

Landers has also served on the faculty of the University of Florida Levin College of Law, the University of Utah S.J. Quinney School of Law and the University of Salzburg.

She clerked for Judge Oliver W. Wanger of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California after receiving her JD magna cum laude from the University of California Hastings College of Law.