Denisse García, ’18, a student in the Global Access JD program, has been selected for the 2017 Hispanic National Bar Association/Microsoft Intellectual Property Law Institute.

García is one of two dozen students at U.S. law schools chosen for the institute, which is held in Washington, D.C. and provides an immersion in the practice of IP law with workshops, visits to the Patent and Trademark and Copyright offices, the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. International Trade Commission.  Participants will also attend oral arguments in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and they will learn from Judge Jimmie V. Reyna about the court’s role in developing IP law.

A native of Uruguay who received her legal training at the Universidad de Montevideo, García is pursuing a Global Access JD that will prepare her to practice law in the U.S.  She is concentrating her studies in IP law.