The Catholic University of America

 

Megan M. La Belle
Assistant Professor
(202) 319-6615
labelle@law.edu

SSRN Author Page: http://ssrn.com/author=1200640

 

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Megan La Belle is an assistant professor of law at the Catholic University of America where she teaches and researches in the areas of intellectual property and procedure.   Before joining the faculty, Professor La Belle spent several years as a commercial litigator with the Los Angeles law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson. Professor La Belle's practice focused on intellectual property and other complex civil litigation matters.

Professor La Belle earned her B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her J.D. from the University of California, Davis, School of Law.  While in law school, Professor La Belle served as the Senior Notes & Comments Editor for the U.C. Davis Law Review, received the American Jurisprudence Award in Civil Procedure, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. After law school, Professor La Belle served as a law clerk to the Honorable Stephen S. Trott on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and to the Honorable Margaret M. Morrow on the United States District Court for the Central District of California.

Courses:

Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Introduction to Intellectual Property, Advanced Patent Law, International Intellectual Property.

Articles:
 
"Standing to Sue in the Myriad Genetics Case," California Law Review Circuit (forthcoming 2011) 
 
"Patent Litigation, Personal Jurisdiction, and the Public Good," 18 George Mason L. Rev. 43 (2010)
 
The “Rootkit Debacle”: The Latest Chapter in the Story of the Recording Industry and the War on Music Piracy," 84 Denv. U. L. Rev. 79 (2006).
 
Other Publications:
 
"'Virtual' Contacts and Patent Cases: How Should Internet-Related Contacts Affect the Personal Jurisdiction Analysis?," 13 No. 12 J. Internet L. 25 (2010)