The Catholic University of America
Law Faculty

Megan M. La Belle – Associate Professor of Law

La-Belle

Megan M. La Belle is an associate 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.      


Research and Writing

Professor La Belle's Scholarship on SSRN


Law Review Articles:


Against Settlement of (Some) Patent Cases, 67 Vanderbilt L. Rev. __ (forthcoming 2014), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2252849
 
Patent Law as Public Law, 20 George Mason L. Rev. 41 (2012), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2053798
 
Standing to Sue in the Myriad Genetics Case, 2 Cal. L. Rev. Circuit 68 (2011), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1200640
 
Patent Litigation, Personal Jurisdiction, and the Public Good, 18 George Mason L. Rev. 43 (2010), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1200640
 
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), available at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1200640
 
Shorter Publications:
 
The Future of Internet-Related Personal Jurisdiction After Goodyear Dunlap Tires v. Brown and J. McIntyre v. Nicastro, 15 No. 7 J. Internet L. 3 (2012)
 
"Virtual" Contacts and Patent Cases: How Should Internet-Related Contacts Affect the Personal Jurisdiction Analysis?, 13 No. 12 J. Internet L. 25 (2010)

 

In Her Words ...

"As an educator, my goal is to prepare students for the legal profession by providing them with the analytical, ethical, and practical training necessary to become truly excellent lawyers who seek truth and justice."

– Megan M. La Belle

 

Contact

Office: 408 Law School
The Catholic University of America
3600 John McCormack Rd., NE
Washington, D.C. 20064

Phone: 202-319-6615

E-mail: labelle@law.edu
 

Courses

  • Civil Procedure
  • Federal Courts
  • Introduction to Intellectual Property
  • Advanced Patent Law
     

Education

J.D.
University of California, Davis  

B.A.
University of California, Los Angeles

 

Areas of Expertise

  • Intellectual Property
  • Civil Procedure
  • Federal Courts
 

Complete CV