Participant Info
- First Name
- Amy
- Last Name
- Semet
- City
- New York
- State
- NY
- Zip Code
- 10069
- Research Interests
- IP law; patent law; privacy law; administrative law; statutory interpretation; legislation; property; trademark law; copyright law; civil procedure; constitutional law; empirical legal studies; immigration law; political science; election law; campaign finance law;
- Willing to be contacted by the media
- Yes
- On the academic market
- No
- University
- Columbia
- About Me
- Amy's research focuses on empirically analyzing how courts and administrative agencies make decisions. Her work primarily focuses on IP/patent law and administrative law. Amy has also created several empirical databases including a database of patent decisions in federal courts and before the USPTO, a database of over 8 million immigration court decisions, two databases of National Labor Relations Board decisions, and a database of state supreme court cases and campaign contributions in environmental law cases.
Amy graduated with a law degree from Harvard Law School and holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University and an A.B. in government and history from Dartmouth College. She was a postdoc at the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University and was a Visiting Fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project. She has taught legal writing, quantitative methods, and American politics courses at Harvard Law School, Dartmouth College, and Columbia University.
Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Georgetown Law Journal, Duke Law Journal, Minnesota Law Review, Boston College Law Review, Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, among others.
- Email
- semet@post.harvard.edu
