Sapna Kumar
Lecturing Fellow
Sapna Kumar is a faculty fellow and is a part of the Center for Genome Ethics, Law & Policy. Her recent publications include Enforcing the GNU GPL, 2006 U. of Illinois Journal of Law, Technology & Policy 1 and Synthetic Biology: The Intellectual Property Puzzle, 85 U. Texas Law Review __ (forthcoming 2007). Prior to joining the faculty at Duke, Ms. Kumar was an adjunct professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
Ms. Kumar received her B.A. in Philosophy and B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1999. She received her JD from the University of Chicago Law School, where she was a staff member of the University of Chicago Law Review. Following graduation in 2003, she joined Kirkland & Ellis' Chicago office as an associate in their Intellectual Property Group, and two years later, moved to Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson. Her law firm practice focused on patent litigation and software licensing.