Jennifer Sturiale

Professor Jennifer Sturiale’s scholarship and teaching focuses on issues of civil procedure, complex litigation, intellectual property, antitrust, and issues at the intersection of these disciplines. She is currently working on a project related to choice-of-federal law. Her most recently published article, A Balanced Consideration of the Federal Circuit’s Choice-of-Law Rule appeared in the Utah Law Review. A second paper, Revealing the Magician's Prestige: Choice-of-Federal Law in Multidistrict Litigation, considers the choice-of-federal law rule applicable in multidistrict litigation.

Professor Sturiale is a dedicated teacher. She has taught first-year legal research and writing as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. She has also taught Civil Procedure and Intellectual Property at George Mason’s Antonin Scalia Law School, as well as Advanced Antitrust Economics and the Law, Property, and a number of technology law and policy courses at the Georgetown University Law Center.

She is also an accomplished litigator. As a member of the law firm Cravath, Swaine & Moore, LLP, and subsequently Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, her practice focused primarily on complex commercial litigation involving antitrust and intellectual property matters.

Professor Sturiale received a B.A. magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University and a JD magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an Executive Articles Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal and was a member of the Order of the Coif. After receiving her JD, Professor Sturiale served as a law clerk to Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Professor Sturiale was most recently the Director of three Technology Law & Policy programs at the Georgetown University Law Center; among other things, she designed the curriculum for Georgetown’s new Master of Law and Technology (MLT) degree and taught foundational courses to the MLT and JD Tech Law Scholars.