Professor, School of Law

Office: 1106 King Hall
msunder (at) ucdavis (dot) edu
Telephone: 530.752.2896


Personal Web Page:

www.law.ucdavis.edu/faculty/sunder.shtml

 
 

 

Professor Sunder received her bachelor's degree in social studies, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1992 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1997. Sunder is a recipient of a Carnegie Corporation Scholarship for 2006-2008. Her work traverses numerous legal fields, from intellectual property to women s human rights law. Her recent publications include:  IP3 (forthcoming Stanford Law Review 2006),  Piercing the Veil (Yale Law Journal 2003),  Cultural Dissent (Stanford Law Review 2001) and  The Romance of the Public Domain (California Law Review 2004). She has authored numerous comments and chapters in books and is the editor of Gender and Feminist Theory in Law and Society (forthcoming Dartmouth/Ashgate 2006). She is a contributor to Findlaw.com. In 2002, Professor Sunder was awarded the Honorable Mention in the Association of American Law Schools Scholarly Paper competition. In Fall 2003 Professor Sunder was a visiting professor of law at Cornell Law School. Sunder received her bachelor s degree in social studies, magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1992 and her J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1997. She was an Articles Editor on the Stanford Law Review. After graduating from Stanford she clerked for Judge Harry Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced law in New York City with the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. She joined the faculty of the University of California, Davis, School of Law in 1999 and was tenured in 2004.

While at Stanford, she was an articles editor for the Stanford Law Review. At Stanford, she won the Irving H. Hellman, Jr. Award for Outstanding Law Review Note and the Steven M. Block Civil Liberties Award for Exceptional Scholarship in Furtherance of Personal Freedom. Sunder clerked for Judge Harry Pregerson of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and practiced law in New York City with the firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. In 1999 she joined the faculty of the UC Davis School of Law, where she is currently a tenured professor and teaches property, intellectual property, and international intellectual property. At UC Davis, Sunder was nominated for the Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2007. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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