- Torts
- Trademark Law
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Education
- BA, Honors, The Catholic University of America
- JD, cum laude, William & Mary Law School
Background
Mary Catherine Amerine is an Associate Professor of Law at LMU Loyola Law School. She joined Loyola from The George Washington University Law School, where she was a Visiting Associate Professor and the Frank H. Marks Intellectual Property Fellow.
Prior to joining GW Law, she litigated copyright infringement cases in the entertainment, music, and comedy fields, as well as federal false advertising cases in the pharmaceutical and medical devices industries. A graduate of William & Mary Law School, Professor Amerine has won multiple writing awards, and was a 2022-23 Edison Fellow at the Center for Intellectual Property x Innovation Law (C-IP2) Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University. Her current research focuses on trademark history and courts’ understanding and assumptions about consumer behavior, and copyright questions of substantial similarity, look and feel, and derivative work in the age of AI. Her most recent article, "Grocery Shopping with Trademark Judges," is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review.