Thomas Jefferson School of Law here is proud to announce that Brenda Simon, a highly respected scholar in the fields of Patent and Biotechnology Law, has accepted the school’s offer to join the Thomas Jefferson faculty as of the Fall 2010 semester. Simon joins an extraordinarily strong group of intellectual property faculty at Thomas Jefferson that provides relevant professional experience as well as substantial scholarly and curricular focus in this hot legal area.
“We are very excited that Brenda will be joining the faculty,” said Eric Mitnick, associate dean for Academics at Thomas Jefferson. “Her research in the patent law and policy area is very impressive, which led to competition among law schools to recruit her.”
Currently a Fellow in the Center for Law and the Biosciences at Stanford Law School and a graduate of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, Simon has published path-breaking studies on the intersection of law, science and technology. Her scholarship examines the implications of patent protection in the areas of genetic testing, human identification chips, agricultural biotechnology and the establishment of biobanks, relating the implications of protecting patents in these areas to issues as diverse as individual privacy, public health and national security.
