Sari Mazzurco

Sari Mazzurco joins SMU Dedman School of Law from Yale University where she earned her Ph.D. in Law and was a Resident Fellow at the Yale Information Society Project. Professor Mazzurco's teaching and scholarship focus on law and technology and intellectual property. She writes on the role and limits of law in addressing social, political, and cultural issues associated with digital technologies, information markets, and creative expression.

Professor Mazzurco's work has appeared or is forthcoming in Boston University Law Review, Fordham Intellectual Property, Media, and Entertainment Law Journal, Columbia Journal of Law and the Arts, European Intellectual Property Review, and the Federal Circuit Bar Journal.

Before beginning her Ph.D., Professor Mazzurco worked as an associate at Covington & Burling LLP where she counseled clients on data privacy, defamation, copyright, and trademark issues, advised on technology transactions, and represented sports and media companies in litigation. She also clerked for the Honorable Thomas L. Ambro on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Professor Mazzurco received her J.D. from Stanford Law School and her B.A. from Georgetown University with Honors with Distinction in Government. She also served as a U.S. Department of State Boren Fellow to Israel, where she studied technology diplomacy.