Annemarie Bridy

Annemarie Bridy has been a member of the faculty of the College of Law since 2007. Before joining the faculty, Professor Bridy was an associate with the law firm of Montgomery, McCracken, Walker & Rhoads in Philadelphia, where she practiced in the area of complex commercial litigation. She graduated magna cum laude from the Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law and was the recipient of Temple’s Israel Packel Memorial Award for Distinguished Scholastic Achievement—the award given to the graduating law student with the highest cumulative average. She was a member of the editorial staff of the Temple Law Review. While attending law school, Professor Bridy worked full-time as a test developer at the Law School Admission Council, where she wrote and edited test questions for the LSAT. After graduating, she served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable William H. Yohn, Jr. of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and the Honorable Dolores K. Sloviter of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Professor Bridy is admitted to the bars of Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Before attending law school, Professor Bridy earned master’s and doctoral degrees in English literature at the University of California in Irvine, where she taught undergraduate courses in expository writing and the English novel. She concentrated her graduate studies in the areas of Victorian literature and critical theory. During her time at Irvine, she won an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Research Fellowship in the Humanities and was a residential scholar at the Huntington Library. Professor Bridy earned her bachelor’s degree summa cum laude with distinction in English from Boston University.

Professor Bridy teaches Contracts, Copyrights, Introduction to Intellectual Property, and Cyberspace Law. In 2009, she received the College of Law’s William F. and Joan L. Boyd Award for Teaching Excellence and the University of Idaho’s Alumni Award for Faculty Excellence. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Internet and Computer Law Section. Her scholarly work focuses on Internet and intellectual property law, with specific attention to the impact of disruptive technologies on existing frameworks for the protection of intellectual property and the enforcement of intellectual property rights. Professor Bridy’s work has appeared in the Oregon Law Review, the Rutgers Law Journal, the Texas Intellectual Property Law Journal, and the Journal of the Copyright Society of the USA, among other publications. Copies of her articles are available for download from SSRN.