Bio
William Gallagher is Professor and Director of the IP Law Center at the Golden Gate University School of Law, where he teaches courses on intellectual property law, intellectual property litigation, torts, and legal ethics. He has served as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law from 2009 to 2010 and also in 2015.
Professor Gallagher received his JD from the UCLA School of Law; his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley (Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program); his MA from the University of Chicago; and his BA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Professor Gallagher is the author of articles on intellectual property law and professional ethics, which have appeared in such journals as the Santa Clara Computer & High Technology Law Journal, Santa Clara Law review, Pepperdine Law review, Law and Social Inquiry, Center for the Study of Law and Society Working Papers and the Law and Politics Book Review. His edited book, International Essays in Law and Society: Intellectual Property, was published in 2007 by Ashgate Press. Professor Gallagher is also the Founding Editor of The IP Law Book Review.
Before entering legal academia, Professor Gallagher was a partner in the San Francisco office of a major intellectual property law firm, where he specialized in patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret and complex business litigation in both state and federal courts nationwide.
Education
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University of California, Los Angeles
J.D.