Rochelle Cooper Dreyfuss is the Pauline Newman Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.  Her research and teaching interests include intellectual property, civil procedure, privacy, and the relationship between science and law.  She holds B.A. and M.S. degrees in Chemistry and spent several years as a research chemist before entering Columbia University School of Law, where she served as Articles and Book Review Editor of the Law Review.  After graduating, she was a law clerk to Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and to Chief Justice Warren E. Burger of the U.S. Supreme Court.  During her time at NYU School of Law, she has served as the director of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law and Policy and as a member of the New York City Bar Association, the American Law Institute, and BNA's Advisory Board to USPQ.  She was a consultant to the Federal Courts Study Committee, to the Presidential Commission on Catastrophic Nuclear Accidents, and to the Federal Trade Commission.  She is a past chair of the Intellectual Property Committee of the American Association of Law Schools.  

Professor Dreyfuss is currently a member of National Academies of Science Committee on Intellectual Property in Genomic and Protein Research and Innovation, having previously served on its Committee on Intellectual Property Rights in the Knowledge-Based Economy.  She is also a Reporter for the American Law Institute=s Project on Intellectual Property: Principles Governing Jurisdiction, Choice of Law, and Judgments in Transnational Disputes.  She has visited at the University of Chicago Law School, University of Washington Law School, and Santa Clara School of Law.  In addition to articles in her specialty areas, she has co-authored casebooks on civil procedure and intellectual property law.