John Duffy

John F. Duffy is the Samuel H. McCoy II Professor of Law and director of the Center on Intellectual Property Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. He has been named by The American Lawyer as one of the 25 most influential people in the nation in intellectual property and one of the 50 most influential people by the UK publication Managing Intellectual Property.

Prior to joining UVA in 2011, he served on the faculty at George Washington University Law School, which he joined in 2003. He was previously on the faculty of the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law and the William & Mary School of Law, and has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Chicago.

Earlier in his career, he clerked for Judge Stephen Williams on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia; served as an attorney adviser in the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) Office of Legal Counsel, and practiced law with the Washington, D.C., firm Covington & Burling.

He received his bachelor’s in physics from Harvard University and his J.D. from the University of Chicago, where he served as articles editor on the University of Chicago Law Review and was awarded an Olin Fellowship in Law and Economics.